VMware Inc. announced several product updates to its networking and security products at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, in the first major update for the company since Broadcom Inc. acquired it. Before the event, I had a preview of the developments with Abe Ankumah, head of SASE/SD-WAN, and Padma Sudarsan, the chief of architecture for telco, both ...

Two of the big themes at the 2024 edition of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week are artificial intelligence and 5G — and although one might view the two as separate technology trends, they are linked. Service providers are currently investing heavily in maintaining and upgrading their services to comply with evolving tech standards ...

Historically, threat actors would work diligently to hack through next-generation firewalls, endpoint detection systems and other traditional security tools — something that takes significant work and is often for nothing, since perimeter security is excellent today. For the bad guys, a better approach is to go through the users. Once credentials are stolen, the threat ...

When Tarun Loomba became chief executive of Mitel Networks Inc. in 2021, the company made an interesting pivot. While the entire communications industry has been shifting to a software-as-a-service-based model, leveraging the public cloud, Mitel took a step back, looked at its strengths and the market, and decided to dedicate itself to serving customers via ...

For the better part of the last decade, customer experience has ranked near or at the top of every information technology and business leader’s priority list. That’s because 90% of companies compete on CX, significantly up from 26% five years ago. Another interesting supporting data point from my research is that, in 2023, 71% of ...

Nearly every sports team plays in facilities carrying a corporate brand, such as Lumen Field, the home of the Seattle Seahawks, or T-Mobile Park, the Mariners’ home field. Not the Seattle Kraken. The most recent team to be added to the National Hockey League plays in The Climate Pledge Arena. It’s the only facility named after a cause. The ...

Cisco Systems Inc.‘s fiscal second-quarter earnings report today was certainly a mix of good and bad. The networking giant put up a solid quarter, with earnings per share of 87 cents, slightly ahead of its guide, and revenue of $12.8 billion, which was at the high end of its estimate from last quarter. Although these ...

It’s an understatement to say that artificial intelligence has been on top of every information technology and business leader’s priority list since the release of ChatGPT. The easy-to-use generative AI engine gave everyone a glimpse of what’s possible when it comes to the infusion of AI into our lives, and one of the areas in ...

Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, with the Kansas City Chiefs beating the San Francisco 49ers, was a nail-biter. These two teams were the best the NFL had to offer, and they were good for several reasons – good players and sound game plans — but one thing both teams have in common is that they ...

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 ...