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Edge computing: 5 potential pitfalls

Network World

Edge computing is gaining steam as an enterprise IT strategy with organizations looking to push storage and analytics closer to where data is gathered, as in IoT networks. Its potential upsides are undeniable, including improved latency as well as reduced WAN bandwidth and transmission costs. But it’s got its challenges.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) Hyperconverged infrastructure combines compute, storage and networking in a single system and is used frequently in data centers. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): IaaS provides the building blocks of cloud computing — servers, storage and networking.

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BENNY Awards 2024: Share your picks for the best enterprise networking products

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The Best of Enterprise Networking (BENNY) Awards recognize the most innovative products in enterprise networking and the enterprise data center, including the latest wired and wireless networking technologies, network security products, management tools, storage, servers, and virtualization technologies. Learn more.

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Cisco Live: AI takes center stage

Network World

The package simplifies the design, deployment, management of networking, compute and storage to build full-stack AI wherever enterprise data happens to reside.” Pensando DPUs include intelligent, programmable software to support software-defined cloud, compute, networking, storage, and security services.

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Network World’s Best of Enterprise Network 2024 award winners

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Many of the categories and terms in this years Best of Networking (BENNY) technology awards didnt even exist a decade ago: secure access service edge (SASE), SD-WAN, networking as a service (NaaS), and network detection and response (NDR). Aryaka accomplishes this with its OnePASS Architecture.

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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK

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Would it be nice for a DC manager to only have to deal with a single vendor for their servers, storage, and DC networking for the planned refresh in Q1 of 2025? However, both firms have a wider portfolio that spans the network security and SASE/SD-WAN technology landscape.” Of course it would.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

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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. What is SASE?

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