The certification also highlights growing interest in peering connections handling increased traffic from artificial intelligence services.

HPE Aruba Networking lays out a path for artificial intelligence-powered network security and observability capabilities.

Palo Alto Networks unveiled its proprietary artificial intelligence system that combines generative AI, machine learning and deep learning capabilities.

The firm identified Fortinet as challenger, Skyhigh Security and Lookout as visionaries, and Versa Networks, Cloudflare, Broadcom and iboss as niche players.

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Vendors that are taking market share and that are on the upswing are highly engaged across the executive, technical and marketing teams.

"Ultimately it is shadow IT all over again, but with chatbots," Google's Anton Chuvakin said.

Aryaka's survey found 84% of respondents consider secure access service edge solutions either "mature" or "somewhat mature."

The debate between CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks over their definition of a platform has intensified with comments made by both companies recently

The firm named Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler and Forcepoint as security service edge leaders in its 2024 Wave report.

Cisco's standalone Umbrella Roaming Client software, providing domain name system security for millions of users, is going end-of-life on April 2.

The lack of interest in edge and private networks reflects their business reality, which is they are not a single product or technology and are too loosely defined to

“It's a team of people for a fraction of the cost of even hiring one security professional who certainly cannot do everything,” GTT's Erik Nordquist said.

The networking landscape is undergoing a seismic shift, leaving behind legacy vendors as users embrace change and drive towards a future of flexibility.

“One possibility here is ... it would be biased in favor of the [existing] HPE solution, and to migrate Juniper customers over time,” Mauricio Sanchez said.

Executives from both companies have downplayed the risk of overlap across the respective portfolios, but how do their security and secure access service edge (SASE) portfolios actually compare?

Zscaler's offering is less about switching and optimizing the transport from connectivity, and more about securing the transport, VP Naresh Kumar said.

Outdated approaches to networks and security are crumbling, vendors are consolidating and new players are emerging – who's best-positioned to come out on top?

The combined HPE-Juniper Networks operation is set to provide a more complete 5G support package for operators.

However, the network-as-a-service provider is not naming its low-Earth orbit provider.

Both the SD-WAN and secure access service edge markets expanded rapidly in 2023, and neither shows any signs of slowing down in 2024.

“Outside of Cisco, I don’t see anyone else in 2024 being able to dethrone Zscaler from its leadership position," Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said.

Increasingly consultants and professional services firms are a core part of many organizations' secure access service edge adoption and deployment success.

In the tech world, every year is the year of something. And in 2023, artificial intelligence took its turn to grab the headlines.