It goes beyond addressing "the core needs of a data engineering team," Ascend CEO Sean Knapp told SDxCentral.

The equipment vendor's Rotating Chairman Eric Xu stated Huawei's cloud operations needed to be foundational for digital transformation.

The deployment is distributed across T-Mobile US’ facilities and on-premises private cloud infrastructure using the Cisco equipment.

The FIDO Alliance and its partners, including Apple, Google, and Microsoft, introduced the term "passkey" to replace passwords.

Executives from vendors that Gartner says offer complete secure access service edge solutions give their 2023 predictions for the evolving market.

Enterprises are starting to have a better idea of "what our workforce looks like today and will look like into the future,” IDC's Brandon Butler said.

Zero-trust security continued to gain momentum in 2022 with support from governments and the private sector.

"I've never seen an emerging tech with an image problem like blockchain,” Deloitte Chief Futurist Mike Bechtel said.

The vendor also plans to focus its cloud efforts in areas where it “has leading positions."

Analyst Andrew Lerner reflected on the 2022 secure access service edge market and gave his predictions heading into the new year.

"Now enterprises know cloud computing is substantially greener than enterprise computing," Deloitte's David Linthicum said.

Fortinet is joined on the sustainability leaderboard by cloud and software providers like Akamai Technologies, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP.

The public cloud market "is far broader than the top players," Forrester Principal Analyst Lee Sustar said.

The third quarter of 2022 marked the seventh quarter in a row with secure access service edge revenue growth exceeding 25%, Dell'Oro Group reported.

“SD-WAN was primarily done for outside the cloud, to marry multiple different types of transports and not about optimizing the cloud,” Amir Khan said.

The computing giant has linked with Casa Systems and Enea on a private 5G platform that is targeting the rapidly expanding market.

The new services support Kyndryl's ambitions to accelerate cloud application modernization at scale.

"I sell SASE and SD-WAN, but very few SD-WAN players are SASE-capable," Nikesh Arora said.

SVP Steve Seaone believes “if you bring detachment to emotional interactions, you tend to get better outcomes."

China's cloud market is entering a new era in terms of the competitive landscape and customer structure, Canalys reported.

“Zero trust has quickly moved from a security concept to an operational imperative for organizations,” the vendor noted.

Oracle reported $12.3 billion in revenue for the second quarter of its 2023 fiscal year, which was $200 million higher than its forecast.

The survey found IT departments don't take the necessary steps to support sustainability goals.

Interestingly, its rival Cisco recently took the exact opposite path to expand its secure access service edge reach.