Oracle's Andrew De La Torre explained that the market currently lacks a standard way to deploy cloud-based open architectures.

"A lot of companies are trying to get at a multi-cloud solution again, ... so it's really nothing unique," D2iQ CEO Tobi Knaup said.

The “most glaring” issue with VPNs is the level of security they provide, Enterprise Strategy Group's John Grady said.

Public cloud doesn't mean there, and on-prem doesn't mean here. "It's actually a way of working," Forrester analyst Lee Sustar said.

"Carbon neutral is not the end goal," a Zscaler spokesperson said.

Canalys reported the country's cloud services market growth dipped below 20% for the first time ever.

Dell'Oro Group reports Arista gained four points of revenue share in Q2 but still follows Cisco as the leading data center ethernet switch vendor.

VMware CTO Kit Colbert claims the vendor's vSphere product has avoided 1.2 billion metric tons of CO2 emissions over the past two decades.

"Public perception maybe isn't at the same level right now as what VMware is actually doing," VP and Chief Open Source Officer Chip Childers said.

Vijay Pendakur brings two decades of multi-sector diversity, equity, and inclusion experience to VMware as they tackle their 2030 Agenda.

"How do you get that culture shift to actually happen? Because ... if you don't have it happen, this is all kind of futile," VMware's Edward Hieatt said.

"We're trying to be doing good things for the industry [by] collapsing complexity," VMware Tanzu SVP Edward Hieatt said.

VMware says its Aria portfolio for multi-cloud management will render the boring parts of cloud management invisible to enterprises.

Nvidia, Dell Technologies, and VMware introduced a combined data center offering that Nvidia's Kevin Deierling said is "a huge moment for enterprise computing."

Most of this work is housed within the 22-year-old stadium made famous by its main tenant the New England Patriots.

Google was deemed a leader for its "robust" API management and increased integration with Google Cloud Platform.

Customers need to focus on their problems and not get distracted by how vendors market solutions, Lookout CTO Sundaram Lakshmanan said.

“It looks to be more of a beta launch than a full commercial launch,” IDC's Daryl Schoolar said.

Low-code platforms are an obvious answer to the "business appetite for technology self-service," Gartner Distinguished VP Analyst Yefim Natis said.

Eclipse Ventures estimates 11 companies in its portfolio can potentially reduce global GHG emissions by more than 200 million metric tons of carbon dioxide each year by 2040.

Hiring platform company Turing uses their Talent Cloud to automatically source, vet, and manage engineers and developers across the globe based on skills, roles, and career trajectories.

Sustainability will be a major driver of the data center physical infrastructure market in the next five years, according to Dell'Oro Group.

"Half the malware downloads we see originate from cloud apps, and attackers do that to bypass block lists to exploit trust," said Netskope's Ray Canzanese.

"Working with silicon vendors like Broadcom to accelerate our SDN, to accelerate the security capabilities, that's extremely interesting,” VMware's Tom Gillis said.