“I think AWS is certainly in the driver’s seat at the moment of this market without question,” CCS Insight's Nick McQuire said.

Nokia’s RAN boss reflected on 5G misfires; Dell will sell Boomi for $4 billion; and Data Theorem said security needs a seat at the adults' table.

Apple pledged $430 billion for 5G and jobs; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

Palo Alto Networks called EDR a "really stupid idea;" VMware eyed 5G core opportunities; and Nokia plugged a triple-threat enterprise strategy.

European Commissioner Thierry Breton spoke with representatives from both Intel and TSMC this week about ways to reduce reliance on foreign foundries.

Fortinet fired up 5G firewalls; Nokia claims turnaround success; and Dish teased multiple 5G markets.

Overall, AWS generated 12% of Amazon’s total revenue in the first quarter of 2021 and about 47% of its profit.

Nokia said it inked contracts with 63 new enterprise customers in Q1 and roughly half of those organizations bought private wireless products or services from the vendor.

Vectra AI joined the unicorn herd; Extreme Networks looks to go big; and IBM acquired Turbonomic.

The private-sector led Ransomware Task Force today issued a report that includes 48 recommendations to combat ransomware, which it says is a $350 million industry.

With the financial implications of the pandemic ebbing, the company now faces new headwinds on the back of the semiconductor shortage and opportunities in 5G edge.

Microsoft's cloud revenue stabilized; Huawei's sales took a dive; and Sysdig secured $188 million in new funding.

“2021 will be another challenging year for us, but it’s also the year that our future development strategy will begin to take shape,” Huawei's Eric Xu said.

“Although Prisma Cloud is probably best known for container security, we realize that customers are using a diverse set of form factors for running their cloud-native applications,” Palo Alto

“We could have more than doubled the size of the round simply based on extremely strong investor interest,” Sysdig CEO Suresh Vasudevan said.

Juniper is betting on its acquisitions of Mist, 128 Technologies, NetRounds, and Apstra to turn the company's financials around in 2021.

Meanwhile, Google Cloud posted an operating loss of $974 million during Q1, compared with a $1.73 billion loss a year earlier.

VMware tilted into vRAN telco cloud; Red Hat OpenShift got plussed for cloud battle; HPE scored cloud-native storage exclusive.

AT&T and Ericsson's conversations with businesses have shifted to focus on scenarios that require the bandwidth, mass connectivity, and low latency of 5G.

“This new product is billed as a storage solution, but it is much more,” Forrester analysts said. “Its really a 'glue-all' product poised to change the HCI market.”

The newly christened OpenShift Platform Plus now acts as Red Hat's halo self-managed hybrid cloud offering.

Apple pledged $430 billion for 5G and jobs; Dell tapped Secureworks for managed XDR; and Kubernetes hit a maturity milestone.

The project has slowed its release cadence to three per year, a “sign of Kubernetes becoming boring/mature,” platform co-developer Joe Beda noted on Twitter.

HPE, Facebook, and Microsoft freed up low-carbon patents; Intel beat Q1 guidance; and AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon renewed net-zero pledges.