However, reports continue to indicate enterprise discontent with Broadcom’s changes at VMware.

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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.

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

Traditional telecom operators are in a prime position for some of the $13 billion in enterprise spend expected by 2028.

Tata Communications is looking to grow its presence in the U.S. and is pinning much of its strategy on its concept of digital fabric.

'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

Pax8 plans to add more security giants to its marketplace, CEO Scott Chasin said. “You've got Coke and you have Pepsi, we believe in marketplace neutrality."

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The long-standing open source infrastructure platform is seeing an uptick in interest

The firm spent considerable time researching vendors for its digital transformation efforts that span from “Argentina to China.”

Those vendors are now certified as part of VMware's recently altered sales channel model. as Broadcom looks to reduce support concerns from users and partners.

Analyst firms expect billions-of-dollars in opportunity.

"It’s like you couldn't turn around and not run into someone saying AI [artificial intelligence]," Dell’Oro's Mauricio Sanchez said. “It's ironic that very little was about networking.”

Spectrum and network technology will play a part.

Extended detection and response vendors have reached a tipping point to compete with security information and event management, Forrester noted.

False assumptions and applying old patterns to new technologies are among the key pitfalls CISOs must address, Gartner's Richard Bartley said.

“They’ve tried a bunch of things,” Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

The next phase of development is enabling generative artificial intelligence to take action, not just answer questions, Baris Gultekin and Kari Briski said.

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The certification also highlights growing interest in peering connections handling increased traffic from artificial intelligence services.

Despite the power of Infiniband, the need for Ethernet remains. To help serve AI networking needs, Nvidia is pushing Spectrum-X Ethernet

Broadcom last month took over distribution of its VMware Cloud on Amazon Web Services product from the hyperscaler.