The Falco project joins 14 other Incubating projects as the first and, so far, only security runtime platform within CNCF.

The Open Mobile Evolved Core (OMEC) platform supports connections into the carrier’s existing base stations, mobility management services, and lawful intercept platforms.

The platform is designed to run on any x86-based white box. However, the company has partnered with several hardware vendors in large communications projects.

Ray O’Farrell will lead the new unit as EVP and GM. O’Farrell previously served as EVP and executive sponsor of VMware’s Cloud Native Applications business.

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The past year was highlighted by ongoing security and commercialization challenges around business models, the edge, and 5G.

In its most recent quarter VMware saw hybrid cloud and SaaS representing more than 13% of its total revenue — a 40% increase compared to last year.

Instana CEO Mirko Novakovic said the acquisitions advance the company's vision to "accelerate overall product vision to take APM further, faster."

The goal is to develop a proof-of-concept SD-WAN service designed to run on white-box consumer premises equipment.

“AWS has not copied anybody’s software or services," wrote Andi Gutmans, VP for analytics and ElastiCache at AWS.

DENT will use the Linux Kernel and other Linux-based projects as the basis for the open source NOS.

The program is looking to manage the responsibility and investment challenges facing open source code, which has seen considerable duress over the past year.

“Maybe the national anthem is still playing in this game of containers and it’s very early,” COO Sanjay Poonen said of the market.

A recent Datadog report found that 45% of its customers were running containers on Kubernetes and that most enterprises prefer older, more stable iterations.

"This is the opportunity for the carriers to step away from just being data pipes and actually participate in making and taking some of that value in the world

“Keeping with the Broadcom cadence, approximately every two years we’ve been doubling the bandwidth of the Tomahawk product line," Broadcom's Peter Del Vecchio said.

The legacy network and endpoint security vendor acquired key pieces of cloud-native technology used in its Cloud Optix security platform when it bought Avid Secure.

The OpenStack-based platform allows IoT applications to run as VMs or in Docker containers as microservices that operate independent of the underlying infrastructure.

The SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes product allows users to tap into data housed within SageMaker to populate a Kubernetes-controlled container or cluster of containers.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven value-add” networking and cloud products to be a $1 billion business this year.

“It has been a bit of a challenge to get that community excited about telecom and to get excited about working with us to advance networking," said LFN's Heather

CEO Antonio Neri cited deliberate action to realign HPE’s portfolio along with macroeconomic factors for the Q4 decline.

“Everybody does automation,” Extreme’s Dan DeBacker said. “But we believe we’re the only ones that have it embedded in the switch.”

“It’ll be a fascinating test. It’s something we can’t control. I certainly have aspirations, but it’s going to be up to us to execute," said VMware's Craig McLuckie.