Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

As IT professionals and business decision-makers, weve routinely used the term digital transformation for well over a decade now to describe a portfolio of enterprise initiatives that somehow magically enable strategic business capabilities. Ultimately, the intent, however, is generally at odds with measurably useful outcomes.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Like enterprises writ large, data centers face major challenges in getting the right people with the right skills into the right roles,” Gina Smith, research director of IT skills for digital business at IDC, told Network World. For instance, according to Forrester, app development is on the decline (after hitting its peak in 2021).

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Stephen Kaufman serves as a chief architect in the Microsoft Customer Success Unit Office of the CTO focusing on AI and cloud computing. This article was made possible by our partnership with the IASA Chief Architect Forum.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

At the same time, they need to expand their cloud and security skill sets to accommodate more complex tools and technologies. The demand for AI skills is projected to persistently grow as these technologies become more central to network engineering and architectural roles.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As organizations globally discover new opportunities created by AI, many are investing significantly in GenAI, including as part of their cloud modernization efforts. The fact that these applications were not born in the cloud makes efforts to update them laborious at best and sometimes impossible.

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Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerged in 2014 as a way to help organizations embrace the cloud and quickly became a hot commodity. Why SD-WAN is still critical to the enterprise SD-WAN connects users, applications, and data across locations within a hybrid environment.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Broadcom on Tuesday released VMware Tanzu Data Services, a new “advanced service” for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), at VMware Explore Barcelona. VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.”

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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 today’s digital age, cybersecurity is no longer an option but a necessity.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x The latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform introduces more than 70 enhancements, ranging from advanced networking capabilities to improved container management tools. RHEL) became generally available on Nov.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s a service that delivers LAN equipment to enterprises and excludes the WAN and any cloud/storage services, Siân Morgan, research director at Dell’Oro Group, told Network World. CNaaS is for the most part a subset of public cloud-managed LAN,” Morgan said. The CNaaS technology tends to use public cloud-managed architectures.”

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. Its enterprise-grade. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added an AI-based tool aimed at helping enterprise customers provision and operatethe vendors Campus Network-as-a-Service deployments. Post-deployment, the app offers insights into network health and performance, enabling swift diagnostics and resolution, Kannan stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. Hybrid multi-cloud : The debate over cloud vs. on-prem has been pretty much settled; and the answer is both.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The built-in elasticity in serverless computing architecture makes it particularly appealing for unpredictable workloads and amplifies developers productivity by letting developers focus on writing code and optimizing application design industry benchmarks , providing additional justification for this hypothesis. Architecture complexity.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Migration to the cloud, data valorization, and development of e-commerce are areas where rubber sole manufacturer Vibram has transformed its business as it opens up to new markets. Much of this growth is driven by investments in AI technologies, and IDC also expects cloud infrastructure spend to increase 26% compared to 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

The public cloud turns 23 this year, and enterprise migration of on-premises workloads isnt just continuing its speeding up. According to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2024 , 63% of enterprise CIOs were accelerating their cloud migrations, up from 57% in 2023. Whats the solution? Modernization.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Aviz Networks provides support and services to enable organizations to adopt the open source SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) network operating system. The company aims to support customers with a 30-minute service level agreement (SLA), ensuring a high level of enterprise-grade support.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We are on the cusp of one of the most significant changes in the x86 architecture and ecosystem in decades – with a new level of customization, compatibility and scalability required to meet current and future customer demands,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in a statement. However, the real threat to Intel and AMD lies on the client side.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Its no secret that more modern approaches to remote access have been usurping VPNs as organizations adapt to the realities of a more distributed workforce, increasingly cloud-based applications, and heightened security threats. Performance is another reason enterprises consider transitioning from VPN to ZTNA.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. billion by 2025.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so. The company said it has identified a need for more intelligent edge networking and computing. That’s where VeloRAIN will come in.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Enterprises are now spending about 35% of their data center CapEx budgets on accelerated servers optimized for AI, up from 15% in 2023, says DellOro analyst Baron Fung. As enterprises get a better sense of AI workload utilization, they may bring the workloads back on premises. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

As the Ocelot architecture is advanced to include more physical qubits, and multiple error-corrected logical qubits that can perform logical computations at the logical qubit level, there is an opportunity for us, even if early, to provide access to customers to this early-stage hardware, Painter said. Its an inflection point, Mueller said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 10, 2024

With more and more businesses moving to the Cloud, FinOps is becoming a vital framework for efficiently controlling Cloud expenses. Given that SaaS accounts for a sizable amount of Cloud expenses for businesses of all kinds, including small and medium-sized firms, this addition is essential.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

With growing concerns over advanced threats, VPN security issues, network complexity, and adversarial AI, enterprises are showing increased interest in a zero trust approach to security and moving away from firewall-and-VPN based architecture. Only 15% do not have a plan to embrace zero trust this year.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

For the rest of the market, including tier two and three cloud service providers and enterprises, 80% of shipments remained at 100 Gpbs. Better connectivity helps enterprises better serve customers, and also improves internal operations. The whole AI thing is driving the 800G upgrade cycle, says Yu.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The next phase of this transformation requires an intelligent data infrastructure that can bring AI closer to enterprise data. The challenges of integrating data with AI workflows When I speak with our customers, the challenges they talk about involve integrating their data and their enterprise AI workflows.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The dual-port JBOF architecture is designed for active-active clustering, ensuring high availability for scale-up storage applications as well as scale-out storage such as object storage and parallel file systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

It’s a position many CIOs find themselves in, as Guan noted that, according to an Accenture survey, fewer than 10% of enterprises have gen AI models in production. “What’s Next for GenAI in Business” panel at last week’s Big.AI@MIT It’s time for them to actually relook at their existing enterprise architecture for data and AI,” Guan said.

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Information Week

MAY 18, 2023

Zero-trust architecture is critical to securing functional operations. The rise of hybrid work environments has widened the attack surface for adversaries.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

As enterprises across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong undergo rapid digitalisation, democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) and evolving cloud strategies are reshaping how they operate. We will also incorporate emerging application ecosystems such asHarmonyOSinto our environment to broaden customer coverage and serviceability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

With AI agents poised to take over significant portions of enterprise workflows, IT leaders will be faced with an increasingly complex challenge: managing them. Analysts say the big three hyperscalers and cloud management vendors are aware of the gap and are working on it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

CIOs often have a love-hate relationship with enterprise architecture. On the one hand, enterprise architects play a key role in selecting platforms, developing technical capabilities, and driving standards.

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