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Virtualization policy

Tech Republic Data Center

Virtualization platforms are available from a number of vendors, but it’s still critical to maintain your virtualization environment to avoid unnecessary resource consumption, out of-compliance systems or applications, data loss, security breaches and other negative outcomes.

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Aflac virtualizes the customer enrollment experience

CIO Business Intelligence

The traditional in-person process of insurance agents meeting with prospective customers to discuss policies, sign paperwork, and load it into the company’s client/server system came to a complete halt. Virtualizing policy enrollment. As a result, policy sales have vastly improved.

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Catbird CTO on why new security models are essential for highly virtualized data centers

IT Toolbox

Or are new approaches needed to gain policy-based control over all virtual assets at all times? Are yesterday?s s perimeter-based security infrastructure methods up to the task?

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Microsoft partners with Citrix for the future of virtual desktops

The Verge

It’s a deal designed to speed up Citrix customers to move to the cloud and virtual desktops. Microsoft has been investing heavily in Windows Virtual Desktops recently, ever since the pandemic forced many businesses to shift to working from home. While Microsoft and Citrix are working more closely together, it’s not an exclusive deal.

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Juniper tunes AI to find and fix SD-WAN, WAN routing problems

Network World

The enhancements are aimed at fortifying the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year , which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering.

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Examining the Needs of a Policy Solution

Scott Lowe

In April of this year, we started a series of articles at Network Heresy on the topic of policy in the data center. The first of these articles, which I mentioned in this post , focused on the problem of policy in the data center. The language(s) used to express policy. Technology Short Take #35.

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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. Companies have relied on firewalls , virtual local area networks (VLAN) and access control lists (ACL) for network segmentation for years.

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