Category: Syndicated

HPE gets SASE with the acquisition of Axis Security

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s just-reported financial results were certainly interesting and show continued progress, but that wasn’t the most interesting announcement HPE made Thursday.

Aruba, the networking division of HPE, announced its intent to acquire Israel-based Axis Security Ltd., which is one of many providers of secure service edge, or SSE, on the market today. Axis came to market with zero-trust network access as a service but since then has added other core components of SSE, including cloud access security broker, or CASB, and secure web gateway, or SWG. It also has digital experience management or DEM, which isn’t typically associated with security, but I believe an important part of SSE.

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HPE gets SASE with the acquisition of Axis Security

NVIDIA Report: Telco Transformation Requires Artificial Intelligence

Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off this week in Barcelona. The theme of the event is telco transformation – as it has been for some time.

Clearly, the evolution of telcos is long overdue. Most communication and network service providers have networks that rely too heavily on people, spend too much on infrastructure and deliver services too slowly to compete with the cloud companies. This leads to their net promotor and customer service scores being abhorrently low. This is why this group of companies is often relegated to being the “plumbing” of company infrastructure.

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NVIDIA Report: Telco Transformation Requires Artificial Intelligence

Fortinet’s John Maddison Discusses the Convergence of Network and Security and Its Role in An Evolving Threat Landscape

Trends like digital transformation, work from anywhere (WFA), and the use of personal devices for work – all accelerated by the pandemic – are reshaping how businesses approach their network infrastructures. One of the top considerations is how to protect people, information, and devices against surging and ever-evolving cybersecurity threats in this new hybrid, highly distributed world.

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Fortinet’s John Maddison Discusses the Convergence of Network and Security and Its Role in An Evolving Threat Landscape

Unified Communications Tools Fuel Hybrid Work but Creates Risks

Software company Theta Lake, which specializes in unified communications (UC) compliance and security, recently conducted its annual benchmark survey late last year to understand how communications platforms are being used and which issues organizations are struggling with the most.

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Unified Communications Tools Fuel Hybrid Work but Creates Risks

HPE acquires Athonet for private wireless network capabilities

MWC, the former Mobile World Congress, doesn’t get going until next week, but there has already been some interesting news in the red-hot topic of private cellular.

Late Thursday night, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. announced it’s acquiring the private cellular network provider Athonet for an undisclosed amount. The Vicenza, Italy-based company was founded in 2005 and offers a Citizens Broadband Radio Service-based mobile packet core, SIM cards and radios to set up and deploy a private cellular network quickly and easily.

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HPE acquires Athonet for private wireless network capabilities