Rakuten Symphony extends cost transparency only to its customers; the Log4j vulnerability wreaks havoc; and Rockport ditches switches in HPC environments.

“This vulnerability is so dangerous because of its massive scale,” Forrester Analyst Allie Mellen said.

Snyk acquired CloudSkiff; Lacework closed a record-breaking $1.3 billion funding round; and IBM acquired SXiQ.

Cnvrg extended support for Intel’s Habana Gaudi AI accelerators; Rubrik partnered with Microsoft; and Deutsche Telekom rolled out 5G on Kubernetes.

"The partnership benefits Rubrik by providing access to the broad Azure ecosystem, and to Microsoft by extending their hybrid cloud presence," IDC's Phil Goodwin wrote.

Security and observability are coming together; Kyndryl partnered with Google Cloud; and AT&T and Verizon dismissed AWS Private 5G as a competitive threat.

“It’s not fully baked,” IDC analyst Daryl Schoolar said. “I think they’re very open to taking it wherever it will go.”

The partnership comes amid several high-profile customer wins for Kyndryl including RSA, BWM, and Raytheon Technologies.

Disaggregated, composable, and flexible architectures can help increase data centers' utilization rate, Liqid CEO Sumit Puri said.

Organizations that claimed to have mature implementations of zero trust and SASE were 35% more likely to report strong security operations.

Amazon launched AWS Cloud WAN; Juniper plans to expand its cloud-based AI services; and SDxCentral recalls November’s top executive moves.

"It seems appropriate that as we were getting people moving from Palo Alto [Networks], that the appropriate place for them to move was Oahu," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said.

Women make up just 25% of the cybersecurity workforce; employers and employees have divergent views on remote work; and Platform9 named Bhaskar Gorti CEO.

The managed WAN service has already garnered support from leading SD-WAN vendors: Cisco, VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Aruba.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s high-performance computing investments are paying off; Amazon Web Services announced AWS IoT TwinMaker at re:Invent.

“Thirty three of the top 100 most powerful supercomputers in the world were built by HPE. This is more than any company,” CEO Antonio Neri boasted.

Aqua Security acquired Argon; DevSecOps might finally take off; and Dish touted its repeatedly delayed wireless 5G deployment at AWS re:Invent.

“Our customers require a strong security posture that can be realized at speed,” said Taree Reardon, manager of MDR at VMware.

AWS' CEO underlined the opportunity that awaits the cloud in every industry; AWS detailed its Graviton3 chips and a private 5G service at re:Invent.

“There's currently nothing like AWS Private 5G out there — a one-stop shop to manage a private cellular network that lets you start small and scale up as you

"There's no industry that hasn't been touched, and no business that can't be radically disrupted,” AWS CEO Adam Selipsky boasted.

Trend Micro says it secures 2.5 trillion cloud events daily; Gartner find 18% of organizations use chaos engineering; and Aviatrix dips its toes into the security market.

The partnership comes as GTT Communications, confronted by a mountain of long-term debt, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The open source tool provides API observability with a security mindset, Cisco VP Vijoy Pandey said.