VMware firewall takes aim at defending apps in data center, cloud
Network World
MARCH 8, 2019
VMware has taken the wraps off a firewall it says protects enterprise applications and data inside data centers or clouds.
Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.
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Fortinet unveils data center firewalls with AI support
Network World
JULY 18, 2023
Fortinet has released two new high-speed, next generation firewalls designed to protect data center assets.
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Pacnet Opens Data Center Behind Great Firewall of China
Data Center Knowledge
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Partners with government to help establish tech park in Tianjin Wuqing District as major technology hub Read More. Asia-Pacific colocation'
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Fortinet eases firewall management with hardware-as-a-service package
Network World
JULY 9, 2024
Fortinet is unveiling a hardware-as-a-service offering that promises to ease the stress of keeping up with the latest firewall technology. The new FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS) offering lets customers choose the hardware they want the FortiGate next-generation firewalls to run on, and Fortinet will configure and manage the devices.
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CenturyLink Launches Shanghai Data Center, its First in Mainland China
Data Center Knowledge
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Location important for clients who have to stay within the Great Firewall of China Read More. Asia-Pacific CenturyLink Featured Services'
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In A Multi-Cloud World, Web Application Firewalls Still Matter
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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Managing What Matters In the Cloud: The Apps » Data Center.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 17, 2013
The user level elements that are managed within such an IaaS cloud are virtual servers, cloud storage and shared resources such as load balancers and firewalls. Firewall rules. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.
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Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify
Network World
AUGUST 15, 2023
As enterprise networks get more complex, so do the firewall deployments. There are on-premises firewalls to manage, along with firewalls that are deployed in virtual machines and firewalls deployed in containers. A firewall used to be a box or a chasse with multiple cards," says Omdia analyst Fernando Montenegro.
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The best enterprise level firewalls: Rating 10 top products
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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How to install the CSF firewall on Ubuntu Server
Tech Republic Data Center
JANUARY 3, 2022
If you'd like a powerful firewall for your Ubuntu Server, but one that offers a fairly straightforward configuration, Jack Wallen thinks CSF might be the right tool for the job.
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Cosentry Takes Managed Security Services Beyond Firewall
Data Center Knowledge
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Midwest managed services provider beefs up portfolio of offerings following two data center acquisitions this year Read More. Cosentry Security Services'
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Cisco warns a critical patch is needed for a remote access firewall, VPN and router
Network World
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Cisco is warning organizations with remote users that have deployed a particular Cisco wireless firewall, VPN and router to patch a critical vulnerability in each that could let attackers break into the network. How edge networking and IoT will reshape data centers. The vulnerability, which has an impact rating of 9.8
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Cloudflare introduces SD-WAN- and firewall-as-a-service offerings
Tech Republic Data Center
MARCH 22, 2021
In a bid to replace MPLS circuits and SD-WAN appliances, Cloudflare has introduced Magic WAN and Magic Firewall and partnerships with VMware, Aruba, Digital Realty, CoreSite and EdgeConneX.
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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers
GeekWire
JULY 9, 2020
Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. Oracle founder CTO Larry Ellison. Oracle photo).
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Juniper delivers distributed data-center security protection, firewalls
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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Are next-generation firewalls legacy technology?
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. Cisco ACI, CloudPassage, Illumio, Unisys, vArmour, VMware NSX, etc.).
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Arista embraces segmentation as part of its zero-trust security
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. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies.
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How to install the ConfigServer and Security Firewall combo on Ubuntu Server
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 16, 2021
If you'd like a powerful firewall for your Ubuntu Server, but one that offers a fairly straightforward configuration, Jack Wallen thinks CSF might be the right tool for the job.
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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 23, 2013
They manage dedicated firewalls for us, but as far as load balancers we use the cloud. When we need highly detailed control over the firewalls, Latisys provided us with dedicated.”. We had the same conversation about firewalls. Cloud based firewalls aren’t the answer.”. Managed Data Becomes Latisys. White Papers.
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2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Network Firewalls
Tech Republic Data Center
JANUARY 31, 2022
Fortinet ranked #1 in the Enterprise Data Center, Distributed Enterprise, and SMB use cases as of 30 November 2021 The January 2022 Gartner® Critical Capabilities report for Network Firewalls includes network firewall evaluations for various use cases.
