AI business applications, enterprise Al network fabrics, and evolving high-speed Ethernet technologies will dominate 2024 directions.
Arista’s core EOS and CloudVision software, along with its 400G and 800G switches, are its mainstays in the competitive networking equipment market, which stands to gain as Ethernet adoption in AI networks picks up pace.
Hardware and software additions to Fortinet's OT Security Platform are aimed at protecting assets linked to industrial networks and helping enterprises converge OT and IT network operations.
Fortinet Advisor is an AI-based assistant designed to help customers respond to threats more quickly.
IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a multicloud networking service that includes IT discovery, security, monitoring and traffic-engineering capabilities.
With Cisco AI Assistant for Security, enterprises can use natural language to discover policies and get rule recommendations, identify misconfigured policies, and simplify complex workflows.
IBM also shared its 10-year quantum computing roadmap, which prioritizes improvements in gate operations and error-correction capabilities.
Investment news follows a partnership between the vendors aimed at delivering an enterprise-grade SONiC offering for customers interested in the open-source network operating system.
Kyndryl and AWS have expanded their partnership to help enterprise customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe modernization initiatives.
Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say.