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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK

Network World

HPE customers who were hoping for an Ops platform that would control server, storage, and networking using fully natural language commands are going to have to stick with GreenLake for now or wait until probably 2026 at the earliest, he said.