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F5 Buys Threat Stack for $68M Cloud Security Boost

The vendor previously acquired Nginx, Shape Security, and Volterra. Read more.

D2iQ CEO: Open Source Is a ‘Strong Force’ of Innovation

The vendor’s “default” is to look to the open-source community for solutions. Read more.

Market Visibility, Product Gaps Confound SD-WAN Losers

Peplink, Nuage, Cradlepoint, Barracuda, FatPipe, and Riverbed ranked among the worst in Gartner’s latest WAN Edge Infrastructure report. Read more.

Dell Eyes Growth in $114B Telecom Market

"We are building multiple, multi-billion dollar businesses in areas like edge and telco,” Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said. Read more.

SASE, AI Fuel SD-WAN Winners

What does it take to win in the hyper-competitive SD-WAN market? According to Gartner, a robust SASE strategy isn't a bad place to start. Read more.

Here’s What Congress’ $2B Cybersecurity Investment Will Do

There’s more work to do and dollars to spend to shore up our collective security posture. Read more.

Dell, IBM Demo Quantum Computing Emulator

The work paired IBM's open source Qiskit Runtime and a Dell EMC PowerEdge server to emulate a quantum computer on standard x86 hardware. Read more.

ONF Conceives Ananki as Red Hat of Open Source Private 5G

“We always imagined that the Red Hats of this space would appear,” but it hasn't happened, ONF's Timon Sloane said. Read more.