Analyst Andrew Lerner reflected on the 2022 secure access service edge market and gave his predictions heading into the new year.

The work builds on its growing Azure for Operators platform that initially began in late 2020.

"Now enterprises know cloud computing is substantially greener than enterprise computing," Deloitte's David Linthicum said.

With around 70 suppliers competing for market share, Gartner said the SD-WAN market was “mainstream and maturing” in 2022.

The growing complexity of managing cloud-native technologies will push the service mesh space to its potential in 2023, Solo.io's Idit Levine said.

SDxCentral listed Snyk, Cybereason, Netskope, Lacework, and Illumio as the security unicorns that we expected to go public in 2022, but none of those happened.

Fortinet is joined on the sustainability leaderboard by cloud and software providers like Akamai Technologies, Microsoft, Salesforce, and SAP.

The public cloud market "is far broader than the top players," Forrester Principal Analyst Lee Sustar said.

The third quarter of 2022 marked the seventh quarter in a row with secure access service edge revenue growth exceeding 25%, Dell'Oro Group reported.

“SD-WAN was primarily done for outside the cloud, to marry multiple different types of transports and not about optimizing the cloud,” Amir Khan said.

The computing giant has linked with Casa Systems and Enea on a private 5G platform that is targeting the rapidly expanding market.

The updates don't qualify as "new innovations," but they do represent an evolution in support of product consistency, Arista's Martin Hull said.

The new services support Kyndryl's ambitions to accelerate cloud application modernization at scale.

"I sell SASE and SD-WAN, but very few SD-WAN players are SASE-capable," Nikesh Arora said.

SVP Steve Seaone believes “if you bring detachment to emotional interactions, you tend to get better outcomes."

The low-code application platform market will grow 25% to reach $10 billion next year, according to Gartner.

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.

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.