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Hybrid mesh firewall platforms gain interest as management challenges intensify

Network World

As enterprise networks get more complex, so do the firewall deployments. There are on-premises firewalls to manage, along with firewalls that are deployed in virtual machines and firewalls deployed in containers. A firewall used to be a box or a chasse with multiple cards," says Omdia analyst Fernando Montenegro.

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Oracle’s Larry Ellison looks to one-up Amazon, offering full cloud inside customer data centers

GeekWire

Oracle unveiled a new service that promises to make all of its public cloud services available as a fully managed cloud region in its customers’ data centers, developed by an Oracle team based largely in the company’s Seattle engineering office. “This is a first in the cloud industry.”

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Enterprises opt for different microsegmentation architectures

Network World

Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX. Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories.

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What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security

Network World

Microsegmentation is a method of creating secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allows companies to isolate workloads from one another and secure them individually. Microsegmentation vs. VLANs, firewalls and ACLs. It’s aimed at making network security more granular. Network segmentation isn’t new.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. The SFN8722 has 8 lanes of PCle 3.1

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Delivers 1000s Virtual NICs for Ultimate Scalability with the Lowest Possible Latency. These high performance Ethernet adapters has been designed for modern data centers that require scalability and performance. Marty Meehan. specification, with the addition of NC-SI (Network Controller Sideband Interface) manageability.

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China Is Said to Close Major Hole in its Great Internet Firewall

Data Center Knowledge

(Bloomberg) — China’s government has told telecommunications carriers to block individuals’ access to virtual private networks by Feb. 1, people familiar with the matter said, thereby shutting a major window to the global internet. Beijing has ordered state-run telecommunications firms, which.

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