MEF's API standards aim to build a baseline blueprint for companies in the same way open source does, CTO Pascal Menezes said.

The vendor's FortiCNP service provides security teams a daily roadmap to understand the top threats that need their attention, Fortinet's Vince Hwang said.

"We fundamentally believe – and Microsoft, as well – that multicloud is a real thing," Oracle VP Leo Leung said.

Analysts forecast the data center ethernet switch market will grow to near $100 billion in the next five years.

According to IDC, spending on public cloud in Europe will reach $113 billion in 2022, and is set to double by 2026.

The server line includes scalable and midrange systems with a "tremendous amount of memory and compute capacity," IBM Power VP Steve Sibley said.

Business leaders need to understand what it really means to change security models from on premises to cloud, Arctic Wolf CPO Dan Schiappa said.

In the first half of 2022, private equity accounted for 90% of the total data center M&A, according to SRG.

Enterprises need to evaluate potential cloud providers in terms of sustainability initiatives and transparency, according to a recent Gartner report.

Data centers should prioritize allocating resources to business continuity and disaster recovery planning, CyrusOne SVP Andrea Munoz said.

Comcast debuted the renewable energy nanogrids to power critical network infrastructure in disaster scenarios.

"There is no one solution in the industry that can actually solve all five pillars" of zero trust, Trend Micro's David Chow said.

Treating hardware like a commodity creates a host of sustainability related challenges for businesses, SoftIron VP of Product Craig Chadwell said.

Data center capex grew at its fastest rate in three years during the first quarter of 2022, according to Dell'Oro Group.

Google and Microsoft grew at a much faster rate in 2021 than the long-reigning Amazon Web Services, according to Gartner.

WattIQ CEO Priya Vijayakumar hopes her company's smart plugs can shift industry tradition toward making better use of what it already has.

"Cybersecurity, which has become a broad sustainability issue, [is] threatening our evolving connected society," Fortinet's Barbara Maigret said.

"Security is always a high priority item," Rust Foundation Executive Director Rebecca Rumbul said.

Cloud security is more than depending on the false sense of safety offered by so many security products, Snyk Chief Architect Josh Stella said.

"We want to bring clarity on the open source side into what's happening in your environments," whether that's good news or bad, Cisco's Stephen Augustus said.

Gartner data shows only 52% of CTOs regularly engage with their organization's CISO, and only 29% regularly engage with their chief data officer.

The intersection of software and security "is an onion," Cisco's Head of Open Source Stephen Augustus said.

CFOs are struggling to translate their corporate sustainability promises into measurable action, but they should be leading the charge, according to GRI.

The challenge with discovering APIs is that there isn't typically one place to look for them, Gartner VP Mark O'Neill said.