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Subsea Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea Raise Sabotage, Security Concerns Across Region Subsea Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea Raise Sabotage, Security Concerns Across Region

AI factories from Dell, Deloitte, NVIDIA, and others provide the compute, storage, and networking infrastructure to operationalize AI.

Nov 20, 2024

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Dell, Deloitte, NVIDIA Roll Out New AI Factory Infrastructure Dell, Deloitte, NVIDIA Roll Out New AI Factory Infrastructure

byBrian T. Horowitz, Contributing Reporter

Nov 13, 2024

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Using AI to enhance data resilience is a powerful tool to augment existing strategies, not a replacement for sound data management practices.

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byDeepak Mohan, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Veritas Technologies

Nov 19, 2024

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Managing a network of region-specific cloud environments comes with its own set of challenges.

5 Tips for Optimizing Multi-Region Cloud Configurations 5 Tips for Optimizing Multi-Region Cloud Configurations

byDavid Balaban

Nov 18, 2024

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Will 2024 be remembered as the year geopolitical issues moved parties to act on waves of subsea cable cuts?

Subsea Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea Raise Sabotage, Security Concerns Across Region Subsea Cable Cuts in the Baltic Sea Raise Sabotage, Security Concerns Across Region

Preemptive cyber defense strategies not only strengthen a company’s immediate defenses but also prepare it for the future.

Nov 20, 2024

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Network Security

Emergence of Preemptive Cyber Defense: The Key to Defusing Sophisticated Attacks Emergence of Preemptive Cyber Defense: The Key to Defusing Sophisticated Attacks

byBrad LaPorte, CMO, Morphisec

Nov 12, 2024

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Broadcom launched a robust AI networking architecture, new appliances, and a partner program at its recent Explore event in Barcelona.

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byZeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research

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The gateway device defaults to 5G creating improved network resilience in case of a fiber outage.

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AT&T Gateway Automatically Fails Over from Fiber to 5G AT&T Gateway Automatically Fails Over from Fiber to 5G

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Nov 5, 2024

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Integrating the new APs into Dartmouth’s existing network infrastructure was no small feat. Mist’s AI-driven insights made this easier.

Sep 19, 2024

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How Dartmouth College Leveraged AI To Modernize Its Network in One Weekend How Dartmouth College Leveraged AI To Modernize Its Network in One Weekend

byZeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst with ZK Research

Sep 12, 2024

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Emergence of Preemptive Cyber Defense: The Key to Defusing Sophisticated Attacks Emergence of Preemptive Cyber Defense: The Key to Defusing Sophisticated Attacks

byBrad LaPorte, CMO, Morphisec

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David Erickson

David Erickson

David Erickson is the co-founder and CEO at Forward Networks. David holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford. He is a contributor to the OpenFlow spec and the author of Beacon, the OpenFlow controller at the core of commercial products from Big Switch Networks, Cisco, and others, and open source controllers such as Floodlight and OpenDaylight. His thesis used SDN to improve virtualized data center performance.

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Integrating the new APs into Dartmouth’s existing network infrastructure was no small feat. Mist’s AI-driven insights made this easier.

How Dartmouth College Leveraged AI To Modernize Its Network in One Weekend

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Extensive communications outages from Hurricane Helene drive home the need for new approaches to strengthen network resiliency.

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Hurricane Helene Communications Outages Show Need for Greater Network Resilience

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Satellite services could bridge the digital divide in remote areas through partnerships like the SoftBank-Intelsat collaboration announced last month.