IBM Cloud Satellite shoots into GA orbit; Intel builds security into silicon, and SDxCentral's February top 10 stories.

VMware's executive search continued; Dell Tech asserted unique strengths for 5G, edge; and SDxCentral's 2-minute Weekly Wrap podcast.

Some of Dell Technologies’ optimism is fueled by its 2019 pledge to shift to cloud-delivered IT services that it rebranded last fall as Project Apex.

Palo Alto Networks claimed XDR protected it from SolarWinds; Ex-CISA chief warned cybercriminals; and Google spurred a 5G initiative with Intel.

The service mesh platform is tied to linking cloud native network functions that run in edge deployments needed to support 5G use cases.

Integration, validation, and testing of network functions and use cases are among the biggest hurdles facing 5G operators.

Ericsson teased massive MIMO 5G; VMware lost another executive; and Kong tripled its valuation to $1.4 billion.

Technical and engineering complexities notwithstanding, virtualization, in an ironic twist, also requires operators to balance human involvement and adoption.

Telus inked a 10-year Google Cloud deal; Fortinet's firewalls and web apps were hit by a security flaw; and Oracle Hybrid Cloud roved to the edge.

“As it pertains to industrial IoT, not every application is going to require 10 Gb/s or even 5G,” Futurum Research's Daniel Newman said.

“There are a lot of words to describe 2020, most of which wouldn’t be nice to say in public,” CEO John Stankey said.

“When it comes to our 5G and investing in our business, we have a big year in front of us in 2021,” Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said.

Patience is a rare virtue in technology, but that’s exactly what AT&T and other 5G proprietors are calling for.

Researchers cloned Google's Titan security key; Mavenir’s Webscale targeted operators; and Intel entered into talks with the Asia Pacific fabricators.

“F5 and Volterra will introduce Edge 2.0, an open edge platform that will allow every service to run on any server, virtual or otherwise, inclusive of public clouds,” said

Lacework scored $525M in battle against Palo Alto Networks; Nvidia faces an antitrust probe over Arm; and Equinix's CEO shared muted edge enthusiasm.

“I think it’s going to play out over a longer period of time than people currently anticipate,” Equinix CEO Charles Meyers said.

“And now we have two of the three largest OEMs — HPE and Cisco — adopting and supporting Open19,” said Open19 Foundation president Zachary Smith.

The new offering embeds an AWS compute and storage platform at the edge of SK Telecom's 5G network to support latency-sensitive code running at the edge.

“We have an approach that looks at the technology as a general-purpose technology for massive digital transformation, especially in the enterprise,” Verizon's Nicki Palmer said.

The first release of the DENT network operating system has arrived with a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy themed title.

IoT won’t be converging to a point where specialized services are no longer required — quite the opposite, “it’s actually divergent,” AWS' Dirk Didascalou said.

“I believe IoT will disappear as a term. The Internet of Things is really a snapshot in time because fundamentally everything will be connected,” AWS' Sarah Cooper said.

Russian hackers exploited a VMware bug; Equinix stretched SDN, expanded edge; and Verizon tapped Silver Peak SD-WAN.