“This Cybersecurity Action Team marshals the experts from across Google to form the world’s premier security advisory team,” Google Cloud CISO Phil Venables said.

The service allows users to control how logging is routed from a single, centralized location while keeping the data plane on premises or in the cloud.

“This new solution is a cloud-based security platform with security threat analytics, machine learning, and deep integrations through these third-party products,” AT&T Cybersecurity's Rakesh Shah said.

“This portfolio allows customers to focus on applications and business initiatives, rather than the management of their underlying infrastructure,” Google Cloud's Sachin Gupta said.

A Cisco study says 64% of workers would quit if they can't work from home; a recap of September's M&A moves; and Microsoft launched cyber insurer At-Bay.

“It gives you a way to see who are the leaders and innovators in this space and who was just along for the ride,” Amazon's Adrian Cockcroft said.

Akamai bought Guardicore for $600 million; Snyk's Series F funding bumped the company's valuation to $8.5 billion; and F5 acquired Threat Stack.

“We believe the future of work is definitively going to be hybrid, where people are going to work in mixed mode,” Cisco EVP Jeetu Patel said.

Increasingly the vendor's SASE is becoming a platform for connecting applications with applications and clouds with clouds.

Despite Rakuten’s pioneering ways in open RAN, it and the technology itself has much to prove outside of Japan.

“More money will allow us to go faster, bigger, and stronger. And that's the reason that we took it,” Solo.io CEO Idit Levine said.

Marvell released its first 5-nm switch silicon and DPUS; VMware said it's a critical partner for 5G operators; and AT&T's CSO emphasized the value of effective authentication.

Transitioning more of VMware's expansive software portfolio to a software-as-a-service model was one of several topics covered by Kit Colbert at VMworld 2021.

Automation and hybrid cloud infrastructure are no longer a choice, but a necessity, Bharti Airtel CTO Randeep Sekhon said at Red Hat’s Open5G event.

“Our role in 5G is we provide the 5G underlay on top of which the 5G radio access network software runs,” VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram said.

VMware and Nvidia partnered to deploy AI workloads on Kubernetes; VMware boosted cloud-native security; and Dell extended its cloud partnership with VMware.

“Going forward, multi-cloud is at the center of gravity for everything we do,” Raghu Raghuram said during his opening keynote at VMworld.

The vendor's Secure Private Access provides conditional access to applications based on factors including identity, location, and device.

“This offer is really built to simplify our customers' multi-cloud world," Dell Technologies SVP Varun Chhabra said.

Nvidia and Lenovo also announced a collaboration promoting VMware's Project Monterey.

Gee Rittenhouse left Cisco; Secureworks appointed Wendy Thomas as CEO; and Arrcus appointed former VMware exec Shekar Ayyar as CEO and chairman.

Fugue released an infrastructure as code platform; the Quad pledged to foster open RAN tech; and Gartner analysts say security services should be consolidated.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are relatively recent additions to the world of algorithms and they offer new promises for operators.

“SASE at first might seem like a grand vision but there are absolutely things that you can do to move toward a SASE architecture today,” Gartner's Neil MacDonald said.