Network World Daily News Alert | | | | Enterprises planning to adopt hyperconverged infrastructure can select from two main approaches: hardware or software. Hyperconvergence hardware typically comes in the form of an integrated appliance, a hardware/software package created and delivered by a single vendor. Appliance vendors include Dell EMC, Nutanix and HPE/SimpliVity. A software-only hyperconvergence offering allows customers to deploy HCI on DIY basis. HCI software vendors include Maxta and VMware (vSAN). Read More ▶ | | | IBM's purchase of Red Hat may be a good strategic fit for IBM, but the payback is anything but guaranteed. Read More ▶ | | Performance varies widely among the big three cloud service providers – AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – and their networks are a big reason why, a ThousandEyes study reveals. Read More ▶ | | | Amazon Web Services and Cisco have teamed to help customers build apps in the cloud or data centers and move easily between the two. Read More ▶ | | TLS is a security staple that, despite being more efficient and effective than SSL, has suffered some major breaches, but TLS 1.3 vastly improves both the privacy and performance of secure Web communications. Read More ▶ | | Join the Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ | Get ongoing access to our exclusive Insider content — in-depth articles available only to Insider members. You get access not only to Network World's Insider content but to selected Insider content from Computerworld, CIO.com, InfoWorld, CSO, and other IDG publications. Sign up at no cost today! ▶ | | | |