Incumbent network-as-a-service vendors are "watching new entrants carefully," Dell'Oro analyst Siân Morgan said.

“It's not a flip-a-switch and you are now zero trust,” Deepen Desai said.

"Linkerd and [Open Service Mesh] have always been spiritual siblings," Buoyant CEO William Morgan said after the OSM project's archival.

Kyndryl has been building out its networking capabilities over the last year and is now getting into SASE.

Google’s differentiation in large language model lies in its ability to externalize, vast expertise and a full-stack approach, VP Jeff Reed said.

“Our focus really is making high performance, cloud computing easy to use, affordable and locally accessible," Vultr CEO J.J. Kardwell said.

Open source-based technologies are now leading the way forward for enterprises, cloud and telco.

As the secure access service edge market matures, customers are searching for the right architecture, design and vendor, Kumar Ramachandran noted.

And "it just goes up from there," depending on "where customers are within their lifecycle," Cisco's Jeremy Foster said.

By 2027, 75% of organizations are predicted to have a data center sustainability program in place, according to Gartner research.

“Our ability to push improvements across this vast network ... is a distinct competitive advantage for us," Verizon's Adam Koeppe said.

“The No. 1 concern is if they are deploying a 5G network, how can they protect their 5G network because it's something new," Rodrigo Brito said.

In a deep dive technical session at KubeCon, developers outlined a series of efforts that will soon transform the way networking is done in the cloud.

How can organizations improve cloud native networking and security? IKEA, The New York Times and Bloomberg see Cilium as the answer.

Huawei, Ericsson and Nokia continued to dominate the market in 2022, according to a recent MTN Consulting report.

Gartner predicts worldwide end-user cloud spending to grow 21.7% in 2023, coming in just under $600 billion.

The Rancher 2.2.7 platform release is focused on hybrid, multi-cloud and multi-cluster management, but security remains key, SUSE GM Peter Smails said.

“These are actual network components that are currently deployed today in enterprise environments, and they are working,” Betacom's Michael Davies said.

Enterprises are experiencing a "mind shift" that isn't aligned to what many vendors are doing, Solo's Doug Chamberlain said.

If companies genuinely seek to fulfill their ESG goals, the whole organization needs to "be mobilized across all levels," IBM VP Bill Lobig said.

“A lot of people had heard about our unique framework ... so now they can actually feel it, touch it,” Hughes' Rajeev Gopal said.

With today’s pace of innovation, the “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” mentality leaves many businesses buried in debt.

“I think we have an opportunity to grow the pie together,” Microsoft's Shawn Hakl said.

Sustainability used to be in IT leaders' top 5 concerns, but today "it's definitely within the top 3," IBM VP Tina Tarquinio said.