"At the end of day, with Apex we're creating the new Dell, and everything's got to transform to make that happen," Dell's Sam Grocott said.

Intel plunked $3.5 billion into New Mexico foundry; Aryaka acquired Secucloud to expand its SASE platform; and Red Hat opened up StackRox community.

While RedHat hasn’t decided which group will ultimately assume governance of the open source project, it sounds like CNCF, which also houses Kubernetes, is a safe bet.

“Today is a proof point of the transformation of that core to a cloud-first, modern operational experience of our storage business,” HPE's Tom Black said.

The cash infusion will the Rio Rancho campus retrofitted to enable semiconductor production using the chipmaker's Foveros 3D packaging technology.

The Konveyor Project is an overarching platform that includes several components targeted at various migration models focused on re-hosting, re-platforming, or re-factoring legacy applications.

The SD-WAN vendor plans to integrate Secucloud's secure web gateway and cloud-based firewalls into a managed SASE aimed at small to midsize business.

“I think AWS is certainly in the driver’s seat at the moment of this market without question,” CCS Insight's Nick McQuire said.

Nokia’s RAN boss reflected on 5G misfires; Dell will sell Boomi for $4 billion; and Data Theorem said security needs a seat at the adults' table.

At the core of the Oracle Analytics Cloud refresh is its new Redwood user interface that will eventually be employed across the entire applications portfolio.

The company’s decision to sell Boomi comes less than a month after Dell and VMware announced a deal under which Dell will spin off its 81% stake in VMware.

Palo Alto Networks called EDR a "really stupid idea;" VMware eyed 5G core opportunities; and Nokia plugged a triple-threat enterprise strategy.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton spoke with representatives from both Intel and TSMC this week about ways to reduce reliance on foreign foundries.

Fortinet fired up 5G firewalls; Nokia claims turnaround success; and Dish teased multiple 5G markets.

Qualcomm claims the reference design for its 5G open RAN silicon will overlap and complement Intel’s FlexRAN reference architecture.

Overall, AWS generated 12% of Amazon’s total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 and about 47% of its profit.

The new appliances come amid another quarter of double-digit growth and signal a new focus on 5G security from the core to the edge.

With the financial implications of the pandemic ebbing, the company now faces new headwinds on the back of the semiconductor shortage and opportunities in 5G edge.

Oracle's secure access service edge, delivered in collaboration with Check Point Security, is somewhat unique among competing vendors in that it also part of a larger public cloud offering.

“2021 will be another challenging year for us, but it’s also the year that our future development strategy will begin to take shape,” Huawei's Eric Xu said.

Azure revenue grew 50% year over year during the company’s third quarter of fiscal year 2021, and it grew 50% during the previous quarter.

“Although Prisma Cloud is probably best known for container security, we realize that customers are using a diverse set of form factors for running their cloud-native applications,” Palo Alto

“We could have more than doubled the size of the round simply based on extremely strong investor interest,” Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan said.

Meanwhile, Google Cloud posted an operating loss of $974 million during Q1, compared with a $1.73 billion loss a year earlier.