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Food Retailers’ Inadequate Crisis Response Highlights The Contrast Between Modern And Outdated Business Applications

Forrester IT

I spoke recently with the head of strategy and architecture of a large distributor of industrial products about his company’s implementation of Oracle Supply Chain Management (SCM) Cloud and how its flexibility had enabled them to adjust their distribution network to cope with COVID-19 disruption.

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Nonpublic 5G Networks Will Be A Critical Building Block Of Your Enterprise Network Strategy

Forrester IT

Nonpublic 5G networks promise better privacy, data security, compliance, and cellular network performance; they also offer safer and more private features for dedicated user groups.

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5 Hot network-automation startups to watch

Network World

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

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Cisco research highlights network complexity, security challenges

Network World

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

Network World

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. However, there is another advantage, and that has to do with scale.

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How the network can support zero trust

Network World

Simply stated, zero trust calls for verifying every user and device that tries to access the network and enforcing strict access-control and identity management that limits authorized users to accessing only those resources they need to do their jobs. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]. [Get

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Optical networking challenges gain attention as AI networking demands rise

Network World

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. But the use of fiber optics in networks is not without its challenges.

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