“​​I challenge Arista’s Cloud Vision to work on Cisco infrastructure or Cisco's ACI to work on Arista switches. It can't be done,” CEO Rami Rahim said.

The metaverse may be the next medium for cybercrime; VMware and Dell Technologies completed their spinoff deal; and Netskope released Cloud Exchange.

While other vendors in the emerging XDR space debate a platform versus open or partner approach, IBM says it remains committed to providing both.

“One of the biggest challenges IT and network operations teams face is having the right level of visibility into operational health of the network,” COO Manoj Leelanivas said.

The update builds on several recent collaborations with colocation and cloud providers, and it boasts improved multi-tenancy and an updated management console.

Cloud Exchange is available at no added cost and enables threat intelligence and other data to be shared between multiple security products.

Under the agreement, Dell Technologies shed its 81% stake in VMware, which is now a $64 billion independent software company.

The war to secure remote workers' homes has a new combatant as VMware joins Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet in battle.

Amazon cloud sales jumped 39%; Intel is putting developers at the center of its focus; and AT&T introduced a managed firewall service for 5G network deployments.

Samsung and Ciena joined forces to provide both hardware and software for 5G networks, thus giving telecom operators an alternative to Nokia and Ericsson.

The managed firewall is available to U.S.-based AT&T Business customers that use the carrier’s edge, IoT, private network, or multi-access edge computing services.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger promised to put the needs of developers at the center of what Intel does. Something he admits “we haven’t done a great job of recently.”

“The market very obviously moved in the direction of OT security. And Dragos has been pretty far out in front of our competitors,” CEO Robert M. Lee said.

“We could have grown faster without supply chain constraints,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said during Nokia's third quarter of 2021 earnings call.

“We delivered our fifth straight quarter of greater than 50% year-over-year revenue growth,” CEO Lisa Su boasted.

Intel committed to building an open ecosystem of technologies; IBM announced partnerships with Cisco and Palo Alto Networks; and Google’s cloud revenue jumped 45%.

Verizon claims the service addresses many of the challenges faced by enterprises as they transition to remote and hybrid work models.

"It's easy to imply that there's an extra 10% of revenue growth that did not happen due to supply constraints," CFO Ken Miller said.

As enterprises struggle to defend against advanced bots and API attacks, they are moving away from stand-alone web application firewalls and instead choosing a web app and API protection

The Symware appliance features containerized cell site routing functions and a containerized distributed unit on a single-rack, general-purpose server.

The partnerships seek to automate 5G network segmentation and security functionality using a combination of IBM, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks technologies.

“We must make an open ecosystem experience compelling, easy, secure, and better,” Pat Gelsinger said.

Verizon plans to use Kuiper’s technology to augment the coverage of its 5G network and provide backhaul to areas that were previously unreachable, Verizon SVP Rima Qureshi said.

Intel announced its CFO will retire; NetApp expanded its Spot portfolio; and Cisco acquired Kubernetes governance startup replex.