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Pure Storage brings storage-as-a-service to files

Network World

Pure Storage is adding features to its storage-as-a-service (STaaS) platform, including Real-time Enterprise File, Universal Credits, and a virtual machine assessment to help admins optimize their VMs. So, the IT organization has to perform like the cloud — and storage is such a critical part of the cloud operating model.

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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

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The package simplifies the design, deployment, management of networking, compute and storage to build full-stack AI wherever enterprise data happens to reside.” Pensando DPUs include intelligent, programmable software to support software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services.

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BENNY Awards 2024: Share your picks for the best enterprise networking products

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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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VergeIO enhances VergeFabric network virtualization offering

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Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase. Crump noted that the threat-detection capabilities in particular will make use of telemetry coming from the hypervisor, network and storage components.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) Hyperconverged infrastructure combines compute, storage and networking in a single system and is used frequently in data centers. Network as a service (NaaS) : NaaS is a cloud-based service that provides network infrastructure, such as routers, switches and firewalls, as a service.

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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK

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Would it be nice for a DC manager to only have to deal with a single vendor for their servers, storage, and DC networking for the planned refresh in Q1 of 2025? “HPE and Juniper have different but complementary product lines in the data center,” said John Annand, Info-Tech’s research director for infrastructure and operations.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

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firewall as a service, secure web gateway, cloud access security broker, and zero trust network access) into a single cloud-delivered service. According to Gartner, there are currently more traditional data-center functions hosted outside the enterprise data center than in it in IaaS providers clouds, in SaaS applications and cloud storage.

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