Chiplets: The First Step To Integrated Silicon Photonics For Faster...
Merchant silicon applies Moore’s Law to Ethernet switching with astounding results, well documented by tech luminary Andy Bechtolsheim almost four years ago. Since then, switch chips have doubled their...
View ArticleGigamon Introduces Playbooks, Plus A Full Year Of Data Retention, To Its NDR...
Gigamon has added new features to its SaaS-based Network Detection and Response (NDR) service, including playbooks that provide context for investigations, and a full year of data retention. In...
View ArticleMarvell’s Building Blocks For Carrier Edge, 5G Networking
This article was originally posted on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on December 17, 2020. 5G and edge computing are mainstays of almost every tech company’s growth strategy, but their combined...
View ArticleMobile Edge Computing (MEC) Puts Compute, Networking Services Closer To...
The following post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on November 13, 2020. 5G has long been declared the future of mobile networks by both tech analysts and the popular press,...
View ArticleVMware And NVIDIA Focus On The Far Edge To Host Network Services On SmartNICs
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on October 19, 2020. The network edge is desirable new territory for software and hardware vendors. The objective is to get compute,...
View ArticleAruba Seeks To Entice Resellers With Modular ‘Network-In-A-Box’ Approach
Aruba hopes to entice the channel to resell Aruba gear with a new purchasing model. Aruba is packaging network equipment and software into pre-sized bundles designed around outcomes. You want an...
View ArticleJuniper Extends Contrail To Kubernetes For Cloud-Native Virtual Networking
Juniper Networks’ network virtualization software Contrail can now integrate with Kubernetes. Originally designed for OpenStack, Juniper calls this new version of Contrail “CN2.” Contrail is a Software...
View ArticleExtreme Networks Announces New Products Including SD-WAN And Digital Twins Of...
Extreme Networks is rolling out several new products during its Extreme Connect live event, including an SD-WAN product, a new digital twin capability for its switches and APs, and a new switch. First...
View ArticleAnalysis: Will Your Security Infrastructure Be Determined By Your...
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ now-defunct Ignition site on October 1, 2019. Insurance companies that offer cyberinsurance policies are looking at ways to reduce their risk (and...
View ArticleAn Overview Of Cisco’s SecureX Device Insights
Device Insights, a feature of Cisco's SecureX XDR service, aggregates, normalizes, and visualizes esssential details about all the devices on your network. SecureX can also automate workflows to...
View ArticleVMware Aria: If You Can’t Beat Public Cloud, Maybe You Can Manage It
VMware announced an ambitious project, VMware Aria, at VMware Explore 2022. Aria offers multi-cloud management for enterprises that use services in more than one public cloud. The speed and sprawl of...
View ArticleNew Trident 4C ASIC Includes Real-Time Threat Analysis Option
Broadcom has announced a new ASIC in the Trident family that can monitor flows in real time to identify anomalies that may indicate DDoS attacks, port scans, data exfiltration, and other threats, but...
View ArticleJuniper Apstra Freeform Supports New Topologies, Protocols For Data Center...
Juniper Apstra has introduced Freeform, a new way to consume Apstra's data center automation platform without being tied to stringent reference architectures. While Freeform expands the network...
View ArticleStartup Veego Targets ISP Customer Service With An End User Experience Package
A startup called Veego is pitching an end user experience service to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to help providers offer better tech support to customers. The question is, are ISPs interested in...
View ArticleAryaka Adds Secure Web Gateway, Firewall Service To Its SD-WAN And Security...
Aryaka is introducing both a Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and a Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) offering to complement its SD-WAN capabilities. Many vendors, including Aryaka, are extending their SD-WAN...
View ArticleHedgehog, Kubernetes, And The Network Automation Conundrum
This post originally appeared in Human Infrastructure, the Packet Pushers’ weekly newsletter. See back issues and sign up here to get it. The networking startup Hedgehog recently emerged from stealth...
View ArticleCloudflare Muscles In On Digital Experience Monitoring
Cloudflare is rolling out Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) capabilities to help IT get visibility into network and application performance issues, particularly for remote workers.
