Nokia’s MX Industrial Edge server reaches 100 Gb/s in a recent test; TSMC dismisses Intel; and Gravwell closes a $3 million seed funding round.

The foundry operator also announced the construction of a new fab in Japan, which will supply specialty parts based on the company's 22-nanometer and 28-nanometer processes.

Nokia claims more than 340 private wireless customers today, and that experience highlighted “a clear gap in the market,” Nokia's Stephan Litjens said.

Google activated its cybersecurity A-team and touted its cloud progress; and Red Hat upped its Kubernetes edge game.

The move lets developers standardize on Kubernetes while running workloads that aren’t easily containerized in virtual machines.

Bare Metal Orchestrator is designed to automate service delivery, tasks, and workflows across thousands of servers running 5G and open RAN networks.

The Advanced Cluster Management update provides a consistent view of Kubernetes clusters at the edge, in data centers, or in cloud environments.

“Looking at our networking and data center investments alone, we have the largest network with the lowest latency of any cloud provider,” Google's Sundar Pichai said.

Hailo raised $136M in Series C funding; Google Cloud announced Google Distributed Cloud and new sustainability metrics tools.

The service allows users to control how logging is routed from a single, centralized location while keeping the data plane on premises or in the cloud.

The funding will help the chipmaker meet demand for its Hailo 8 processors and support the development of a new generation of AI products, Hailo CEO Orr Danon said.

Akamai bought Guardicore for $600 million; Snyk's Series F funding bumped the company's valuation to $8.5 billion; and F5 acquired Threat Stack.

Mandiant released two new SaaS products; Telefónica predicts an increase of open RAN deployments; and Solo.io earned coveted unicorn status.

The U.S.-based foundry operator will be listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker GFS.

Marvell released its first 5-nm switch silicon and DPUS; VMware said it's a critical partner for 5G operators; and AT&T's CSO emphasized the value of effective authentication.

The chipmaker claims its new switches and data processing units offer 50% lower power consumption than its competitors.

The vendor's Secure Private Access provides conditional access to applications based on factors including identity, location, and device.

VMware boosted its cloud-native security capabilities at VMworld with a new API security product and posture management services across Kubernetes clusters.

Nvidia and Lenovo also announced a collaboration promoting VMware's Project Monterey.

“SASE at first might seem like a grand vision but there are absolutely things that you can do to move toward a SASE architecture today,” Gartner's Neil MacDonald said.

“Well, I think the big winner is Michael [Dell],” analyst Zeus Kerravala said. “It’s not like he needs more money, but he stands to make a boatload of money.”

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

The move marks Fungible’s latest push to bring composable infrastructure to the masses.

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