Cloud leaders should instead "solve demand problems through planning and innovation," Deloitte's David Linthicum said.

Security vendors try to convince CISOs a product is necessary "even though the reality could be the opposite," Dell'Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said.

Telcos should transform "from their role as purveyors of connectivity to a broader role of connected service providers," IBM VP Marisa Viveros said.

CIOs "see the benefits [of sustainability], but they think it will be outweighed a lot by the cost," Gartner analyst Annette Zimmermann said.

Gartner predicts carbon footprint measurement tools will reach early mainstream adoption within the next one to three years.

Enterprises should carefully assess the environmental costs of emerging technologies "and not just follow every shiny ball," Forrester's Abhijit Sunil said.

Regulatory bodies, investors, and customers are "placing increased scrutiny and pressure on the data center industry's future," Dell'Oro's Lucas Beran said.

If Amazon Web Services wants to deliver on its environmental promises, it needs to make sustainable choices as easy for cloud customers as one-click shopping.

The secret to cloud security is preventing misconfigurations from being deployed in the first place, Snyk's Josh Stella wrote.

There's a lack of standardized governance policies for green bonds, and that leads to discrepancies in impact reporting, Gartner's Moutusi Sau said.

The expanse of the open source ecosystem shows how healthy Kubernetes is, but it also brings about one of the community's largest challenges.

Aligned Data Centers claims its OriginMark system can identify and quantify the embodied carbon of all materials that make up a data center.

Natural capital is viewed as an externality, and no one directly pays for its depletion, Gartner analyst Sarah Watt explained.

"Careful analysis is required in prioritization" of the sustainable development goals, GSMA Sustainability Director Nadia Chelache said.

Women in IT face marginalizing everyday behaviors that progressively and successively teach them they aren't valued, Gartner's Christie Struckman said.

An MIT study identified a 13% average quit rate for the enterprise software industry, but analysts credit that trend to the skilled developer shortage.

As corporations take on more responsibility in the fight against climate change, more and more eyes are watching them.

Forrester said Google Cloud's weaknesses include its lack of a low-code development environment and minimal support for edge computing.

A circular economy is planet-friendly and a multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity that could create $4.5 trillion in economic growth by 2030.

“We think [hybrid work] is going to be a net positive” for the environment, Cisco's Director of Corporate Affairs Mary de Wysocki said.