Daily Roundup: Cisco, VMware Scooped Up Kubernetes Startups in 2020

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. VMware’s ravenous appetite for smaller companies continued this year, and we wouldn’t put it past the virtualization giant to ink another deal or two before the ball drops on New Year’s Eve. Read more. Cisco, VMware, and SUSE were just some of the big-time vendors that scooped up Kubernetes-focused startups. Read more. The year that unraveled and continues to highlight the best and worst in all of us ends with all three major U.S. carriers claiming nationwide 5G coverage. Read more. In the final days of his presidency, Donald Trump has tightened restrictions on Chinese chipmakers, but will these restrictions survive the Biden transition? Read more. Tens of thousands of jobs were cut this year across the SDN and cloud ecosystem as vendors grappled with the financial fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more. The new capabilities use technology that VMware acquired from Octarine, and they build on VMware’s Cloud Workload Protection that it announced at VMworld. Read more. The new offering embeds an AWS compute and storage platform at the edge of SK Telecom’s 5G network to support latency-sensitive code running at the edge. Read more.