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Beyond Legacy DDI: How Cygna Labs is Solving Modern Network Management Challenges

Cygna Labs' software-defined DDI platform unifies fragmented network management across cloud, edge, and IoT environments without requiring infrastructure replacement.

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Beyond Legacy DDI: How Cygna Labs is Solving Modern Network Management Challenges
September 25, 2025

Beyond Legacy DDI: How Cygna Labs is Solving Modern Network Management Challenges

Cygna Labs' software-defined DDI platform unifies fragmented network management across cloud, edge, and IoT environments without requiring infrastructure replacement.

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F5 Acquires CalypsoAI: Adding Enterprise AI Security Through Inference Protection
September 18, 2025

F5 Acquires CalypsoAI: Adding Enterprise AI Security Through Inference Protection

F5's acquisition of CalypsoAI adds inference-layer AI security to its Application Delivery Platform, defending against prompt injection and model manipulation attacks.

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CheckPoint Acquires Lakera in AI Security Push
September 16, 2025

CheckPoint Acquires Lakera in AI Security Push

CheckPoint's acquisition of AI security specialist Lakera combines inference-layer protection technology with CheckPoint's Infinity Platform, addressing urgent enterprise need for AI-native security defenses against prompt injection and model manipulation attacks.

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Keysight's AI-Enabled Packet Brokers: The Shift from Reactive to Proactive Security
September 15, 2025

Keysight's AI-Enabled Packet Brokers: The Shift from Reactive to Proactive Security

AI-enabled packet brokers automatically learn network baselines to eliminate manual configuration, enabling faster threat detection and consolidated security operations.

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SentinelOne Acquires ObservoAI: Building the Autonomous SOC Via Intelligent Data Pipelines
September 10, 2025

SentinelOne Acquires ObservoAI: Building the Autonomous SOC Via Intelligent Data Pipelines

ObservoAI's AI-native pipeline technology that reduces telemetry volumes strengthens SentinelOne's transformation into an AI-powered security platform as data increases overwhelm traditional SIEMs.

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Varonis Acquires SlashNext: A Strategic Move to Combat AI-Driven Email Threats
September 2, 2025

Varonis Acquires SlashNext: A Strategic Move to Combat AI-Driven Email Threats

SlashNext's predictive AI technology for real-time email threat detection strengthens Varonis's security capabilities as cybercriminals increasingly weaponize AI for more sophisticated attacks.

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Microsoft's Zero Trust DNS: Encrypted Name Resolution for Modern Enterprises
August 21, 2025

Microsoft's Zero Trust DNS: Encrypted Name Resolution for Modern Enterprises

Microsoft's Zero Trust DNS (ZTDNS) addresses critical DNS security vulnerabilities by encrypting queries and enforcing endpoint policies, transforming Windows devices into active participants in DNS-based threat prevention.

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Unified Security Management: SonicWall's Perspective on MSP Operational Efficiency
August 14, 2025

Unified Security Management: SonicWall's Perspective on MSP Operational Efficiency

Unified security management platforms with AI automation enable MSPs to scale operations efficiently by consolidating multiple tool interfaces and reducing administrative overhead.

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AI's Hidden Chokepoint: Switch Buffer Architecture
August 11, 2025

AI's Hidden Chokepoint: Switch Buffer Architecture

While AI discussions focus on GPU counts and compute power, the overlooked switch buffer architecture choice (split versus shared) determines whether synchronized training runs efficiently or becomes an expensive bottleneck.

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Q-Day Day Is Coming: Why Quantum Readiness Can't Wait
July 29, 2025

Q-Day Day Is Coming: Why Quantum Readiness Can't Wait

The moment quantum computers become powerful enough to crack current encryption is expected in the coming years, though hackers are already stealing encrypted data now to decrypt it later.

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Unlocking AI Transcription Accuracy: 5 Crucial Insights from our Best Practices Guide
July 10, 2025

Unlocking AI Transcription Accuracy: 5 Crucial Insights from our Best Practices Guide

Tolly's rigorous study sets the stage for five indispensable takeaways that turn AI transcription into a reliably accurate tool.

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Testing Networks for AI: Keysight’s Perspective on Performance and Optimization
June 26, 2025

Testing Networks for AI: Keysight’s Perspective on Performance and Optimization

Holistic workload and security emulation aligns congestion controls and threat defenses so high-speed AI infrastructures stay fast, lossless, and resilient.

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Testing Networks for AI: Xena’s Perspective on Performance and Optimization
June 26, 2025

Testing Networks for AI: Xena’s Perspective on Performance and Optimization

End-to-end generators with pinpoint impairment testing fine-tune lossless Ethernet features, keeping AI workloads on schedule while sidestepping costly over-provisioning.

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Testing Networks for AI: Spirent’s Perspective on Testing Challenges & Solutions
June 26, 2025

Testing Networks for AI: Spirent’s Perspective on Testing Challenges & Solutions

Scalable traffic-emulation uncovers hidden congestion and accelerates AI training timelines, letting teams vet next-gen fabrics without standing up enormous GPU labs.

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Optimizing Real-Time Analytics for Modern Enterprise Network
June 16, 2025

Optimizing Real-Time Analytics for Modern Enterprise Network

Modern enterprise networks require real-time analytics to navigate complex IT landscapes and proactively optimize performance across hybrid infrastructures.

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Next-Gen Data Center Connectivity
June 16, 2025

Next-Gen Data Center Connectivity

Ultra-fast, reliable connections are transforming data centers to support massive parallel computing and AI workloads with reduced latency and increased throughput.

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How IPv6 RDMA Offload is Revolutionizing AI Workloads
June 16, 2025

How IPv6 RDMA Offload is Revolutionizing AI Workloads

AI training and processing demands are driving a paradigm shift in network performance through specialized hardware offload that dramatically reduces latency and improves data exchange speeds.

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Elevating Cloud Security: How Managed Rule Sets Transform API Protection
June 16, 2025

Elevating Cloud Security: How Managed Rule Sets Transform API Protection

Managed rule sets streamline web application security by providing comprehensive, automatically-updated protection against evolving cyber threats without requiring specialized security expertise.

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Novel IoT Security Solutions
June 16, 2025

Novel IoT Security Solutions

Lightweight, efficient security architectures are emerging to protect the rapidly expanding IoT ecosystem while maintaining device performance and minimal resource consumption.

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