Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

HPE Aruba this week made its cloud-based network management and orchestration platform available via new deployment options, offering customers virtual private cloud (VPC) and on-premises alternatives. The platform can now be deployed in four distinct options, including a network-as-a-service (NaaS) model.

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APRIL 10, 2025

of its eponymous network automation platform. This latest release represents a significant evolution in the companys approach to network management, with a strong emphasis on AI capabilities that aim to transform how enterprises handle complex network environments. NetBrain this week is launching version 12.1

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Juniper has expanded its access layer options with a new switch family it says will help customers use automation and AI-based support to streamline enterprise operations. There are 10 models of the EX4000, including 8-, 12-, 24-, and 48-port models offering 2 x 1GbE/10GbE small form-factor pluggable plus transceiver (fixed uplink ports).

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). Fun fact: She also said during the podcast that virtually everyone in her family is an engineer. She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO.

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2025

The integration makes use of other previously integrated components.For example, Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for Multicloud automates the process of extending the SD-WAN fabric into Google Cloud Virtual Private Clouds (VPC). That lets customers use existing Cisco SD-WAN security policies and controls in the Google Cloud, Cisco stated.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

Almost every enterprise integrates some form of AI/ML capabilities within their operations or tapping into the Internet of Things (IoT) to keep operations at the edge. The reality is that enterprises not only need to keep pace with new requirements in network and security but also support their modern workloads.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

IBM Cloud is broadening its AI technology services with Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators now available to enterprise customers. With Gaudi 3 accelerators, customers can more cost-effectively test, deploy and scale enterprise AI models and applications, according to IBM, which is said to be the first cloud service provider to adopt Gaudi 3.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Justice Department today sued to block the $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. In its statement, DOJ noted that HPE and Juniper are the second- and third- largest providers, respectively, of enterprise-grade WLAN solutions in the United States. It should be blocked.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The various agencies have each approached the challenge of securing the network edge from a different angle, releasing their reports on Tuesday. Foreign adversaries routinely exploit software vulnerabilities in network edge devices to infiltrate critical infrastructure networks and systems.

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Network World

MAY 5, 2022

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Cisco's Enterprise NFV Infrastructure Software (NFVIS). The worst of the vulnerabilities could let an attacker escape from the guest virtual machine ( VM ) to the host machine, Cisco disclosed. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Startups with campus-focused network-as-a-service (NaaS) offerings are positioned to capture a substantial portion of the greater NaaS market in the coming years, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. Enabler CNaaS is a service designed by a vendor to support MSPs that want to deliver CNaaS to enterprises.

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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. Gain access to Googles global network. Gupta said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“We’re seeing mixed signals with the overall tech labor market, with certain industries, including the tech sector, seeing bumpy hiring,” Forrester principal analyst Fiona Mark told Network World. According to Goldman Sachs , data center demand in the US alone is projected to nearly triple by 2030, driving more than $1 trillion in investment.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Wi-Fi Certified 7 was introduced in January 2024 and is seeing strong momentum, Maureen Gallagher, vice president of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance, told Network World. Theres the consumer story and then there is the enterprise. Looking at the enterprise market puts things in a different perspective. Whats driving Wi-Fi 7 growth?

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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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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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

AI and cybersecurity are driving enterprise tech investments and at the same time exposing the talent gaps that IT teams face. 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

JANUARY 15, 2025

Cisco has rolled out a service that promises to protect enterprise AI development projects with visibility, access control, threat defense, and other safeguards. Model vendors and app builders will implement their own safeguards, but these measures, while necessary, will inevitably be fragmented and insufficient, Patel wrote.

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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

Automation technology has long been a part of ITs arsenal, as enterprises work to simplify increasingly complex networking and operational environments. Looking ahead, the more AI is added to the automation mix, the more enterprise operations teams stand to gain. Theyre struggling with complexity there.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Thats where virtualization comes in. With virtualization, one physical piece of hardware can be abstracted or virtualized to enable more workloads to run. Modern virtualization isnt just about abstracting any one single piece of hardware, but also about abstracting larger clusters in cloud deployments.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

Fortinet has made available a new release of its core FortiOS software that includes features the vendor says will help enterprises more tightly meld security and networking controls. FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS 7.2, FortiOS 7.2,

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Network World

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

New data from research firm Gartner might give IT leaders pause, however, as analysts detail the long, costly, and risky road ahead for enterprise organizations considering a large-scale VMware migration. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

In addition, the homegrown Graviton processor powered more than 250,000 CPUs during Amazon Prime Day, showing its efficiency in handling demand, according to a presentation at the recent AWS: reInvent conference by Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute & networking services.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are both components of the Nutanix Cloud Platform.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

On the infrastructure side, things are changing quickly as well, driven by the explosion of enterprise interest in artificial intelligence and increasing cybersecurity concerns. Having some industry certifications throughout my career, Ive found that theyve been very helpful in helping me craft my trade in network engineering.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

OpenTelemetry, or OTel, addresses a key pain point for network managers who must prevent network outages and maintain high levels of application performance across increasing complex and opaque multi-cloud environments. And, as more network managers become proficient working with OTel, it becomes a standard part of their toolkit.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“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.” That’s where we came up with this vision: people would build private clouds with fully software-defined networks, storage and computing.

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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. billion by 2025.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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Network World

APRIL 19, 2020

It's a network jungle these days with predators relentlessly searching for ways to infiltrate corporate resources. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories. Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has updated its Amazon Connect contact center service to help enterprises offer a better end-to-end customer experience , the company announced at its ongoing annual re:Invent conference. The ability to proactively reach customers is designed to help enterprises address customer issues even before they occur.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

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. What is NaaS?

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