Michael Cooney
Michael Cooney is a Senior Editor with Network World who has written about the IT world for more than 25 years. He can be reached at michael_cooney@idg.com.
Cisco: 5 hot networking trends for 2020
Cisco exec says SD-WAN, Wi-Fi 6, multi-domain control, virtual networking and the evolving role of network engineers will be big in 2020
Cisco grabs Exablaze for low-latency chip technology
Cisco continues to build up its internal electronics tools, saying it will acquire Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology designer Exablaze for an undisclosed amount.
Cisco targets hyperscalers with silicon, high-end routers
Cisco rolls out its Silicon One plan, 8000 Series carrier-class routers and aims at selling chips to whitebox or hyperscale developers
What’s hot at the edge for 2020? Everything
From SD-WAN and cloud interconnection to security, the edge will be one active place in 2020
What’s hot for Cisco in 2020
Experts expect that Cisco will focus on building-out cloud, SD-WAN and security in 2020.
Juniper broadens SD-Branch management, switch options
Juniper expands Contrail SD-WAN package to include support for SD-LAN operations.
AWS rolls out Outposts for on-premises hybrid cloud
Cisco, Aruba, Juniper are among others that support Amazon's Outposts hybrid-cloud service supported by hardware in customers' private data centers.
Cisco goes deep into AWS hybrid cloud with SD-WAN, security, Outposts data center support
Cisco took its integration with Amazon Web Services to a new level by saying it would integrate its SD-WAN, network services and security with the cloud giant’s just-released Outposts hybrid cloud environment.
Extreme targets data center automation with software, switches
Extreme Networks software and switches are trying to bring simplicity to complex data center fabric management
IBM aims at hybrid cloud, enterprise security
IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyberattacks
Juniper aims to ease wired, wireless, multicloud management
Juniper has enhanced its network and hybrid cloud management software by integrating further the AI technology it recently acquired from Mist, and adding new features to its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud software.
Arista targets cloud networking with CloudEOS software
Two new Arista software packages address connectivity issues between public and private clouds, create instances of its Cloud EOS in a Kubernetes container.
Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software
Cisco is bringing some of the bells and whistles of it Catalyst environment to Meraki customers with hardware and software to help customers better support and secure distributed network resources.
VMware amps security with in-house, Carbon Black technology
VMware's Carbon Black platform, along with VMware NSX, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Secure State and future innovations, will deliver built-in security to networks, endpoints, workloads, identity\ies, cloud and analytics.
Cisco forges tighter SD-WAN links to Microsoft Azure cloud, Office 365
A broadened Cisco-Microsoft partnership promises extending Cisco SD-WAN to the Azure cloud and optimizing and securing connectivity to Office 365.
Juniper set to reinforce edge, cloud technologies
Juniper is expected to detail a number of trends and directions but perhaps the most important development is the vendor’s further integration of technology it bought from Mist in March for $405 million.
Gartner crystal ball: Looking beyond 2020 at the top IT-changing technologies
Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond is heavily weighted toward the human side of technology
Gartner: Top 10 strategic technology trends for 2020
Gartner: Hyperautomation, AI-based security, distributed cloud computing and intelligent edge systems will be all the rage
Cisco issues critical security warning for IOS XE REST API container
This Cisco IOS XE REST API vulnerability could lead to attackers obtaining the token-id of an authenticated user.
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