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Are Akamai, Cloudflare SASE Dark Horses?

"CDN vendors should not be counted out of the SASE race," said Dell'Oro's Mauricio Sanchez. Read more.

Nutanix CEO Exits Amid Ongoing Shift to Subscription Model

“It’s been an honor to lead this insurgent company over the past decade,” Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey said. Read more.

VMware Shoots Tanzu Into Space, SaaS Skyrockets

CEO Pat Gelsinger said the U.S. Space Force made an “eight-figure commitment to the Tanzu platform” on VMware’s Q2 earnings call. Read more.

Dell Expects Most Employees to Stay Remote

“After all of this investment to enable remote everything, we will never go back to the way things were before,” Dell COO Jeff Clarke said. Read more.

Cloudian Catches Kubernetes Train, Adds S3 Operator

The Kubernetes S3 Operator extends Cloudian's support for cloud-native environments where it already serves as a scale-out backup target. Read more.

Podcast: SDxCentral Weekly Wrap

Cisco launches Cloud Native SD-WAN; a loan cast doubt on Nokia’s 5G future with Verizon; and Fortinet builds security into every SASE component. Stream now.