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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

Read more: 5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform ]] This dilemma of whether to absorb the Broadcom price hikes or embark on the arduous and risky journey of untangling from the VMware ecosystem is triggering a broader C-level conversation around virtualization strategy. Theyre still the Lamborghini.

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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros

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Uptime Education, for example, has a recertification program every three years. Uptime Institute Data Center Fundamentals Uptime Institutes Data Center Fundamentals (DCF) is a one-day program that provides an overview of what data centers are and what they do. It gives you that awareness into the industry.

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Red Hat OpenShift 4.18 expands cloud-native networking

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Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. The custom UDNs are being integrated into the open virtual networking (OVN) Kubernetes container networking interface (CNI). In particular, OpenShift 4.18

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Juniper offers AI pricing incentives, education programs

Network World

Juniper Networks is offering education programs and pricing incentives to accelerate enterprise adoption of AI-based technologies. Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology. Juniper Validated Designs (JVD) are also part of the program.

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AI, cybersecurity drive IT investments and lead skill shortages for 2025

Network World

Respondents also cited ineffective training programs (22%) and not being able to full anticipate the skills they would need (20%). 2024 gave leaders the opportunity to pause, take a breath and see what kind of investment they need to make for best use scenarios in terms of talent and technology.”

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AWS’ Amazon Connect service gets new-gen AI updates

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The unified views are also combined with generative AI-powered recommendations, called smart recommendations, which are built to help campaign managers design their outreach programs. Connect provides smart recommendations after its internal engine analyzes historical and real-time data.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO Business Intelligence

Government orgs were a target for China-linked threat actors in virtually all regions of the world, and Salt Typhoon, a cyber unit tied to Chinas MSS, made headlines in recent months after compromising major telecom and ISP networks in the US, with this type of targeting also common in Asia and Africa.

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