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The craziest stories of the tech sector

Network World

Network World started its Wider Net stories in 2003 in an effort to lighten up our news pages, acknowledging that there is a lot more to the world of enterprise networking and IT other than speeds and feeds of switches and routers and WAN links.

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Netskope expands SASE footprint, bolsters AI and automation

Network World

Each data center offers customers a range of SASE capabilities including cloud firewalls, secure web gateway (SWG), inline cloud access security broker (CASB), zero trust network access (ZTNA), SD-WAN , secure service edge (SSE), and threat protection.

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CloudGenix Nets $25M in Software-Defined WAN Market Push

Data Center Knowledge

Startup beefs up war chest in competition with Cisco, Juniper, Cyan, and others. Read More.

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How IT Can Deliver Better Business Outcomes

CIO Business Intelligence

in Revenue Savings To move from proactive operations to modern observability, teams must establish awareness of modern network technologies like SD-WAN. million over three years, resulting in a net present value (NPV) of $4.2 Avoiding Downtime Yields $2.5M These investments can deliver business benefits amounting to $6.8

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Cisco gears up to capitalize on Splunk deal, AI revolution

Network World

Net income dropping 41% year-over-year. Some of the recent highlights: Viptela for SD-WAN , Meraki for wireless and cloud management, Sourcefire for IDS, Duo Security for authentication and identity management , ThousandEyes for network intelligence and digital experience monitoring, and AppDynamics for observability.

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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

Better superconducting materials, then, or ones requiring much less cooling, could bring us closer to fusion reactors that generate net power. If it didn’t need to overcome that hurdle, more would be possible. Then there’s quantum computing. The papers had notable, somewhat suspicious differences.

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How network startups could win over enterprises

Network World

A great example of both can be seen in the software-defined wide-area network ( SD-WAN ). SD-WAN vendors push into security When SD-WAN first came along, it was directed purely at network service costs. so SD-WAN started pushing security. Because incumbents, having bought up SD-WAN startups, were now dominating the space.

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