The managed WAN service has already garnered support from leading SD-WAN vendors: Cisco, VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Aruba.

AWS' CEO underlined the opportunity that awaits the cloud in every industry; AWS detailed its Graviton3 chips and a private 5G service at re:Invent.

Kyndryl named Microsoft as its first cloud partner; Juniper Networks CEO challenged Cisco's compatibility with Arista switches; and Palo Alto Networks leads Gartner's firewall magic quadrant.

The security functionality embeds threat inspection and policy-based enforcement into every node running Aviatrix's cloud networking platform.

“The data cloud at Snowflake is not an idea or a long-term goal,” Snowflake SVP Christian Kleinerman said. “It is a reality, it's happening today.”

The networking giant's Edge Services Platform provides lifecycle management, observability, and troubleshooting services for DPU-accelerated data centers.

IBM announced plans to buy ReaQta; Juniper Networks’ CEO challenged Cisco and Arista; and SUSE acquired container security vendor NeuVector.

“​​I challenge Arista’s Cloud Vision to work on Cisco infrastructure or Cisco's ACI to work on Arista switches. It can't be done,” CEO Rami Rahim said.

Dell and VMware execs said everyone wins from the Dell-VMware spin; Cisco found 64% of workers said they’d consider resigning if they couldn’t work remotely; and Aruba tapped DPU

“The Cisco Silicon One P100 is the ultimate routing silicon for high-bandwidth applications,” Cisco's Eyal Dagan boasts.

Pica8 raised $20 million in Series C funding; VMware remains a supporter of the O-RAN Alliance; and Telefónica expanded its relationship with Fortinet.

“The key differentiator from other supplier RICs is ONF’s open, vendor-neutral framework which is driven by operator use cases,” Deutsche Telekom SVP Alex Jinsung Choi said.

Alkira expanded its security portfolio; Cisco is unphased by O-RAN Alliance drama; and Akamai acquired Guardicore for $600 million.

Software components tap into Juniper's acquisition of intent-based networking vendor Apstra.

F5 acquired Threat Stack and other recent SDxCentral news stories.

“We always imagined that the Red Hats of this space would appear,” but it hasn't happened, ONF's Timon Sloane said.

The updates promise to make the deployment of complex network fabrics, like EVPN-VXLAN, faster and simpler for campus switching customers.

Cisco's recent cloud and colocation partnerships are the foundation of a grander play leveraging ThousandEyes to shape SD-WAN routing policy.

Software security alone is no longer sufficient to protect users from cyberthreats, but silicon can help, Intel's Mike Nordquist said.

Vodafone confirmed 100% renewable energy usage in Europe beginning July 1; Nutanix’s CEO eyes a $61B market opportunity; and Dell’s Omnia automates HPC.

This isn’t a pivot for the SDN pioneer, but rather an “expansion of the field of view,” said CTO and co-founder Brandon Heller.

Arm announced technical specifications for its Confidential Compute Architecture; Illumio reached a $2.75 billion valuation; and ONF shared three branches of its private network project.

SD-Core and SD-Fabric join the previously announced SD-RAN project, comprising the three primary layers of ONF’s project for private network architecture.

Multi-vendor integrations remain a key requirement for customers, said Mansour Karam, Apstra founder and Juniper VP of product.