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Automation for all—managing and scaling networks has never been easier

CIO

At this time of dynamic business and market changes, uncertainty, and quickly evolving consumption models for IT infrastructure, every IT executive understands the benefits and necessity of network agility. Agile networks can respond quickly to changes in the market, customer demands, employee requirements, and technology advances.

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Implementing a Cost-aware Cloud Networking Infrastructure

Kentik

What is cloud networking? Cloud networking is the IT infrastructure necessary to host or interact with applications and services in public or private clouds, typically via the internet. Why is cloud networking important? Cloud networking vs. cloud computing Cloud networking can be thought of as a subset of cloud computing.

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An Intelligent Future for Manufacturing

CIO

In the automotive sector for example, the advent of autonomous vehicles has resulted in burgeoning demand for computing power, cloud storage and network bandwidth. To support such rapid growth, the company needed the right capabilities for its R&D network and production systems.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO

Hastening hardware refresh With Windows 10 reaching end of life in 2025, CIOs will plan to migrate to Windows 11 over the next 18 months, and getting the promised security improvements by default means investing in new PCs with newer generations of CPU that have the right instructions to support security features without compromising performance.

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Unit 42 Discovers First Known Malware Targeting Windows Containers

Palo Alto Networks

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). A cluster is the basic architecture of Kubernetes (an open-source container platform).

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Practical Steps for Enhancing Reliability in Cloud Networks - Part I

Kentik

When evaluating solutions, whether to internal problems or those of our customers, I like to keep the core metrics fairly simple: will this reduce costs, increase performance, or improve the network’s reliability? It’s often taken for granted by network specialists that there is a trade-off among these three facets. Resiliency.

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What you need to know about Okta’s security breach

CIO

The criticality of a Zero Trust architecture in defending against IdP compromise Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) replaces network-level based access and reduces excessive implicit trust for access to resources, primarily from remote locations, by employees, contractors, and other third parties.