Arista Networks Inc. today announced a new network access control or NAC service on the opening day of this week’s RSA Conference in San Francisco. The vendor is best known as a high-performance network vendor but moved into the security industry when it acquired Awake Security, which brought network detection and response or NDR. Since then, ...

The industry’s largest security show, the RSA Conference, kicks off this week in San Francisco, but many companies are getting ahead of it with announcements — including Infoblox Inc, the market leader in Domain Name System, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol and IP address management, or DDI for short. It beat the news cycle last week when it announced ...

Market researcher Gartner Inc. released its 2023 Magic Quadrant for Security Service Edge earlier this month, shining a light on the leaders, and laggards, in the growing cybersecurity segment. For those not familiar with SSE, Gartner provides the following definition: “SSE secures access to the web, cloud services and private applications regardless of the location of the ...

Cloud communications provider Dialpad Inc. has announced a number of new generative artificial intelligence features for its AI-powered Customer Intelligence Platform. AI was the hot topic at the recent Enterprise Connect event and I certainly expect it to remain that way in the communications industry for the foreseeable future. With the AI revolution upon us, most of the ...

Load balancers have been a core part of application infrastructure since the mid-1990s. The load balancer, located between the application layer and network infrastructure, ensures high application performance and scalability, along with advanced capabilities that include security, visibility, automation and much more. There is no denying that we live in an application-driven economy. Application experience ...

I recently had the opportunity to visit Cisco Systems Inc.’s newly opened Atlanta office, and the space, similar to what the company did with its New York Penn1 location, has been designed for the needs of hybrid work, a huge topic of conversation at the recent Enterprise Connect 2023 event. The term “hybrid work” is ...

I’m a relatively new Adobe Inc. watcher, but given the trends toward digital customer experience getting infused with artificial intelligence, I felt now was the time to dedicate some energy to one of the more important CX vendors. That’s why I recently attended my first Adobe Summit. The company is perhaps widely known as “the PDF ...

For customers of security provider Fortinet Inc., its annual Accelerate user event this week in Orlando, Florida, is an important event because it typically includes new products as well as updates to existing products — and the 2023 version of Accelerate held true to that expectation. Fortinet has a very broad product set and it can be ...

Last week I attended the San Francisco Giants baseball team media day at Oracle Park, where the team unveiled its new brand campaign – “There’s Nothing Like It” — as a way of describing the unique experience baseball can bring. It’s particularly germane at a ballpark that has attributes such as a secret bowling alley, a ...

Nvidia Corp.‘s virtual GTC 2023 conference running this week has almost too many announcements to digest, and they go well beyond its signature graphics processing units. But after sifting through many pre-briefings for GTC 2023, here’s are what I think are the top five announcements, plus one honorable mention. 1. Accelerating chip innovation with cuLitho One ...