Fortinet Inc. this week announced its FortiGate Rugged 70G with 5G Dual Modem, the latest appliance from the company, built on its fifth-generation security processor. The product has been hardened and is specifically designed to meet the demands of industrial environments. It simplifies the complex and costly infrastructure needed for high-performance networking in remote locations, while its rugged design ensures that it can withstand the harshest conditions.

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Fortinet rolls out SD-WAN appliance aimed at operational technology environments

Softbank Group Corp.-backed Cohesity Inc. today boldly announced its intent to acquire the Veritas Technologies LLC‘s data protection business for $3 billion. The purchase will be funded one-third with equity, and the other two-thirds will be debt-financed through Haveli Investments, Premji Invest and Madrona Venture Group.

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Looking at both sides of Cohesity’s acquisition of Veritas’ data protection unit

Digital infrastructure company Equinix Inc. recently launched a private cloud service that allows organizations to manage their own Nvidia Corp. DGX supercomputing infrastructure for building custom generative artificial intelligence models.

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Equinix and Nvidia partner to simplify the deployment of AI infrastructure

As usual, Cisco Systems Inc.‘s annual user conference, Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam, serves as a platform for the networking giant to release the latest innovations across many of its product lines. Although this event is considerably smaller than the U.S. Cisco Live, it’s important for the company as Europe, the Middle East and Africa is a highly diverse region spread out across 120 countries.

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Analyzing all the security and AI news from Cisco Live EMEA 2024

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result, it might be time to stop trying to get servers to do something they’re not designed to do. Servers are effective at many things but were never designed for the rigors of software-defined networking, storage and security.

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Stop using servers to do things they’re not good at: How DPUs can change the data game