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Nutanix cut its global headcount by about 2.5%, primarily in sales and marketing jobs. “We expect this action to yield approximately $50 million in annual savings,” CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said. Read more.

“I know that we say no one ever got fired for buying Cisco or IBM, but those days are ending. People are going to get fired for choosing a solution that slows the business down,” Cato VP Eyal Webber-Zvik said. Read more.

T-Mobile US, Verizon, and AT&T aren’t complete contrasts, but the respective 5G outlook of each carrier is abundant and wide. Read more.

Oracle has positioned its portfolio on “providing the brains of the 5G standalone architecture core network, specifically the major intelligent components that form the control plane,” the company's Andrew De La Torre said. Read more.

VMware tapped a technologist as its new CEO; Palo Alto Networks sees SASE as the future; and is Google Cloud's deal with CrowdStrike XDR? Read more.