Cisco promised to quickly integrate the security technology it gained in its $28 billion Splunk acquisition , and it has set that process in motion by adding tie-ins to its extended detection and...
The Zero Trust network access (ZTNA) approach replaces the perimeter defense model with a “least privilege” framework where users authenticate to access specific data and applications. Enterp...
Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access (ZTNA ), and SD-WAN ....
After underperforming the market for most of the past decade, IBM is seeing its strategy of acquiring companies to build a broad, multicloud platform start to pay real dividends. On March 12, I...
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2097006/ibms-bets-on-ai-and-hybrid-cloud-pay-off.html
Many of today’s cutting-edge technologies such as cloud computing, edge computing and microservices , owe their start to the concept of the virtual machine—separating operating systems and s...
WHAT IS DNS? The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the foundations of the internet, working in the background to match the names of web sites that people type into a search box with the corresp...
https://www.networkworld.com/article/965540/what-is-dns-and-how-does-it-work.html
IBM has successfully overturned a $1.6 billion ruling that it improperly replaced mainframe software from rival BMC at AT&T. A US Appeal Court this week overruled a lower court’s judgement in...
Cisco and Red Hat are once again expanding their 15-year-old strategic partnership, this time to bolster networking, AI and cloud integrations. At the Red Hat Summit 2024 next week, the two vendo...
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2097606/cisco-red-hat-extend-networking-ai-integrations.html
In the competitive realm of artificial intelligence, dominated by Nvidia’s formidable GPUs, a bold newcomer is betting on a different contender. Nscale , a little-known GPU cloud provider bas...
Palo Alto Networks has extended its Prisma SASE (secure access service edge) package to better secure managed and unmanaged devices and bolster the speed and protection of distributed enterprise...
We’ve all probably seen the && and || operators in use from time to time. These AND and OR equivalents are often used in scripts to make decisions about what happens next. In this post, we’ll...
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2097531/the-logic-of-and-on-linux.html
Cisco is part of a group that backed security startup Corelight with $150 million in Series E funding this week. Corelight’s latest investment round is led by its first capital investor, Acc...
F5 is enhancing its tools for enterprise customers that are struggling to combat rising security threats against on-premise and cloud-based applications. The vendor announced web application sc...
Arista Networks is bolstering a key part of its security software with new features that help customers reduce the blast radius of security breaches by setting up “microperimeters” to restric...
WHAT IS ZERO TRUST? Zero trust is a distinct architecture that provides secure connectivity based on the principle of least-privileged access. It inherently prevents excessive permissions and ...
Firewalls and VPNs are exposing organizations to breaches. It may seem counterintuitive due to the fact that the two have been go-to security tools for decades—but therein lies the problem. The...
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 handl...
Lenovo Systems announced AI-centric systems using an all-AMD processor design, along with infrastructure for on-prem and Azure cloud. At the top of the line is the ThinkSystem SR685a V3 8GPU se...
https://www.networkworld.com/article/2096866/lenovo-ships-all-amd-ai-systems.html
PsiQuantum is betting big on its ability to build what it said will be the world’s first utility-scale quantum computer in Brisbane by 2027 with help from the Australian government. The Palo ...
Microsoft is planning to invest $1.7 billion in Indonesia to expand its cloud infrastructure in the country, the company said on Tuesday. The investment spread over the next four years will see...