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“When it comes to building an overall security stack, hardware and the firmware that runs on that hardware is bedrock,” said Intel’s Tom Garrison. Read more.

This contributes to what VMware calls “intrinsic security,” which is a theme that the virtualization giant has been leaning into since its concerted push into the security sector. Read more.

Nokia is striving to deliver a “truly cloud native” software stack that can run applications in containers with full lifecycle management and deliver microservices. Read more.

Mellanox, which is being acquired by Nvidia in a $6.9 billion deal, announced the pair of SmartNICs at VMworld last summer. Read more.

It recruited Kontena's leadership and employees that were behind the Pharos Kubernetes distribution and Lens multi-cluster Kubernetes dashboard. Read more.

The event might not be happening, but that doesn't mean we are going to ignore the big trends we still expect to see in the coming weeks. Read more.

The service utilizes a "self-learning" deep neural network to automate rote security tasks to accelerate threat detection and remediation. Read more.

The U.S. government’s quantum research budget, which addresses a national security issue, is $30 million, or just 0.0006% of the federal budget. Read more.

"Our vision is to create one common platform that runs any workload in VMs or containers across any footprint ... with the same experience across the board," said Red Hat's Azhar Sayeed. Read more.

“Part of the challenge that I have is taking all of these different technologies and tying them together into one consistent tapestry,” said CenturyLink CSO Chris Betz. Read more.