“We believe a hybrid multi-cloud IT operating model is the best one to go with because one size of cloud doesn't fit all.” Nutanix SVP Monica Kumar said.

VMware and Nutanix together represent 66.1% of the overall market, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Converged Systems Tracker.

“Our investigation shows that successful intrusions in these campaigns led to the deployment of the Night Sky ransomware,” Microsoft noted.

Cloudflare Field CTO John Engates expects “zero trust will become a non-negotiable for enterprise” in 2022.

“A SOAR tool has been the missing piece for Google’s Chronicle offering since practically its inception," Forrester analyst Allie Mellen said.

The log files in backup disc storage were deleted instead of the original process of deleting old files saved in the log directory, HPE said.

Cisco's $4.5 billion Acacia acquisition was the most significant and disruptive optical deal of 2021, Dell’Oro Group VP Jimmy Yu said.

A Dell Technologies’ survey found 64% of organizations using the public cloud or hybrid architectures lack confidence that they can protect all data across these environments.

“Interest in zero trust has exploded due to the numerous high-profile security attacks in the recent past," analyst Mauricio Sanchez said.

“HPE GreenLake allows us to pay for what we use so we can accurately match our costs to revenue,” NTT's Hidenori Kigami said.

“Software has bugs — sometimes severe security bugs, with significant potential consequences,” Forrester analysts wrote.

When it comes to NaaS, Cisco, HPE, and Dell are "at different points in their history, but HPE and Dell got a headstart," analyst Zeus Kerravala said.

As supply restrictions ease and smartNICs gain traction, adapter shipments should return to double-digit growth in 2022, Dell’Oro Group's Baron Fung forecasts.

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft drove 400 Gb/s Ethernet switch deployments during the third quarter, Dell’Oro Group analysts report.

“The cloud security market has taken off and this is the time to expand capacity in every aspect of our business," CEO Suresh Vasudevan said.

"The partnership benefits Rubrik by providing access to the broad Azure ecosystem, and to Microsoft by extending their hybrid cloud presence," IDC's Phil Goodwin wrote.

Disaggregated, composable, and flexible architectures can help increase data centers' utilization rate, Liqid CEO Sumit Puri said.

Organizations that claimed to have mature implementations of zero trust and SASE were 35% more likely to report strong security operations.

"It seems appropriate that as we were getting people moving from Palo Alto [Networks], that the appropriate place for them to move was Oahu," Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said.

Other than Aqua, only Palo Alto Networks can secure all components of the application, Aqua CEO Dror Davidoff said.

The cyber vault is independently configured, operated, and self-managed. “That provides a reduction in the attack surface when it comes to ransomware attacks," Dell's Rob Emsley said.

The new XDR offering combines the FireEye Helix platform with Amazon Inspector, aiming to offer better visibility and protection for applications and data in the cloud.

Compared to VMware, “we continue to see a higher win ratio and we are much more disciplined in terms of our execution,” Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami said.

Unit 42 has seen a 188% increase in cloud incident response cases, Palo Alto Networks SVP Wendi Whitmore said.