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. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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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. What is SASE?

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. A user can directly terminate into a cloud exchange point and have the same kind of visibility, governance and control in terms of what resources that user can access on the network.”

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0, The latest version of Prisma SASE, version 3.0,

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

The cloud-based Prisma SASE 5G package melds network security functions including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ) with wide area network (WAN) capabilities such as SD-WAN.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

In addition, Hypershield promises to let organizations autonomously segment their networks when threats are a problem, gain exploit protection without having to patch or revamp firewalls, and automatically upgrade software without interrupting computing resources. VAST Data Storage support. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies. See how AI can boost data-center availability and efficiency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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Network World

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Juniper Networks has expanded its security portfolio with an architecture design that includes AI-based predictive threat support and a new family of firewalls, all designed to protect distributed data center resources. It’s implemented in a new version of the vendor’s core Junos operating system (version 23.4)

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

By abstracting the underlay data plane from the management and control plane, SD-WAN enables organizations to send traffic directly from various locations to cloud-based resources without having to first route it through a centralized enterprise data center.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2017

A few years ago, next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) came out of nowhere to become a network security staple. NGFWs followed in the footsteps of earlier firewalls—physical appliances installed inline to protect private networks from the public Internet. Cloud services are spoiling the NGFW party.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIOs deployment profile is currently 70% on premises and about 30% via bare-metal service providers, with a particularly strong following among cloud service providers that host applications for their customers. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2018

Microsegmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Network segmentation isn’t new.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Netskope added regions including data centers in Calgary, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Prague as well as expanded existing NewEdge regions including data centers in Bogota, Jeddah, Osaka, and New York City.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The vendor’s new Secure AI-Native Edge offering and cloud-based Security Assurance service are designed to deliver a cohesive view of network health, performance, and security metrics with a goal of resolving problems quickly and centrally enforcing enterprise security policies. version of Juniper Apstra.

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

Ultimately, today’s hyper-extended enterprises will be much easier to manage when it’s possible to look all the way down the stack, all the way into the infrastructure and to the network, to understand what is happening and leverage that data to predict and prevent outages and other problems, Robbins said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2018

You need a firewall. Recognizing that you need a firewall is the first – and most obvious -- step. The next crucial step in the decision-making process is determining which firewall features and policies best-suit your company’s needs. Then you have to implement and test the firewall once it's installed.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Data Center Data centers are physical facilities that enterprises use to house business-critical applications and information and which are evolving from centralized, on-premises facilities to edge deployments and public-cloud services. Data center automation can be implemented using scripting languages (e.g.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. But the world shiftedapplications moved to the cloud, workers became mobile, and cybercriminals got more creative. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived. Well, not exactly.

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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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Forrester IT

MAY 2, 2022

If you hadn’t thought about web application firewalls (WAFs) in a while, you might think they were an anachronism, a tool of the past that modern application environments don’t bother with. While traditional WAF appliances are still popular in data centers and with legacy applications, the WAF market has evolved with the […].

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Network World

MAY 29, 2024

The Best of Enterprise Networking (BENNY) Awards recognize the most innovative products in enterprise networking and the enterprise data center, including the latest wired and wireless networking technologies, network security products, management tools, storage, servers, and virtualization technologies. Learn more.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

McGillicuddy recently shared findings from EMA’s July 2024 report, Network as a Service: Understanding the Cloud Consumption Model in Networking , and along with several other potential benefits, he said that NaaS can mitigate skills gaps for some enterprise organizations. Cloud networking (AWS. .): cited by 44.0% CapEx): cited by 37.6%

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As modern networking deployments across the cloud and edge become increasingly complex, it can be a non-trivial exercise for teams to get proper visibility. The release focuses on streamlining network operations across cloud, SD-WAN and traditional environments while strengthening security and compliance capabilities.

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Network World

JUNE 19, 2024

An inquiry into HPE’s $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a move that potentially could delay approval of the deal, will have little impact on data center managers, an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group said. Not at all.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Leaders also expect to face adversity in the near future with 60% anticipating a significant cybersecurity failure within the next six months, which reflects the sheer volume of cyber attacks as well as a growing recognition that cloud services are not immune to disruptions and outages.

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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. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025?

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Vaclav Vincalek, CTO and founder at 555vCTO, points to Google’s use of software-defined networking to interconnect its global data centers. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.” He recommends upskilling in cloud management, cybersecurity, and hybrid IT operations.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Zero trust architecture with Zscaler Zero trust is not another point product to add to the perimeter-oriented status quo , with its firewalls, VPNs, castle-and-moat security, and the weaknesses of that methodology. Let’s discuss zero trust, AI, and how Zscaler brings the two together to fantastic effect.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 15, 2022

If you recently integrated cloud technologies into your IT environment, chances are your team spent many months working behind the scenes, diligently setting up the implementation to generate quick gains for the business. Either way, clouds of any flavor from public to on prem to hybrid don’t manage themselves. They have two options.

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Network World

JULY 8, 2024

First era of network security: The stateful firewall In the beginning, networking was created on the principle of trusting everyone and connecting everything as fast as possible. In the mid-1990s, the industry’s response was to create the stateful firewall, designed to control access to private networks.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

If you want to correlate an event across two data centers, the time stamp will let you know when things happened and tell you they are related,” Nevo says. Customer can also use the port speeds of their routers and switches as another data point to estimate the required number of cStor 200S devices.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

The new network detection and response (NDR) solution uses telemetry from HPE Aruba Networking Central’s data lake to train and deploy AI models that can monitor and detect unusual activity in networked IoT devices. In addition, HPE is adding firewall-as-a-service (FWaaS) support to its SSE package.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Next DLP technology specializes in determining insider threat risks and tracking potential stolen internal data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 5, 2025

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. However, companies still on legacy systems like VPNs faced significant roadblocks. What is a Caf-Like Branch?

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 15, 2022

Moreover, Koch itself is in the middle of a digital transformation that adds cloud networking to the mix, further complicating the challenge. Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For as long as organizations have been interested in moving resources to the cloud, they’ve been concerned about security. That interest is only getting stronger as cloud usage grows – making it a perfect topic for the latest #CIOTechTalk Twitter chat. It’s a timely topic given the rapid cloud migration currently underway.

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