Google Cloud security products increase efforts to combine AI and cybersecurity with several new and enhanced products and partnerships.

The vendor is targeting the carbon impact of powering complex cloud and data center networks with the Nexus dashboard updates.

At Cisco Live 2023, the tech giant showed off its efforts at simplifying its platforms with a networking cloud and streamlined Catalyst switch stack.

The vendor aims to help GreenLake customers be proactive about addressing the environmental impacts of running IT infrastructure.

Dynatrace CEO Rick McConnell forecasts “the number of use cases that involve both observability and security is going to explode."

The Dent network operating system is moving forward, adding capabilities that will help make edge and enterprise deployments more efficient.

Cisco AppDynamics and ThousandEyes are getting an observability boost with open source Open Telemetry.

CMO Mike Katz said customers were using “hundreds of gigs a month on average."

Verizon reported robust 5G fixed-wireless access growth, which adds suspense to AT&T's growing interest.

Cisco is initially partnering with vendors like Palo Alto Networks, Microsoft, SentinelOne, Trend Micro and Cybereason.

The applications also take advantage of a recent private network partnership extension with Kyndryl.

Akamai updates its zero-trust security portfolio designed to help organizations bolster network security. The updates are based on technologies that Akamai gained via the $600 million acquisition of Israeli

PwC Partner Dan Hays said operators can use APIs to drive a return on their 5G investments, adding “the opportunity is really to connect the dots.”

The solution offers unified management of the vendor's firewalls, 5G, and operational technology security product combinations based on customers' needs.

The deal will connect Sentrisense IoT sensors to Sateliot's satellite constellation for data retrieval.

The partnerships aim to offer better visibility and user experience to simplify and secure hybrid work.

“It's our view that much of what is being discussed and marketed as XDR is nothing more than a rebranding of a SIEM," SVP Tom Gillis argues.

Huawei's U.S. bribery scheme; Google Cloud security adds Lacework's Polygraph data platform; and Nokia goes for VMware's Telco Cloud Platform.

Lacework’s Polygraph Data platform brings multi-cloud runtime telemetry and high-context alerts into Google Cloud Chronicle Security Operations.

The move ensures enterprises and operators can reap the full benefits of a "cloudified network," Infovista CTO Yann Le Helloco said.

"There is no other vendor in the market that can unite these capabilities like we do," CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna said.

The tool will be available for Amazon Web Services at launch, with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform support coming down the road.

AT&T adds ‘SASE Plus’ to its network; Ericsson says metaverse is driving a push for 5G QoS; and GitLab touts the Cloud Seed tool.

Widespread adoption of metaverse-related services such as gaming and augmented reality is putting pressure on operators to ensure 5G QoS, according to Ericsson.