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XDR is “something that we can do really, really uniquely to stop these very sophisticated attacks,” said VMware SVP Tom Gillis ahead of the company’s Security Connect event. Read more.

The vendor's Intersight and ThousandEyes platforms added more capabilities, and Cisco rolled out its new X-Series UCS to run hybrid-cloud environments. Read more.

Samsung claims a centralized vRAN deployment can reduce total cost of ownership by 13% and opex by 25% over the duration of a five-year period compared to a distributed RAN framework.  Read more.

“This initiative validates the role that this powerful new platform plays in defining open RAN as the future of networking," said Francisco Martín, Vodafone’s head of open RAN. Read more.

For comparison: Palo Alto Networks, the largest network security vendor by revenue, grew its revenue to $3.8 billion in 2020, while No. 2 Cisco scored $3.5 billion. Read more.