According to the vendor's latest annual survey, 37% of respondents named complexity as the No. 1 SD-WAN challenge.

IBM and Fortanix doubled down on confidential computing; Google Anthos built a bridge to AWS; and Arista baked AI into its WiFi software.

The hostile takeover bid follows a previous report that claimed the company was considering potential asset sales or mergers to improve its outlook.

The deal comes as Google Cloud makes an all-out push to support mobile network operators.

Cisco pledged to preserve jobs; AWS added direct storage to ECS, Fargate; and SAP prepped for COVID-19 related uncertainty in early look at its Q1 performance.

All of the new RAN gear is running on chipsets from Nokia’s ReefShark portfolio including new CPUs and GPUs.

“No company can afford not to have a multi-dimensional, dynamic supply strategy that is capable of responding to disruption,” said IBM's Jonathan Wright.

“This is a huge innovation cycle we have to go through,” Cisco's Scott Harrell said.

Nokia AVA 5G Cognitive Operations is designed to increase automation of network operations by maintaining service requirements and predicting challenges before they occur.

The service is designed to address network visibility needs and help businesses gain insights from location-based data.

The IBM-led group includes Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Even when much of the world isn't trying to work remotely, collaborative communication tools can be incredibly challenging to deliver.

The world’s largest tech companies are looking to use their technology for ways to accelerate COVID-19 detection and response.

Collaboration and deception are two tools that Manky says should play a prominent role in companies’ security arsenals.

The company is trying to straddle the benefits of pairing software with its HPE GreenLake platform while also embracing an open, disaggregated approach

The announcements come days after Marvell unveiled its latest Octeon chips and over a week after Intel unveiled its own Atom-based RAN chip.

The low-code vendor is Apple's only direct software play in the B2B space.

Perimeter-based security is no longer sufficient, security surfaces and compute demands are ballooning, and so is network complexity, said Fortinet CEO Ken Xie.

Palo Alto Network’s product announcement coincided with its quarterly earnings report, which fell short of Wall Street’s expectations and sent its stock plunging.

Huawei security concerns ignited RSA panel discussion; Airline exec dished advice to security vendors at RSA; and Google pledged $10B into offices and data centers.

The appliance utilizes a "self-learning" deep neural network to automate rote security tasks to accelerate threat detection and remediation.

The announcement marks Cisco's second service provider announcement in the past month.

Cisco fused IoT and ML in its Control Center platform; Intel slashed jobs despite a record quarter; and Corning tapped Qualcomm for indoor 5G systems.

The partnership was driven by growing network complexity and a desire from enterprises for greater visibility of underlay and overlay networks.