Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Zscaler ThreatLabz 2024 Encrypted Attacks Report examines this evolving threat landscape, based on a comprehensive analysis of billions of threats delivered over HTTPS and blocked by the Zscaler cloud. One notable trend explored in detail by ThreatLabz is the growing abuse of cloud services by advanced persistent threat (APT) groups.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software. AI and security aren’t just add-on features—they’re built into every layer.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0,

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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. Sovereign SASE allows enterprises and service providers to deploy a SASE platform within their own on-premises or private cloud environments, rather than relying on a shared cloud-based service.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2024

The cloud market continues to grow at an accelerated rate, defying the economic pressures that are stifling the rest of the industry. Spending on cloud services is in turn driving massive investment in equipment , which is good for the IT vendors because the on-premises data center market is largely flat.

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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.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. BlueField-3 accelerates networking traffic through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over converged Ethernet), GPU direct storage and GPU initiated storage.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Drawing on ghosts of hardware passed, Werner Vogels delivered a keynote at re:Invent about moving fast in the cloud with consideration for cost.

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Network World

JULY 27, 2021

IBM continues to fine-tune its mainframe to keep it attractive to enterprise users interested in keeping the Big Iron in their cloud and AI-application development plans. Chip shortage will hit hardware buyers for months to years. The company released a new version of the mainframe operating system— z/OS V2.5

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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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Forrester IT

AUGUST 14, 2023

Subscription-based hardware is the emerging model that every hardware vendor is promising to customers, partners, and investors. It’s a significant shift from the classic capex model in which firms spend money for outright hardware purchases. where subscription-based […]

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Network World

JUNE 30, 2022

IBM has introduced a service for its mainframe customers to create a cloud environment for developing and testing applications. The instances would run on Red Hat OpenShift on x86 hardware. The service also includes access to z/OS systems and integrates with modern source-code management platforms such as GitHub and GitLab. [

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Separately, Dell announced it will offer support for Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs by the end of the year, including the H200 SXM cloud GPUs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. You either move the data to the [AI] model that typically runs in cloud today, or you move the models to the machine where the data runs,” she adds. “I I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Public cloud providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Cloud, along with several AI startups, also adopted MI300X instances. Major clients like Microsoft and Meta too expanded their use of MI300X GPUs , with Microsoft using them for Copilot services and Meta deploying them for Llama models.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

L3AF is an open-source project aimed at simplifying monitoring and control networks of large-scale cloud applications, Ranny Haiby, CTO of networking, edge and access at the Linux Foundation, told Network World.Some of the main use cases for L3AF are in traffic rate limiting, DDoS mitigation, traffic quality monitoring and network observability.

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Network World

AUGUST 22, 2024

Google Cloud has updated its managed compute service Cloud Run with a new feature that will allow enterprises to run their real-time AI inferencing applications serving large language models (LLMs) on Nvidia L4 GPUs. But are there caveats? This is significant for enterprises as it has a direct relation and effect with latency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

And part of that success comes from investing in talented IT pros who have the skills necessary to work with your organizations preferred technology platforms, from the database to the cloud. AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most widely used cloud platform today.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Citi is using Amazon Braket, a cloud-based service, to see how well quantum computers could handle portfolio optimization tasks. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Full cloud deployment is also possible per customer request. The pace of innovation continues to accelerate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Many CIOs expect significant price increases in the cloud and other IT products and services during 2025, requiring those with stagnant budgets to make difficult decisions about IT spending. Faiz Khan, founder and CEO of multicloud services provider Wanclouds, agrees that cloud prices are likely to go up this year.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor. In addition, all storage is pooled.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. So, Cappuccio wasnt totally wrong; cloud is growing fast, but on-prem isnt declining as precipitously as anticipated.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Infoblox is rolling out a unified management platform to allow customers to see, control and secure IT resources spread across their hybrid multi-cloud enterprises. Another issue is that multi-cloud setups make it difficult to allocate IP addresses effectively across environments.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

On the demand side for data centers, large hyperscale cloud providers and other corporations are building increasingly bigger large language models (LLMs) that must be trained on massive compute clusters.

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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. Hardware-based link-failure recovery also helps ensure the network operates at peak efficiency, according to Cisco.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In addition to making sure customer networks, software and services are working as advertised, a key part of CX is to grow customer retention and bolster hardware and software sales. Last year, Cisco and Mistral AI said they would collaborate to offer AI agents through Ciscos Motific platform.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

While its still possible to run applications on bare metal, that approach doesnt fully optimize hardware utilization. With virtualization, one physical piece of hardware can be abstracted or virtualized to enable more workloads to run. Migrate legacy applications to a cloud-native environment without immediate containerization.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example they support a managed private 5G package that uses Intel hardware to integrate private 5G into their preexisting LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructures. Cisco and NTT have partnered in the past to bring private 5G services to market.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

It ensures traffic management and communication between on-premises systems, cloud-based AI models, edge devices, andAPIs. In addition to the software, F5 has expanded its Velos hardware family by adding a CX1610 chassis and BX520 blade.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2024

Private cloud providers may be among the key beneficiaries of today’s generative AI gold rush as, once seemingly passé in favor of public cloud, CIOs are giving private clouds — either on-premises or hosted by a partner — a second look. The excitement and related fears surrounding AI only reinforces the need for private clouds.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. And not all enterprises want to run all their AI workloads in public clouds. Thats because enterprises have been lagging behind on adopting on-premises infrastructure, the research firm says.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 Given that AWS did not break down the investment in terms of employees, contractors, hardware, software, and other items, it’s impossible to know what this investment will specifically buy.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The super dense 1U system is ideal for cloud service providers (CSPs), telcos and fintech operations, enabling them to manage real-time transactions requiring low latency and high throughout performance with limited floor space.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

A year ago, VMware’s big annual VMware Explore conference was all about generative AI – specifically, about companies running AI applications within a hybrid cloud infrastructure. This year, attendees heard more about VMware’s partnership with Nvidia to deliver generative AI models and tools – but in the context of a private cloud.

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