Cisco acquires software provider Ensoft; AWS expands language processing service and Snowball; and the LF Networking Fund grows its membership.

“When there is an economic recession that is when people pull in their horns," says Forrester VP John Rymer.

In addition to integrating with AWS’ distributed tracking system X-Ray, the monitoring company also launched a synthetic monitoring tool.

The Data Lakes Analytics service helps customers that need cloud-native analytics and need to turn raw data into real-time insights.

Scalyr’s technology centralizes server monitoring, log management, and visualization and analysis tools to monitor and manage modern architectures.

Developers are able to manage their serverless and FaaS deployments from the platform to work across different infrastructure environments.

Qualys buys Layered Insight for container-native security; Microsoft and Nasdaq partner on blockchain; Resin.io renames as balena, releases core platform.

AWS cloud revenues are slightly down, but they're at an annualized run rate above $26 billion, compared to about $18 billion this time last year.

Arista is predicting that 400G volumes will be relatively low in 2019. But the company cites Dell’Oro research that predicts 400G to grow dramatically beginning in 2020.

The move provides enterprises that are overwhelmed by available options with the choice of tested, open source tools that can be used to construct cloud-native-based applications.

Samsung buys an AI firm; AWS publishes an SLA for serverless computing; Oracle boosts Health Sciences Cloud with acquisition.

The platform offers live-reload and record-replay of application code that is the first of its kind for a serverless system.

The CoreOS integration work will culminate with the next OpenShift 4.0 update. That platform will sit alongside Red Hat’s legacy Enterprise Linux and provide users with a choice of

Dell Technologies applies to list shares on NYSE; AT&T names new preliminary 5G markets; Google launches tools for its Kubernetes Engine.

Creators of Edgility say it will offer network operators a better way to manage resources at the network edge. And it will work with existing open source projects like

The CCVPN use case allows for the orchestration of an operator’s underlying optical transport network and overlay SD-WAN in a way to support the peering of inter-operator VPN service

The integration allows users to manage the digital model using event-driven and serverless methods that can then be transferred to the physical environment.

Kong CEO and co-founder Augusto Marietti has touted the company’s platform as an “air traffic control to manage, broker, and hold APIs.”

“Because the developers love Stackpoint.io so much, after our testing I bought the company. It’s just that good,” said NetApp's Anthony Lye.

The serverless security library targets the runtime environment but is not a replacement for an enterprise-grade platform deployment.

Serverless Inc. CEO Austen Collins said that the open source community has accounted for 90 percent of contributions to the Serverless Framework.

Some view the platform as the death knell for serverless platforms not based on Kubernetes, while others tout patience.

At the Alibaba Cloud Summit this week, the cloud provider launched a wide breadth of products that span serverless, data, search and analytics, IoT, and machine learning.

Oracle debuts another autonomous database cloud service; Facebook open sources its transport layer security library; and AWS rolls out serverless option for Amazon Aurora.