Security

Cisco is unifying its security and software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) technologies to help organizations embrace the cloud faster. www.cisco.com

Miscellaneous

Oracle announced availability of new bare metal Oracle Cloud Infrastructure compute instances to help enterprises run various performance sensitive workloads, such as artificial intelligence (AI) or engineering simulations, in the cloud. www.oracle.com

Kaspersky Lab announced that threat-related data shared by European users will now be pro-cessed in two data centers located in Zurich, Switzerland, along with the opening of the company”™s first Transparency Center. www.kaspersky.com

SAP and Qualtrics International announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which SAP SE intends to acquire Qualtrics, a pioneer in the experience management (XM) soft-ware category. www.sap.com