Network World Daily News Alert | | | | Network analytics, both wired and wireless, has over the past few years opened the door to the greater utilization of AI and ML in organizational settings. AI and ML are poised to complete the feedback loop between analytics and management console settings. This form of automation can help reduce costs while enhancing reliability, availability, overall performance and staff productivity – for network operations teams and end users alike. Read More ▶ | | | In the four years since the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, the IT world has evolved. RHEL 8 Beta brings innovation and dozens of new features. Read More ▶ | | Large swaths of additional unlicensed spectrum will become available in the U.S. for connected devices, including Wi-Fi, if various proposals and schemes by the FCC come about. 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 ▶ | | Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard and soft savings. Hard savings come from new connectivity contracts, including reduction in the use of MPLS in favor of less expensive options, such as broadband or cellular. Soft savings come from ensuring quality of service connections to cloud platforms or other hosted applications; centrally managing and ensuring comprehensive security across the WAN; and ensuring high availability connections to WAN sites and ease of management related to use of a cloud-managed SD-WAN. 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 ▶ | | Investments in IoT security can have significant positive business implications, a
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