“In the next three years economic forces will drive operators to go to open RAN," said Altiostar CEO Ashraf Dahod.

Cisco pledged to preserve jobs; AWS added direct storage to ECS, Fargate; and SAP prepped for COVID-19 related uncertainty in early look at its Q1 performance.

Spending on AI is poised to jump, particularly among enterprises that are deploying the technology in the cloud to accelerate efforts around automation and agility, according to a new

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said his company has the wherewithal to survive the pandemic without laying off employees.

All of the new RAN gear is running on chipsets from Nokia’s ReefShark portfolio including new CPUs and GPUs.

Cisco and VMware have been battling for SD-WAN superiority ever since the two vendors paid hundreds of millions of dollars for Viptela and VeloCloud.

“Closing a major funding round during these times of economic uncertainty is testament to the promise that our investors see in Cohesity,” said CEO Mohit Aron.

More than 225,000 branch offices have deployed VMware’s SD-WAN, said VMware’s Tom Gillis. “All of a sudden we’re No. 1.”

This is also a great time to start a bug bounty program, says Guy Podjarny, founder and president of Snyk.

Cisco secured a deal to buy Fluidmesh Networks; IBM CEO threw down a hybrid-cloud challenge; and DT tapped Palo Alto Networks' managed security services.

That challenge will rely heavily on IBM’s Red Hat business unit, which also received a new leader.

Cisco, Hitachi cut hundreds of jobs; Nokia CEO walked the plank; AT&T slashed jobs; plus the latest headcount hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Wood is no stranger to the SD-WAN market. He joined Versa’s executive team in February after a brief stint at Apstra and three years at Velocloud.

“As the 5G edge unfolds, we’ll start to see more of a marriage between the telcos and hyperscale clouds,” said Nick McQuire, SVP at CCS Insight.

The surge, which is tied to the ongoing COVID-19 virus outbreak, is being managed by the platform's cloud-based nature.

T-Mobile closed its Sprint acquisition; Intel CEO bestowed optimism despite pandemic; and CybersecurityCares listed free tools during Coronavirus.

Perhaps the most interesting thing about the letter was what wasn’t said. There was not one mention of COVID-19, the coronavirus, or even persevering through difficult times.

CloudGenix will form the second pillar of Palo Alto's emerging secure access service edge offering, which it announced last fall.

The operator tapped Cisco’s SD-WAN to “solve corporate challenges from workstyle reform, security measures, and labor shortage,” said NTT East SVP Naoki Shibutani.

Nokia AVA 5G Cognitive Operations is designed to increase automation of network operations by maintaining service requirements and predicting challenges before they occur.

The cloud giant is also working with Magid Glove & Safety to ramp up production of 2 million to 3 million face masks in the coming weeks.

“Everyone wants to forget the radios, and the radios are what makes wireless wireless," Steve Papa said.

Threat researchers at Microsoft, ClearSky, and Okta are among the hundreds of security experts helping the medical community fight COVID-19 cyberattacks.

As chipmakers scramble to limit the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains, IDC analysts reported an 80% likelihood the semiconductor market would contract in 2020.