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Palo Alto Networks Plunks Down $670M on Expanse

Expanse counts the U.S. Department of Defense, CVS Health, Allergan, PayPal, Accenture, Orrick, Lockheed Martin, and the U.S. Department of Energy as customers. Read more.

Intel Champions XPU Vision With oneAPI, Data Center GPUs

The chipmaker's oneAPI provides a common framework to build applications that can be deployed on any accelerator be it a CPU, GPU, or FPGA. Read more.

Dell Packs Data Protection Power Punch

Dell also updated Data Manager software capabilities for Kubernetes and cloud data protection for Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and VMware Tanzu. Read more.

Ericsson Revival Rides 5G, R&D

“One critical factor, COVID, has been present in almost all discussions during the year," CEO Börje Ekholm said. Read more.

Barracuda Reels Fyde’s ZTNA Into SASE

Barracuda will integrate Fyde’s zero trust networking into its SASE stack. It’s also available now as a standalone remote access agent. Read more.

Ericsson Explains Why 5G Isn’t Awesome in the US (Yet)

The collection of 5G networks in the U.S. "doesn’t deliver an awesome customer experience yet — it’s comparable to 4G,” Ericsson SVP Niklas Heuveldop said. Read more.