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• How to combat counterfeit network gear

  In today challenging business and economic environment, everybody's looking for a deal. Yet there is one "bargain" that network managers should avoid at all costs.

• Top trends set to impact infrastructure and operations in 2023

  Two networking technologies – secure access service edge and wireless— lead a list of six core trends that will impact enterprise infrastructure and operations activity in 2023.

• Wireless and cloud gains temper record backlogs at Extreme Networks

  Extreme Networks CEO Ed Meyercord claims supply chain challenges haven't prevented a record revenue jump last quarter, particularly in Wi-Fi.

• What network observability means to customers and vendors

  Network observability can be dismissed as a buzzword, but to be useful it should include monitoring, security, data, and actionable insights.

• How chaos engineering can improve network resiliency

  Conventional wisdom says, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ Chaos engineering says, ‘Let’s try to break it anyway, just to see what happens.’

• Google Cloud adds networking, security features for enterprises

  Google Cloud has rolled out 20+ new features including Layer 7 security, policy analysis, and expanded network-connectivity options.

• Software vulnerabilities pose risk to network infrastructure

  IT pros need to require software bills of materials for the open source networking software used in their enterprises to guard against potential threats.

• 7 ways businesses can fight network tool sprawl

  Managing a raft of overlapping, siloed tools can create inefficiencies for network teams, but there are ways to address the problem.

• Network mistakes and misconfigurations cost companies millions

  Network misconfigurations cost companies an average of nine per cent of annual revenues, according to a study released by a network security company.

• Highlighting the emergence of multi-cloud networking software

  Multi-cloud networking software is designed to address the challenge of how to connect networks and apps across multiple public cloud environments.

• Kyndryl teams up with Cisco on edge networking, private cloud, managed services

  Kyndryl has partnered with Cisco to help enterprise customers implement a broad range of technologies from private 5G to data centre gear to edge devices.

• TLS implementation flaws open Aruba and Avaya network switches to attack

  The network switch vulnerabilities are considered critical and could allow attackers to break network segmentation, exfiltrate data, and escape captive portals.

• NaaS adoption will thrive despite vendor hype and migration challenges

  Enterprises are embracing network-as-a-service offerings as they work through vendor hype, budget obstacles, and the challenges of legacy systems.

• Aruba advances in Asia with Westcon, targets networking growth

  Aruba has signed a distribution agreement with Westcon amid plans to drive networking market growth via the channel across Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam.

• SmartNICs set to infiltrate enterprise network, security worlds

  Enterprise use of smartNICs is just beginning to appear, and VMware, Pensando, Aruba, Intel, AWS, Nvidia and Juniper are getting in on the action.