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VMware ESXi gets critical patches for in-the-wild virtual machine escape attack

Network World

VMware products, especially the ESXi enterprise hypervisor, are high-value targets and have been repeatedly attacked by cybercriminal and cyberespionage groups over the years. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted.

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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

Both PFC and ECN are core tenants of the technology that industry group Ultra Ethernet Consortium is developing to enrich the venerable networking technology for AI infrastructure duties. This is accomplished with a common operating system, P4 programmable forwarding code, and an SDK.

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Arista adds intelligent switch stacking, management for campus networks

Network World

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. SWAG is implemented in the Extensible Operating System (EOS), Arista’s flagship network operating system that runs across its switch and router portfolio.

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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application. However, it is possible to run the database and application on an open source operating system and commodity hardware.

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Linux in your car: Red Hat’s milestone collaboration with exida

Network World

glibc) – a fundamental component of the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System – has achieved ISO 26262 ASIL-B certification from exida, a global leader in functional safety and cybersecurity certification. ISO 26262 is the international standard for functional safety of electrical and/or electronic systems in road vehicles.

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Cisco firewall upgrade boosts visibility into encrypted traffic

Network World

version of the Secure Firewall operating system. The 4200 Series’ operating system also helps improve overall firewall performance – it’s twice as fast as previous high-end Cisco firewalls, the company says. The enhanced Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine (EVE) is part of the 7.4

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Arista embraces segmentation as part of its zero-trust security

Network World

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. See how AI can boost data-center availability and efficiency.

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