Skills-based hiring is gaining traction with companies such as Deloitte, Google, Apple, IBM, Accenture and others eliminating degree requirements for some jobs.

Despite potential recessionary headwinds, CIOs and other IT leaders must use technology (and artificial intelligence, in particular) as a weapon to drive business growth.

In 2022, GlobalData said the U.S. was five years ahead of China in the quantum computing race. Now, it sees the two countries as "nearly equal."

“I think right now they're in great shape,” Gimmie Credit's Dave Novosel said.

Microsoft and Google shared how they are using artificial intelligence to protect themselves and others.

“One possibility here is ... it would be biased in favor of the [existing] HPE solution, and to migrate Juniper customers over time,” Mauricio Sanchez said.

Completed cybersecurity deals witnessed a 37% reduction in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the same period in the previous year.

“I'm approaching this year, like I do every year, as a big year, and I'm excited for it," Verizon Business SVP Scott Lawrence said.

"We are cautiously optimistic about achieving our [artificial intelligence] revenue goal of at least $750 million in AI networking in 2025," CEO Jayshree Ullal said.

The newly funded initiative is also targeted at countering 5G and open radio access network development from China

Data center spending will hit $200 billion by 2028 and that will drive the need for more skilled workers to design, deploy, manage and secure new data centers.

“I don’t advise people to engage with VMware right now,” Forrester Research's Tracy Woo said.

But they did leave themselves just enough wiggle room to back out of that if needed.

SDxCentral looks at HPE's and Juniper Networks' networking portfolios. Naturally, there is some overlap, but how significant is it?

With many different cloud providers and ways to connect to the cloud, Verizon is aiming to cure the multicloud headache for enterprise customers.

The NSA warns that software developers must make their products “secure by design and by default," rather than treat each product as if it carries an implicit caveat emptor.

But the carrier will look to expand the service’s reach into the enterprise space.

Cloud repatriation isn't as popular as data center hardware vendors would like it to be.

The firm also named Microsoft, Wiz, Check Point, Trend Micro, Orca Security and Aqua Security as strong performers.

The terminated distribution agreement came as Broadcom readies to launch a controversial new partner program and discontinues many standalone VMware products.

Observability player Dynatrace aims to make generative artificial intelligence more cost effective as teams shift from prototypes to production.

Rockset also announced a new strategic investment from Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s venture capital arm Hewlett Packard Pathfinder.

There’s nothing quite like $51 billion worth of data center expansion to jumpstart the year.

Zscaler's offering is less about switching and optimizing the transport from connectivity, and more about securing the transport, VP Naresh Kumar said.