Network World

AUGUST 5, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on the use case. So choose carefully!

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) added eight new servers to its ProLiant Gen 12 server portfolio, bringing advanced security and AI-optimization features to enterprise customers. The new version, iLO 7, features an independent processor called secure enclave that handles security functions for the server.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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Network World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When it comes to protecting data-center-based resources in the highly distributed world, traditional security hardware and software components just aren’t going to cut it. To read this article in full, please click here

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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

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

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. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

NextHop AI, founded by former Arista Networks Chief Operating Officer Anshul Sadana, announced this week that it has secured $110 million in funding to develop highly customized networking solutions specifically for the worlds largest cloud providers. So I felt there is a gap in the market.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Businesses who own backup software (and have the resources to support their own backup infrastructure) have complete authority over their backup operations, including where the data is stored, how often backups are performed, and how data is secured. However, managing backup software can be complex and resource intensive.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2018

IBM is widening its mainframe range with some narrower models – ZR1 and Rockhopper II – that are skinny enough to fit in a standard 19-inch rack, which will answer criticisms of potential customers that the hulking z14 introduced in July 2017 too big to fit in their data centers (see photo above). Check out REVIEW: VMware’s vSAN 6.6

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware. He noted that the moment a virtual data center is created, its automatically segmented from others.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

F5 this week said it’s working with Intel to offer customers a way to develop and securely deliver AI-based inference models and workloads. Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

The problem is finding alternatives that provide a commensurate level of performance, reliability, security, management and risk reduction. Of course, most organizations typically have a stubborn group of applications that cant be moved to the cloud for a variety of security, regulatory, compliance or other reasons.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Coined in 2010 by Forrester Research , the term zero trust has long been hijacked by security vendors eager to take advantage of the hype that surrounds the concept. In fact, its widespread misappropriation demonstrates the power of zero trust security. Beyond that, its not just users that need secure access. Special delivery!

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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Association of Information Technology Professional

APRIL 7, 2021

If you enjoy configuring server hardware, implementing security controls and troubleshooting, a data center technician job may be for you.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The ROI of modern security and networking In separate research late last year, Forrester Consulting concluded that the benefits of cloud-based, edge services are significant for infrastructure and operations (I&O), networking, and security. Consolidated network security infrastructure generated $5.4M in cost savings.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Enterprises have been slow to adopt NaaS for a number of reasons, including confusion about exactly what NaaS is, lack of a solid business case, and questions around security, visibility and privacy. It can be used to deliver new network models such as secure access service edge ( SASE ). But thats beginning to change.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

The new features are part of Fortinet’s overarching OT Security Platform, which is designed to protect industrial control systems and infrastructure from cyber threats. Traditionally, OT security has relied on obscurity because everything was air-gapped and nothing was connected to external systems.

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

HPE Aruba Networking Central, the companys core cloud-based management and orchestration platform for wired and wireless networks spanning campus, branch, and data center sites, will now be available for VPC environments and on-premises deployments that can operate while being disconnected from the cloud.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

The first step, he says, is to look at perimeter security. And the third step is to look at the encryption around data backups. This is great for security, since nobody can listen in. Super secure sharing of keys. Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2018

Cisco has added new cloud and virtual deployment options for customers looking to buy into its Tetration Analytics security system. Don’t miss customer reviews of top remote access tools and see the most powerful IoT companies. | Get daily insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]. . |

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. This approach embraces Zero Trust principles to deliver flexibility, simplify operations, and improve security. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived.

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

So what that translated into, from an AI infrastructure perspective, was having the ability to have hardware acceleration that can deliver, in the single-digit millisecond response times, a very high throughput. Today, a lot of AI is offloaded off the mainframe, which is slow, costly and adds security risks. IBM z/OS 3.2

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The new ZTNA capability expands Alkira’s existing security features to enable more granular control for users that are on the network. Taking a network-centric approach to zero trust The new ZTNA offering takes a distinctly network-focused approach to zero trust security, integrating directly with Alkira’s existing cloud networking fabric.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

The networks that enable today’s hyper-distributed enterprises face persistent and emerging security challenges. So now, one of our hot topics is how to detect such fraud – our API security team is all over it right now,” Anderson said. But that’s not a simple task for security practitioners. “The

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco is updating its existing learning materials in the data center and security certification tracks to incorporate the AI-related information that IT professionals need at different levels of expertise. The training focuses on professionals working on a multi-vendor approach to building AI infrastructure.

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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. Some organizations, however, have strict security and regulatory compliance needs that require SASE be deployed and managed under the direct control of an organization.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Enterprise infrastructure that supports data center, cloud and edge networks could someday be dominated by one of its tiniest components--the smartNIC or data processing unit (DPU). Looking ahead, users and vendors see a way to reduce enterprise costs, improve performance and increase security with smartNICs.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Among other capabilities, models can configure, monitor, troubleshoot and secure networks and provide incident management and detailed recommendation and response. Optimize IT service management (ITSM) by handling basic troubleshooting (level 1 and level 2 support) such as password resets or simple hardware glitches.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

Infoblox and Google Cloud announced a partnership that powers new products from each company that they say will help enterprise organizations accelerate their cloud adoption with advanced networking and security capabilities. Reduce on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a cloud-delivered option.

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