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Intel embraces SDN to modernize its chip factories

CIO

The survey also showed that 31% of manufacturers say optimized WAN traffic for latency, jitter, and packet loss is another top reason for SDN/SD-WAN investment and is considered very important for managing factory floor equipment in real-time.

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Pwned Android, Chromium devices drive winnings at Tokyo hacker contest

The Parallax

But what’s become apparent over the past several years is that improperly maintained but widely used, open-source projects such as Android and Chromium, the basis for Google’s Chrome browser, contribute a disproportionate number of victories to hackers, says Brian Gorenc, who heads up Zero Day Initiative , which organizes the Pwn2Own contests. .

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News in Networking: Meeker’s Internet Trends, SD-WAN Adoption, and OS Networking

Kentik

SD-WAN is not top-of-mind for IT professionals — at least not yet, according to a new survey. And open source networking tools may be getting better, but there’s still a lot of challenges with them. And Alexa is becoming a popular household name, as voice services are taking over typing.

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News in Networking: SD-WAN for $3.3B and Facebook’s Free Open/R Networking Tool

Kentik

This week, we learned the SD-WAN market is forecasted to reach $3.3 Also this week, Facebook open-sourced its Open/R networking development platform. Here are those headlines and more: Cisco, VMware in SD-WAN market ‘two-horse race’ (SDxCentral). Charter taps SD-WAN to boost off-net reac (Light Reading).

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Mio raises $8.7M Series A to make enterprise messaging interoperable

TechCrunch

Nextplane offers somewhat similar capabilities and with Matrix, there is an open source protocol for decentralized messaging with bridges to Slack, Discord and others (but not Teams, Zoom and Webex). .” Given the obvious need for a service like this, it’s no surprise that there is a bit of competition here.

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News in Networking: Security-Defined Networking, SD-WAN, and Container Strategies

Kentik

SD-WAN is still hogging the spotlight, but CenturyLink says it’s “no quick fix.” CenturyLink: SD-WAN No Quick Fix (Light Reading) The hype of SD-WAN is here. This week the meaning of SDN changed. That is, if you’re working in Cisco’s Security Business. Meanwhile, containers are a big part of AT&T’s network strategy.

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO

By 2019, with an SD-WAN in place, the firm had deployed video-enabled Microsoft SharePoint and Teams on its Windows-based corporate laptops and had migrated its accounting practice management to Microsoft Azure. For them, it is career advancement. It’s a win-win.”. Today, roughly 85% of the firm’s data is in the cloud.

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