"You use the word innovation incorrectly," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner told the networking vendors in the audience.

By 2025, 50% of edge computing solutions deployed before a strategy has taken shape will fail to meet enterprise goals, Gartner says.

Forrester Analyst Lee Sustar expects AWS to acquire one or more startups or a major security player for the managed detection and response service.

Managed services can offer “extensive knowledge and expertise” to ease the transition to secure access service edge, Ron Ronco said.

"It's a strong differentiator for us, and I don't see any of our competitors going to that length today," SUSE GM of Edge Keith Basil said.

Douglas Bellin said the average machine age across manufacturing globally is 25 years old, meaning most equipment can't communicate with a 5G radio.

"The reality is that we already have in almost every operator at least two, if not three, hyperscalers in play," Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

Windstream Director Chris Alberding said "the cost is going down" and "the ease of implementation is going up" for data loss protection.

"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.

The firewall is managed by Fortinet and taps its FortiOS operating system and FortiGuard threat intelligence capabilities

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.

The carrier's initial private network deals have resulted in incremental spending by customers.

Claude Mandy dove into how to navigate zero-trust deployments for on-premise, hybrid, and multi-clouds.

The edge platform IBM is building for India's Bharti Airtel will bring low-latency edge computing to customers, according to Shawn D'Souza.

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.

“That convergence of cellular and cloud in 6G is inevitable and we're excited for it,” Accenture's Jeff Wang said.

Gartner says Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google continued to reign as leading cloud infrastructure and platform services providers.

“I wish that all clouds were the same, but the learning for us is finding how much can I make common,” Nokia's Jane Rygaard said.

"The iPhone was new in its market – the smartphone – and created [that] market, and we are the same way," Vantiq CEO Marty Sprinzen said.