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Koch CTO teams up to get cloud networking right

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud deployments typically come in the form of multiple accounts, including multiple LAN segments that need to be connected. Instead, Koch’s engineering team set about virtualizing the physical transports to build the SD-LAN and firewall within the cloud rather than in the data center.

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The 10 most in-demand tech jobs for 2023 — and how to hire for them

CIO Business Intelligence

But 86% of technology managers also said that it’s challenging to find skilled professionals in software and applications development, technology process automation, and cloud architecture and operations. Companies will have to be more competitive than ever to land the right talent in these high-demand areas.

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What’s next for network firewalls?

CIO Business Intelligence

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. For example, a typical NGFW now may be equipped with firewalling, SD-WAN, a Wi-Fi controller for SD-Branch, an Ethernet controller, and zero-trust functionality.

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Interop Liveblog: IPv6 Microsegmentation

Scott Lowe

According to Ivan, the root cause of all these problems originates with the fact that all LAN infrastructure today emulates 40 year old thick coax cable. For Carrier Ethernet, Cisco ME3600—a very expensive switch—will allow you to implement such an architecture. Microsoft also has a stateful IPv6 firewall.).

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). Today, the service provider houses over 1,425 virtual servers running on 70 industrystandard Egenera servers, 370 terabytes of storage and 1,250 virtualized firewalls.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO Business Intelligence

SD-WAN architectures support modern, distributed, hybrid workforces, offering key benefits like network resiliency, application visibility and optimization, automated bandwidth management, and performance and availability of cloud-based workloads. Next-gen security architecture.

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