Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

SolarWinds this week introduced a new incident response product and announced AI-based updates to its observability platform and service management product that are aimed at strengthening IT operational resilience.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 2, 2025

Last week, I spoke at the C2 conference in London. The C2 conference is an invite-only threat intelligence conference run by the team at SE Labs. The core themes of the event were timely and provoked interesting discussion: artificial intelligence, supply chain security, and cyber hygiene.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Among respondents, 84% have five or more network management tools today, while 42% said they have 11 or more. Some 64% of respondents stated that “poor network management tools impede the adoption of new technologies,” according to the report, Cloud and Internet Usage Generates Network Observability Blind Spots.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Two of six critical vulnerabilities in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition Migration tool, which the company patched in October, are being actively exploited according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 31, 2024

When IT leaders consider generative AI, they should create separate strategies when rolling out productivity-enhancing AI tools than when deploying business-case-driven AI solutions, according to new research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One reason may be because they have taken a one-size-fits-all approach to AI.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Depending on the tool you use, you can also password protect, encrypt and digitally sign PDFs. These include: Reliability: PDF files can be opened on most if not all platforms without requiring a specific tool. The variety of tools available for use on Linux systems as well as others is quite impressive. using a PDF editor).

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sonnet, through the Anthropic API , to read and interpret what’s on the display, type text, move the cursor, click buttons, and switch between windows or applications — much as today’s robotic process automation (RPA) tools can be instructed — much more laboriously — to do. It enables developers to instruct Claude 3.5 Key to that is Claude 3.5

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity. With FortiAppSec Cloud, customers don’t need to juggle multiple separate tools to secure and ensure delivery of core applications, saving time and costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

We saw a large bump in usage and weve been working with the teams to understand their consumption and manage that, but Im not sure we have enough tools that provide the right level of insight to effectively manage consumption in that space yet. And among the tool sets available, a few trends stand out.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. Sysdig, the lead commercial sponsor behind Wireshark, wants to change that with the new Stratoshark tool. Amazon has multiple tools including CloudTrail and CloudWatch for cloud logs and metrics.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Over the last several years, NetBox has established itself as a widely used open-source tool for understanding and modeling networks. The Assurance solution leverages NetBox Labs agent-based discovery architecture, which differentiates it from traditional monolithic network discovery tools. NS1 was subsequently acquired by IBM.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

CyberSeek is a data analysis and aggregation tool powered by a collaboration among Lightcast, a provider of global labor market data and analytics; NICE, a program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology focused on advancing cybersecurity education and workforce development; and IT certification and training group CompTIA.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

These companies also perceive a greater need for a network observability tool that can support zero trust. Typically, they want an observability tool that can facilitate access policy design. OT challenges to zero trust EMAs research asked respondents to identify various challenges to their zero-trust projects.

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Network World

JANUARY 9, 2025

Using the same tools and techniques as hackers lets security professionals find exploitable weaknesses in the system. Vulnerability discovery and analysis: Features updated skills that cover vulnerability scanning tools, analysis, management, and physical security weaknesses.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This will enhance organizations’ abilities to customize large language models, use inference performance engineering for infrastructure efficiency, and partner in the open-source ecosystem to enable broader choices for hardware and chip architecture. “AI

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2025

Traditional generative AI workflows arent very useful for needs like these because they cant easily access DevOps tools or data. MCP, which Anthropic introduced as an open standard in late 2024 , is a protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and data sources. The MCP standard works using a server-client architecture.

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

Riverbed this week unveiled updates to its AIOps and observability platform that the company says will transform how IT organizations manage complex distributed infrastructure and data more efficiently and tame the proliferation of monitoring tools. Its all about getting the right data at the right time. However, consolidation is hard.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Gen AI-driven application modernization tools are revolutionizing mainframe modernization strategies, accelerating time to value, and closing mainframe skills gaps by enabling developers to modernize or build applications faster and more efficiently,” the study stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2025

Just as generative AI tools are fundamentally changing the ways developers write code, theyre being used to refactor code as well. AI tools can be adept at spotting code that technically works but is poorly designed and could give rise to future problems exactly the sort of code you need to eliminate to pay down tech debt.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2025

Upskilling for the AI-integrated workflow AI is changing not only the tools IT teams use but also the capabilities they need. To balance tool investments with staffing needs, organizations must first identify which tasks can be automated and which still require human expertise. That said, some roles are starting to shift.

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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

By integrating these AI insights with network automation tools, IT organizations can trigger automated workflows that resolve problems, adjust capacity, and make other proactive changes to ensure infrastructure resilience. Theyre also tasked with supporting new initiatives and reducing costs.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In fact, Gartner takes points away from Microsoft because, according to the report, Microsofts Azure Monitor doesnt yet offer support for automated ingestion of OTel data directly via a collector interface; it requires an additional exporter tool.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 4, 2025

AI-generated threats are reshaping security priorities AI is not just a target for attack; its also a tool attackers are using. Tools that can spot unusual behavior, monitor AI access patterns, and detect anomalies in real time are becoming essential. Modern identity and access management (IAM) tools must evolve to support these needs.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Tools must integrate within existing systems, support Day 0 to Day N use cases and provide the ability to scale with network growth. Gartner suggests starting small and performing proof of concept (PoC) tests before moving tools into production.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

JARVIS tools include AWS services such as EC2, EKS and S3, Kubernetes operations, and JIRA for ticket handling and user communication, Kalpage said. The integration nightmare : Most enterprises have dozens of disjointed tools. Platform engineering has hit a crisis point of complexity.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A key requirement was to be able to integrate the various security tools with Orbia’s existing infrastructure, such as SD-WAN, identity providers, and observability platforms, to gain a consolidated view of internet traffic and access patterns.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Traditional virtualization platforms like VMware vSphere operate independently from container orchestration systems, requiring separate management tools, workflows, and expertise. Commercial support and tooling are available from multiple vendors. Manage both VMs and containers using the same Kubernetes tools and workflows.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

There are still significant challenges in collecting, analyzing, and sharing management data, according to the research firm. Network observability solutions must leverage all available mechanisms – from logs to polls to telemetry to synthetic tests – to develop a complete picture of network conditions and components,” IDC stated.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The cloud is a tool like any other; how you use it is what matters,” he said. Create a context-driven ethos : Bring identity, vulnerability, misconfiguration, and data risk information together in a unified tool to obtain accurate visualization, context, and prioritization around cloud security risk.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 29, 2025

Some AI experts define agentic AI as a tool that can make autonomous decisions within the enterprise, learn from past experiences, and adapt its responses, whereas others suggest that any AI with some decision-making functionality qualifies as agentic. In some cases, IT leaders may need agents, but many other AI tools can be useful.

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