CEO Ken Xie anticipates limited near-term growth in the secure networking market for the next few quarters.

T-Mobile added 1,000 customer support roles, Verizon plans to hire 1,800 broadband technicians and Ciena promoted a couple of executives.

A new security benchmark framework called 5/5/5 aims to radically accelerate incident response times in the cloud, according to Sysdig.

Fortinet's new secure access service edge appliance features its Security Processor 5 custom ASIC for processing acceleration and performance boost.

The appliance combines Dell's automation management software, PowerEdge servers and software-defined storage with Red Hat OpenShift.

"The timing is really perfect for us to fully enter and conquer the data center market space," said Nokia's Senad Palislamovic.

The new offering aims to address limitations of traditional LAN architectures by delivering integrated switching, routing, security and network services.

Oracle VP Leo Leung expects these joint offerings will draw in new customers and help the vendor gain share amid a growing AI market.

IBM Consulting is looking to be the industry's trusted source on Amazon Web Services' generative artificial intelligence services.

Enterprises have been asking for secure, performant and cost-optimized storage that's adjacent to – but outside of – the public cloud.

The Juniper Connected Security Distributed Services Architecture is designed to integrate unified security management with advanced routing and artificial-intelligence-powered threat prevention. Juniper builds new security architecture for distributed data

The report also found retailers identified distributed denial of service as their top cybersecurity concern.

Product Manager Annika Garbers touted the vendor's approach meets the market demand for simplicity, cost-effectiveness and unified management.

The Open Compute Project is working to advance chiplet adoption and enhance Ethernet performance to address AI challenges for data centers.

The vendor will continue supporting third-party SD-WAN products for multivendor secure access service edge, Check Point VP Amit Bareket said.

With energy and rack unit space costs falling to the vendor, it has intrinsic motivation to increase the energy efficiency of its storage software.

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty is founded on repeatable best-practice approaches that are ideal for complex regulatory requirements.

The integration will provide a single-vendor secure access service edge product to Deutsche Telekom enterprise customers.

Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Versa Networks and VMware are among the MEF SASE certification beta program participants.

Ilan Eframian's switch to Comcast was influenced by the carrier's scale; Zac Smith stepped down as head of Open19.

IT leadership needs to be clear-eyed about the gap between its perception of sustainability progress and reality.

Shlomo Kramer said many network security vendors are struggling with the transition from appliance form factor to the cloud-centric approach of SASE.

T-Mobile is helping secure enterprise 5G networks with a SIM card-based SASE system in partnership with Versa and a network-slice security platform.

The platform will simplify the Microsoft-centric hybrid cloud experience with consistency across public clouds, data centers and the edge.