This week was about cybersecurity -- avoiding vulnerabilities, learning more about them, or CISOs dealing with the consequences.

Tanzu Mission Control Self-Managed offers air-gapped deployment targeted at data sovereignty for regulated industries.

Red Hat's new Service Interconnect offering enables orgs to more easily create secure application connections across clusters and clouds.

Truly sustainable open source projects require adequate resources to maintain healthy code and communities, Amazon Web Services' Nathan Taber said.

As compute demand grows and climate change worsens, it's "paramount to be energy conscious," Microsoft's Jorge Palma said.

Red Hat's open source Project Kepler measures the energy use associated with running workloads in data center or public cloud environments.

The vendor also introduced a reference deployment for Mendix apps on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.

The vendor also announced the first commercial collaboration with long-time vendor partner Samsung tied to Dish Network’s ongoing 5G deployment.

The platform creates container images that it publishes and stores in Docker-compatible container registries before deploying them to Kubernetes.

The cloud-native security vendor integrated ChatGPT to help organizations quickly secure Kubernetes clusters using an open policy agent.

The latest Tanzu Application Platform 1.4 includes "hooks into the enterprise world," VMware SVP Edward Hieatt said.

As 2022 draws to a close, the era of cloud shows few signs of the same.

The 5G standalone core is based on Cisco’s cloud-native control plane that uses Kubernetes to orchestrate containers running on bare metal

HPE GreenLake for private cloud enterprise now supports Kubernetes container deployments with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service.

OutSystems also unveiled an AI mentor system that "literally shaves weeks and months off of the development process," CPO Gonçalo Gaiolas said.

The cloud sustainability technical guides help "support the societal infrastructure for a sustainable world," VP Alysa Taylor said.

"VMware is leading the industry when it comes to sovereign cloud," said Rajeev Bhardwaj, VP of cloud provider solutions.

The blueprint comes from a trial led by the Telecom Infra Project's 5G Private Networks group, which is itself chaired by telecom giant Telefónica.

Vodafone ramps its open radio access network push; Dell'Oro talks VPN replacement; and Nutanix boosts the Kubernetes ecosystem.

These moves aim to accelerate the adoption of Kubernetes at scale and DevOps application delivery for Nutanix's cloud customers.

The Device Edge platform is the vendor’s enterprise-focused and supported distribution of its previously unveiled MicroShift project.

The foundation appointed VMware VP of Software Engineering Catherine McGarvey as Craig McLuckie's successor and chair of the governing board.

Samsung will supply equipment for NTT's private 5G network; RSA partners with Zimperium; and DoKC releases data on Kubernetes.

Mandiant talks security trends; AT&T expands edge zones; and Gartner gives the metaverse until 2029 to fully arrive.