That boom is coming on the heels of broader cloud revenue growth for the market's leading hyperscalers.

Growth in the use of artificial intelligence for new applications and a focus on managing data center costs is driving the move.

The Cloud Security Alliance recently ranked “insecure interfaces and APIs” as the third-most significant cybersecurity threat risk for 2024.

Dell'Oro Group predicts an investment surge that could see $1 trillion in capex by 2028.

There is a financial reward for operators that can.

The vendor plans to introduce SD-WAN hardware to support the traffic demands within larger campuses and data center environments.

Google is claiming that new node types and incentives can provide up to 30% less total costs for running VMware in its environment compared to Microsoft.

Small vendors will "expect fire-sale acquisitions to larger infrastructure vendors, bankruptcies and radical specialization," Forrester's David Holmes said.

There remain challenges in multicloud connectivity, cloud-native migrations, and domain specific artificial intelligence.

Gartner labeled Fortinet and Versa Networks as challengers; Cisco as a visionary; and CloudFlare, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Forcepoint as niche players.

Enterprise and partner outreach are top of mind.

The latest VMware Cloud Platform updates highlighted the ongoing drama.

CTO of enterprise Linux lays out roadmap at SUSEcon, spans operating systems, Kubernetes and more.

However, reports continue to indicate enterprise discontent with Broadcom’s changes at VMware.

Dell’Oro Group crowned Zscaler, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks as the top three vendors in both overall and single-vendor secure access service edge markets.

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Those vendors are now certified as part of VMware's recently altered sales channel model. as Broadcom looks to reduce support concerns from users and partners.

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“They’ve tried a bunch of things,” Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

Broadcom last month took over distribution of its VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services product from the hyperscaler.

The company also hints that the Accelerate Program could soon include its Carbon Black cybersecurity portfolio.

That path selection will be important for Amazon Web Services as it looks to carve out a niche in the artificial intelligence ecosystem.

"There's a lot of virtual machines that are consuming more resources or accessing more resources than they need," NetApp's Matt Watts said.