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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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IDG Contributor Network: Will networks and security converge in 2017?

Network World

Zeus Kerravala looked into his crystal bowl for the networking space, and Taylor Armeriding did the same for security. We went rummaging through our fortune cookies and came up with this Yoda-like one for 2017: Security shall networking become. Could networking replace security (or vice versa) in 2017?

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. To date however, there hasn’t been dedicated network fabric technology for connecting PCIe 6 connections. Scorpio PCIe 6.0 The biggest use case is NIC-to-GPU data ingest,” Danesh said.

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Cisco warns of attacks on network routers, firewalls

Network World

Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group issued a warning today about an uptick in highly sophisticated attacks on network infrastructure including routers and firewalls. That exploit targeted an SNMP vulnerability in Cisco routers that the vendor patched in 2017. To read this article in full, please click here

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Hot products at VMworld 2017

Network World

VMworld 2017 Image by Thinkstock/VMware VMworld 2017 is underway in Las Vegas, where IT pros are converging to learn about the latest in enterprise cloud, virtualization, security, and software-defined data center technologies. Here are some of the product highlights on display at the show.

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IDG Contributor Network: SDN and a life beyond the death of the internet

Network World

Compare that to the logistical, financial and implementation challenges of installing an alternative private network, and it’s clear why enterprises have been pretty content with the internet for their entire digital lives. But, it’s 2017. The reason why is pretty simple: it’s cost-efficient, it’s easy to use and it’s already there.

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Reflections from HPE Discover 2017

Forrester IT

From June 4 - 6, 2017, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise hosted an Analyst Summit in hot Las Vegas as part of their HPE Discover 2017 event. I have seen HP split into both HPE and HP Inc creating two powerhouses and then again spin-merge their services teams into CSC (now DXC) and HPE Software into Micro Focus finalized by September 1, 2017.

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