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5 dead-end IT skills — and how to avoid becoming obsolete

CIO

Vaclav Vincalek, CTO and founder at 555vCTO, points to Google’s use of software-defined networking to interconnect its global data centers. Maintaining network devices like routers, switches, and firewalls by hand are examples.”

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Why “café-like branches” are the latest buzz among CIOs

CIO

By decoupling physical locations from traditional office networkssuch as those reliant on firewalls or virtual private networks (VPNs)organizations gained an opportunity to adopt more agile configurations like caf-like branches. Todays offices host millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, from smart thermostats to connected printers.

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Secure Your 5G Business Transformation

Palo Alto Networks

Instead of maintaining a dedicated SCADA server at each remote office, the company chose to consolidate with a single SCADA server located at the data center. This includes employees with 5G powered phones or infrastructure, like IoT/OT devices or SD-WAN devices, with 5G connectivity for Branch WAN connectivity.

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How Cloud Security Influences IoT Security

Xebia

I keep on finding security issues at IoT vendors cloud services, and that saddens me. That is why I joined Xebia to learn more about cloud security and help IoT vendors to fix security issues with their cloud infrastructure. The default security of our IoT devices are improving. A typical IoT device network.

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SASE Reality Check: Security and SD-WAN Integration Journey

CIO

Network security policies that are based on the legacy data-center environment where applications are backhauled to the data center affect application performance and user experience negatively within a cloud-first environment.

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Enabling Digital Transformation, Securely

CIO

The shift to the public cloud from private data centers has been swift and sweeping, and cloud-based applications are the new standard. Bringing computing and analytics closer to data sources allows for faster processing and opens new possibilities for IoT applications. Data and applications sat inside data centers.

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Ixia Performance Test Confirms PA-7080 Is Fastest NGFW

Palo Alto Networks

Mobility and cloud are transforming today’s networks, bringing an explosion of data and new mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices with greater access to data and services anywhere, anytime. Application workloads are now more dynamic and move across multiple physical data centers and private, public and hybrid clouds.