Using artificial intelligence to work toward environmental goals "is a mission critical priority," Gartner's Lydia Ferguson said.

The heat is on data and analytics leaders to produce results and value to the business. However, those leaders aren’t feeling good about their progress.

"The [identity and access management] space is now more and more like a multiverse,” VP Analyst Homan Farahmand said.

Low code will soon be the "standard method for creating almost any application or software artifact," SAP VP Sebastian Schrötel said.

“We intend for everybody at AT&to really lean in and to use [artificial intelligence] to do their job better and more effectively,” AT&T's Andy Markus said.

Many of today’s leading AI systems are recurrent neural networks. The problem: Neural networks are typically forgetful.

“There is plenty of capital available for great ideas. Money is just on hold for a minute,” Forrester Research's Keith Johnston noted.

"Spend on security products and services will continue to outperform growth in overall IT spending," said IDC's Serena Da Rold.

Building hardware-centric network infrastructure is “mundane, costly, and high maintenance,” Netksope's Gerry Plaza said.

Juniper Networks is looking to push even more network management to the cloud, with a little help from artificial intelligence.

“Samsung continues to provide the template on how vendors can break into the [radio access network] ... market," IDC's Daryl Schoolar said.

But while the metaverse might not be “real,” its physical infrastructure certainly will be.

Legacy equipment is being replaced with SD-WAN appliances and “causing a relook at the WAN overall,” Gartner's Danielle Young said.

“When you think of the future, you can extrapolate that whoever has the best artificial intelligence wins,” Gartner Analyst Avivah Litan said.

HPE Aruba, Microsoft, and reelyActive are teaming up to offer what's designed to be an automated answer for complicated engineering problems.

The service helps organizations build predictive solutions that tell farmers about vegetation health or point out disease risks.

The Chinese government in a statement protested the potential move, adding “Huawei accounts for nearly 60% of Germany's 5G network equipment.”

The flagship telecommunications event once again provided plenty of talking points, but what stood out?

The firm found 46% of telecom CEOs think their company will not be economically viable in 10 years if they continue down their current operating path.

“A major vulnerability in software that beats open source or closed source is probably inevitable,” Linux Foundation's David Wheeler said.

“Millimeter wave has arguably gone down as one of the greatest failures in the wireless world in recent memory,” PwC Partner Dan Hays said.

Gartner's Nat Smith noted Valtix's technology connects into the plumbing of the public clouds to protect each individual workload.

Five decades after it first appeared, it's still not a good idea to bet against Ethernet.

Happy International Women's Day to the ladies leaving tech at a significantly higher rate than men.