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. Unlike conventional offerings that rely on intrusive methods or software agents, BlueField-3 DPUs function as a virtual security overlay.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A project to migrate from VMwares server virtualization platform could require between seven and 10 full-time equivalents for one month and up to six FTEs for nine months, the firm estimates in its report, Quick Answer: Estimating a Large-Scale VMware Migration.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

The ALE Private 5G service includes technology from across ALEs platforms, including ruggedized OmniSwitch hardware, OmniSwitch LAN, and OmniAccess Stellar WLAN software for local and wide area connectivity. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks.

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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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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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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Focus: Server hardware and software fundamentals Key topics: Hardware installation, server administration, security, disaster recovery Format: 90 questions, 90 minutes Cost: $369 Prerequisites: None required, but two years of hands-on experience in a server environment is recommended, as well as the CompTIA A+ certification or equivalent knowledge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

But because the popular virtualization platform can be too expensive and pervasive to replace even if they may want to, they may find themselves with a mainframe-type of dilemma. VMware now has several competitors in the virtualization space, with more than 30 server virtualization vendors listed in a recent Gartner market guide.

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Network World

APRIL 3, 2025

Given the vast amount of uncertainty, enterprise IT leaders wrestling with data center plans have some difficult decisions to make, mostly because they will have to guess where the tariff wars will be many months or years in the future, a virtually impossible task.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

She noted that PCs, tablets and access points will be the earliest adopters of Wi-Fi 7, while customer premises equipment (CPE) and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) equipment will continue to gain early market traction. Wi-Fi access point hardware typically undergoes refresh cycles spanning five to seven years, Venkiteswaran said.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It is targeted at engineering, modeling & simulation and AI with the promise of up to 50% cost savings over previous generation hardware for GPU-intensive workloads. The platform supports up to four double-wide GPUs with front GPU access.

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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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IT Toolbox

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In network function virtualization, network functions powered by hardware are replaced with software. The post What Is Network Function Virtualization (NFV)? Meaning, Working, and Importance appeared first on.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS. Managed service: Subscription-based hardware plus a managed service to operate it.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

While some vendors in this space offer hardware devices to connect at-home employees and corporate data centers to their SASE networks, most vendors handle the connections through software clients or virtual appliances. [Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.].

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Network World

JUNE 30, 2022

Wazi as a Service can be used to create z/OS infrastructure instances for development and testing z/OS application components in a virtualized, containerized sandbox. The instances would run on Red Hat OpenShift on x86 hardware. Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters. ]

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

Traditionally, setting up DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) meant dealing with a mix of hardware, virtual machines, and manual configuration across multiple environments. Reduce on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a cloud-delivered option.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Sandboxes offer virtual lab environments that members of the DevNet developer community can access to test different configurations, build simulations and implement prototypes without affecting their production networks. Catalyst Center is a network management suite that operates on Cisco hardware or as a virtual package.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2023

FortiOS is the operating system for the FortiGate family hardware and virtual components, and it implements Fortinet Security Fabric and includes firewalling, access control, Zero Trust, and authentication in addition to managing SD-WAN, switching, and wireless services. FortiOS version 7.4

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Network World

MARCH 30, 2020

If you’re responsible for the security of your organization's digital environment, staying up-to-date with the latest hardware, environment, and software vulnerability patches can be a challenge. By leveraging virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud, systems admins and CISOs can deploy a single image across multiple workstations.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The 70G, 50G and 30G expand or replace the current line of branch products (the Fortinet 40F/60F/80F series) and support FortiOS, the vendors operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

Within two years, it will be virtually impossible to buy a PC, tablet, laptop, or mobile phone without AI, Lovelock says. Expectations about the power of gen AI are falling , but many organizations will still increase their spending on AI projects or hardware. Whether you want it or not, youre going to get it sold to you.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With Intel-powered AIembedded into the hardware, IT can better understand their PC fleet with specific device-level insights, such as asset identity and event history. This allows software developers to write their code to the NPU, GPU, or CPU to take full advantage of the unique AI capabilities of each hardware engine.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Network slicing Network slicing can make efficient use of carriers’ wireless capacity to enable 5G virtual networks that exactly fit customer needs. Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

MMA is a feature of Power10-based servers that handles matrix multiplication operations in hardware, rather than relying solely on software routines. The company added a Power Virtual Server Private Cloud features that lets customers better control and manage Power resources locally or in a hybrid cloud environment, according to IBM.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

After years of optimizing traditional virtualization systems to the limit, we knew we had to make a dramatic change in the architecture if we were going to continue to increase performance and security for our customers.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU. Developers can deploy their AI-infused application via a lightweight container in a data center, in the cloud, or at the edge on a variety of hardware architectures,” he wrote.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

“Through this collaboration, we’re bringing a new generation of reliable quantum hardware to customers by integrating and advancing Atom Computing’s neutral atom hardware into our Azure Quantum compute platform,” Jason Zander, executive vice president of strategic missions and technologies at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post Tuesday.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2022

FortiOS is the vendor’s operating system for the FortiGate family of hardware and virtual components. FortiOS 7.2, has 300 new features including AI support to help stop network threats more quickly, sandboxing to help fight ransomware threats, and improved SD-WAN , branch, and edge orchestration. How to choose an edge gateway.

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Network World

JUNE 30, 2023

Virtualization technology provider VMware has announced that it is partnering with AMD, Samsung, and members of the RISC-V keystone community for the development and operations of confidential computing applications.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Sovereign SASE goes a step further, with Versas SASE software running on customer-owned hardware and environments. How Versas sovereign SASE works For some types of private SaaS offerings, vendors will simply provide organizations the ability to deploy and run from inside of a VPC (virtual private cloud) and call that a private deployment.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

For example, robotics companies are doing early-stage training for the robots in virtual environments before finishing up the training in the real world. Another is using classical computers to simulate quantum machines, running the same algorithms a company would run on quantum hardware.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft says it will start delivering the computers’ quantum capabilities to customers by the end of 2025, with availability via the Azure cloud service as well as through on-premises hardware. Lightsynq is developing optical quantum interconnects that enable hardware providers to link quantum processors.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Most firewalls are deployed as network hardware that processes traffic and software that allow end users to configure and manage the system. Increasingly, software-only versions of firewalls are being deployed in highly virtualized environments to enforce policies on segmented networks or in the IaaS public cloud.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition, the vendor added virtual patching signatures in the FortiGuard OT Security Service that offers vulnerability protection and unpatched OT asset shielding. It also allows virtual patching to be deployed to protect against urgent vulnerabilities.”

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Network World

JUNE 3, 2024

Singapore’s Green Data Centre Roadmap , announced on Thursday, seeks to make the hardware and even the software running in datacenters more energy efficient, in addition to tackling the usual suspects: the energy consumed by non-IT components such as cooling, lighting, and power distribution within data centers.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Device42 today announced new functionality in its IT inventory and asset management virtual appliance that enables IT managers to apply generative AI to query their configuration management database (CMDB) using natural language and more quickly get responses via a chat-like interface.

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