VMware sees 5G core opportunities; TSMC wants to spend big on chip fabs; and AT&T boosted its SD-WAN security options.

Oracle's Ellison threw a dig at SAP; CrowdStrike and Trend Micro faced off on XDR; and Cisco revealed its private 5G network vision.

The overarching theme of this year’s Cisco Live event was that of a smarter, simpler, and more accessible product portfolio.

VMware Cloud gains flexibility; HPE eyes 150 Ireland jobs; and Cisco hates spectrum auctions.

The design goal of the new Webex People Insights feature is to "help people with their well-being ... not inspect how hard they work," Cisco's Jeetu Patel said.

The new positions are being focused on cybersecurity, software development, global research and development, and cloud consulting.

VMware delivered on its promise to offer more flexible pricing and consumption models with the launch of its new subscription-based VMware Cloud Universal service.

Cisco Duo offers passwordless security; Innovium certified its switch silicon; and Cisco, Huawei dominated a down enterprise network market.

The launch of the Cisco Plus NaaS platform makes good on CEO Chuck Robbins' promise to move the company’s portfolio to a subscription model.

“We’ve taken it upon ourselves to lead the industry in reducing complexity for our customers so that they can protect themselves, but also respond very quickly,” Cisco’s Gee Rittenhouse

The full-stack observability platform ties together ThousandEye's network monitoring and AppDynamics application performance monitoring capabilities.

“Everyone hates the password,” Cisco Duo’s Wolfgang Goerlich said. “Finally the technology is good enough to replace that factor and radically increase the authentication workflow.”

CSPM for the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform adds a unified cloud and container security tool to AWS and GCP, and a new free-forever cloud security tier.

Both vendors managed to maintain control over the broader market in 2020, despite a dramatic downturn tied to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

McAfee added cloud-native app security; Zscaler, CrowdStrike targeted zero-trust security; and IBM open RAN tech will drive Telefónica trial.

“Whether it's connectivity, security, or observability, the world does not just end at layer-7 services, it's much broader than that,” says Cisco's Vijoy Pandey.

The partners say the new integrations for joint customers provide identity-centric and zero-trust security across data, people, devices, workloads, and networks.

It’s called Mvision Cloud Native Application Protection Platform, and it includes data protection, threat prevention, governance, and compliance for container and OS-based workloads.

Palo Alto Networks SASE-fied Comcast SDN; Nokia hastened its shift to cloud; and SolarWinds' CEO claimed software will block breaches.

A software vulnerability led to the SolarWinds supply chain attack, and according to CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna, software is also part of the solution to prevent a future breach.

The move combines Comcast Business’ ActiveCore SDN platform and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Access SASE platform for branch network and mobile user security.

Samsung and Marvell mix a 5G MIMO SoC; Traceable's technology makes it a target; and T-Mobile and Intel are realistic on enterprise 5G.

The service provider's Arcus platform pushes MPLS connectivity into Versa's SASE points of presence.

The Series B round, announced a little over a year since the company’s launch and its $100 million Series A, pushed Wiz’s valuation to $1.7 billion.