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.

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.