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Cisco embraces multi-cloud networking software

As large enterprises spread by deploying distributed data centres and cloud services, the ability to control and manage apps is becoming more difficult.

Cisco's networking chief Todd Nightingale to helm Fastly

Cisco’s networking organisation is getting a shake-up as its enterprise networking and cloud business chief Todd Nightingale is leaving to become CEO of Fastly.

Top networking vendors report solid financials despite ongoing supply woes

Arista, Extreme, Juniper, F5 say supply-chain challenges will likely persist through 2023.

Arista snaps-up software defined networking pioneer Pluribus

Arista Networks has acquired Pluribus Networks with an eye toward bolstering its own Unified Cloud Networking service.

IBM bolsters quantum cryptography for z16 mainframe

IBM adds NIST’s new public-key encryption and digital signatures algorithms to defend against attacks by future quantum computers.

Aruba boosts AI capabilities to help enterprises manage, troubleshoot the edge

Aruba’s Edge Services Platform gains AIOps features to streamline network troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security controls.

WWT ranks network automation, SASE and 5G as top enterprise priorities

Distributed users, applications and workloads are driving enterprises to rethink their network architecture, according to World Wide Technology.

Juniper upgrades management platform, adds new switch

Juniper has added troubleshooting features to its flagship Mist AI/ML cloud-based management platform and announced the EX4100 Series Ethernet access switch.

AWS managed WAN service aims to simplify global network deployments

AWS Cloud WAN service supports SD-WAN packages from Aruba, Aviatrix, Checkpoint, Cisco Meraki, Prosimo and VMware.

IBM brings hybrid-cloud app services to z/OS mainframes

IBM has introduced a service for its mainframe customers to create a cloud environment for developing and testing applications.

VMware brings on-prem cloud connectivity to vSphere, vSAN

VMware is upgrading vSphere and vSAN packages to better manage and efficiently meld on-premises applications with cloud-based resources.

Linux Foundation works toward improved data centre efficiency

The Linux Foundation Open Programmable Infrastructure Project seeks to make it easier to offload tasks from CPUs and onto DPUs and IPUs.

AWS moves towards quantum networking

Amazon Web Services is making a push into an area of quantum computing that hasn't received as much attention as other aspects: networking.

Cisco puts app-performance tools in the cloud with AppDynamics

Cisco is taking aim at better controlling the performance of core apps with a new AppDynamics cloud service and open source development tools.

Cisco Nexus data centre switches promise 800Gb Ethernet but deliver 400GbE today

Cisco is prepping its data centre Nexus switch family for high-speed Ethernet that will better support high-bandwidth applications such as AI and cloud-native.

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