With today’s pace of innovation, the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality leaves many businesses buried in debt.

Sustainability used to be in IT leaders' top 5 concerns, but today "it's definitely within the top 3," IBM VP Tina Tarquinio said.

"We're hoping to dare other corporates to be super transparent," Google Head of Infrastructure and Water Strategy Ben Townsend said.

A year after being acquired by AMD for $1.9 billion, Pensando's co-founder details progress and the road ahead for DPU-based network innovation.

Increasing the speed of data as it moves through hardware is always good business practice, but equally important is reducing the power costs in data centers.

“We have availability, we are in trials, and are the first ones to do that. Others have announced chips," Cisco's Guru Shenoy said.

Analysys Mason notes that operators should act aggressively if they want to move on this digital transformation opportunity.

Gartner predicts 75% of IT organizations will implement data center infrastructure sustainability initiatives by 2027.

“Quantum-accelerated supercomputing has the potential to reshape science and industry with capabilities that can serve humanity in enormous ways," Nvidia's Tim Costa said.

Building hardware-centric network infrastructure is “mundane, costly, and high maintenance,” Netksope's Gerry Plaza said.

Juniper Networks is looking to push even more network management to the cloud, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

HPE Aruba, Microsoft, and reelyActive are teaming up to offer what's designed to be an automated answer for complicated engineering problems.

SVP Rob Shore claimed the vendor's indium phosphide fabrication plant sets it apart from optical networking rivals like Ciena.

Network operators can consolidate base station layer software processing on one common virtualized platform, VP Sachin Katti said.

"There's going to be a huge shortage on the order of thousands of workers missing from the field in the next five to seven years until 2030," IBM's Olivia

Since exiting stealth the startup has gained traction with "technology partners that [it] thought might be competitors,” VP Matt Krieg said.

With increasing demand from the DevOps community for partner integrations, CircleCI announced a new integration with SaaS-based data analytics platform Datadog.

Executives claim the custom ASICs play a big part in the vendor's firewall market dominance and have become a unique differentiator.

“It is much too early to say” what China's latest developments means for quantum computing dominance, GlobalData analyst Mike Orme said.

The vendor's millimeter-wave antenna supports end-user facing connectivity and can act as part of a wireless mesh backhaul service.

The data center colocation provider decided 100% renewable energy isn't enough to achieve global decarbonization goals.

"Zero trust has gone from an academic theory, to a best practice, to simply how modern security is done,” Forcepoint VP Jim Fulton told SDxCentral.

The partnership offers companies access to any cloud or network "where Console Connect has a presence," 1623 President Todd Cushing said.

Salad competes in the cloud market with two main advantages: the decentralized nature of its network and low input costs.