Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs is expanding its network management platform this week with a pair of new products designed to tackle the growing challenges of infrastructure documentation and configuration management. Observe the network in the same way for ongoing understanding of the operational state of the network.

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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

APRIL 14, 2025

Jokel talked with Network World about three key technological trends Ciscos is actively pursuing: the rise of agentic AI, preparing for the quantum era in networking and security, and addressing the growing demand for sustainable and efficient infrastructure. We also need to look at how we network together quantum computers.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Zero-trust security is essential to enterprises that are converging operational technology (OT) with IT infrastructure. Companies have historically secured OT systems which include physical security controls, HVAC systems, industrial control systems like factory automation equipment, and medical scanning equipment by air-gapping them.

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2025

Fortinet has expanded support for AI across its core cybersecurity platform to protect enterprise customers from evolving threats and simplify network and security operations. FortiAI is the vendors natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. So what exactly is AI networking, how does it work and what are its top use cases?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Network and software solutions provider QNAP — whose customers include trusted IT service providers like Accenture, Cognizant, and Infosys — is urging customers to apply fixes for a few critical severity bugs affecting its Network Attached Storage (NAS) and router services.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks. The Private 5G solution offers large-area wireless coverage, secure and reliable high-speed mobility, supporting real-time, critical industrial applications, ALE stated.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

Wi-Fi will also drive advancements in key areas such as AI-enabled network management, seamless identity management and access steering, he says. These verticals demand reliable, low-latency connectivity and seamless transitions between networks across wide areas, he says. Or perhaps, the other way around.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Palo Alto Networks is warning administrators of six critical vulnerabilities in its Expedition configuration migration tool that have to be patched immediately. Read more on CSOonline.com

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2025

A surge in internet probes targeting devices from Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, and Palo Alto Networks should put their admins on alert, say security experts.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Over the last several years, NetBox has established itself as a widely used open-source tool for understanding and modeling networks. 2023, the company announced previews of its network drift configuration technology known as NetBox Assurance. Were all in on AI, Kristopher Beevers, CEO of NetBox Labs, told Network World.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform introduces more than 70 enhancements, ranging from advanced networking capabilities to improved container management tools. introduces significant networking improvements designed to enhance connectivity and security across hybrid environments.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. integrates what Red Hat refers to as VM-friendly networking. The first of these enhancements is custom user-defined networks (UDN).

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so. The company said it has identified a need for more intelligent edge networking and computing.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Zero Trust architecture was created to solve the limitations of legacy security architectures. It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. Security requires an adaptive model that understands the fluidity and dynamism of the modern digital landscape.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. At the same time, they need to expand their cloud and security skill sets to accommodate more complex tools and technologies.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A push for greater network visibility and global security standards drove Orbia, an $8.2 billion company that operates in more than 100 countries, to deploy secure access service edge (SASE) technology. We realized we had way too many fragmented solutions, for example, handling SSE, CASB, secure web gateway [SWG], and so on.”

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

Network packet broker ( NPB )technology has been deployed inside of networks for over a decade. Like just about everything else in the IT and networking stack in 2025, AI is now increasingly becoming a key feature. Keysight can now filter network traffic to detect the presence of AI-based applications.

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Network World

MARCH 11, 2025

Fortinet has bolstered its OT Security Platform to help customers more effectively protect industrial control systems and other operational technology networks from cyberattacks. The unique assets typically found in OT networks operate on unique protocols.

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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: Co-founded the Silicon Valley CIO Womens Network and is a member of the Girls in Tech Board of Directors. billion range.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The department issued a preliminary finding last week, stating that China Telecom Americas involvement in US networks and cloud services presents a national security risk, the report said. Attacks on these networks are typically carried out by adversaries with significant resources or nation-state backing.

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Network World

JANUARY 7, 2025

The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations.ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how providers are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Internet report for Dec.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. The first major service these DPUs will perform on the switch will be Layer 4 stateful segmentation throughCiscos Hypershield security architecture.

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Network World

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. lies in how it positions AI within network management workflows.

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

A new player in the networking industry is tackling the unique challenges of AI infrastructure at hyperscale. Sadana spent 17 years at Arista and prior to that was at Cisco for eight years, so hes no stranger to the networking world. We are here to build the most efficient AI networking solutions that are out there, Sadana said.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that could enable a network transformation. What stands in the way? Benefits, a business case, return on investment.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology.

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is looking to expand the role SASE plays in securing private 5G networks by collaborating with additional partners to offer end-to-end communications protection. To truly safeguard enterprise, government and industrial operations, organizations need a holistic 5G security package.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system. Palo Alto Networks published its advisory the same day.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

Cato Networks recently unveiled new generative AI capabilities in its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that the secure access service edge (SASE) provider says will let enterprise IT organizations detect, analyze, and gain insights into the use of genAI applications. Cato tracks 950+ genAI applications.)

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This latest version introduces substantial improvements to networking capabilities, security features and management tools. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0,

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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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

With 5G, the OT network is encrypted end-to-end, which enables completely secure communication between devices and systems. The technology also facilitates network slicing, which allows organisations to create wireless virtual networks for specific applications or departments.

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