Benu partnered with AWS; the cybersecurity skills shortage remains particularly acute; and Arista Networks embedded NDR into its campus switches.

Ericsson touted its 5G energy efficiency progress; Nvidia's Arm ambitions are anything but dead; and the Great Resignation might collide with the developer shortage.

The IT enterprise juggernaut revealed an infrastructure platform that aims to help operators build and deploy open, cloud-native networks.

Dubbed Forcepoint One, the SSE platform offers customers the full suite of SASE security features minus the networking baggage.

“You have to assume that an advanced persistent threat is going to go inside your network,” CEO Ratan Tipirneni said.

Making networks more sustainable is a universal objective and a joint priority between Ericsson and its customers, Ericsson's Per Navinger said.

KDDI claims to run the first 5G standalone open RAN site; a New Mexico water utility tapped Cisco for security; and Cisco might acquire these companies next.

"Our vision at the end of the day is to be the final piece that breaks down all of those [data] silos," Arcion CEO Gary Hagmueller said.

F5 expanded its application security portfolio; Nokia and Kyndryl expanded their private 5G partnership; and Snyk acquired Fugue.

The simplified portfolio boils down to five core areas: cloud infrastructure, management, storage, database, and desktop services, SVP Thomas Cornely said.

Users appreciate Constellation's Kubernetes-first approach, but that characteristic makes it just as complex as Kubernetes itself.

The combined technology also puts Snyk, riding high on an $8.5 billion valuation, in an even better position to make good on its DevSecOps domination dreams.

The companies intend to improve how companies manufacture and distribute products with the aid of IoT, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

"WAAP, as a cloud service, is a fast-growing area, led by large cloud providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, Amazon, and Google," IDC's Chris Rodriguez said.

European carriers plead for bailouts; Akamai bought Linode; and Ericsson admitted to decades-long corruption.

Akamai claims the acquisition positions it to become the "world's most distributed-compute platform from edge to cloud."

The company also announced Symworld, which represents a rebranding effort and a repacking of the Rakuten Communications Platform.

Network access control has been a constant thorn in Juniper's side. The WiteSand acquisition remedies that, Juniper's Jeff Aaron says.

Google Cloud landed a contract with the U.S. DoD; Intel is betting big on RISC-V; and HPE Aruba touts its earlier start on NaaS than rival Cisco.

“Customers understand the world moved to software and they see what happened with the cloud. They don’t want to be left behind,” CEO Ido Susan said.

Aruba’s NaaS portfolio “encompasses everything that we're doing,” CTO David Hughes said.

The McAfee-FireEye cybersecurity giant rebranded as Trellix; Orca Security acquired RapidSec; and Fractal Analytics raised $360 million.

The cloud provider says the contract win sets “the stage for potential broader adoption across defense agencies worldwide.”

Microsoft joined the Carbon Call; AMD plans to close its Xilinx acquisition next week; and the O-RAN Alliance’s power structure is misaligned with its goals.