Enterprises are experiencing a "mind shift" that isn't aligned to what many vendors are doing, Solo's Doug Chamberlain said.

The telecom industry is in transition as it embraces cloud adoption, contends with an explosion of data and network and capability demands from consumers and businesses.

Gartner's Nat Smith noted Valtix's technology connects into the plumbing of the public clouds to protect each individual workload.

The platform's management solution "treats public cloud Kubernetes as a first-class citizen," SUSE's Keith Basil said.

“We recognize the strengths of the cloud and where we add value and that’s where we are focused on," telecom and edge CTO Ishwar Parulkar said.

"They did not want to outsource this to a [network-as-a-service] provider," Aviatrix VP Rod Stuhlmuller said.

'A key pillar of what's going to define success in SSE is public and local edge,' Axis VP Chris Hines said.

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

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

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

The components for zero trust edge include secure web gateway, SD-WAN, cloud access security broker, and zero-trust network access.

Oracle also announced automated cloud migration and disaster recovery services for enterprise customers at its CloudWorld event.

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.

According to IDC, spending on public cloud in Europe will reach $113 billion in 2022, and is set to double by 2026.

Many enterprises are using this model to better manage data sovereignty laws that require them to maintain strict control over their data.

Synergy Research Group found the three hyperscalers powered a 26% increase in segment revenue growth during the first quarter.

Google and Microsoft grew at a much faster rate in 2021 than the long-reigning Amazon Web Services, according to Gartner.

"Oracle, Google Cloud, IBM, everybody, Alibaba even — those are all potential future public cloud partners for us," CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

Forrester said Google Cloud's weaknesses include its lack of a low-code development environment and minimal support for edge computing.

“We are not a security company, but we are an infrastructure company that will build in and continue to add security features into our Nutanix Cloud platform,” CEO Rajiv

“The North Star here is within a decade that we will be 100% on public cloud,” Wells Fargo's head of hybrid environments Christopher Marsh-Bourdon said.

“Open RAN is nothing but bringing the RAN in with open interfaces. At the end, that’s all it is,” Mavenir CEO Pardeep Kohli said.

Nutanix cut its global headcount by about 2.5%, primarily in sales and marketing jobs. “We expect this action to yield approximately $50 million in annual savings,” CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

There is no silver bullet for security in any context, and that applies to open RAN and cloud native technologies all the same.