Solo.io raised $135 million to reach unicorn status; Cisco acquired replex to bolster its observability platform; and Rakuten Mobile acquired Estmob.

“Don’t go out and claim that this is an alternative to the Chinese because they’re just as involved,” Strand Consult CEO John Strand said.

Vodafone will deploy VMware's Telco Cloud Platform in European markets; Kyndryl announced a partnership with Microsoft; and Extreme Networks reported a solid first fiscal quarter of 2022.

“Is it fast enough for them to maximize their market share? Time will tell,” analyst and report author Grant Lenahan said. “We’re trying to sound the alarm.”

The companies aim to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption, advance artificial intelligence, enhance cybersecurity resilience, and modernize enterprise IT operations.

CSPs expect 5G energy costs will rise; Juniper Networks previewed its Edge Services Platform; and Fortinet is addressing the gender gap in cybersecurity.

“​​I'm a firm believer in the more diversity you have in your teams, the more effective your teams are going to be,” Fortinet Deputy CISO Renee Tarun said.

VMware research finds employees want transparent spying; and Cisco powers AT&T's latest managed SASE.

A recent survey from GSMA Intelligence reported 67% of communications service providers expect energy costs to rise through 2024 in line with current trends.

It’s not so much the spying that poses the problem. Employees just want their companies to be transparent about their surveillance measures.

Gartner named the top firewall providers; Verizon and AT&T delayed the launch of 5G on C-band spectrum; and AMD released its Milan-X CPUs and Instinct MI200 AI accelerators.

“It becomes very important to have complete or comprehensive zero trust across the enterprise,” Palo Alto Networks CPO Lee Klarich said.

Qualys determined that the 36 most prevalent ransomware families used about 110 CVEs. And all of them have patches available for the past several years.

Intel CFO George Davis announced his retirement; Ivanti named a new CEO; and Snyk appointed Sanjay Poonen to its board of directors.

More than a quarter of the respondents thought they'd already deployed NaaS, according to Cisco's latest report.

While Fortinet expects to maintain strong revenue growth going into the fourth quarter, CFO Keith Jensen warned supply chain constraints could slow the vendor's momentum.

“There has been a significant uptick in ransomware over the last year and a half, two years,” Chris Inglis said. “It's been a long time in the making.”

"We're in the beta test mode and we'll progress that over the course of the next 90 days and look forward to launching Vegas sometime in the first quarter

Tag Cyber’s CEO says SASE makes life more complicated; NEC and Qualcomm teamed up on 5G infrastructure; and Palo Alto Networks and Siemens announced a partnership.

Under the agreement, Siemens will sell its Ruggedcom networking and security platforms with Palo Alto Networks’ VM-Series firewalls built in.

The pairing puts the two aspiring vendors in line to capture a greater share of the RAN market if open RAN adoption picks up in the coming years.

Hybrid networking and security models have only made network teams' lives harder, Tag Cyber CEO Ed Amoroso said.

Snyk didn’t disclose financial details about the CloudSkiff deal, which is its fourth acquisition in the last 12 months.

“We’re two years ahead on the 5G race, and I'm here to tell you that in two years from now, we'll be two years or more ahead in the