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Cisco Hires Cloud-Native Veteran as First Open Source Head

Stephen Augustus was previously a senior open source engineer at VMware and has a long history in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and Kubernetes communities. Read more.

Dell VxRail HCI Scales Compute, Storage Independently

Dell jointly engineers its VxRail products with VMware, and the new VxRail dynamic nodes allow users to independently scale storage and compute. Read more.

Nokia Rolls Out XDR With AT&T, Dish, T-Mobile as Customers

Nokia’s XDR platform gives operators a way to monetize new security services such as 5G slice monitoring, endpoint protection for enterprise IoT devices, and identity and access management. Read more.

Microsoft Buys ReFirm Labs for IoT Security Boost

ReFirm built its firmware analysis technology on Binwalk open source software, the international standard for extracting firmware images used by more than 50,000 global organizations. Read more.

Aruba, SASE Propel HPE Q2 Earnings

HPE’s edge-as-a-service products grew triple digits year over year and represent “a meaningful contributor to HPE's overall ARR,” CEO Antonio Neri said. Read more.