Daily Roundup: Cisco, VMware, Nutanix Headlined 2020 Tech Battles

In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. In case you’ve been stuck in video conference meetings all day, here are today’s top stories from SDxCentral. Also, make sure to subscribe to our daily newsletters to get these stories in your inbox. The world’s biggest technology vendors’ battles boiled over in 2020, and this year the feuds stretched from the clouds to court and even to a galaxy far, far away. Read more. Microsoft admitted that the suspected Russian hackers accessed its internal source code, and a New York Times report indicates the attack hit about 250 U.S. federal agencies and large corporations. Read more. Most operators experienced slight declines in revenue growth and flat profit margins, but much of their business was unaffected by the COVID-19 crisis. Read more. “Google is more likely to become an energy company of the future than a lot of utilities,” predicts LF Energy’s Shuli Goodman. Read more. The Apple M1 is a “watershed moment” for Arm in the client space and an allegory for a shift to Arm in the data center, Ampere’s Jeff Wittich said. Read more. IBM slashed thousands of jobs; Aruba Networks swept Cisco from the Pentagon; and Cisco workers were anxious. Read more. Cisco workers ‘anxious’ about job cuts; Gartner crowned top firewall vendors; and AWS stuffed Cisco SD-WAN into VPC. Read more. Nutanix stole VMware’s COO; Cisco’s SVP of security jumped ship for Google Anthos; and Nokia confirmed multiple C-suite departures. Read more.