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

Seven other market-leading enterprise products earned "recommended" status from CyberRatings' test.

“It's a massive mindset change because it's not about telco network technologies anymore. It's about the cloud," Analysys Mason's Gorkem Yigit said.

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One of the major advantages of the certification is its ability to streamline industry conversations and eliminate confusion.

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

“We’ve kind of seen a pause in spend on these due to some macroeconomic issues that are going on in the market,” TBR's Michael Soper said.

“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.

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

The primary driver behind the decision was Fortinet's ability to integrate multiple security solutions into a single platform, FC Barcelona's Sergi Ricart said.

But abstracting away complicating layers is key to helping overburdened IT teams.

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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.

"[Managed service provider] is like the neck on the head. They're making the choice," Daniel Bernard said.

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

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

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

'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."

CFO Pascal Desroches this week said the carrier is seeing progress toward attracting more potential open radio access network equipment vendors.

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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.”