The deal will create two separate companies but preserve Dell and VMware’s “strategic partnership,” VMware CFO and interim CEO Zane Rowe said.

Cisco joins South Korea's digital push; FBI hacks computers to kill Exchange web shells; and Vodaphone Germany activates Europe's first 5G standalone network.

Also on Tuesday, the NSA alerted Microsoft to more critical vulnerabilities that hackers could use to remotely compromise Exchange email systems.

“I expect IT companies like Cisco to closely work with public institutions and universities, creating synergy in fostering people-centered digital infrastructure," South Korea’s Prime Minister Sye-Kyun Chung said.

The partnership marks the SASE vendor's first communications service provider collaboration.

VMware detailed modern bank heists strategies; Google teamed up with Broadcom on security; Mavenir readied massive MIMO radios with Xilinx.

Cybercrime cartels know that banks’ nonpublic market information is their most valuable asset, and criminals can use it to facilitate digital insider trading and front running.

The multi-cloud vendor's Cloud Services Exchange platform is now available on the public cloud provider's marketplace.

After acquiring Symantec, Broadcom migrated that vendor’s web security service and cloud access security broker onto Google Cloud.

The vendors are coming together to prove that “open RAN massive MIMO radios are a reality," Xilinx's Gilles Garcia said.

Microsoft will pay $19.7B for Nuance; IBM named its infrastructure spinoff; and Comcast software jumped into the CNCF Sandbox.

Big Blue's managed infrastructure business will live on as Kyndryl

The acquisition is the software giant’s second largest under CEO Sataya Nadella, who paid $26.2 billion for LinkedIn in 2016.

McAfee sold its enterprise business for $4 billion; VMware joined the cloud-native app security frenzy; and Orca scored a whale of a Series C.

AWS, Alibaba, Microsoft got FaaS and furious; Juniper scored a data center win; and Oracle got SASE with Check Point.

Oracle is a fairly late entrant into the market. At this point all of the major networking and security vendors offer their own SASE platform

Forrester Research ranked the trio as function-as-a-service market "leaders" based on the depth and breadth of their offerings.

Girls Who Game, originally started by Dell Technologies, Microsoft, and Intel, uses Minecraft and mentors to change gender norms and mindsets while furthering STEM interest in young women.

VMware merges telco, edge, SASE oversight; Cisco nabs NEC to expand its 5G reach; and Fujitsu taps Trend Micro's private 5G network security.

The move signals a growing preference for AWS, but Verizon isn't admitting as much at this juncture.

The Series D follows three years of growth for the company, which has seen a five-fold increase in customers and 800% revenue growth during that time.

The move could prove to be a boost for Cisco, which continues to struggle in gaining a wider hold of the 5G equipment market.

The new launch expands customer choice for a fully managed service that is operated and supported by the vendor.

“The companies envision starting with metropolitan areas where they are already well connected, and expanding their joint go-to-market over time,” Lumen's David Shacochis said.