Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. Lets talk about platform strategy. That kind of strategic conversation hasnt happened for years.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) set its sights on world of AI networking this week. As AI usage grows, the core foundation that enables current and future potential is the power of the network. That’s a message that was echoed time and again during the ONUG AI Networking Summit , held in New York (and webcast).

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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.

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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

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. That’s where VeloRAIN will come in.

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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. From AI and network automation to cloud computing and security, the critical networking skills needed to excel in 2025 are shifting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 19, 2025

The modern network security landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the increasing complexity of business operations and the rise of new technologies. New advances like SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are helping network professionals keep pace. eliminating man-in-the-middle attacks.

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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

Nathan Jokel , senior vice president of corporate strategy and alliances at Cisco, has stepped up to the challenge. We also need to look at how we network together quantum computers. It seems, at least with the current technology, it is more realistic to build a network of smaller quantum computers.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

We are witnessing a divergence in hyperscaler strategy, noted Abhivyakti Sengar, practice director at Everest Group. The rise of multicloud strategies As hyperscalers pursue different approaches to AI infrastructure, enterprise IT leaders are increasingly adopting multicloud strategies as a risk mitigation measure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How Organizations Can Utilize Available Training Budgets: Skill Enhancement : Upgrade the team’s skills to defend against the latest networking, cloud, and cybersecurity threats. This initiative not only helps organizations optimize their unspent training funds but also boosts their long-term security strategies.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The Uptime Institute has identified three strategies that organizations can deploy to run new data centers with carbon-free (or at least low-carbon) power, and presented those findings in a recent webinar that featured Andy Lawrence, executive director of research, and Jay Dietrich, research director of sustainability.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

Structuring the digital strategy In recent years, Soltour has launched its own digital transformation plan to consolidate its position as a tech adoption leader among tour operations. We train and equip our teams with the necessary tools to integrate technology into their daily work, fostering constant and natural innovation.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) identified how this convergence influences zero-trust strategy and implementation. Physical isolation from IT networks protects OT systems against threats, but it also prevents companies from driving more automation, efficiency, and intelligence into business operations.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It’s the opposite of a firewall and VPN architecture, where once on the corporate network everyone and everything is trusted. The traditional reliance on firewalls and VPNs for cybersecurity is proving inadequate in the face of mounting cyberthreats and changes to network designs due to the cloud.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

Current strategies to address the IT skills gap Rather than relying solely on hiring external experts, many IT organizations are investing in their existing workforce and exploring innovative tools to empower their non-technical staff. Using this strategy, LOB staff can quickly create solutions tailored to the companys specific needs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

One of the most striking examples is the Silk Road , a vast network of trade routes that connected the East and West for centuries. This phenomenon is reshaping how enterprises design their multi-cloud strategies, determining where workloads are deployed, how data is accessed and how costs are managed.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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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

MAY 23, 2024

Gaining firm control over a multicloud network environment can deliver performance, efficiency, and security gains – but it won’t be easy. Managing a multicloud network is a highly demanding task, says Robert Orshaw, a managing director at Deloitte Consulting.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 7, 2025

CRAWL: Design a robust cloud strategy and approach modernization with the right mindset Modern businesses must be extremely agile in their ability to respond quickly to rapidly changing markets, events, subscriptions-based economy and excellent experience demanding customers to grow and sustain in the ever-ruthless competitive world of consumerism.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres always plenty written about which networking technologies will be hot as a new year kicks off. Its pretty obvious that networking is going to change, but the vendors are as big a force as the technologies, maybe even bigger. Think of the competitors strategy as a new formation, a new play.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These expenditures are tied to core business systems and services that power the business, such as network management, billing, data storage, customer relationship management, and security systems. For example, AI-driven network optimization tools may have high initial costs but improve network management, leading to long-term savings.

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Network World

APRIL 15, 2025

And with IDC concluding that network security and data security are among the key priorities of businesses in the next few years (with global spending seeing a 13% CAGR between 2021 and 2026) modernizing the network infrastructure is a must. Central to such a platform, too, is integrated network and security.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Narrowing the supply-and-demand gap for cybersecurity talent is a significant challenge and a promising opportunity,” said Amy Kardel, vice president, strategy and market development, academic, CompTIA, in a statement. “It Can NaaS mitigate network skills gaps? There are an estimated 1.25

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility. If network performance issues arise, SD-WAN users can identify and remediate those issues faster through advanced, AI-enhanced automation.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fortinet has had network DLP capabilities in its portfolio before, including Network DLP capabilities integrated into its FortiGate NGFW. The system deploys machine learning at the endpoint level, enabling continuous data monitoring without constant network connectivity.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. For example, Cisco unveiled its AI Pods in October, which leverage Nvidia GPUs in servers purpose-built for large-scale AI training, as well as the networking and storage required.

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Network World

MARCH 28, 2025

In a significant development for digital infrastructure in India, Bharti Airtel has landed the 2Africa Pearls submarine cable, delivering 100 Terabits per second of international network capacity for the country. Alcatel Submarine Networks is responsible for the cables manufacturing and installation, the statement added.

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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. A compromise of the telecom network could intercept calls, provide real-time location access to interested parties, and even disrupt telecom services.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 29, 2025

In the future, Steinhuser will head the newly created Strategy & Operations board group and, in this position, will continue to drive the implementation of SAPs strategy and simplify company processes. Steinhuser joined SAP in 2020 and has held various roles, including chief strategy officer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

In a world where business, strategy and technology must be tightly interconnected, the enterprise architect must take on multiple personas to address a wide range of concerns. Infrastructure architecture: Building the foundational layers of hardware, networking and cloud resources that support the entire technology ecosystem.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A push for greater network visibility and global security standards drove Orbia, an $8.2 Visibility into network traffic across distributed locations would help Orbia minimize security risk, enable more control over global internet traffic, and provide secure access to cloud services. That is the very last stage.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 11, 2025

Something similar is now happening with digital networks. After a couple of decades out of the limelight, the humble network is back at the very heart of CIOs remits. The transformative potential of edge computing Why is the network back at the top of the IT priority list? Thats where Tata Communications can help.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, according to Gartner. By comparison, less than 10% of enterprises were automating more than half of their network activities in mid-2023. Read more about network automation DIY or commercial network automation? IBM drops $6.4B

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Despite a mostly positive revenue report for the first quarter of its fiscal 2025, HPE executives detailed a number of challenges the company will face in the coming months, including layoffs, a court case over its proposed buy of Juniper Networks, and the U.S. governments tariff plan. Revenues were up $7.9 Justice Department.

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