When it comes to NaaS, Cisco, HPE, and Dell are "at different points in their history, but HPE and Dell got a headstart," analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

Ethernet adapter revenue is on track to grow 27%; VMware earned its freedom in 2021; and seven managed service providers now offer Fortinet's SD-WAN.

Convergia, Eastern Communications, Halo Global, Lintasarta, Ooredoo Qatar, PLDT, and Transtelco now offer Fortinet's Secure SD-WAN platform.

As supply restrictions ease and smartNICs gain traction, adapter shipments should return to double-digit growth in 2022, Dell’Oro Group's Baron Fung forecasts.

AppsFlyer partnered with Intel to accelerate homomorphic encryption; Microsoft made CDP’s climate A list; and T-Mobile and Verizon shun public clouds.

The top seven vendors comprise about 80% of the total market, and ZTE and Samsung are both “trending upward,” according to Dell’Oro Group.

The carriers might be feeling especially justified in their cloud strategies in the wake of two recent Amazon Web Services outages.

Data center Ethernet switch revenue soared 11% year over year; Verizon extended its MEC offering to Google Cloud; and Cybereason launched its XDR platform.

The addition of Google Cloud puts Verizon closer to providing both public and private mobile edge compute services with all three of the cloud giants.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft drove 400 Gb/s Ethernet switch deployments during the third quarter, Dell’Oro Group analysts report.

Cisco added support for Alkira’s multi-cloud networking platform; attackers used Log4j to target 44% of corporate networks; and Sysdig raised $350 million.

Megaport's SDN spans more than 700 connected data centers, service providers, and cloud on ramps, enabling branch-to-branch and branch-to-cloud connectivity.

When the world’s largest public cloud fails, major organizations that rely on it are left in limbo.

Users can deploy Cisco’s Secure Firewall Threat Defense platform directly from within Alkira’s Cloud Services Exchange beginning early next year.

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

Rockport's platform distributes switching functionality to each node in a cluster, forgoing traditional leaf-and-spine topologies in favor of a mesh network.

CEO Tareq Amin initially pledged to publicly disclose and publish the costs of every application and piece of gear in a digital product catalog.

The service integrates with Google's Chronicle security analytics platform, which helps companies investigate threats surfaced by Cloud IDS.

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

The German network operator claims it's the first global telco to roll out Kubernetes across both its network core and edge sites.

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.”

“Security and observability are coming together,” said Cisco Chief Strategy Officer Liz Centoni, using AppDynamics as an example.

Zscaler extended its zero-trust security to public cloud workloads; Intel Labs established a new research center; and Liqid raised $100M.