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JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware a finding that provides yet more evidence of a broader issue with specialized devices today.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The company is adding new components to Fortinet Advisor (FortiAI), its natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. FortiAnalyzer, which is the vendor’s security analytics and log management platform, also recently gained AI-based enhancements.

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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). She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But with a wide variety of software, tools, and services to choose from, how do you know which is right for you? While traditional backup software is well-proven, Backup as a Service (BaaS) solutions are rapidly becoming the cross-industry standard. What is Backup Software?

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gluware today announced a series of upcoming features for its network automation platform, designed to streamline network management and reduce downtime across diverse network environments. The platform currently supports 56 operating systems across 22 vendors, making it a versatile solution for complex network ecosystems.

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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

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 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. The issue doesnt affect the companys Cloud NGFW or Prisma Access software.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 3, 2024

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. Support for Cisco ThousandEyes network performance and intelligence platform is built in. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, patched last week, is now being actively exploited by threat actors to gain root-level access to affected firewall systems.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the access points are only vulnerable if they are running vulnerable software in URWB mode, Cisco said. The technology underpinning URWB came to Cisco in 2020 when it acquired Italian company Fluidmesh Networks. Organizations using software version 17.14 If this is disabled, the device was not affected. Cisco said.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase.

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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

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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“We’re really founded and continue to focus on solving connectivity bottlenecks within AI and cloud infrastructure,” Ahmad Danesh, associate vice president, product line management at Astera Labs, told Network World. To date however, there hasn’t been dedicated network fabric technology for connecting PCIe 6 connections. Wireshark 4.4

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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. release notes state.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

DPU acceleration unlocks a variety of network and security services such as stateful segmentation, large-scale NAT, IPsec encryption, IDS/IPS, event-based telemetry, and DDoS protection, according to Kevin Wollenweber, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos data center and service provider business.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

F5 is evolving its core application and load balancing software to help customers secure and manage AI-powered and multicloud workloads. In addition to the software, F5 has expanded its Velos hardware family by adding a CX1610 chassis and BX520 blade.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Cisco executives were upbeat about the growth in AI orders $700 million so far this year, on way to surpass $1 billion in 2025 as the networking giant detailed a successful 2Q earnings period this week to Wall Street. Its clear that a genetic AI work streams are going to put more capacity onto the network.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Rodgers, Ethernet Alliance events & conference chair, told Network World. systems towards the end of 2025.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

As modern networking deployments across the cloud and edge become increasingly complex, it can be a non-trivial exercise for teams to get proper visibility. IP Fabric is updating its automated network assurance platform to version 7.0 with the goal of helping organizations to answer the challenges of hybrid networking environments.

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Network World

MARCH 21, 2025

Organizations running Ciscos Smart Licensing Utility (CSLU) should update their software as soon as possible to fix two serious vulnerabilities, the SANS Technology Institute has urged.

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Network World

DECEMBER 23, 2024

To meet digital transformation initiatives, businesses across the economy are seeking ways to automate network operations. According to a report from Mordor Intelligence , the network automation market should top $25 billion by the end of 2024, expanding to more than $71 billion in 2030. Aliro Quantum Year founded: 2019 Funding: $10.3

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. Instead, storage hardware and software is left to Nvidia’s certified server partners, such as Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, and NetApp. However, there is another advantage, and that has to do with scale.

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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. Nile, Meter and Ramen Networks all have plans to continue to accelerate growth moving forward as well. “We

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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

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

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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