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Backup Software vs. Backup as a Service (BaaS): The Key Differences

Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But with a wide variety of software, tools, and services to choose from, how do you know which is right for you? While traditional backup software is well-proven, Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions are rapidly becoming the cross-industry standard. What is Backup Software?

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In the first half of this year, 38% of organizations had at least one cloud workload that was critically vulnerable, highly privileged, and publicly exposed, according to a study of telemetry from customers of cloud security vendor Tenable released this week. The cloud is a tool like any other; how you use it is what matters,” he said.

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Developers unimpressed by the early returns of generative AI for coding take note: Software development is headed toward a new era, when most code will be written by AI agents and reviewed by experienced developers, Gartner predicts. That’s what we call an AI software engineering agent. This technology already exists.”

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Cloud creates network blind spots, complicates problem resolution

Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As network environments become more complex, network teams struggle to gain visibility across internet and cloud components, citing blind spots and a lack of skilled workers as contributing factors to slow problem resolution, according to a Broadcom report.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

These switches are specifically designed for AI workloads in accelerated computing platforms deployed at cloud scale. Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure.

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Fortinet extends AI support to network threat detection, cloud workflow

Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Now, Fortinet has added FortiAI support to its FortiNetwork Detection and Response (FortiNDR) Cloud package. FortiNDR Cloud is designed to enable threat hunters to easily view detections and observations that correlate to their queries. Lacework helps customers manage and secure cloud workflows.

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UK regulator may investigate AWS and Microsoft cloud businesses

Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

AWS and Microsoft could potentially face an investigation of their cloud businesses in Britain should the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follow the recommendation of an independent inquiry group that reports into the UKs antitrust regulator. In its report, the inquiry group concluded that competition in the 9 billion (US$11.2

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Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

4-7 with a new portfolio of solutions and an emphasis on its flagship private cloud platform, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). When I joined VMware, we only had a hypervisor – referring to a single software [instance] that can be used to run multiple virtual machines on a physical one – we didn’t have storage or networking.”

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Red Hat unveils Kubernetes connectivity solution to tame multi-cloud chaos

Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. Red Hat Connectivity Link is not a mesh, Ferreira emphasized.

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CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs?

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AWS tries to lure users to its cloud via storage ease of use

Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

With the incremental differences in the major enterprise cloud environments today, that may be enough. He said that the new services are, not unexpectedly, trying to get enterprises to align with AWS services, which should make it more difficult to later move to a competing cloud platform. “Is

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Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls

Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Why Stratoshark matters for cloud operations There are many different ways to get visibility into the cloud today.

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8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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FTC opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s cloud, AI, and cybersecurity practices

Network World

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, scrutinizing its cloud computing, software licensing, cybersecurity, and AI businesses. The inquiry follows over a year of informal interviews with competitors and business partners, Bloomberg reported.

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FinOps breaks out of the cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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F5 targets AI application security with renewed workload management software

Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F5 is evolving its core application and load balancing software to help customers secure and manage AI-powered and multicloud workloads. It ensures traffic management and communication between on-premises systems, cloud-based AI models, edge devices, andAPIs.

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Microsoft’s Veeam partnership signals data resiliency market shift

Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Also, as part of the partnership, Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services and machine learning (ML) capabilities into its data resilience platform, Veeam Data Cloud. It combines software, infrastructure, and storage into an all-in-one cloud service. This allows organizations to bring down costs and simplify data management.

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How employers can inspire software developers

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

Software developers are in demand. They must be developer-friendly because software development is not a traditional 9-to-5 job. Anyone who has a good idea for a new function in the software, who thinks they have discovered a profitable gap in the market or who wants to test a new algorithm can simply do so.

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FinOps automation: Raising the bar on lowering cloud costs

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 23, 2025

IT professionals have been striving to manage cloud costs effectively since the inception of cloud computing. Those efforts have evolved into FinOps , a business discipline and a set of best practices to optimize cloud spending. See also: Will FinOps help reduce cloud waste in organizations?

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The Power Of Open Source: Cloud-Native Is Transforming As AI Takes The Limelight

Forrester IT

MARCH 13, 2025

Three years ago, Lee Sustar and I published the report, Navigate The Cloud-Native Ecosystem In 2022.

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Cloud-Native Software: What it Is, How We Got Here, and Why it Matters

Information Week

MAY 6, 2024

To realize the benefits of cloud-native software, an application must actually be cloud-native—designed to run in the cloud, interacting with disaggregated cloud services, fully manageable as code—to deliver the expected benefits.

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Juniper adds AI cloud services to its Apstra data center software

Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0 version of the Apstra software.

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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. Hypervisors, or virtual machine monitors, are the virtualization software used to create and run virtual machines.

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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The previous version, X10M, was released in June 2023, just as demand for generative AI was taking off, and some of the changes in the latest version address the needs of that market.

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10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The software and services an organization chooses to fuel the enterprise can make or break its overall success. 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.

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StarlingX bridges IPv4-IPv6 gap with dual-stack networking support

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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Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Outdated software applications are creating roadblocks to AI adoption at many organizations, with limited data retention capabilities a central culprit, IT experts say. Moreover, the cost of maintaining outdated software, with a shrinking number of software engineers familiar with the apps, can be expensive, he says.

