Aruba 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...
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