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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). Fun fact: Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Womens Network and is a member of the Girls in Tech Board of Directors.

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Meta creates ‘Business AI’ group led by ex-Salesforce AI CEO Clara Shih

CIO Business Intelligence

During her first stint at Salesforce, from 2006 to 2009, she worked on a side project with a colleague to build Faceforce (later known as Faceconnector), an app for sales staff to connect their social graph with their CRM system using public APIs from Salesforce and Facebook.

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7 Software Defined Networking Considerations » Data Center.

Data Center Knowledge

7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. 7 Software Defined Networking Considerations. The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” 2) The size of an organization’s network. Industry Perspectives. By: Industry Perspectives July 26th, 2013.

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Security-as-a-service supplier Alert Logic started with IDS and blossomed from there

Network World

Hall eventually sold that company to SunGard Data Systems in 2007, and in 2009 joined Alert Logic where he has since driven revenue growth 12x. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix recently caught up with Hall to learn more about Alert Logic and the security-as-a-service movement. Lets start with a brief background on the company.

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Cisco gears up to capitalize on Splunk deal, AI revolution

Network World

Revenue in the latest quarter plunging 13% (27% in networking). Is this just a minor hiccup for the dominant player in enterprise networking or something else? Has Cisco gotten too big and unwieldy to compete against innovative disruptors like Arista, Palo Alto Networks, Netskope, Zscaler, and others? Shakeups in the C-suite.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

Is there a difference between network virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)? So, in a similar fashion to my post on network overlays vs. network virtualization , I thought I’d weigh in with some thoughts. With this definition in hand, let’s compare network virtualization to SDN.

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A Look Back At Zero Trust: Never Trust, Always Verify

Forrester IT

For those of you who have been hiding away in a cave for the past decade, Zero Trust (ZT) is a concept founded by Forrester alum John Kindervag in 2009 that centers on the belief that trust is a vulnerability and security must be designed with the strategy never trust, […]. What exactly is Zero Trust?

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