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Samsung Scores NTT DoCoMo 5G RAN Deal

Samsung’s 5G RAN win with NTT DoCoMo comes less than a year after it won a $6.64 billion deal to provide 5G RAN equipment to Verizon. Read more.

Cloudflare SASE Magically Solidifies VMware, Aruba SD-WAN

The new service, dubbed Magic WAN, is essentially a software-defined underlay designed to replace slow and expensive MPLS links. Read more.

Fortinet Buys Multi-Cloud Security Vendor ShieldX Networks

ShieldX announced a deep integration with Fortinet targeting multi-cloud and campus deployments just weeks before the acquisition. Read more.

Dell Backs Intel as Gelsinger Takes Reins

“I know you're going to do a great job getting Intel revved up again,” Michael Dell told Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger. Read more.

How VMware’s Ecosystem Helped Credit Union Un-Complicate Security

The credit union first landed on VMware because it wanted to virtualize its IT environment. And then it realized the security benefits from VMware’s “unified ecosystem” approach, CIO Mark Fournier said. Read more.

Why Huntress Wants You to ‘Break Out Your Hacker Hoodie and Get Shady’

The fashion advice is tied to an interactive exercise that is part of its Hack It event this week. Read more.

Microsoft Confronts Unintentional Harms of ‘Covering’ Diversity

Microsoft strives to recognize the unintentional harm we all propel onto ourselves and others by covering — the act of downplaying a known stigmatized identity to blend into the mainstream. Read more.