Juniper Sets Focus on Software-Defined Secure Networks

At its NXTWORK 2016 event in Santa Clara, California, Juniper Networks sets its focus on the next generation of Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN), including big enhancements to its security portfolio enhancements that extend threat prevention deeper into the network - down to the switch level. Juniper's SDSN features open and unified architecture where security enforcement extends across the entire network. The rollout includes a new Policy...

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Video: Menlo Security Highlights Isolation Platform

CISOs today are fighting a war against four basic forces: application security, access security, email security, and web security.  Greg Maudsley, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, at Menlo Security, discusses the challenge, especially with limited budgets and staff. Menlo Security, a start-up based in Silicon Valley, offers an isolation platform to mitigate these risks. The company is now extending its isolation platform to include phishing...

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Menlo Security Extends its Cloud-based Isolation Platform

Menlo Security has extended its cloud-based isolation platform, which prevents web-based malware from infecting local by running the browser in a cloud-based container, to now also stop email threats including malicious links, credential theft and weaponized attachments. The new solution effectively prevents targeted email phishing attacks, which are a major cybersecurity concern for enterprises. Menlo Security said its Phishing Isolation solution...

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ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) Hits Release 1

ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) group announced the first release of its open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) software stack. OSM Release ONE, which closely aligned with ETSI NFV, comes less than six months since the inaugural meeting of the OSM community. The OSM group said Release ONE could be installed in operator labs to create a scalable and interoperable open source MANO environment. Release ONE substantially enhances interoperability...

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Ericsson to Cut 3,000 Positions in Sweden

Ericsson announced plans to trim approximately 3,000 positions in Sweden, including about 1,000 positions in production, approximately 800 in R&D and approximately 1,200 in other operations. The job reduction represents about 19% of its current workforce of 16,000 employees in Sweden. "Ericsson is going through a large transformation. We continue to have a strong focus on R&D, and since many years, most Ericsson employees work in software...

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IDC: Worldwide Cloud IT Infrastructure Revenue Grows 14.5% to $7.7 Billion in Q2

Vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 14.5% year over year to $7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2016 (2Q16), ahead of renewed hyperscale growth expected in the second half of 2016, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker. "As expected, the hyperscale slow down continued...

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CyrusOne Adds to its Phoenix Data Center Campus

CyrusOne announced the second expansion to its Phoenix data center campus this year.  The company has just completed a new data hall built into an existing shell that provides an additional 32,000 colocation square feet (CSF) and six megawatts of power to the campus. “We continue to build on our momentum in Phoenix to meet the hyper-speed, hyper-scale demands of our cloud, internet and enterprise customers,” said John Hatem, executive vice...

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