During its investor event this week, CEO Rajiv Ramaswami for the first time said Nutanix expects to be cash-flow positive by the second half of calendar 2022.

“We can’t just spend all that money on detection and assume we’re gonna catch everything, because the math no longer works,” Illumio CEO Andrew Rubin said.

“I need to connect [the edge] to the rest of my enterprise, and this is where Project Aurora brings it brings it all together,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said.

HPE also introduced Project Aurora, a zero-trust security initiative that builds on its existing silicon root of trust, that will be available as a product later this year.

The vendor also said it received a $1 billion investment from private-equity firm Silver Lake that it will use to fund new growth initiatives and manage its capital structure.

In one case, Determined AI says its platform helped a company working on drug discovery speed up its training model time from three days to three hours.

Both projects focus on open source software as federal agencies work on software-related standards and guidelines called for in President Biden’s recent cybersecurity executive order.

“The bombardment of ransomware attacks is forcing organizations into a constant state of defense rather than an offensive stance,” SonicWall CEO Bill Conner said.

“We’re trying to help digital brands get out of the way of good users, while also protecting and supporting whatever flavor of attacker abuse they’re dealing with,” Akamai VP

A handful of technologies support zero trust, and Trend Micro’s builds on its XDR platform, which collects telemetry across email, clouds, networks, and SaaS applications.

Successfully disrupting ransomware campaigns and infrastructure will require “a step beyond” the traditional public-private partnership, Talos’ Matt Olney said.

It’s a fully managed cloud service, and customers can deploy applications and databases on demand in a pay-per-use model.

The FBI and ransomware gangs agree on this one point: If you don’t want to be the next Colonial Pipeline or JBS, use strong passwords.

“Where we really excel is highlighting what threats are actively being exploited, and what is going wrong, right this second,” Palo Alto Networks’ Varun Badhwar said.

For comparison: Palo Alto Networks, the largest network security vendor by revenue, grew its revenue to $3.8 billion in 2020, while No. 2 Cisco scored $3.5 billion.

XDR is “something that we can do really, really uniquely to stop these very sophisticated attacks,” said VMware SVP Tom Gillis ahead of the company’s Security Connect event.

HPE’s edge-as-a-service products grew triple digits year over year and represent “a meaningful contributor to HPE's overall ARR,” CEO Antonio Neri said.

ReFirm built its firmware analysis technology on Binwalk open source software, the international standard for extracting firmware images used by more than 50,000 global organizations.

Nokia’s XDR platform gives operators a way to monetize new security services such as 5G slice monitoring, endpoint protection for enterprise IoT devices, and identity and access management.

Dell jointly engineers its VxRail products with VMware, and the new VxRail dynamic nodes allow users to independently scale storage and compute.

“Post spin, we will be the only standalone cloud company that has the necessary strategic partnerships to deliver on a truly customer-centered, multi-cloud vision,” incoming VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram

The startup commercialized the open source Cloud Custodian project to help enterprises manage costs, compliance, and security across multiple clouds.

The choice for SIEMs and security analytics platforms is thus: Innovate or die.

“Fusion XDR defines what we’ve been doing for the past several years with our analytics, detection, and response capabilities when we’re not being a full SIEM,” Exabeam’s Adam Geller