“What it takes to attract and retain customers is materially more expensive than it was just a few quarters ago,” CEO Mike Sievert told employees.

“5G [reduced capacity] modules will constitute 18% of total cellular IoT module shipments by 2030," Counterpoint Research predicts.

"The core DNA of VMware is to work with a plethora of partners, and many of them compete with each other, regardless of our ownership," said Raghuram.

One of the new features automatically classifies and labels sensitive data and then applies appropriate risk-based controls in Google Drive.

"Virtually every OEM in the world is building systems" that are designed to run the private artificial intelligence platform, Nvidia VP Justin Boitano said.

GlobalData predicts fixed-wireless access services will double its share of the U.S. broadband market over the next five years.

If VMware had opted to create "yet another vendor solution," that would be "insufficient," SVP Purnima Padmanabhan said.

Cloud computing company VMware is rolling out expanded security capabilities in its VMware Cloud.

The vendor stated these new services are tied to its expanded work with the software-defined edge.

“What we think lies ahead is the need for security to stop bad actors midflight, real time, as it's happening,” Palo Alto CEO Nikesh Arora said.

Analysts from both Forrester and Gartner have noted Cisco's struggle to integrate and unify its secure access service edge portfolio in their recent reports.

"This will create additional jobs and these are high-tech components so these will also be high-tech jobs," Nokia's Stefaan Vanhastel said.

A Deloitte-Google Cloud partnership combines Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform with Deloitte’s consumer and market data and algorithms.

From "old reliable" MPLS, and why it isn't going away anytime soon, to the next-gen 5G vRAN, our coverage this week ran the gamut of technology.

Current head Amol Phadke is set to leave and will be replaced by current VP Ankur Jain.

Linux clone vendors CIQ, Oracle and SUSE are challenging Red Hat by banding together to build and distribute open enterprise Linux software.

Verizon Business will continue to lead all customer acquisitions and sales, as well as overall planning and development with enterprise customers.

The contest goals are to both produce new AI cybersecurity tools and "show how AI can be used to better society,” said DARPA's Perri Adams.

This is based on the ability to combine Dish Network’s expanding 5G network with Echostar's satellite capabilities.

Here's where major enterprise tech vendors stand in terms of sustainability targets and environmental impact – starting with Dell, IBM, Cisco, VMware and HPE.

The technology "represents a vital technology that helps right-size 5G connectivity for intelligent edge applications," CCS Insights' Wayne Lam said.

Bot management helps protect IBM Cloud users from the growing sophistication and volume of malicious bots, which make up about 25% of web traffic.

Editor Dan Meyer shares his top stories this week, calling them "hot-button issues for the telecom, networking, cloud and cybersecurity ecosystems."

Synthetic data for artificial intelligence, products for simplifying generative AI, and AI in networking and security are among this week's top stories.