“A lot of organizations had seemingly good processes and controls in place pre-pandemic, but the disruption has just flipped a lot of organizations on their head,” AT&T Cybersecurity's Todd

“We have the equipment that has been ordered now," Dish Network EVP Marc Rouanne said. “We have everything we need."

"Openness allows you to have visibility and it allows you to put your defense and your security where you see the threats might be coming,” Dish Network's Marc Rouanne

NEC is one of the earliest 5G core and RAN vendors to announce its commercial use of OpenShift, but many others are coming, Red Hat's Ian Hood said.

“We’re a pretty acquisitive company and so we are always looking for partners as the overall architecture disintermediates,” VMware's Sanjay Uppal said.

“The bottom line is that without automation, sudden increases in cloud workloads leads to a dramatic growth in security incidents,” Palo Alto Networks’ Matthew Chiodi said.

“It’s very important that when you’re going after enterprises that you build segment knowledge," Nokia's Raghav Sahgal said.

The Cloud Native Runtimes for Tanzu acts as a further abstraction layer on top of Tanzu’s core Kubernetes focus to more quickly get event-based cloud-native applications up and running

“We’re seeing so much transformation in the industry and we’re really aiming to be at the heart of that transformation as customers start to think about how they’re going

“One of our key objectives at Cloud and Network Services is to pivot our software to an as-a-service model,” said Raghav Sahgal, president of the Nokia's business unit.

Traceable’s technology would add a much-needed tool to a larger cloud security stack, and vendors including Cisco and VMware have said that application security ranks high on their list

The massive supply-chain attack “validated our strategy that your network plays an active role in how you can secure it,” Juniper Networks VP Samantha Madrid said.

“We have not talked much about edge computing or cloud computing because we’ve been busy working with our customers" to solve real pain points, T-Mobile EVP John Saw said.

Is next-gen XDR already a thing? CrowdStrike and Trend Micro square off on this, because if the security industry has an acronym addiction, it also has a “next-gen” problem.

A recent vRAN test in New Jersey riding on Nokia’s cloud-based vRAN 2.0 system is a key enabler of AT&T's open RAN vision.

Dell's Chad Dunn predicts HCI will drive consumption models, hybrid and multi-cloud, edge computing, and cloud-native adoption forward in 2021.

Over the past 14 years SD-WAN has evolved from wrangling WAN links to including security, quality of service, and artificial intelligence.

The application security startup ended 2020 with more than $350 million in new funding, which pushed its valuation to $2.6 billion, and recorded a 200% year-over-year revenue increase.

Previously, Gilson was Google’s director of large customer sales for emerging markets where she grew the multi-billion-dollar emerging market division more than 66%.

One of the early appointments by the new administration was that of David Recordon as director of technology in the White House’s Office of Management and Administration. Recordon has

AT&T’s 5G mobility core and many elements of routing and voice services are now virtualized, AT&T's Igal Elbaz said, calling it “an essential capability” during the COVID-19 crisis.

“Our objective is to make the underlying connectivity layer as accessible, and affordable, and agile as possible, so then other services can go on top of it,” Rakuten's Azita

The open source community is looking to build positive outcomes on some of the most troubling aspects of the past year.

The scant presence of open source in RAN causes lament among some open RAN proponents.