Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Virtualization land grab: Broadcoms handling of the VMware acquisition has soured many potential customers and they are looking elsewhere, says Hewitt. I would say that some server OEMs have been moving to support additional server virtualization options since the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 27, 2025

The public cloud turns 23 this year, and enterprise migration of on-premises workloads isnt just continuing its speeding up. According to the Foundry Cloud Computing Study 2024 , 63% of enterprise CIOs were accelerating their cloud migrations, up from 57% in 2023. Which can be true if your efforts end with migration.

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Network World

JUNE 8, 2021

So, just suppose that the cloud did what some radical thinkers say, and “absorbed the network”. Companies are already committed to a virtual form of networking for their WAN services, based on VPN s or SD-WAN , rather than building their own WANs from pipes and routers. Sometimes it helps to play “Just suppose…” and see where it leads.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

2024 gave leaders the opportunity to pause, take a breath and see what kind of investment they need to make for best use scenarios in terms of talent and technology.”

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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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Network World

MAY 18, 2023

The IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a SaaS service that implements a virtualized Layer 3-7 environment to rapidly enable secure connectivity between users, applications, and data distributed across multiple locations and environments, according to Andrew Coward, general manager of IBM’s software defined networking group.

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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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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

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.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

VMware has fixed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its cloud management platform (CMP), VMware Aria, which could allow attackers to steal sensitive credentials from the virtualization giants IT management and logging solutions.

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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 11, 2025

But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. VMware now has several competitors in the virtualization space, with more than 30 server virtualization vendors listed in a recent Gartner market guide.

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Network World

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But Cisco is taking steps to both streamline and bolster its security menu, according to news out of its virtual Partner Summit conference. See related story, Cisco software upgrades to simplify hybrid-cloud management, operations ) To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

Gravitons success could impact Ampere, which makes Arm-based processors for both the enterprise and the cloud. Ampere is challenged in that all the hyperscale cloud providers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are making their own custom chips rather than using a third-party processor.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Through the integration with Azure, it can provide comprehensive visibility into the performance of applications running on Microsoft’s cloud platform. Some of that integration work has already begun.

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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. Wazi as a Service can be used to create z/OS infrastructure instances for development and testing z/OS application components in a virtualized, containerized sandbox.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Moving applications between data center, edge, and cloud environments is no simple task. 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. But not all applications will be ported to a container.

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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. Optionally, customers can deploy virtual appliances for the DNS and DHCP protocol servers for specialized use cases such as local survivability.”

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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. AI and security aren’t just add-on features—they’re built into every layer.

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Network World

OCTOBER 1, 2024

IBM is offering expanded access to Nvidia GPUs on IBM Cloud to help enterprise customers advance their AI implementations, including large language model (LLM) training. IBM Cloud users can now access Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU instances in virtual private cloud and managed Red Hat OpenShift environments.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Additionally, the industry is looking for workers with knowledge of cloud architecture and engineering, data analytics, management, and governance skills. Skills in architecture are also in high demand, as power-hungry AI systems require rethinking of data center design.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations. Collaboration – Enable people and teams to work together in real-time by accessing the same desktop or application from virtually anywhere and avoiding large file downloads.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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 Companies can use Apstra’s automation capabilities to deliver consistent network and security policies for workloads across physical and virtual infrastructures.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2025

As mobile technology has improved and more services have migrated to the cloud, wireless networking technology in the workplace has become even more essential, the DOJ stated. It would gain Junipers cloud-based MIST AI family, which proactively manages wired and wireless networks. The buy is primarily about AI technology for HPE.

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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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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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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

The blueprints require Nvidias AI Enterprise Software, which means it can only be run on cloud services from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle or Nvidia certified data center equipment from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Currently, enterprises primarily use AI for generative video, text, and image applications, as well as enhancing virtual assistance and customer support. Most AI workloads are deployed in private cloud or on-premises environments, driven by data locality and compliance needs.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. And traces provide visibility into application layer performance in distributed cloud environments. OTel aggregates that data into a single, vendor-neutral source of truth.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

IBM uses Hashicorp technology in its cloud offerings already. HashiCorps products include its flagship Terraform package, which lets customers automatically provision infrastructure, network, and virtual components across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments.

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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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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In this archived panel discussion, Ben Cook, Darrius Robinson, Gautam Sharma, and Klaus Haller connect to deliver an in-depth conversation detailing proactive steps to take today to 'Respond to a Cloud Service Outage' during our 'Cyber Resiliency 2023' live virtual event presented by InformationWeek and ITPro Today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 13, 2025

According to the 2024 State of Production Kubernetes report from Spectro Cloud, 85% of organizations have Kubernetes in virtualized data centers, and 75% of organizations are committed to adopting Kubernetes for future infrastructure needs. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is one such solution.

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