Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. SWAG is implemented in the Extensible Operating System (EOS), Arista’s flagship network operating system that runs across its switch and router portfolio.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

DPU acceleration unlocks a variety of network and security services such as stateful segmentation, large-scale NAT, IPsec encryption, IDS/IPS, event-based telemetry, and DDoS protection, according to Kevin Wollenweber, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos data center and service provider business.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The various agencies have each approached the challenge of securing the network edge from a different angle, releasing their reports on Tuesday. Foreign adversaries routinely exploit software vulnerabilities in network edge devices to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks and systems.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This will enhance organizations’ abilities to customize large language models, use inference performance engineering for infrastructure efficiency, and partner in the open-source ecosystem to enable broader choices for hardware and chip architecture. “AI

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Network World

AUGUST 17, 2020

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“We’re seeing mixed signals with the overall tech labor market, with certain industries, including the tech sector, seeing bumpy hiring,” Forrester principal analyst Fiona Mark told Network World. Skills in architecture are also in high demand, as power-hungry AI systems require rethinking of data center design.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Enter zero trust network access (ZTNA), which provides secure remote connectivity that has quickly become a preferred alternative to VPN. Unlike VPNs, which grant full network access once connected, ZTNA verifies user identity and only provides access to the specific applications and data needed for their role, minimizing the attack surface.

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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.

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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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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results. For businesses running complex AI workloads that require thousands of GPUs working together, this could translate to faster model training, more responsive AI applications, and more efficient use of expensive computing resources.

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JUNE 24, 2021

With ransomware continuing as a high-impact problem (with seemingly no end in sight), we’ve put together some useful ransomware resources for security practitioners. S&R pros can use these resources to help prevent, protect, detect, and respond to ransomware outbreaks.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

HPE said it would add features to its Nvidia co-developed Private Cloud AI package, which integrates Nvidia GPUs, networks, and software with HPEs AI memory, computing and GreenLake cloud support. At Nvidias GTC AI Conference going on this week in San Jose, Calif.,

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2025

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. The Cloud WAN service is designed to simplify those challenges.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

By blending in with legitimate cloud services traffic, APT groups can take advantage of the default use of TLS/SSL encryption enabled to help them evade network security controls. This approach stops encrypted threats from reaching critical applications and systems, providing proactive protection that doesnt rely on shared network access.

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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

MARCH 17, 2025

KubeVirt makes virtual machines behave like native Kubernetes resources, allowing operations teams to apply the same principles, patterns and tools they use for container management to virtual machines. CRDs allow Kubernetes to run different types of resources. How does KubeVirt work? What can you do with KubeVirt?

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

It's a network jungle these days with predators relentlessly searching for ways to infiltrate corporate resources. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories. Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX.

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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

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The key zero trust principle of least-privileged access says a user should be given access only to a specific IT resource the user is authorized to access, at the moment that user needs it, and nothing more. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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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

APRIL 14, 2025

It emulates workload profiles, rather than using actual resources, to pinpoint performance bottlenecks. AI providers, semiconductor fabricators, and network equipment manufacturers can use KAI to accelerate design, development, deployment, and operations by pinpointing performance issues before deploying in production.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

SASE since its inception has typically been deployed in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, delivering network security services from the cloud. Today, Versa Networks is announcing the general availability of its entry into the growing sovereign SASE market. Thats where the concept of sovereign SASE comes in.

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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. Thats why our architecture embeds security at every layer of the AI stack, Patel wrote in a blog post about the news. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

The Uptime Institutes five predictions involve: Public scrutiny and opposition Uptime analysts kicked off their 2025 predictions with the idea that data centers will face intense scrutiny and public opposition due to their growing resource use and environmental impact. Owen Rogers, research director for cloud computing at Uptime.

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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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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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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Kyndryl has expanded its alliance with Palo Alto Networks to add secure access service edge ( SASE ) services to its managed services offerings. Kyndryl has security and networking relationships with other partners as well, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia and Fortinet.)

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

AI is a transformative technology that requires a lot of power, dense computing, and fast networks, says Robert Beveridge, professor and technical manager at Carnegie Mellon Universitys AI Engineering Center. And theyre very resource-intensiveAI is poised to grow power demand. Why pursue certifications?

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) architecture rolls networking and security into a cloud service, making it easier for enterprises to provide simple, secure access to corporate resources, but it’s still in its infancy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At the same time, optimizing nonstorage resource usage, such as maximizing GPU usage, is critical for cost-effective AI operations, because underused resources can result in increased expenses. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture. Performance enhancements.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

It prevents vendor lock-in, gives a lever for strong negotiation, enables business flexibility in strategy execution owing to complicated architecture or regional limitations in terms of security and legal compliance if and when they rise and promotes portability from an application architecture perspective.

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Network World

MAY 28, 2020

Cisco is embracing the secure-access service edge (SASE) architecture put forth by Gartner with plans to upgrade some of its existing products to reach the goal of delivering access control, security and networking to cloud services. Network pros react to new Cisco certification curriculum.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. Consolidated network security infrastructure generated $5.4M in cost savings.

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