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What is data architecture? A framework to manage data

CIO Business Intelligence

Data architecture definition Data architecture describes the structure of an organizations logical and physical data assets, and data management resources, according to The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF). An organizations data architecture is the purview of data architects. Ensure security and access controls.

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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

As AI gets built into every application and service, organizations will find themselves managing hundreds or thousands of discrete agents. For example, Microsoft has talked about how AI agents will impact application development. They dont just share information; they collaborate, reason, and take autonomous actions in real-time.

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Internet upgrade part of a move towards 400/800G connectivity

Network World

The industry transition to 400 Gigabit Ethernet networking took a big step forward this week when the worlds leading Internet exchange operator announced plans to upgrade its New York backbone to 400G. The growth of AI and data traffic in general is also reflected outside the data centers in global Internet traffic.

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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. In the 1990s, the internet became widely available, opening up a new frontier for cybersecurity threats.

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Threats delivered over encrypted channels continue to rise

Network World

Zscaler eliminates this risk and the attack surface by keeping applications and services invisible to the internet. This approach stops encrypted threats from reaching critical applications and systems, providing proactive protection that doesnt rely on shared network access. Case study: Learn how Wipro blocked 8.2M

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Cisco, Google Cloud offer enterprises new way to connect SD-WANs

Network World

Google Cloud describes Cloud WAN as a new fully managed, reliable, and secure enterprise backbone to transform enterprise WAN architectures, according to a blog by Muninder Singh Sambi, vice president and general manager of networking for Google Cloud.

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Want to transform networking? Empower the missing users

Network World

As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that could enable a network transformation. Its not an application, but an application architecture or model.

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