News/Analysis
Inside Ericsson's $8.3-Billion Deal with Verizon for 5G
Ericsson has made a five-year, $8.3-billion deal with Verizon to supply the carrier's 5G network with cloud-native RAN solutions...
July 19, 2021
News/Analysis
Fivetran Double Header: $565 Funding and an Acquisition
Fivetran has scored $565 million in Series D funding on a $5.6 billion valuation and has agreed to purchase HVR Data in a $700 million cash and stock deal...
September 20, 2021
News/Analysis
Versa Adds Native 5G to SASE
Versa Networks has integrated native 5G into its SD-WAN-based SASE appliances, reflecting its ongoing strategy and supporting one of the hottest trends in networking...
September 17, 2021
News/Analysis
Persona Identities Scores $150 Million
Startup Persona Identities, whose technology ensures that a user is who they claim to be, has landed $150 million in Series C funding at a valuation of $1.5 billion...
September 16, 2021
News/Analysis
Security Upstarts Dominate Growth, While Cisco Trails
Enterprise customers are turning to newer companies for solutions to an onrush of cyber threats. But it may be too soon to discount incumbent players...
September 14, 2021
Free Research
Juniper and Apstra Up the SONiC Ante
Juniper and Apstra Up the SONiC Ante -- Leadership Brief sponsored by Juniper...
September 14, 2021
News/Analysis
TriggerMesh Gets Funding from Cisco
TriggerMesh has been funded an additional $5 million from Cisco Investments and previous investors to help boost its cloud-native, multi-cloud/on-prem integration platform...
July 13, 2021
News/Analysis
Netskope Grabs $300 Million, Hits $7.5 Billion Valuation
Netskope has completed a $300 million investment round of funding, bringing its valuation to $7.5 billion, a vote of confidence in the vendor's multifunction security approach...
July 12, 2021
News/Analysis
Couchbase Scopes Out IPO
Cloud-native database vendor Couchbase has filed its S-1 registration statement, the first step to IPO. But it faces some challenges...
July 12, 2021
News/Analysis
Pentagon Scraps JEDI Plan for Multi-Cloud Alternative
The U.S. Department of Defense has canceled the JEDI contract originally awarded to Microsoft and replaced it with a proposal that includes multiple vendors and clouds...
July 06, 2021
News/Analysis
AT&T Picks Azure for 5G Cloud
AT&T will run its 5G core on Azure, and it's selling its Network Cloud to Microsoft as an addition to Azure for Operators...
July 01, 2021
Tech Primers
What Is Needed for SASE?
SASE and Secure Edge have emerged from SD-WAN to drive digital transformation at the edge....
June 30, 2021
News/Analysis
IBM Extends 5G Products and Partnerships
IBM has released an automation and orchestration platform for 5G carrier rollouts and extended its relationships with Verizon and Telefonica...
June 30, 2021
Futuriom Blog
Defining (and Redefining) Zero Trust
Microsoft and other vendors rightly declare that Zero Trust security is not a specific product or service, but a philosophy about how to work in a digital world...
June 30, 2021
News/Analysis
env0 Scores $17M for Infrastructure as Code
Startup env0, which specializes in automating infrastructure-as-code tools for DevOps teams, has landed $17 million in Series A funding to expand its solutions...
June 24, 2021