VMware reorganized a key business group; a report found Cisco losing telecom share; and AMD updated SDxCentral on its Pensando acquisition.

CEO Ed Meyercord said the vendor has achieved double-digit growth in eight of the past nine quarters, with this latest quarter up 16% year over year.

The vendor's results reflect a healthy demand for solutions, "as well as the improvements in the availability of supply,” CEO Rami Rahim said.

“The unifying theme here is the idea that the network is now a business critical resource," said HPE Aruba VP Larry Lunetta.

Legacy network edge security isn't designed for hybrid work environments, NetWitness claims.

The addition of Versa Networks to the Lumen secure access service edge partner ecosystem was a "no brainer," said Lumen's Darren Wolner.

Aryaka and Check Point first teamed up in 2020 to provide customers with the building blocks they need to adopt a secure access service edge model.

“The idea of fully replacing VPNs with zero-trust network access has been the utopian promise by industry vendors for years," said Netskope VP Naveen Palavalli.

“So far any approach to bringing zero trust onto the premise has really been an adjunct approach, a bolt-on approach,” CEO Kelly Ahuja said.

The Wi-Fi 6E network will enable quick deployment of wireless infrastructure for temporary events on the field or outside San Francisco's Oracle Park.

The vendor’s security service edge combined with Netskope Endpoint SD-WAN is a “[secure access service edge] for your laptop,” SVP Parag Thakore said.

“We have strengthened our position across security categories and have diligently invested in cybersecurity research,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said.

Cradlepoint will integrate Ericom's platform to provide a 5G secure access service edge stack "in the near future,” said SVP Manish Tiwari.

HPE bought Athonet to pad its private network portfolio; Cisco acquired Valtix to expand its multi-cloud capabilities; and SAP sold Qualtrics.

Amazon and Zscaler announced layoffs; Verizon shook up its executive ranks; and Accenture reported on gender diversity in the tech industry.

VMware touted employee engagement; IBM installed the first quantum computer for health care research; and Nutanix launched an internal audit.

The SD-WAN expansion includes direct connections to cloud services and a new pricing model that Comcast said is “highly competitive.”

“We are hearing stories about network teams that year-round are constantly dealing with upgrade situations," BackBox's Chanoch Marmorstein said.

“Small and medium-sized enterprises actually should be ideally positioned for secure access service adoption," Aryaka's Klaus Schwegler said.

Its Data and AI Console is designed to build organizational trust in using data to support business decisions.

Nvidia expects Microsoft Azure will begin hosting the DGX Cloud next quarter, and the service will expand to Google Cloud and other providers “soon.”

Most major vendors outside of China are experiencing “unusually high backlogs,” said Dell'Oro WLAN Research Director Siân Morgan.

The managed SD-WAN and firewall will secure client locations from a single portal and ease management, 11:11 Systems SVP Anthony Lobretto said.

The acquisition of Nokia's VitalQIP product moves Cygna Labs "clearly past BlueCat,” CEO Christian Ehrenthal told SDxCentral.