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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO

Cloud networking comprises three layers: first from on-premises data centers to the cloud, then within a cloud that has multiple accounts or virtual private clouds, and finally, between individual clouds in a multicloud environment. It’s more complicated than standard networking, Hoag says.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO

Firewalls have come a long way from their humble beginnings of assessing network traffic based on appearance alone. Here are six predictions for the future of the firewall. Convergence also is happening in different formats; now security convergence is happening in appliances, virtual machines, cloud-delivered services, and containers. Convergence

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How to Monitor Packet Loss and Latency in the Cloud

Kentik

Firewall configured to drop packets (all ICMP is dropped). Since we are focused on the cloud in this article, we find that SNMP is great for LANs and WANs, but we can’t use it to see inside devices within the cloud. These lightweight devices are located all over the world, in every major virtual public cloud (VPC) and service provider.

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IT Infrastructure Management: Benefits, Challenges and Best Practices

Kaseya

In other words, the network comprises all software and hardware elements required to enable security, internet connectivity, network enablement and firewall. LAN domain. The LAN domain comprises all the elements that build the local area network such as routers, hubs, workstations, Wi-Fi, switches and access points. WAN domain.

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Custom Ansible Execution Environments

Perficient

A Private Automation Hub is available which acts as a combination container registry and on-LAN Ansible Galaxy server. Where Tower relies on python virtual environments to organize competing python dependencies, its replacement uses container runtimes. A python virtual environment is just that.

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Accelerate 5G with AI-Powered Cybersecurity

Palo Alto Networks

Here are just a few examples of how Palo Alto Networks is thinking about protecting private 5G from cyberattacks through our partner ecosystem: Celona : The recently announced partnership with Celona , an innovator of secure 5G-LAN solutions for the enterprise, extends Zero Trust security to private 4G and 5G wireless networks.

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Cascaded Lag: The Cumulative Impact of Latency on Applications and User Experience

Kentik

Let’s consider the database scenario for now, but this scenario can be applied at any tier component: application, service mesh, API gateway, authentication, Kubernetes, network backbone, WAN, LAN, switch, or firewall, etc. We can help with easy-to-start synthetic monitoring, without touching your network or application stack.