Capex spending on 5G network deployments will decline 10% globally this year, but those activities will pick up next year, according to ABI Research.

Cisco paved Rakuten's virtual roaming road; VMware bolstered its hybrid cloud with Kubernetes products; and ARM joined the O-RAN alliance.

Joining the alliance will speed Arm's mission to develop open, interoperable, and cloud-native infrastructure for 5G networks, said Arm's Panch Chandrasekaran.

The updates include application and infrastructure additions designed to ease operations in a Kubernetes environment and further integrate VMware’s Kubernetes properties.

Some of the new features include better public cloud cost comparisons via integration with VMware’s CloudHealth and improved VMware Cloud on AWS migration.

VMware patched a critical bug; Ericsson scored a 5G win with Nex-Tech Wireless deal; and Altiostar's CEO shared his confidence in Open RAN to upend mobile networks.

“In the next three years economic forces will drive operators to go to open RAN," said Altiostar CEO Ashraf Dahod.

The move targets the challenge of container storage by extending persistent data storage to containers running in the AWS ecosystem.

"Closed limited resources and ideas can never compete with something that is open to the world – and the world contributing," said Google's Kelsey Hightower.

KEDA was designed to allow developers to run serverless functions within a Kubernetes environment across other clouds and on-premises locations.

The DevOps monitoring platform extended support to several IBM Cloud services including IBM Watson and Cloud Foundry.

The carrier is “sizing our operations to economic activity”; VMware is helping Vodafone cut costs; and Snyk sees the pandemic propelling DecSecOps.

Chip Childers called the transition “a great moment in time” as Cloud Foundry continues to tighten its embrace of the Kubernetes ecosystem.

This is also a great time to start a bug bounty program, says Guy Podjarny, founder and president of Snyk.

AT&T saw a 700% SD-WAN surge; VMware, FBI warned of cybercriminals targeting teleworkers; and SDxCentral's weekly wrap podcast.

IBM tapped AMD for bare metal cloud; Do Coronavirus SOCs look Like Zoom war rooms?; and Canonical launched a platform to manage away open source complexity.

The work is based on the carrier's Conducktor internal Kubernetes platform.

The vendor's Managed Apps platform can oversee 10 cloud-native systems, including database and logging, monitoring, and alerting applications.

Cisco networking lessons learned during COVID-19; AT&T slashed more jobs; Microsoft topped cloud rankings; and tech wields its might in COVID-19 fight.

The application performance monitoring service launches less than a year after the company acquired SignalFx and Omnition.

“Everyone wants to forget the radios, and the radios are what makes wireless wireless," Steve Papa said.

VMware withdrew FY21 guidance citing coronavirus concerns; Kubernetes 1.18 ramped up Windows support; and NS1 CISO dished on disaster recovery.

Kubernetes 1.18 features 38 “enhancements” that include a “kubectl debug” command, improved support for Windows, and multiple extensions to the CSI.

Microsoft sunk its teeth deeper in 5G with Affirmed acquisition; Cisco Networking learned lessons during COVID-19; and Huawei boosted its R&D budget.