"Don't just pick a[n edge] vendor and go that route," Gartner Analyst Thomas Bittman warned.

When it comes to Extreme’s effort in diversity, equity, and inclusion, “the foundation is built around career, culture, community, and commerce."

"The goal is to incentivize customers to return old or outdated equipment for refurbishment and to be made available again to the right customer," Linda D’Amico said.

“Cybercriminals have not slowed down too much in their use of Log4Shell exploits in attacks," Adrian Korn said.

Interestingly, its rival Cisco recently took the exact opposite path to expand its secure access service edge reach.

Gartner predicts 40% of enterprises will be working toward unachievable multi-cloud expectations by 2027.

This shift is a cultural change within the I&O organization. "It is a change in thinking and an evolution," Gartner's Jeffrey Hewitt said.

The challenge is that vendors have a tendency to call everything network-as-a-service, "and it really isn't NaaS half the time," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner said.

Around 30% of the respondents chose zero-trust network access as the top zero-trust investment priority, Zscaler found.

"I feel like I could actually just scream," Gartner Analyst Jeffrey Hewitt said of the talent shortage's tenacity.

"You use the word innovation incorrectly," Gartner Analyst Andrew Lerner told the networking vendors in the audience.

Almost all (96%) surveyed organizations consider security resilience crucial to their business, Cisco found in a recent report.

By 2025, 50% of edge computing solutions deployed before a strategy has taken shape will fail to meet enterprise goals, Gartner says.

Forrester Analyst Lee Sustar expects AWS to acquire one or more startups or a major security player for the managed detection and response service.

Aryaka VP Craig Patterson sung the praises of managed SD-WAN as a crucial failsafe for maintaining enterprise network uptime.

Secure service access encompasses secure access service edge, zero-trust network access, and extended detection and response, according to GigaOm.

D-Wave's recent survey shows the majority of the organizations are already engaging in quantum computing early adopter activities.

Managed services can offer “extensive knowledge and expertise” to ease the transition to secure access service edge, Ron Ronco said.

Aruba is investing in the data center space while "looking at" private 5G, and security as part of a secure access service edge solution, President Phil Mottram said

Dell’Oro Group reported those four vendors gleaned the most open radio access network-related revenues during the first nine months of the year.

The company plans to aid service providers with network dead zones, then use its crypto assets to donate cell deployments in under-connected areas.

"When you have these broad zero-day events that impact many industries ... that's where things like SBOM come into play," Jennifer Morovitz said.

Remote work that goes beyond calendars and meeting links: “that's a real problem, but the metaverse is not the solution to that,” Adam Riggs said.

“The one thing that's common across the board is the desire to modernize and become more cloud-like," AWS' Jan Hofmeyr said of telecom operators.