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Juniper Networks continues to grow its enterprise cloud-security family with a new product that promises to protect application workloads in any cloud or on-premises environment. The company rolled out Juniper Cloud Workload Protection package–a  lightweight software agent that the company says controls application execution and monitors application behavior to help businesses spot and fix anomalies. The idea is to provide protection from attackers looking to exploit application vulnerabilities, said Kate Adam, senior director of security…

If you’re going hiking, you need hiking boots—not dress shoes. In the same way, if you’re connecting assets in an industrial environment, you need an industrial ethernet switch, not an enterprise switch. Here’s what’s different about industrial ethernet switches. Tight spaces: round pegs don’t fit in square holes Industrial Ethernet switches bring high-speed connectivity outside traditional office buildings, factories, ports and terminals, railways, ships, energy farms, or mines. They connect industrial Internet of Things (IoT)…

The desire to learn is innate to us, and access to classrooms is the bridge that connects learners with educators. The pandemic has forced an experiment that moved education to digital classrooms, and online learning proved to be the catalyst for creating novel learning models for imparting knowledge and developing new skills. With this evolution of virtual learning, the construct of distance is dissolving, and hybrid experiences have become ubiquitous, necessary, and many times proved…

In the last year, communication networks have emerged as a de facto way for people to stay connected with their family and friends and carry out their professional tasks, as lockdowns and social distancing norms made it impossible to lead normal lives. Telco network became the digital foundation for everything that needed connection for instance eEducation, eHealth, eCommerce, eRetail, etc. However, while people in urban areas have used high-speed broadband and digital platforms to stay…

We can all make an impact. How have you made yours? For me, as a Consulting Engineer on our Customer Experience team in Bangalore, India — I have turned to educating my town’s children during what has been a difficult time for us all. You see, I come from a very small town in India named Osmanabad where virtual collaboration tools, its awareness and internet infrastructure are not as good as they are In Tier-1…

Pam Lindemeon I’m delighted to announce the latest member of our growing CISO Advisor team, Pam Lindemeon. Pam joins us with 25 years experience in the IT industry, with her most recent role being Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Anthem, Inc. At Anthem Pam was considered a bold and strategic thinker who envisioned and delivered a world class Enterprise Information Security strategy, including leading the Steering Committee with cross functional business and technology membership….

It’s almost unimaginable that a year and a half ago, a global pandemic unlike anything we’ve ever seen, upturned our world. Overnight, we were forced to reimagine learning, reimagine work, and reimagine care. Now, eighteen months later, healthcare is at another critical inflection point, as we look at the future of care and how the pandemic has changed the way care is delivered and received. Technology is now synonymous with healthcare. Patient and clinician expectations,…

The benefits of automating IT and business processes run the gamut, from better customer experiences (CX) and greater employee productivity, to decreased costs, increased revenue, and more. But organizations with highly mature operations reap even greater benefits than their low-maturity operational counterparts. Why? Because their embrace of automation gives them greater adaptability, resilience, and agility. That’s according to the final installment of a Cisco-commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Over the past few weeks, we’ve…

A startup called Pliops has emerged from stealth mode with a new way to do data processing. Rather than load data into main memory as is traditionally done, the Pliops technology offloads data and the application to a PCI Express card, and data is processed where it is stored, thus freeing up the CPU for other tasks. It’s called computational storage. The concept has been around for a while, but like so many technological ideas,…

If you only use awk when you need to select specific fields from lines of text, you might be missing out on a lot of other services that the command can provide. In this post, we’ll look at this simple use along with many other things that awk can do for you with enough examples to show you that the command is a lot more flexible than you might have imagined. Plucking out columns of data The easiest and…