Network World

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Zero Trust is a term coined by John Kindervag while he was an analyst at Forrester Research to describe a strategic framework in which nothing on the network is trusted by default – not devices, not end users, not processes. Everything must be authenticated, authorized, verified and continuously monitored.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs is expanding its network management platform this week with a pair of new products designed to tackle the growing challenges of infrastructure documentation and configuration management. Observe the network in the same way for ongoing understanding of the operational state of the network.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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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Information Week

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

A zero trust architecture reduces a network's attack surface and lowers the risk of a data breach. Here are some tips when implementing such an architecture.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

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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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

On February 22nd, a massive service interruption in AT&T cellular services affected subscribers across the nation. Although outage-report volumes were in the hundreds of thousands, that is likely just the tip of the iceberg.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Customers still want choice, and networking vendors claim to offer it. Choice Is A Mirage Well, sort of. But this isn’t my first rodeo. When I see “choice” claims from vendors, I see it as just marketing’s way of saying that it’s a messy product portfolio. I’m not innocent. When I worked at Cisco and […]

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Forrester IT

MAY 16, 2024

As Zero Trust mandates begin to creep into the private sector, organizations are tasked with the seemingly impossible: observe and inspect all network traffic regardless of direction (N/S/E/W), encryption, or location within the enterprise. I can see clearly now the noise is gone!

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I’ll be covering topics like Network Analysis & Visibility (NAV), Zero Trust Architecture, and the Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) ecosystem. Hello everyone! This January, I joined Forrester as an analyst on the Security and Risk team.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

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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Network World

JANUARY 12, 2023

Despite the challenges posed by economic turmoil, epidemics, and political upheaval, network researchers are continuing to blaze new trails in innovation, performance, management, and security. In sum, 2023 is shaping up as a year of network evolution and transformation. Unified SASE: Addresses hybrid workforce, hybrid clouds.

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Network World

MAY 23, 2024

Gaining firm control over a multicloud network environment can deliver performance, efficiency, and security gains – but it won’t be easy. Managing a multicloud network is a highly demanding task, says Robert Orshaw, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Graphiant is expanding its network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform today with new data assurance capabilities in a bid to help organizations meet the challenges of data sovereignty and regulatory compliance. That assurance is all about providing visibility into network traffic and routing.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Arista Networks is expecting a potential revenue spike of $1.5 billion from AI-based networking growth through 2025. Arista has between 10 and 15 classic enterprise accounts that are trialing AI networks, but they have a very low number of GPUs involved in the pilots, Ullal said. 30, an increase of 7.1%

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

The networks that enable today’s hyper-distributed enterprises face persistent and emerging security challenges. We need to take security, melting [it] into the fabric of the network, so that we have distributed enforcement points. One of those challenges is ransomware. What do we need to do in order to contain lateral movement?

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

Nearly 74% of IT organizations are at least somewhat likely to replace a network management tool over the next two years, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). “I Tools aren’t as “sticky“ as they once were For a variety of reasons, network management tools have historically been sticky in IT organizations.

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Network World

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. Instead of preserving packets order, SRD sends the packets over as many network paths as possible, while avoiding overloaded paths. The new network, UltraCluster 2.0,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. So what exactly is AI networking, how does it work and what are its top use cases?

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 14, 2020

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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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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Network World

JUNE 20, 2024

CompTIA today introduced an updated edition of its Network+ professional certification, which the nonprofit organization says will enable network practitioners to understand and apply both networking and security concepts to configure and harden networks. Separately, CompTIA research found that employers listed some 1.1

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) set its sights on world of AI networking this week. As AI usage grows, the core foundation that enables current and future potential is the power of the network. That’s a message that was echoed time and again during the ONUG AI Networking Summit , held in New York (and webcast).

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. The latest addition is the company’s network AI assistant, which aims to assist with operations and management.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A network troubleshooting tool based on path visualization is among the upgrades to the latest version of Auvik’s network management platform. The IT solutions vendor was founded around 13 years ago with a mission to address gaps in the managed service provider (MSP) space, particularly around network management.

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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.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For network engineers and security leaders tasked with securing modern enterprise environments, the challenge of preventing lateral threat movement is critical. The emergence of IoT and OT devices, which are frequently deployed in factory and branch networks, has further complicated the issue.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The defining functions of a SASE platform are to provide security and network access. Netskope today announced updates to its SASE platform, Netskope One, that focus on improving network visibility, user experience management, and security capabilities. Without a good user experience, you’re going to have a challenge,” he said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The architecture aims to optimize deployment speed, performance, resiliency, cost, energy efficiency and scalability for current- and future-generation data centers. New data centers are built for accelerated computing and generative AI with architectures that are significantly more complex than those for general-purpose computing.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Public cloud migration long ago wrested control over digital infrastructure from network and security teams, but now is the time for those groups to retake the initiative. In fact, my research has found that security risk, collaboration problems, and complexity are the top pain points associated with multi-cloud networking today.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. Sharma added that hyperscale architecture is typically based on Layer-3 features and BGP. This feature enables long-range, high-speed connections crucial for distributed data center architectures.

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Forrester IT

MAY 10, 2021

While automated malware analysis and network intrusion detection systems remained in our Divest category, three more technologies joined them this year: data loss prevention, managed security service providers, and security user behavior analytics. Why is this? Because these stand-alone technologies simply don’t cut it anymore.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The application awareness package is part of Google’s Cross-Cloud Interconnect service which offers secure, dedicated high-speed connections between the Google Cloud network and customer networks hosted in other clouds—such as, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, or Alibaba.

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