Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; Google eyeing a D2iQ purchase; T-Mobile to slash $30M in cloud costs with Kubernetes; plus the latest VC/M&A news from April.

"We might be slowed down on the number of base stations that we are able to construct, but I don’t think it’s going to be materialistic," Rakuten Mobile's Tareq

Despite the calamity brought on by COVID-19, Dish still plans to launch 5G service in a single market with a network core before the year ends.

The Cloud Satellite service allows users to run their IBM Cloud service in on-premises or edge locations managed through a single pane of glass in the public cloud.

In addition to reporting earnings, the company also announced a new switch abstraction interface product for customers deploying SONiC software on Arista’s switching platform.

Nutanix furloughed 25% of its workforce; IBM targeted 5G and edge deployments; and Microsoft Azure Sentinel scored a MDR win.

The group has support from seven operators and 24 vendors, though it's noticeably lacking support from the three largest RAN vendors.

Complexities were abundant and corralling vendors for a virtualized, cloud-native, open radio access network required intensive work.

“You need to be the owner of your own destiny and this disaggregation strategy needs to be looked at as a holistic end-to-end story,” said Rakuten Mobile's Tareq Amin.

China Mobile donated XGVela, which has also gained support or interest from China Unicom, China Telecom, ZTE, Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, and Red Hat.

The deal combines with NetApp's recent Talon acquisition to provide an integrated "modern workplace-type environment," said NetApp's Vikram Bhatia.

The expansion will allow users to manage OpenShift clusters running on Azure or on infrastructure-as-a-service, VMs, or on-premises bare metal.

“As a result of COVID-19, we’re getting a glimpse of what the future for the internet is today," said Cisco's Jonathan Davidson.

Axios reports that D2iQ would be valued north of $250 million, but less than its $775 million valuation following its Series D round.

The updates focus on providing a simplified control panel for applications running in different virtualized environments.

The new Azure confidential computing service allows companies to process data in hardware-based secure enclaves called trusted execution environments.

The latest release includes what Canonical calls “kernel self-protection measures,” which target control flow integrity and includes stack-crash protection.

Project Astra offers a normalized application data management approach that results in the portability of data rich or stateful applications.

The goal is to provide service providers using ONAP with more flexibility in creating intent-based policies while supporting automation use cases.

Anthos customers can now run Google-managed workloads inside of AWS. Azure support remains a work in progress.

The vendor's 2.0 update includes testing and infrastructure provisioning capabilities that its CEO Joe Duffy said users are calling "superpowers."

Nokia faced a hostile takeover bid; COVID-19 related ransomware attacks spiked; and Red Hat stacked OpenStack onton ZTE's XCloud.

The work is targeted at helping telecommunication operators deploy virtual network functions in support of 5G services.

The U.K. government is requiring operators to limit the use of Huawei equipment in the core of 5G networks due to security concerns.