Category: Software

September 19, 2019

A recent Amazon outage resulted in a small number of customers losing production data stored in their accounts. This, of course, led to typical anti-cloud comments that follows such events. The reality is that these customers data loss had nothing […]

September 18, 2019

Cisco is significantly spreading its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) technology to help customers grow and control hybrid, multicloud and SD-WAN environments. ACI is Cisco’s flagship software-defined networking (SDN) data-center package, but it also delivers the company’s Intent-Based Networking technology, which […]

September 17, 2019

Cable’s digital transformation has been focused on the access network transformation. The Distributed Access Architecture (DAA) is poised to lead that transformation. While technology has been standardized and well-vetted by vendors and operators, adoption has been slow. One of the […]

September 16, 2019

As the cloud era meets the demands of digital transformation, networks must change. That means for enterprises, they must become simpler, said Juniper CEO Rami Rahim, speaking at the company’s annual industry analyst conference last week. The past five years […]

September 12, 2019

With the Cisco acquisition of BroadSoft in February 2018, we promised that this partnership would result in incredible products for service provider partners and end customers. The strategy underlying this promise was simple – leverage the BroadSoft global, market share […]

September 11, 2019

The internet of things (IoT) has been top of mind for network and security professionals for the better part of the past five years. This has been particularly true for the area of industrial IoT (IIoT). Connected industrial devices are […]

September 9, 2019

Virtual private networks (VPNs) have long been a trusted tool in securing network communication transmitted across the dark void that is the public internet. Whether this network communication is point-to-point, establishing a secured connection between two corporate offices, or simply […]

September 6, 2019

Losing a network connection entirely is a worst-case scenario for an enterprise, but service “brown-outs” — defined as unexpected and unintentional drops in network quality — are expensive for businesses to deal with, according to a new survey by network […]

August 29, 2019

If you are researching network access control (NAC) producet for your enterprise, the first step is to narrow down the field. The top-ranked vendors on IT Central Station based on user reviews are Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Aruba ClearPass […]

August 23, 2019

In some ways, software-driven networking company Extreme Networks’ path to acquiring Aerohive Networks, a cloud-management networking company, began four years ago. That was when Extreme began assessing where its strengths and weakness were, Norman Rice, chief marketing, development and product […]