The move comes on the heels of AT&T’s most recent quarterly earnings release that was dominated by uncertainty tied to the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak.

Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone Germany embraced 5G DSS; Edgewise Networks CEO shared security-related consequences of COVID-19; and AT&T topped managed SD-WAN ranking.

Edgewise Networks CEO Peter Smith discusses the rapid shift to remote work because of COVID-19 and how zero-trust security can help.

The race to blanket Germany with 5G got underway last July and market leader Deutsche Telekom now says its 5G network will reach more than half of the country’s

IBM Cloud Data Shield is based on Fortanix’s technology that encrypts data at rest, in transit, and while in use, thus allowing general-purpose computation on encrypted data.

Cisco, Google drove SD-WAN to the cloud; Commvault sued competitors Cohesity and Rubrik; and IBM reported a hard hit from pandemic in earnings report.

The vendor's 2.0 update includes testing and infrastructure provisioning capabilities that its CEO Joe Duffy said users are calling "superpowers."

Long-time executive and short-time co-CEO Jennifer Morgan is set to leave the company on April 30. SAP tied the move to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told financial analysts that “in the last few weeks we faced a shift in client priorities toward the preservation of capital.”

The Payment Flexibility Program offers customers 0% interest financing with no down payment and up to 180-day deferrals on payments.

Customers “get no visibility from the public cloud because they treat it as a black box,” CEO Steve Mullaney said.

Regional operator GCI claims it has invested “tens of millions of dollars” in the Anchorage area to deploy 5G.

Google had originally planned to release the product later this year. But then the COVID-19 pandemic drastically increased demand for remote worker security.

The company’s strategy centers on four “fundamental pillars,” made up of WAN optimization, application performance, network visibility, and with a caveat SD-WAN.

The hostile takeover bid follows a previous report that claimed the company was considering potential asset sales or mergers to improve its outlook.

The FortiGuard Labs team as recently as April 4 reported seeing an average of about 600 new coronavirus-related phishing campaigns per day.

The DoD report found the decision to award Microsoft the $10B JEDI cloud contract was “reasonable” and “consistent with applicable law.”

“We are reevaluating the pace of our investment plans for the remainder of 2020,” Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees.

Awake Security displaced Cisco; Ericsson beat out 5G rivals; and Viptela CEO launched multi-cloud startup Alkira.

The deal will see Nuage pair its SD-WAN 2.0 offering with Asavie’s SD Edge platform announced last week.

Founded by former Viptela CEO Amir Khan and his brother Atif Khan, Alkira Cloud Services Exchange aims to eliminate the complexity of multi-cloud deployments.

The Business Resiliency Program aims to provide organizations economically impacted by the pandemic with the tools and equipment they need to keep their businesses running.

VMware patched a critical bug; Ericsson scored a 5G win with Nex-Tech Wireless deal; and Altiostar's CEO shared his confidence in Open RAN to upend mobile networks.

Palo Alto paid $420M for CloudGenix; Microsoft acquired Affirmed; AWS pledged $20 million to COVID-19 testing; plus the latest VC/M&A news from March.