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“We must make an open ecosystem experience compelling, easy, secure, and better,” Pat Gelsinger said. Read more.

The partnerships seek to automate 5G network segmentation and security functionality using a combination of IBM, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks technologies. Read more.

“Security continues to be an increasing area of focus and a differentiator for us,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai said. Read more.

The Symware appliance features containerized cell site routing functions and a containerized distributed unit on a single-rack, general-purpose server. Read more.

“This is the largest FDD 5G network and the most available 5G network in the world," T-Mobile's Neville Ray said. Read more.

As enterprises struggle to defend against advanced bots and API attacks, they are moving away from stand-alone web application firewalls and instead choosing a web app and API protection provider. Read more.

“I think that the multi-cloud, multi-edge world is really how we built Azure in the first place,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said. Read more.

"It's easy to imply that there's an extra 10% of revenue growth that did not happen due to supply constraints," CFO Ken Miller said. Read more.