“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.

Gartner predicts 70% of organizations will make their cloud decisions based on sustainability and digital sovereignty factors by 2027.

Nephio, which uses a telco industry–focused approach to cloud-native network automation, has a new release for radio access network and multicloud frameworks.

“This period for AI is reminiscent of when cloud itself first hit the scene,” FinOps Foundation CTO Mike Fuller said.

The new data center campus is part of NTT’s commitment to invest $10 billion in data center growth between 2023 and 2027.

“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.

Data center spending will hit $200 billion by 2028 and that will drive the need for more skilled workers to design, deploy, manage and secure new data centers.

“I don’t advise people to engage with VMware right now,” Forrester Research's Tracy Woo said.

The NSA warns that software developers must make their products “secure by design and by default," rather than treat each product as if it carries an implicit caveat emptor.

Cloud repatriation isn't as popular as data center hardware vendors would like it to be.

Artificial intelligence workloads are projected to represent 25% of 2028's $200 billion data center capex.

There’s nothing quite like $51 billion worth of data center expansion to jumpstart the year.

Here's what VMware users can expect as Broadcom hastens to make good on its plan to nearly double VMware’s profitability in the next three years.

The liquid cooling system is expected to help Aligned gain traction in the growing data center thermal management market.

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

Customers looking to migrate data out of Google Cloud can now do so free of charge. Will Microsoft and Amazon Web Services follow suit?

“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.

Whether you’re already involved in the technology industry or looking for a foot in the door, here are some of the hottest and best-paying cloud jobs for 2024.

Here are our top 10 data center stories of 2023, based on aggregate page views, with Broadcom taking top mentions in four out of the 10 stories.

In the new year, we're watching out for tech giants' efforts on grid modernization, renewable energy and liquid cooling technologies.

SASE systems working in tandem with SD-WANs now flourish as a means to achieve successful multicloud implementations.

As we look ahead to 2024, the question on everyone's mind in the industry is whether SASE will continue to be a hot topic in cybersecurity conversations.

Sustainability is an integral part of innovation for the cloud, data centers, artificial intelligence systems, 5G and radio access networks.