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

Forrester noted when planning for the post-quantum migration, security, and research leaders often have to contend with some mixed messages.

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

“Hyperscalers, to me, have a huge untapped opportunity," IDC's John Byrne said.

The $1.1 billion impairment charge was tied to “lower anticipated market growth rates in Vonage’s current portfolio.”

“I always said that we really need a few big vendors because you need volume to really be healthy in this market," Dell'Oro Group's Jimmy Yu said.

Enterprise and partner outreach are top of mind.

The report showed 87% of organizations experienced a breach in the last year that they can partially attribute to a lack of cybersecurity skills.

Forrester's recent Wave report for OT security solutions identified Cisco and Palo Alto Networks as leaders.

Artificial intelligence is revamping hiring for both employers and candidates, with tools for screening, interview prep and resume writing.

Akamai plans to build a unified API security platform based on the Noname platform.

The latest VMware Cloud Platform updates highlighted the ongoing drama.

There is tighter integration for other VMware products and a focus on security.

“If you don't get the good relationship going you're going to push something for the OT people that they don't want," Omdia's Pablo Tomasi warned.

“When we think about the partnership, the No.1 competitor that we see in my view is Palo Alto [Networks],” Aqua Security CEO Dror Davidoff said.

“I envision a convergence of the data center networking and the stack over time and integrated with Nvidia,” CEO Antonio Neri said.

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“There will be multiple providers, and in fact as far as we’re concerned, we want there to be multiple providers," AT&T CFO Pascal Desroches said.

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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.

"We're going to not screw it up; we're going to make you happier about being a Splunk Cisco customer a year from now," said Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins.

The deal brings Fortinet into the highly competitive and growing cloud-native application protection platform market, said 650 Group's Chris DePuy.

“The journey is not over, by any means, but it's very much to expectation moving to subscription," Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said of the VMware changes.

The long-standing open source infrastructure platform is seeing an uptick in interest from current VMware users.