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The best enterprise level firewalls: Rating 10 top products
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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90 What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security
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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Enterprises opt for different microsegmentation architectures
Network World
APRIL 19, 2020
Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. 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.
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Fortinet offers integrated cloud app security service
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Utilizing its FortiADC and FortiGSLB offerings, the service lets customers distribute traffic across multiple data centers to ensure high app availability and reliability, Hwang stated. Organizations will have fewer false positives, faster response times, and stronger protection against sophisticated cyberattacks, Hwang stated.
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Nvidia jumps into Zero Trust
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2021
You cannot just rely on the firewall on the outside, you have to assume that any application or any user inside your data center is a bad actor,” said Manuvir Das, head of enterprise computing at Nvidia. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].
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BENNY Awards 2024: Share your picks for the best enterprise networking products
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.
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145 Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 16, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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Networking terms and definitions
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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Juniper extends security platform to streamline threat detection, incident response
Network World
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Secure AI-Native Edge is part of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform , which is aimed at unifying the vendor’s campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine. This means that previous configurations and security standards apply across all platforms and in all locations from edge to data center.
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187 Fountainhead: The End of the Laptop-Centric World?
Fountainhead
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. She shares these folders with her co-workers as well as client contacts within each company (and who are behind each clients firewall) as interactive project-based workspaces. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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Juniper bolsters wireless security; fights against encrypted malicious threats
Network World
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
With the new additions, Juniper is looking to buttress its ability to let users secure all traffic traversing the enterprise network via campus, WAN or data center. To read this article in full, please click here
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Enterprises turn to single-vendor SASE for ease of manageability
Network World
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
"Advanced security inspection services can be applied, firewalls can provide separation, and a demilitarized zone can be implemented," said Michael Fagan, chief transformation officer at Village Roadshow, the largest theme park owner in Australia.
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2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls
Tech Republic Data Center
JANUARY 31, 2022
Fortinet is named a Leader in the Gartner® 2021 Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls and recognized for the 12th time in this Magic Quadrant™ FortiGate Network Firewalls deliver enterprise security to any edge at any scale. The post 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Firewalls appeared first on TechRepublic.
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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage
Network World
JUNE 5, 2024
HyperFabric is an automated, intelligent AI-native solution, designed to bring simplicity and AI to the on-premise enterprise data center,” said Jonathan Davidson, executive vice president and general manager of Cisco Networking. In addition, a new version of firewall software, version 7.6
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Technology News and Hot Topics
CTOvision
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Palo Alto unveils latest release of virtual firewall series. Enterprise security company, Palo Alto Networks has announced the latest release of its virtual firewall series (VM-Series). Pitched as … Read more on Data Center Knowledge. It runs much faster than Hadoop MapReduce runs in-memory, according to Dell.
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China Ramps Up Censorship as it Hosts World Internet Conference
Data Center Knowledge
NOVEMBER 20, 2014
China will take down its firewall in just one city for three days while it hosts the World Internet Conference.
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192 Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card
CTOvision
MAY 9, 2017
Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1
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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK
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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cPacket doubles the speed of its packet capture appliance
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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Fountainhead: What Is Meant by a "Cloud-Ready" Application?
Fountainhead
MARCH 25, 2013
Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. unique network topology (including load balancing, firewalls, etc.). That might mean continuous orchestration between specific apps and networking, storage, firewalls, IaaS, DBs and more. Big Data. (6). Data Center efficiency. (1).
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Can NaaS mitigate network skills gaps?
Network World
JULY 17, 2024
Data center network engineering (EVPN-VXLAN, SDN overlays): 29.2% Many organizations lack people who know how to design network security policies and manage firewalls and other network security devices,” the report reads. Network automation (Python scripting, commercial automation tools: 34.8% Wi-Fi engineering: 11.2%
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Infoblox Unveils Secure DNS Server
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 22, 2015
DNS servers inside the data center have become targets because firewalls don’t inspect DNS queries. Infoblox unveiled an appliance that can detect and block DNS attacks. Read More.
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