The offering delivers on Cisco's promise to provide deeper integrations with Equinix global network of data centers.

“Fortinet is furthering its commitment to significantly reduce the cyber skills gap as part of this initiative,” Fortinet founder and CEO Ken Xie said.

Intel dedicated capacity at its Ireland foundry to manufacture automotive silicon; Red Hat joined OS-Climate; and Nokia froze its O-RAN Alliance activities.

"Investors know all the spoils are going to go to the category leaders... and we’re becoming that” for multi-cloud, Aviatrix CEO Steve Mullaney said.

“The key target clientele for E1080 are enterprises seeking extreme performance, scalability, energy efficiency, and security for their digital environments," analyst Joe Clabby said.

While NEC’s 5G effort with AWS is new, the company has been pushing heavily into the arena for years as it aims to grow beyond its traditional footprint in

“The Nokia announcement is part of an effort to make open RAN a political issue,” Monica Paolini, principal analyst at Senza Fili, told SDxCentral.

Snyk's CEO offers insight on the cybersecurity skills shortage; endpoint security tech is moving toward EDR; and AT&T targets 1 gigaton CO2e emissions cut.

The Connected Climate Initiative promotes clean technology and AT&T’s connectivity services to help customers and partners avoid a gigaton of CO2e emissions by 2035.

Arctic Wolf promoted Nick Schneider to CEO; HPE CTO Kumar Sreekanti is leaving his position; and Exabeam appointed a new COO.

EDR “went from some distant technological thing not many folks were looking at or buying … to now being the primary tool to deal with the threats,” Gartner VP

Ciena will acquire AT&T’s Vyatta virtual routing and switching technology; HPE's Aruba grew 27% year over year; and Microsoft hired Charlie Bell.

“The telco opportunity is the most interesting right now as the competitive landscape is wide open,” ZK Research analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

HPE saw robust growth across most of its business units, with the company's Aruba intelligent edge business growing by the largest margin, up 27% year over year.

Verizon activated its private, on-premise MEC service with Microsoft Azure; 91% of Nutanix’s Q4 sales were from software subscriptions; and Intel embraces chiplet architecture.

In an interview with SDxCentral, CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said Nutanix’s software transformation that it began in 2017 is complete.

The managed services offering integrates Verizon 5G Edge with Microsoft Azure Stack Edge and layers in additional features, depending on enterprise requirements.

Analysts say Adtran's ADVA acquisition doesn't threaten larger competitors; Wind River targets the machine economy; and Juniper Networks plans to integrate its RAN with Intel's FlexRAN platform.

HPE will provide a combination of Apollo and ProLiant servers to support the NSA's AI push.

"Startups from application security and network security are the leaders in terms of count and investments,” GlobalData's Apoorva Bajaj said.

“RIC is like the brain for open RAN, and we also call it essentially the operating system of the RAN,” Juniper Networks' Jai Thattil said.

“We’re now entering the second wave of digital transformation, which is the transformation of OT,” Wind River CEO Kevin Dallas said.

Deutsche Telekom will add 1.2M fiber connections before 2022; Docker added a new subscription tier and updated its pricing; and satellite communication latency is decreasing.

Docker Inc.’s new business subscription “has that extra layer of enterprise expectations for management and security and compliance that doesn't get in the way of a developer,” the vendor's