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The new Palo Alto Networks PA-400 ML Powered Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) product family comes in a compact form factor and is designed for branch offices, small businesses, or retail locations. The product aims for the next generation firewall market, and it features natively integrated security features, such as threat prevention, advanced URL filtering, DNS […]

The definition of cloud is changing as hybrid multicloud and distributed cloud architectures emerging, and with businesses seeking to augment their public cloud deployments with a private cloud stack. Deploying a private cloud can be quite a significant undertaking as it requires procuring and integrating network, storage, compute, orchestration software and other technology. One vendor […]

Solving the world biggest challenges and making the world a better place for everyone is something most large businesses talk about, but action is sometimes lacking. One company that has stepped up, particularly in the past five years, is Cisco, whose stated purpose is to “Power an Inclusive Future.” While the company has donated hundreds […]

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent conference was held last week in Las Vegas. This year, the 10th Re:Invent, returned to an in-person format after a year as a digital event due to the pandemic. It was also the first Re:Invent under new CEO Adam Selipsky, who takes the helm from Andy Jassy, who had […]

I recently spoke with Ajay Pandya, Director of Product Management at Masergy, about the key findings of the 2021 State of AIOps Study and how AIOps trends are transforming IT operations.

I recently spoke with Teddy Bekele, chief technology officer at Land O’Lakes, about connectivity challenges in rural communities and how ACP is addressing these networking challenges.

Skuid, which stands for scalable kit for user interface design, is a no-code, drag-and-drop cloud platform that combines data from multiple sources within an organization to create customized apps, pages, and reports. With Skuid, organizations can bring data from all their systems into one system of engagement, explained Ken McElrath, founder and chief strategy officer […]

Businesses have been adopting cloud computing for the better part of two decades. During that time, the implementation of cloud has gone through a change and is on the precipice of another major shift. The first phase of cloud was a hosted service, where companies performed a “lift and shift” of legacy apps into a […]

The concept of hybrid work existed before COVID-19. What nobody expected is for hybrid work – digital transformation – to become a permanent setup for organizations. Some will have many people in the office, some just a few, and every combination in between. As home offices turn into forever offices, organizations will have to rethink […]

It’s fall, which in the tech world means the conference season is well underway. One of the major events in networking is Cisco’s Partner Summit, as the company typically announces changes to the way it handles its reseller community as well as a handful of new products and this year was no different. While many […]

We are living in an experience-focused economy – where digital transformation is growing – users buy outcomes. The days of having a single app that accommodates the end-to-end user journey are over. Organizations must adapt to change by tapping into the potential around devices and experiences that people enjoy every day. Avaya characterizes this new […]

This week, high performance network vendor, Arista Networks, held a digital “Cloud Innovators” event. The company has used events like this before to make some major product announcements and this event was no different, as the company announced its network data lake, or NetDL in product terms. NetDL is the next step in the evolution […]