Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will be working toward unachievable multi-cloud expectations by 2027.

This shift is a cultural change within the I&O organization. "It is a change in thinking and an evolution," Gartner's Jeffrey Hewitt said.

The challenge is that vendors have a tendency to call everything network-as-a-service, "and it really isn't NaaS half the time," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner said.

Around 30% of the respondents chose zero-trust network access as the top zero-trust investment priority, Zscaler found.

"You use the word innovation incorrectly," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner told the networking vendors in the audience.

Secure service access encompasses secure access service edge, zero-trust network access, and extended detection and response, according to GigaOm.

Managed services can offer “extensive knowledge and expertise” to ease the transition to secure access service edge, Ron Ronco said.

Windstream Director Chris Alberding said "the cost is going down" and "the ease of implementation is going up" for data loss protection.

As secure access service edge adoption continues across industries Gartner is seeing a particular emphasis on single-vendor strategy.

"Reducing complexity is where cloud-native needs to evolve," OutSystems' Barry Goffe told SDxCentral.

The vendor's stockholders earlier this month voted to approve the deal, which is set to close during Broadcom’s 2023 fiscal year.

Perimeter 81 also found secure service edge is a core priority for respondents who had concerns with data privacy and cloud security.

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

Mavenir boasts agile collaboration that provides "a shorter time to market for Magyar Telekom’s new requirements," Ashok Khuntia said.

Public cloud market growth will be hard, Forrester Analyst Lee Sustar said, regardless of an economic recession.

Because SASE is still a work in progress, CIO and CISOs "need to rethink their respective roles" in supporting infrastructure operations.

The carrier's initial private network deals have resulted in incremental spending by customers.

Competition still exists between all the “key endpoint security vendors” and hyperscalers, Dell’Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez said.

IT and business leaders consistently make the same mistakes when designing a cloud strategy, the research firm notes.

Gartner says Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google continued to reign as leading cloud infrastructure and platform services providers.

“I wish that all clouds were the same, but the learning for us is finding how much can I make common,” Nokia's Jane Rygaard said.

“SASE may no longer be the new kid on the block, but like any project, you should do ample planning and prepare a business case,” the vendor noted.

"Sustainability enables businesses to cope with disruption," analyst Kristin Moyer explained in a Gartner sustainability investment report.

Harness' cloud auto-stopping has saved its customers up to 90% on cloud costs, according to Director of Cloud Cost Product Marketing Julie Herd.