It's combining efforts with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and other Linux Foundation Networking projects.

The vendor is also expanding its Security Copilot integration into the identity and data security and management services.

The hyperscaler announced two new custom data center chips designed to optimize data center hardware and software stacks for high-performance AI workloads.

Leveling up its open-source container management platform, SUSE improves security, clusters and apps with new releases of Rancher and Rancher Prime.

IBM rebuilt its SIEM tech to be cloud native, better handle deployments and larger scale, and provide better visibility into hybrid environments.

"Gone are the days of driving a truck out," Red Hat's Richard Henshall said, as companies have scaled their far-edge devices into the hundreds or thousands.

A new security benchmark framework called 5/5/5 aims to radically accelerate incident response times in the cloud, according to Sysdig.

"The timing is really perfect for us to fully enter and conquer the data center market space," said Nokia's Senad Palislamovic.

The enterprise service mesh also represents an alternative to less-secure options like Istio, according to Linkerd creator William Morgan.

The two companies share similar visions of cybersecurity and observability convergence even before the potential deal, said Gartner's Gregg Siegfried.

Oracle VP Leo Leung touted the vendor's access governance service as an alternative to traditional identity management technologies.

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said the integration gives the vendor “one of the most complete cloud security offerings on the planet.”

The vendor reconstructed OpenStack's control plane and deployment model to bring the platform "to a cloud-native state," Red Hat's Sean Cohen said.

The container networking startup is aiming to solve a critical security issue that can significantly impact zero trust for cloud-native deployments.

Cisco Secure Application brings its business risk scoring and security intelligence capabilities to "everything cloud native,” Cisco's Carlos Pereira said.

The deal, which is set to close early in the fourth quarter of 2023, marks Tenable's sixth acquisition since its initial public offering in 2018.

Cisco’s acquisition of Working Group Two tops money moves in August.

The hyperscaler shared upcoming availability of its A3 supercomputer powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs and other infrastructure news at Google Cloud Next.

If VMware had opted to create "yet another vendor solution," that would be "insufficient," SVP Purnima Padmanabhan said.

Kubernetes 1.28 has more than 45 enhancements to help improve resiliency and networking-related security and performance.

This is based on the ability to combine Dish Network’s expanding 5G network with Echostar's satellite capabilities.

Nephio R1 uses Kubernetes as a foundational layer to automate deployment and management of cloud infrastructure and network functions.

Editor Dan Meyer shares his top stories this week, calling them "hot-button issues for the telecom, networking, cloud and cybersecurity ecosystems."

AT&T has been a "lighthouse" user of the platform.