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Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET After using Linux for a while, switching from one distribution to another becomes a fairly easy task. You know the landscape, and you understand the choices and how they are pieced together, so the decision becomes second nature. Also: The best-looking Linux desktop I’ve seen so far in 2025 — and it’s not even close But those early days can be filled with confusion, especially when trying to…

Kerry Wan/ZDNET The Bravia TV lineup, which consistently tops our list of best Sony TVs, is getting a little bigger.  Sony just announced its 2025 Bravia models, and while some sets carry over from last year, three new additions — including an OLED and a Mini-LED — are joining the fold.  Also: This Hisense 85-inch TV is still over $1,100 off on Amazon – and I highly recommend it Leading the way is the Bravia…

“We want to make it easier to build and manage complex networks, and some of that is taking away a lot of the busy work. The skill set of the network engineer is going to evolve quite a bit, making it possible for network engineers to worry less about the tactical details and the busy work and more on architecture and orchestration and decision making,” Beevers says. Network operations professionals face significant challenges with configuration…

Palo Alto has boosted this effort in recent years with the integration of precision artificial intelligence that includes machine learning and deep learning techniques, in addition to generative AI tools. “Our strategy is to ensure that the time to detect an attack and the time to resolve it (if it has occurred) are zero; currently, the average we manage, which is a great advantage over our competitors, is 10 seconds to detect the attack and…

The company also bolstered its SolarWinds Observability product with new integrations and support for cloud environments, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. The extended capabilities will provide IT operations teams with a unified view of the entire hybrid IT environment, SolarWinds says. “Organizations are rarely 100% cloud-native or on-premises, and invariably, assuming otherwise always limits the benefit of modern IT solutions. In reality, most organizations use a hybrid cloud…

Beyond blueprints that provide best practices and deployment guidance, there are specific innovations inside of a series of LF Networking projects. Joshipura noted that projects like Nephio simplify the deployment of cloud-native network functions with a declarative approach to service description and intent-based automation that converts operators’ desired state of the network to actual configuration tasks.  Additionally the Cloud-Native Telecom Initiative (CNTi) project creates definitions for best practices for developing and deploying cloud-native network functions…

But analysts have questioned whether the Microsoft move truly addresses those European business concerns. Phil Brunkard, executive counselor at Info-Tech Research Group UK, said, commenting on last month’s announcement of the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud,  “Microsoft says that customer data will remain stored and processed in the EU and EFTA, but doesn’t guarantee true data sovereignty.” And European companies are now rethinking what data sovereignty means to them. They are moving beyond…