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RDS on VMware is available for customers running VMware vSphere 6.5 or later and supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

VMware has wrapped up its $2.1 billion buy of cloud-native endpoint security vendor Carbon Black to provide more comprehensive integrated security.

IBM continued its Red Hat and open source software integration work this week by adding Red Hat OpenShift support to its blockchain platform.

Cisco is significantly spreading its ACI technology to help customers grow and control hybrid​, multi-cloud and SD-WAN environments.

IBM has rolled out a new generation of mainframes – the z15 – that promises to integrate hybrid cloud, data privacy and security controls.

Looking to support ever-increasing workloads, Cisco has pumped up the speed and intelligence of its storage area networking family.

VMware has added new features to its core networking software that will let customers more securely control cloud application traffic running on virtual machines (VMs), containers, or bare metal.

VMware expanded its hybrid-cloud offerings with AWS and delivers one with Dell/EMC, and continues to expand its own cloud portfolio with announcements at VMworld.

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

Cisco finds critical bugs in its Unified communications Director and Director Express software for Big Data packages as well as its Small Business 220 Series Smart Switches.

Big Switch's new products include a version of its Big Cloud Fabric (BCF) for Amazon Web Services virtual private cloud (VPC) management, adding support for Global VPCs (G-VPCs), and a cloud-based version of its Multi-Cloud Director (MCD).

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

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

Cisco will pay $2.6 million to the federal government and up to $6 million to 15 states in a settlement over video security software it stopped selling in 2014

Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) has been added to the Kubernetes managed services that natively integrate with the Cisco Container Platform.