View ArticleFortinet Announces A New System on Chip (SoC) For Its Firewall Appliances
Fortinet has announced new chip hardware, the SP5, to power FortiGate firewall appliances for entry-level and medium-size customers that need firewalls at campus, branch, and edge locations. Fortinet...
View ArticleAnuta Networks Adds Synthetic Tests For On-Demand Network Performance Monitoring
Anuta Networks has added an active assurance capability to ATOM, its network automation and orchestration software. Active assurance lets engineers run synthetic tests on demand using software agents....
View ArticleWho Are The Most Overpaid Tech CEOs?
Here's seven tech CEOs that showed up on a list of the 100 most overpaid chief executives. These IT execs are getting sky-high compensation. Their pay packages look even higher when compared to the...
View ArticleXcitium’s Endpoint Virtual Jail Aims To Lock Up Mystery Malware
Xcitium is an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) vendor that sells client software that uses multiple methods to protect endpoints. Methods include anti-virus, a host firewall, a Host Intrusion...
View ArticleSmartNIC, DPU Revenue Forecast To Grow 30% In 2023
Data Processing Unit (DPU) and SmartNIC vendors such as NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD are making a lot of noise about the ability of their adapters to offload work from CPUs and to run networking, security,...
View ArticleThe Packet Pushers Welcome CEO Jennifer Tribe
We’re excited to announce Jennifer Tribe has joined Packet Pushers Interactive as our first-ever CEO! Jennifer’s mission is to help grow the Packet Pushers podcast network, increase our visibility and...
View ArticleA Look At Broadcom’s Jericho3-AI Ethernet Fabric: Schedules, Credits, And Cells
Broadcom has come up with some interesting mechanisms to address the challenges of building an Ethernet-based fabric that supports AI workloads. These mechanisms, which include a scheduling framework,...
View ArticleCan We Trust Worldcoin’s Aspirin For AI Headaches?
This post originally appeared in the Packet Pushers’ Human Infrastructure newsletter, a weekly mailing of essays, links to technical blogs and IT news, and whatever else think is interesting. Subscribe...
View ArticleEndace Debuts Packet Capture Software For Public Clouds
Endace has announced a new offering that can capture packets inside your public cloud deployments. Called EndaceProbe Cloud, the offering is available for AWS and Azure public clouds. It can also be...
View ArticleSEC To CEOs: Report Your Breaches
The SEC now requires publicly traded companies to report "material" security incidents. But what does "material" mean and how might this new requirement affect infosec practices at these companies?
View ArticleCampus Switch Sales Forecast: 2023 Looks Strong; 2024 Maybe Not
Backlog orders and more expensive equipment are expected to drive up campus switch sales in 2023, but a correction may loom on the horizon.
View ArticleWith $14 Billion Juniper Buy, HPE Gets An AI Story, Network Market Share, And...
HPE is buying Juniper Networks for approximately $14 billion in cash. HPE CEO Antonio Neri and Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim participated in an online Q&A event for analysts and the trade media...
View ArticleHPE And Juniper Wi-Fi Market Share By The Numbers
The industry is still digesting HPE’s $14 billion acquisition bid for Juniper Networks. One big question is what HPE will do once it owns two wireless networking products: the popular and widely...
View ArticleCheck Point Software Announces AI Support For Security Teams
Check Point Software's new AI assistant is designed to help security teams write policies and investigate incidents.
View ArticleCloudflare Announces A Firewall For Malicious AI Prompts
Cloudflare has announced a new Web Application Firewall (WAF) to detect malicious user prompts that attempt to exploit LLM-based AI applications.
View ArticleHPE Adds Generative AI To Aruba Networking Central
HPE is adding generative AI capabilities to the search function in HPE Aruba Networking Central to help engineers get faster, more accurate info.
View ArticleArista Builds “Microperimeters” to Control User and Device Access
Arista has announced a new microsegmentation capability, which it's calling microperimeters, to limit user and device connectivity only to approved resources.
