"We're dealing with legacy Cisco enterprise customers. They're used to buying that hardware and everything upfront," Logicalis' Chris Calvert said.

The vendor reorganized its recently-formed Networking and Advanced Security business group following the departure of ex-SVP Tom Gillis.

Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks rose 72% last year, as social engineering continues to be a major risk, according to ArmorBlox.

“A lot of people had heard about our unique framework ... so now they can actually feel it, touch it,” Hughes' Rajeev Gopal said.

With today’s pace of innovation, the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality leaves many businesses buried in debt.

“I think we have an opportunity to grow the pie together,” Microsoft's Shawn Hakl said.

To fix network issues affecting real-time performance, you have to know what traffic is on the network and where it is traveling to and the underlying application requirements.

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.

Sustainability used to be in IT leaders' top 5 concerns, but today "it's definitely within the top 3," IBM VP Tina Tarquinio said.

Climate action needs to be centered around equity, Salesforce VP Tim Christophersen said.

Development is not just a technical activity, but one that requires “the human touch," said LeanIX VP Dominik Rose.

“It's a must have for any private network offering that anyone's providing out there today,” NTT's Shahid Ahmed said.

Tanzu Application Platform 1.5 frees app developers from needing to understand "a gobbledygook of technologies," VMware SVP Purnima Padmanabhan said.

A year after being acquired by AMD for $1.9 billion, Pensando's co-founder details progress and the road ahead for DPU-based network innovation.

The vendor also named Sabrina Meng as its latest rotating chair, which could further cloud Huawei's relations with the United States.

Increasing the speed of data as it moves through hardware is always good business practice, but equally important is reducing the power costs in data centers.

Modern cloud-based unified communication (UC) and UCaaS systems face sophisticated threats and require enterprise-grade security.

The firm predicts nearly half of the cybersecurity leaders will change jobs by 2025.

Padmanabhan took over for Ajay Patel after his nine-year stint with VMware, whose exit was synched with execs Mark Lohmeyer and Tom Gillis.

“The general consumer is just numb to all of this at this point,” EY's Michael Misrahi said of recent operator cybersecurity breaches.

Agricultural data has a density problem, Leaf CEO Bailey Stockdale said.

Analysys Mason notes that operators should act aggressively if they want to move on this digital transformation opportunity.

Gartner predicts 75% of IT organizations will implement data center infrastructure sustainability initiatives by 2027.

“I am very happy to be the plumber of the world,” Tech Mahindra's Manish Vyas said.