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Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform buy snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

Network World

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash.

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SD-WAN Helping Financial Services Achieve Greater Digital Agility, Cybersecurity

CIO Business Intelligence

Three-quarters (74%) of banks experienced a rise in cyber crime since the pandemic began in 2019. SD-WAN can help financial services organizations achieve network agility and security. An SD-WAN overlays traditional or hybrid WAN infrastructures and locates the software or hardware nodes at each location and in the cloud.

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Signals from space: SD-WAN marks the next stage in commercialized space-based comms

CIO Business Intelligence

Starlink’s aim is to provide affordable internet access to everyone, anywhere in the world, and its service has grown rapidly over the past four years, with more than 3,000 satellites in orbit and over 500,000 customers since 2019. As a WAN access technology though, satellite communication does experience its fair share of obstacles.

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Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform by snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

Network World

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash.

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Survey finds SD-WANs are hot, but satisfaction with telcos is not

Network World

This week SD-WAN vendor Cato Networks announced the results of its Telcos and the Future of the WAN in 2019 survey. The study was a mix of companies of all sizes, with 42% being enterprise-class (over 2,500 employees). More than 70% had a network with more than 10 locations, and almost a quarter (24%) had over 100 sites.

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What will be hot for Cisco in 2019?

Network World

That seems to be the mantra for Cisco in 2019 as the company pushes software-defined WANs, cloud partnerships, improved application programs and its over-arching drive to sell more subscription-based software licenses. Software, software and more software. billion.

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Aquaman's James Wan Was Secretly Working on a Black Manta Movie

Gizmodo

Back in early 2019 , we found out that hot on the heels of James Wan’s DC film Aquaman making a big box office splash (get it?), We all thought the news was too weird to be true and, apparently, it was. Warner Bros. was developing a smaller-scale, horror spinoff based on the creatures who appeared during its underwater… Read more.

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