“The one thing that's common across the board is the desire to modernize and become more cloud-like," AWS' Jan Hofmeyr said of telecom operators.

"I know in the quantum realm, our biggest challenge is people and the workforce and talent development," Laura Thomas said.

Gartner warned against finding one cloud service provider, settling down, and calling it a cloud strategy.

Claude Mandy dove into how to navigate zero-trust deployments for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-clouds.

“That convergence of cellular and cloud in 6G is inevitable and we're excited for it,” Accenture's Jeff Wang said.

The cuts are part of a workforce “rebalancing" that comes on the heels of a robust earnings release and strong full-year guidance.

Agility, business performance, and security now trump cost and network management as top concerns for IT teams, Cisco’s report found.

Jungsang Kim shared his insights on how organizations should choose cloud-based and on-premise quantum computing services for their use cases.

Dell’Oro Group predicts the telecom server market will hit $14 billion by 2026, with growth driven by multi-access edge computing servers.

"It is only a matter of time before China and the U.S. reach technical parity in quantum computing,” analyst Benjamin Chin said.

MarketsandMarkets projects the quantum machine learning segment to have the highest compound annual growth rate in the coming years.

The distributed cloud service aims to bring "cloud-style experiences" to Equinix's metro data center locations, according to Equinix's Zachary Smith.

The "low-power network firewalls mean that enterprises require fewer firewalls to accomplish their business needs," Fortinet VP Nirav Shah said.

“I don’t think [hyperscalers] want to be operators, they just want operators to use their services,” AT&T's Igal Elbaz said.

"I feel like it's been fast and furious," Mary de Wysocki said to describe her transition from Cisco VP of corporate affairs to chief sustainability officer.

As green software capabilities become increasingly embedded in enterprise operations, "the impact will grow," Intel VP Arun Gupta said.

China plans to start the post-quantum cryptography standardization process this year and expects to begin the commercial migration in 2025.

IT investment for the near term will focus on seizing uncertainty and "challenge thinking and change expectations," Gartner's Daryl Plummer said.

Dell sees the edge as "the next frontier for our customers’ business transformation," said Sam Grocott, Dell Technologies SVP.

“The solving of the problem is one thing. But the downstream impact of that and its impact on communities is significant," IBM VP Ray Harishankar said.

“The horizon when we enter the era of what we call cryptographically-relevant quantum machines is getting closer all the time," IBM's Michael Osborne said.

The tool is focused on reducing energy use, monitoring greenhouse gas emissions, and recommending direct carbon footprint reduction strategies.

Cisco has pledged $50 million to the Student Freedom Initiative and $100 million directly to historically Black colleges and universities for tech upgrades.

The data center industry is due for an environmental sustainability makeover, according to conversations at JLL's Data Center Forum.