The contract marks the sixth vendor selection to date for Dish following previous deals with Altiostar, Fujitsu, Mavenir, VMware, and Matrixx.

T-Mobile detailed its $40B network upgrade strategy; Equinix paid $161M for India data centers; plus the latest VC/M&A news from August.

Microsoft warned of election attacks; VMware aspires to join cool kids Kubernetes klique; and Ericsson sound the open RAN security alarm.

“Security really is something that needs to be built in and not bolted on,” Ericsson's Paul Challoner said.

“We want to pave the world with VMware Kubernetes,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said at the Citi Global Technology virtual conference.

The companies will develop NFV technologies for 5G network infrastructure and establish a standardized process for NFV adoption.

Outside of the top three, Gartner placed Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, IBM, and Tencent Cloud in that order within the “niche players” box.

The new Microsoft partnership comes about a month after Nutanix landed a similar service with Amazon Web Services.

Chef CEO Barry Crist had previously admitted that the firm was being “highly impacted” by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Cisco Security exec sang a SASE security tune; AT&T talked open source; and Netskope, VMware, and CrowdStrike shared threat information.

“We’re essentially delivering new versions of network cloud every three to four weeks now," AT&T's Ryan van Wyk said.

Telefónica tapped AWS for 5G core virtualization; Volterra pushed security to the API layer; and Open RAN expected to skyrocket by 2025.

The double-digital annual growth rates predicted by Dell’Oro Group are being fueled by various factors.

VMware repackaged tech as 5G Telco Cloud; 5G poised to boost wireless WAN; and Amazon, Microsoft teamed up with the LF Climate Finance Foundation.

The Linux Foundation’s latest initiative taps open source data and analytics to tackle climate risk and investment opportunities.

The platform includes updated versions and more integrated support for VMware’s cloud-native software stack and network automation services.

Cisco smashed SD-WAN, Kubernetes into CN-WAN; T-Mobile detailed its $40B upgrade plans; and Google's Istio move ignited an open source tempest.

AWS’ Samartha Chandrashekar says the technology improves container security in part by “including only the software needed to run containers.”

Nutanix CEO left amid shift to subscription-based model; VMware launched Tanzu into space; and Dell saw productivity boost from remote work.

The Kubernetes S3 Operator extends Cloudian's support for cloud-native environments where it already serves as a scale-out backup target.

Fortinet raked in six MSP wins; BT crowned McAfee, PAN, Fortinet “critical security” partners; and Kubernetes finally dropped new updates.

The release was initially expected to drop around the end of June, however project leaders explained that external events altered that plan.

Google fashioned Anthos for hybrid cloud battle; ONF picked up O-RAN slack; and Palo Alto Networks paid $265 million for Crypsis.

The vendors will integrate Snyk’s open source vulnerability detection into Trend Micro’s cloud security platform to help security operations teams better manage open source risk.