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Arista Acquires Awake for NDR Security

Awake CEO Rahul Kashyap recently bragged that his company’s network detection and response platform continues stealing customers from Arista’s arch-rival Cisco. Read more.

Who Will VMware Buy to Plug SASE Security Holes?

VMware needs to think outside the virtual machine if it wants to compete in the SASE space, said Zeus Kerravala of ZK Research. Read more.

Red Hat Scores Samsung OpenShift 5G Deal

“We're not quite there yet with all the pieces in the open RAN," said Ian Hood, chief technologist at Red Hat. Read more.

Mavenir Acquires Small Cells Vendor ip.access

Parallel Wireless, one of Mavenir’s strongest competitors in the open RAN market, previously claimed to be the only open RAN vendor with 2G and 3G capabilities. Read more.

SASE, Acquisitions Drive SD-WAN Competition, Gartner States

Incumbent leaders, VMware and Silver Peak, were joined by Versa, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Cisco a as "leaders" in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Magic Quadrant report. Read more.

Big Tech’s Climate Week News Cheat Sheet

Google Cloud drives Unilever’s sustainable sourcing; Microsoft takes a water positive dive; plus other Climate Week announcements on our radar. Read more.