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5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

CIO Business Intelligence

And to be fair to the now-retired Cappuccio, no one could have predicted game-changing events like a global pandemic in 2020 or the release of ChatGPT in 2022. The Uptime Institute reports that in 2020, 58% of enterprise IT workloads were hosted in corporate data centers.

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What is a firewall?

Network World

billion by 2020. Most firewalls are deployed as network hardware that processes traffic and software that allow end users to configure and manage the system. Increasingly, software-only versions of firewalls are being deployed in highly virtualized environments to enforce policies on segmented networks or in the IaaS public cloud.

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11:11 Systems: Empowering enterprises to modernize, protect, and manage their IT assets and data

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2020, 11:11 CEO Brett Diamond noticed a gap in the market. Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Diamond founded 11:11 Systems to meet that need – and 11:11 hasn’t stopped growing since.

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GeekWire Awards 2020 revealed: Big winners, celebrities and surprises power virtual event

GeekWire

Winners of the 2020 GeekWire Awards make their acceptance speeches on the live-streamed event. We couldn’t get together in person, but we still found a way to celebrate the best in Pacific Northwest tech on Thursday as the GeekWire Awards went virtual. And now … the winners in all 12 categories of the 2020 GeekWire Awards.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

Network World

Gartner is more bullish, predicting that the market will grow at a 36% CAGR between 2020 and 2025 to reach $14.7 This offers several benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and reduced hardware costs. SASE offerings from a vendor with a history of selling on-premises hardware may not be designed with a cloud-native mindset.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

Fun fact: She also said during the podcast that virtually everyone in her family is an engineer. She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise. Youre not learning if youre not making mistakes.

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

The Linux Foundation focuses on the software element of SONiC, while continuing to partner with the Open Compute Project for hardware developments and evolving specifications. SONiC is the first networking system that lets us containerize applications and link them quickly across the network,” Tarazi told the 2020 roundtable. “It