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Are Your Firewalls and VPNs the Weakest Link in Your Security Stack?

Network World

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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AI, automation spur efforts to upskill network pros

Network World

The demand for AI skills is projected to persistently grow as these technologies become more central to network engineering and architectural roles. A deep understanding of cloud platforms and services is essential, and this includes knowledge of cloud architecture, deployment models, and management tools.

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How to prioritize AI initiatives: A strategic framework for maximizing ROI

CIO Business Intelligence

Business goals: Reduce lead times by 20 percent, increase on-time delivery to 98 percent and reduce transportation costs by 10 percent. In this case, it includes lead times, on-time delivery, transportation costs, inventory turnover and order cycle time. Measurement framework: This is a set of metrics used to track progress.

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Navigating the cloud maze: A 5-phase approach to optimizing cloud strategies

CIO Business Intelligence

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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What is S/4HANA? SAP’s latest ERP system explained

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. The entire architecture of S/4HANA is tightly integrated and coordinated from a software perspective. In 2010, SAP introduced the HANA database.

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Cisco bolsters optical network software

Network World

Routed Optical Networking offers an architecture that unifies the wave division multiplexing (WDM), optical transport network (OTN), and packet transport layers into a single layer that’s easier to control – just as Ethernet VPN and segment routing simplify the service and traffic engineering network layers, according to Cisco.

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Eliminating Lateral Threat Movement INSIDE factory, branch, and campus networks

Network World

The transportation and food & beverage sectors also remained prime targets due to their extensive reliance on IoT devices, which are often vulnerable to cyberattacks. Our unique agentless architecture protects headless machines. Zscaler shrinks the attack surface by segmenting every IP endpoint into a network of “1”.

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