Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center. 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. Above all, we protect our databases," he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

Although organizations have embraced microservices-based applications, IT leaders continue to grapple with the need to unify and gain efficiencies in their infrastructure and operations across both traditional and modern application architectures.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A project to migrate from VMwares server virtualization platform could require between seven and 10 full-time equivalents for one month and up to six FTEs for nine months, the firm estimates in its report, Quick Answer: Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migration.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

One way to protect them is by accessing them via a virtual private network (VPN), while another is by restricting access to only internal IP addresses. Fundamentally, the research note added, these architectures lead to header smuggling and path confusion, which can result in many impactful bugs.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The post Microservices Architectures and Magic Clouds: Evolving Cloud-native Java Virtual Machines appeared first on. Advances in cloud-native JVMs now make running Java in Kubernetes easier and faster than ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. They place the workload in a virtual box that contains the entire stack required to run it, and it’s portable from one environment to another.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

It has libraries, APIs, and a set of tools that allow developers to build high-performance applications for data centers supporting network virtualization, storage offload, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. They inspect network traffic and safeguard host integrity without disrupting operations.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Uptime Institute Certified Data Center Technician Professional ( CDCTP ) Focus: Optimizing the operational capability and productivity of the data center Key topics: Compliance, safety, maintenance, power, and cooling Format: Five-day instructor-led training program delivered in person or remotely in a virtual environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Enterprise architecture definition Enterprise architecture (EA) is the practice of analyzing, designing, planning, and implementing enterprise analysis to successfully execute on business strategies. Making it easier to evaluate existing architecture against long-term goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 24, 2024

The product — a building or bridge — might be physical but it can be represented digitally, through virtual design and construction, she says, with elements of automation that can optimize and streamline entire business processes for how physical products are delivered to clients. “But We need our architecture to help deliver on that intent.”

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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 latest stage — the intelligent edge — is on the brink of rapid adoption. This seems to be where Broadcom is has trained its focus.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Jointly designed by IBM Research and IBM Infrastructure, Spyre’s architecture is designed for more efficient AI computation. The Spyre Accelerator will contain 1TB of memory and 32 AI accelerator cores that will share a similar architecture to the AI accelerator integrated into the Telum II chip, according to IBM.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. To read this article in full, please click here

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

This includes demonstrating networking, virtualization, container, storage, cloud, data protection, and host knowledge to operate industry-recognized storage technology and solutions. It also demonstrates the ability to design HPE Backup Solutions including the right backup, recovery, and archive (BURA) strategies for customer scenarios.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Modern applications, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and architectures that incorporate IoT and hybrid cloud have yet to reach their true potential because network capacity seems to always lag behind demand.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

We may look back at 2024 as the year when LLMs became mainstream, every enterprise SaaS added copilot or virtual assistant capabilities, and many organizations got their first taste of agentic AI. Before gen AI, speed to market drove many application architecture decisions. Should CIOs bring AI to the data or bring data to the AI?

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The 70G, 50G and 30G expand or replace the current line of branch products (the Fortinet 40F/60F/80F series) and support FortiOS, the vendors operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is impacting everything from writing requirements, acceptance definition, design and architecture, development, releasing, and securing,” Malagodi says. Andrea Malagodi, CIO at Sonar, predicts the current software development lifecycle will remain much the same, but the way it’s executed will soon change dramatically. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI. And its modular architecture distributes tasks across multiple agents in parallel, increasing the speed and scalability of migrations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

Open architecture platform: Building on EXLs deep data management and domain-specific knowledge, EXLerate.AI offers an open architecture platform, ensuring clients have flexibility. Learn how agentic AI can help your enterprise reach its goals at the upcoming virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The CNaaS technology tends to use public cloud-managed architectures.” 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.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

It is high time for Forrester to demonstrate Zero Trust in a practical application scenario, our upcoming virtual reference architecture project aims to do just that.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

That control eliminates the need to backhaul traffic or leverage virtual POPs that add latency and negatively affect the digital experience, Netskope said in a statement. Netskope has direct control over its infrastructure, with full compute at the edge and all SSE services available in every region (including Mainland China).

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

To answer this, we need to look at the major shifts reshaping the workplace and the network architectures that support it. The Foundation of the Caf-Like Branch: Zero-Trust Architecture At the heart of the caf-like branch is a technological evolution thats been years in the makingzero-trust security architecture.

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2024

Next year, we’ll see Blackwell Ultra with its performance boost for AI architecture. Come 2026, we’ll see the Rubin architecture. This new architecture is named after Vera Rubin , an astronomer. The current generation on the market is Hopper, and the next generation, due at the end of this year, is Blackwell.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

At a high level, NaaS requires a scalable cloud-native architecture thats flexible, incorporates a high degree of automation, and makes great use of AI and machine learning (ML) to facilitate self-healing, streamline management, and boost observability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Theyve lived there since COVID legitimized the virtual workforce. That is, analogies notwithstanding, is your IT architecture , at all layers, as simple as it can be? If the CEO was willing to make the investment, how much staff, money, and time would you need to fix the worst failings in your IT architecture?

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

IBM Cloud users can now access Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU instances in virtual private cloud and managed Red Hat OpenShift environments. Nvidia Blackwell GPU hit with delays : Shipments of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell architecture could be delayed for three months or more, according to published reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

From the standpoint of the cloud, a containerized or virtualized application is usually still a monolith, said Matt Leising, managing director of engineering at Solution Design Group (SDG). Whats the solution? Modernization. You need to break that application down into its parts, because some parts are utilized more than others.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

with several strategic improvements to the platform’s security architecture. These technologies encrypt virtual machine memory to obscure its contents from the system hypervisor,” McBrien said. Podman is Red Hat’s container platform that provides a competitive alternative to the Docker container technology.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure. In the VM space, Microsoft shared plans to release Azure VMs that can run on Cobalt 100 processors currently in preview.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

After successfully removing the root cause of the attack, the ability to restore hundreds, or even thousands, of virtual machines quickly is essential. Modern security architectures deliver multiple layers of protection. Regarding encryption, IT should employ TLS for data in transit and AES-256 encryption for data at rest.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Pull-based architecture, which puts less burden on the management plane, allowing it to achieve a much higher scale. Single-node updates, which support virtual machine and container workloads and also include single-node Kubernetes, making it feasible to scale to thousands of locations.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Versas sovereign SASE works For some types of private SaaS offerings, vendors will simply provide organizations the ability to deploy and run from inside of a VPC (virtual private cloud) and call that a private deployment. The Versa Networks sovereign SASE approach is more than just enabling deployment in a VPC.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2018

The terms software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) are often used interchangeably, which is incorrect. In a sense, the two are tied together as companies start using NFV as part of their SDN plans but that doesn’t have to be the case.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

But even the IT environments of companies in less complex industries often now resemble a conglomeration of local data centers, virtual machines, mobile devices and cloud services. Workloads running on virtual Windows machines can be processed faster with it. All this information has to be brought together from different clouds.

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