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Juniper Networks announced early on Oct. 19 its intent to acquire SD-WAN vendor 128 Technology for $450 million. The acquisition is expected to close in Juniper’s fiscal fourth quarter. This may seem like a strange acquisition since Juniper already has a best-in-class SD-WAN solution, but the Massachusetts-based company has taken a different approach to network […]

Last week collaboration vendor Symphony held its annual Innovate event in the digital format to which we have all grown accustomed. At the event, the company announced a number of new features and functions that align it with the current work from anywhere trends driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Symphony has often been referred to […]

Earlier this week, online meeting vendor Zoom held its annual user event, Zoomtopia, in an all-digital format–to the surprise of no one. If there’s one company that’s set up to deliver a high-quality, completely digital event, it’s Zoom, because the company was built on the concept of “meet happy.” Events are certainly bigger than a […]

Every enterprise moving to the cloud has discovered pitfalls and challenges with the network that slows down deployments. The limitations of legacy networks certainly aren’t new, but now they’re becoming business impacting.  Because of this, there are dozens of companies promising a better way of doing things. These “cloud networking panaceas” claim they will reduce […]

In 2017, network giant Cisco Systems made a curious move when it spent $3.7 billion for AppDynamics. It seemed like an odd move to acquire the market leader in application performance monitoring since Cisco is known as the market leader in networking. The theory behind the acquisition was that the application level visibility could help […]

Artificial intelligence and chipmaker NVIDIA held its fall GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week in an all-digital format. Like the live version, NVIDIA uses the event as a launch mechanism to articulate its vision and launch new products. The October 2020 GTC event was packed with announcements, partnerships, educational presentations and use cases. The digital […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the value of meeting tools from being a “nice-to-have” to “must-have” technology. What was once something used by a handful of mobile professionals is now something used by almost everyone, including students, doctors, lawyers, therapists and general office workers that typically met face to face. Now that the majority of […]

According to Merriam-Webster, the word “paradox” is defined as a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense. In the enterprise world of today, IT professionals might consider machine data a paradox. On one hand, machine data is pure gold; it holds valuable information that, when correlated and analyzed, can provide valuable insights […]

High-performance network vendor Arista this week revealed that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Awake Security, a network detection and response (NDR) solution provider. Awake ingests massive amounts of network data and uses a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and human expertise to hunt and respond to internal and external threats.  Awake gathers […]

When it comes to technology conferences, particularly those put on by vendors, not all are created equal. Most are hardcore events in which attendees are treated to several days of educational information on how to work better with the vendor’s products. This represents a majority of shows. However, there are a few that have reached […]

Collaboration and data storage cloud service provider Box held its annual BoxWorks Digital 2020 user conference last week. At the event Box unveiled several new features and enhancements to its cloud content management (CCM) platform, geared toward organizations with remote workforces.  The platform enables secure collaboration across the enterprise and integrates with more than 1,500 […]

September is a special time of year. It marks the end of summer, which also means back to school and kids head back to the classroom with books and supplies in tow. This year is an exception, however: Things are vastly different, as schools enter a new era of education in a post-COVID-19 world. How […]