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VMware spends $4.2B to grab Pivotal, Carbon Black to secure, develop integrated cloud world

VMware plans to spend about US$2.7 billion on cloud-application developer Pivotal, and about $2.1 billion for security vendor Carbon Black.

VMware embraces cloud migration for non-vSphere environments

VMware customers can now migrate non-vSphere as well as increased amounts of on-premises application workloads to a variety of cloud services.

Cisco assesses top enterprise SD-WAN tech drivers

Cisco SD-WAN customer National Instruments touts benefits of the technology: Speed, efficiency, security, cost savings.

IBM fuses software with Red Hat to launch hybrid-cloud juggernaut

IBM is starting a potentially huge run at hybrid cloud by tying more than 100 of its products to the Red Hat OpenShift platform.

Google Cloud to offer VMware data centre tools natively

Google is enlisting VMware and CloudSimple to serve up vSphere, NSX and vSAN software on Google Cloud to transition enterprise workloads.

Assessing the worst types of DNS attacks

The Domain Name System remains under constant attack, and there seems to be no end in sight as threats grow increasingly sophisticated.

Cisco goes deeper into photonic, optical tech with $2.6B Acacia buy

Looking to bulk-up its optical systems portfolio, Cisco intends to buy Acacia Communications for approximately US$2.6 billion.

Cisco sounds warning on 3 critical security patches for DNA Center

Cisco issued three “critical” security warnings for its DNA Center users - two having a Common Vulnerability Scoring System rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Oracle does-in Dyn, resets DNS services to cloud

Oracle wants its DNS customers to migrate from its Dyn service to Oracle Cloud services, but some of those customers are very unhappy.

Cisco connects with IBM to simplify hybrid cloud deployment

Cisco and IBM are melding data centre and cloud technologies to help customers build and support on-premises and hybrid cloud applications.

Cisco issues critical security warnings on SD-WAN, DNA Center packages

Vulnerabilities to Cisco's SD-WAN and DNA Center software top a list of nearly 30 security advisories issued by the vendor.

VMware fortifies data centre software with Avi Networks buy

VMware has punched up its data centre network virtualisation capabilities by unveiling plans to buy Avi Networks for an undisclosed amount.

Cisco rolls out developer-community cert program

Cisco has revamped some of its most critical certification and career-development programs in an effort to address the software-oriented-network environment.

Juniper: Security could help drive interest in SDN

Juniper finds that enterprise interest in SDN is influenced by other factors including artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Cisco to buy IoT security, management firm Sentryo

Buying Sentryo will give Cisco support for anomaly and real-time threat detection for the Industrial Internet of Things.

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