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Gartner: GenAI spurs 9.3% increase in IT spending for 2025

Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

GenAI will easily eclipse the effects that cloud and outsourcing vendors had on previous years regarding data center systems,” said John-David Lovelock, Distinguished VP Analyst at Gartner, in a statement. “It It took 20 years for the cloud and outsourcing vendors to build up spending to $67 billion a year on servers. “It Devices: 9.5%

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Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A high hurdle many enterprises have yet to overcome is accessing mainframe data via the cloud. In order to make the most of critical mainframe data, organizations must build a link between mainframe data and hybrid cloud infrastructure. Four key challenges prevent them from doing so: 1.

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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

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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Cisco offers AI application visibility, access control, threat defense

Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups. AI Defense will be available in March.

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Microsoft AI investments cause cloud operating income growth to plunge

Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. But that is the lowest percentage increase in quite some time; in the same quarter of 2024, intelligent cloud operating income grew by $3.6 billion, a 14% boost. billion, a whopping 40%.

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HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud for AI

Network World

JUNE 19, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has introduced a portfolio of AI products and services jointly developed with Nvidia that it hopes will help enterprises realize the productivity benefits of generative AI easily and quickly — ideally by using its products on-premises or in hybrid clouds.

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VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. Despite the interest in private, the cloud migration is still a hot topic. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov.

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Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Network World

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) emerged in 2014 as a way to help organizations embrace the cloud and quickly became a hot commodity. In fact, Gartner predicts by 2027, 65% of new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) purchases will be part of a single-vendor SASE offering, an increase from 20% in 2024.

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Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating

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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Nile dials-up AI to simplify network provisioning, operation

Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

For management, Nile AI software automates installation and other steady-state controls and includes management and observability capabilities that are tailored for customer installations. The app verifies each devices status and ensures the necessary software versions are running before provisioning and activation.

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5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

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

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The traditional reliance on firewalls and VPNs for cybersecurity is proving inadequate in the face of mounting cyberthreats and changes to network designs due to the cloud. For those striving to fit existing infrastructure into a modern cloud-first stance, adopting a Zero Trust framework is crucial.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

MAY 24, 2024

Research by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has uncovered concerns that cloud users’ established commitments with hyperscalers may limit their future cloud computing options. Private clouds and software-as-a-service offerings were considered out of scope.

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Global public cloud spending to hit $805B in 2024 with AI driving growth

Network World

JULY 31, 2024

Worldwide spending on public cloud services is poised to double between 2024 and 2028, reaching a staggering $805 billion this year, according to a new report from IDC. This rapid growth is fueled by the increasing adoption of cloud technology across industries and the accelerating pace of AI innovation, the report added.

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NetBox Labs launches tools to combat network configuration drift

Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs provides commercially supported services for NetBox including cloud and enterprise offerings. NetBox Discovery agents connect with a zero-trust architecture up to a control plane for orchestration that can be in the cloud, or self-hosted, enabling this architecture without needing to reconfigure firewalls or similar.”

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Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Broadcom on Tuesday released VMware Tanzu Data Services, a new “advanced service” for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), at VMware Explore Barcelona. VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” I would have to say yes.”

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

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AI-native software engineering may be closer than developers think

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Cloud creates network blind spots, complicates problem resolution

TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Fortinet extends AI support to network threat detection, cloud workflow

UK regulator may investigate AWS and Microsoft cloud businesses

Broadcom EMEA CTO: ‘When it comes to building private clouds, we are first’

Red Hat unveils Kubernetes connectivity solution to tame multi-cloud chaos

CIOs are rethinking how they use public cloud services. Here’s why.

AWS tries to lure users to its cloud via storage ease of use

Stratoshark brings Wireshark-style analysis to cloud system calls

8 reasons your cloud costs are too high

FTC opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft’s cloud, AI, and cybersecurity practices

FinOps breaks out of the cloud

F5 targets AI application security with renewed workload management software

Microsoft’s Veeam partnership signals data resiliency market shift

How employers can inspire software developers

FinOps automation: Raising the bar on lowering cloud costs

The Power Of Open Source: Cloud-Native Is Transforming As AI Takes The Limelight

Cloud-Native Software: What it Is, How We Got Here, and Why it Matters

Juniper adds AI cloud services to its Apstra data center software

VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

10 most in-demand enterprise IT skills

StarlingX bridges IPv4-IPv6 gap with dual-stack networking support

Outdated business apps can cloud your AI vision

Gartner: GenAI spurs 9.3% increase in IT spending for 2025

Bridging the gap between mainframe data and hybrid cloud environments

Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points

Cisco offers AI application visibility, access control, threat defense

Microsoft AI investments cause cloud operating income growth to plunge

HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud for AI

VMware Explore 2024: Latest news and insights

Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating

Nile dials-up AI to simplify network provisioning, operation

5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die

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

Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Global public cloud spending to hit $805B in 2024 with AI driving growth

NetBox Labs launches tools to combat network configuration drift

Broadcom launches VMware Tanzu Data Services

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