IBM and Cisco make strategic acquisitions and Riverbed was acquired again -- plus, the most prominent VC and M&A news items from June.

AWS's outage, Riverbed's tale of woe, Cisco's acquisition of Accedian, and open RAN influencers Cisco, Intel and Dell lead our Top 10 list for June.

The program could spell a windfall for broadband equipment and service providers, though that windfall could come with risks.

Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed offers air-gapped deployment targeted at data sovereignty for regulated industries.

Red Hat will also be taking on more than 350 Nokia employees from that vendor’s cloud infrastructure teams.

Ruckus announces 3 new services to unify management for multi-access networks, including fully integrated AI, multi-access public and private (MAPP) solution and a network-as-a-service offering.

AT&T CTO Jeremy Legg noted Apple could drop the price of its Vision Pro "spatial computer" if it took advantage of 5G-based MEC models.

Snowflake has also partnered with Nvidia to leverage its GPUs and bring its AI Enterprise and NeMo LLM framework to the Snowflake Data Cloud.

The cloud-based Business Internet Portal is a router management dashboard to manage fixed-wireless access-based broadband connectivity.

This week, our readers were thirsty for new news — from upgrading from old legacy tech like VPNs to ZTNA, to Cisco's acquisition of Accedian.

As compute-heavy and power-hungry AI models expand, data center operators are challenged with managing bandwidth requirements and power consumption.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg warned air travel could face delays tied to airlines failing to update altimeter equipment in some aircraft.

"We can't afford to maintain critical dependencies that could become a ‘weapon’ against our interests,” the European Union's Thierry Breton wrote.

The trial used commercially deployed virtualized radio access network and non-virtualized equipment running on Verizon’s 5G standalone core.

Cisco will link Accedian’s network performance and user experience monitoring services into Cisco's ThousandEyes network assurance platform.

The single-vendor secure access service edge market grew 55% year-over-year in the first-quarter of 2023.

Supercomputing is natural for powering AI, but it's out of reach for many enterprises. HPE is positioning its new GreenLake platform for LLMs to bridge the gap.

Our top 5 stories of the week, led by Cisco, Intel and Dell as the top influencers for the "still gelling" open RAN ecosystem.

Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal warns any organization that used MOVEit in May 2023 could have potentially been exploited by the threat actor — CL0P.

The cloud provider announced the public preview of its new Amazon CodeGuru Security at this year’s AWS re:Inforce event.

According to AWS, the root cause of the issue was traced to “a subsystem responsible for capacity management for AWS Lambda."

The vendor is targeting the carbon impact of powering complex cloud and data center networks with the Nexus dashboard updates.

Charter "needed a 5G wireless connectivity solution to offload traffic from its leased mobile network,” it noted in a statement.

At Cisco Live 2023, the tech giant showed off its efforts at simplifying its platforms with a networking cloud and streamlined Catalyst switch stack.