View Article4 Companies I’m Watching After The RSA Conference 2024
I spent three days talking with tech companies at RSA Conference 2024 in San Francisco this May. While every company I spoke with is doing interesting things in security and networking, here are four I...
View ArticleOpsMill Launches Infrahub; a Source of Truth for Network and Infrastructure...
Infrastructure automation tools rely on data about the infrastructure being automated. This data includes device type, OS and version, configurations, IP address, and so on. This information must be...
View ArticleQ&A: Juniper Networks Opens AI Test Lab for Customers, Partners
Juniper Networks has announced Ops4AI, a new lab where customers and partners can test and validate Ethernet fabrics to support AI workloads.
View ArticleCampus Switch Sales to Plummet in 2024. Here’s Why
Sales of enterprise campus switches will drop 16% globally in 2024 compared to 2023. That’s according to the Dell’Oro Group, which tracks sales for a variety of IT product categories. Why the drop? One...
View ArticleHPE Aruba Networking Extends Security Capabilities With NDR for IoT, More
HPE Aruba Networking has added two new security features to its portfolio: a Network Detection and Response (NDR) capability for IoT devices, and the ability to enforce cloud-based ZTNA policies on the...
View ArticleJuniper Networks Tries Discounts, Flexible Licensing To Counter Your AI Doubts
Juniper Networks is all-in on AI operations. Starting with the acquisition of the Mist WLAN platform in 2019, Juniper has been integrating machine learning and AI into its product portfolio to help...
View ArticleVectra AI Briefing Report: For NDR/XDR, Anomalies Don’t Always Mean Incidents
Vectra AI sells Extended Detection and Response (XDR) software that analyzes network traffic, identity data, and cloud traffic to detect security events. As you can guess from the company’s name, it...
View ArticleBriefing Report: Lightyear Is SaaS for Your Telecom Procurement & Billing
Lightyear is a SaaS platform that wants to make it easier for organizations to find and procure telco services such as WAN circuits, Internet connections, and SD-WAN links. Instead of you or another...
View ArticleNokia’s New Intent-Based Data Center Automation Software Squares off Against...
Nokia's new EDA data center automation software offers safety features to help enterprise network operators get more comfortable with automated changes. But the company has a steep hill to climb as it...
View ArticleBriefing Report: CloudZero Makes Sure Your Cloud Spend Isn’t Wasteful
Bring engineering and finance together using a common language of unit economics to deeply analyze costs and drive more efficient solutions. How do you get this done? In part with CloudZero's SaaS...
View ArticleBriefing Report: Drut’s DX3.0 Maximizes GPU Hardware Utilization For AI...
The folks at Drut (pronounced “droot”, supply your own I am Droot jokes) have created an AI compute environment for the rest of us. Who’s the rest of us? Anyone that’s doing AI-related work–training...
View ArticleBriefing Summary: Netos Builds A Bridge Between Networking & Finance
Netos startup founder Richard Foster reached out to brief Packet Pushers about what he and his team have built. In short, Netos is a financial modeling engine for networks that rides on NetBox. That...
View ArticleBriefing Summary: Commvault’s Cloud Rewind Is More Than Data Restoration
Cloud Rewind is the new name of Appranix, which Commvault acquired in April 2024. Cloud Rewind is a key component of Commvault's "continuous business" concept. Cloud Rewind's promise is to recover your...
View ArticleCitrix Does ZTNA? Here’s What I Learned
Citrix is making a play for the Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) market. Its ZTNA offering consists of an endpoint agent and an access broker, plus integrations with third-party identity services. As...
View ArticleJuniper Makes Modest Down Payment on Big AI Security Ambitions
Juniper Networks is pushing a single-platform approach for network and security operations supported by Mist AI. Its recent "Secure AI-Native Edge" announcement is a modest down payment on bigger...
View ArticleAviatrix Adds a PaaS Option to Its Cloud Network Security Offering–With Limits
Aviatrix is adding a PaaS option to its cloud network security offering to provide an as-a-service option for its distributed cloud firewall. But there are limitations to be aware of.
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