Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. Red Hat Connectivity Link is not a mesh, Ferreira emphasized.

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

Jokel talked with Network World about three key technological trends Ciscos is actively pursuing: the rise of agentic AI, preparing for the quantum era in networking and security, and addressing the growing demand for sustainable and efficient infrastructure. We also need to look at how we network together quantum computers.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC?

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Much of that work occurred under the direction of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium , which is an open-source effort under the governance of the Linux Foundation.

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Network World

JUNE 30, 2023

Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential computing applications. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2022

Picking just 10 Linux open source security tools isn’t easy, especially when network professionals and security experts have dozens if not several hundred tools available to them. There are different sets of tools for just about every task—network tunneling, sniffing, scanning, mapping.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is urging its open-source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users to apply fixes now available for a flaw that, under certain circumstances, can allow complete account takeover.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

While its still possible to run applications on bare metal, that approach doesnt fully optimize hardware utilization. There are many different ways of doing virtualization in the cloud, and among the most common approaches is to use the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. Thats where virtualization comes in.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. For example, Cisco unveiled its AI Pods in October, which leverage Nvidia GPUs in servers purpose-built for large-scale AI training, as well as the networking and storage required.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

When AI agents begin to proliferate, a new, open structure will be needed so they can securely communicate and collaborate together to solve complex problems, suggests Cisco. As AI gets built into every application and service, organizations will find themselves managing hundreds or thousands of discrete agents.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

From the start, Meta has made the Llama models available to other enterprises under a license it describes as “open source,” but the creation of the new business group makes clear that Meta’s interest is commercial, not philanthropic. Meta also has a veto on competitors using Llama for anything too big: The Llama 3.2

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

NetBox Labs this week made available a new product that will help network teams detect and remediate configuration drift across sophisticated network environments before costly service disruptions or unplanned downtime affect services or applications.

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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

CoreWeaves Blackwell instances scale to up to 110,000 Blackwell GPUs with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. Cohere is using the Nvidia hardware to help develop secure enterprise AI applications on its enterprise AI platform, North. It is used for advanced large language model programming and training.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

On 25 November NSA announced the release of an new technology called Niagarafiles or NiFi that enterprises can use to automate data flows among multiple computer networks. Here is their press release : NSA Releases First in Series of Software Products to Open Source Community. New technology automates high-volume data flows.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, according to Gartner. By comparison, less than 10% of enterprises were automating more than half of their network activities in mid-2023. Read more about network automation DIY or commercial network automation? IBM drops $6.4B

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It became an open ISO standard in 2015. Today, you can save documents as PDF files from many applications (e.g., Some of the more popular of the FOSS (free and open source) PDF editors include LibreOffice, PDFSam, PDFedit, ONLYOFFICE and Xournal++. exporting a document as a PDF from Word) and edit PDF files (e.g.,

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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Network World

JUNE 16, 2022

Cisco is taking aim at better controlling the performance and development of core applications with a new AppDynamics cloud service and open-source development tools. AppDynamics Cloud is a cloud-native service designed to let enterprises observe applications and take action to remediate performance problems. . [

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2021

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Open source and Linux platform vendor SUSE is looking to help organizations solve some of the complexity and challenges of edge computing with the company’s SUSE Edge 3.1 The other thing we realized is that most of the cloud edge deployments are very complex in their network configuration,” Basil said. “The In SUSE Edge 3.1,

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Our vision is to be the platform of choice for running AI applications, says Puri. The system integrator has the Topaz AI platform, which includes a set of services and solutions to help enterprises build and deploy AI applications. The updated product also has enhanced security features, including LLM guardrails. I have no idea.

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Network World

JULY 22, 2024

Network observability tools provide information on the health and behavior of applications, offer insights into end-user experience, and detect anomalies that are indicative of security incidents.

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Network World

APRIL 17, 2025

Cybercriminals are adopting increasingly stealthy tactics for breaking into networks, while attacks targeting specific AI technologies are an emerging threat. Recently, an active attack campaign targeting a widely used open source AI framework was discovered, affecting education, cryptocurrency, biopharma, and other sectors.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs.

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Network World

MARCH 11, 2025

Observe has bolstered its observability platform with frontend monitoring capabilities that it says will enable developers and IT teams to gain visibility into application performance on end-user browsers and mobile applications. Modern web applications have gotten super complex.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Storage Browser for Amazon S3 This browser is described as an open source UI component to add to web apps, and it is supposed to facilitate data interactions on S3. Managing and using data across applications and AI has to be seamless for the modern enterprise. Basically, a flexible OneDrive/Sharepoint type functionality.”

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A10 Networks is updating its platforms in a bid to help enterprises deal with increasing risks, including those that might come from AI-driven attacks. The improvements to the network security vendor’s technology span multiple products. To date, the technology has been based on the CentOS Linux operating system. Wireshark 4.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 11, 2023

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2024

Open source for the open road The phrase “open source for the open road” is now being used to describe the inevitable fit between the character of Linux and the need for highly customizable code in all sorts of automotive equipment. Why open source? As it turns out, he was right.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The proliferation of open-source AI models more than 1 million are currently listed on the Hugging Face portal is driving innovation particularly at the application end. For CIOs with access to the right resources, building applications internally is now a more realistic proposition.

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Network World

MAY 31, 2018

Open source has taken over the server side of things, but admins are doing a terrible job of keeping the software patched and up to date. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ].

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2021

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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