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Surprise! Even in the modern cloud/SASE era of network security there is still a very real need for a tabletop firewall

“There’s a lot of things that cloud can’t protect. Ryan Poutre, director of product management, network security, at WatchGuard told @networkworld.bsky.social

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” -- George Orwell

Google Cloud’s data agents promise to end the 80% toil problem plaguing enterprise data teams New AI agents handle pipeline creation, data science workflows and analytics queries autonomously, potentially reshaping how enterprise data professionals spend their time.

Data doesn’t just magically appear in the right place for enterprise analytics or AI, it has to be prepared and directed with data pipelines. Google Cloud now has agentic AI tools that will make it a whole lot easier..

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Riverbed banks on AI-driven network observability Riverbed continues to expand from its network acceleration origins to AI-powered network observability.

“In the two years since I’ve been here, we’ve pretty much revitalized and brought out new products across the portfolio,” Donatelli told @networkworld.bsky.social . “So we are innovating at a very rapid rate.”

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Hard-won vibe coding insights: Mailchimp’s 40% speed gain came with governance price Intuit Mailchimp's experience with vibe coding reveals governance frameworks and tool selection strategies that enterprises can apply to avoid common AI coding pitfalls.

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How to use AI powered coding tools for enterprise success: Key Lessons from Intuit Mailchimp's vibe coding experience

Amazon DocumentDB Serverless database looks to accelerate agentic AI, cut costs AWS continues to expand its serverless database offerings, aiming to help improve cost and lower operational complexity.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is growing its roster of GA serverless databases today - with the debut of Amazon DocumentDB Serverless.

as it turns out it's really good fit for agentic AI too.

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Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks Informatica's data platform evolution shows how it uses AI to actually serve enterprise needs.

I've been writing on Informatica for well over a decade. It's remarkable to see how AI-powered features are making a difference in enterprise data operations

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Stack Overflow data reveals the hidden productivity tax of ‘almost right’ AI code Stack Overflow survey shows that as more enterprise developers actually use AI tools, their expectations aren't being met by reality.

“One of the most surprising findings was a significant shift in developer preferences for AI compared to previous years, while most developers use AI, they like it less and trust it less this year..."
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Multi-cloud migration startup FluidCloud emerges from stealth FluidCloud translates infrastructure between cloud dialects in minutes, not months. A key focus for the startup is helping VMware users migrate to other cloud platforms.

"In the modern cloud world ... the complexity of different cloud providers’ services has made it difficult to define infrastructure in a way that’s portable across providers. It’s a challenge that new startup FluidCloud is aiming to solve," writes @techjournalist.bsky.social

Broadcom scales up Ethernet with Tomahawk Ultra for low latency HPC and AI Conventional Ethernet switches optimize for maximum throughput, but Broadcom's new Tomahawk Ultra data center networking chip prioritizes ultra low latency.

Pure bandwidth throughput isn't the only thing that matters -Lots of really interesting latency/traffic optimization tech in Broadcom Tomahawk Ultra.

“Our goal here was to have something that could exceed InfiniBand with standard Ethernet..."
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NetBox Labs secures $35M as demand for network infrastructure management surges The core NetBox platform models infrastructure relationships in detail, while NetBox Discovery provides network device and service discovery, and NetBox Assurance adds configuration compliance and dri...

"Everybody already uses NetBox because of the open source dynamic; there are hundreds of thousands of installs out there of the software which affords us a vantage point that’s really unique ...”

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Open-source skills can save your career when AI comes knocking No one knows what tomorrow's job market will look like, but people with AI and open-source skills will do far better than those without them.

Open-source skills can save your career when AI comes knocking www.zdnet.com/article/the-... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social

Yes, the tech job market is going to look radically different in the next few years, but with #AI and #opensource skills, you'll do just fine

AI job replacement: Is the apocalypse coming for IT work? - Spiceworks AI job replacement is coming, but industry experts are divided on how much and for which roles. The good news is there's still time to pivot.

AI job replacement: Is the apocalypse coming for IT work? www.spiceworks.com/it-careers/a... by @sjvn.bsky.social

Nope. But we, both as employers and employees, will need to come to terms with a new, challenging job market. #AI

Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4 Plasma 6.4 also introduces more inclusive features.

Your jump from Windows 10 to Linux gets easier with KDE Plasma 6.4 www.zdnet.com/article/your... by @sjvn.bsky.social

The new #Linux #KDE desktop is looking mighty fine.

Forget about AI costs: Google just changed the game with open-source Gemini CLI that will be free for most developers Google is bringing Gemini Pro 2.5 to the command line with a powerful new open source tool — and it's doing it mostly for free.

I'm a command line guy always have been. Seeing more power come to my terminal (and oh yeah for free too?!) is awesome.

“To be very clear, for the vast majority of developers, Gemini CLI will be completely free of charge.."

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US Pig Butchering Victims ‘Will’ Get Refunds — Feds Seize $225M Cryptocurrency DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually).

Federal agencies have spent the past 18 months piecing together this complex #MoneyLaundering web. And now they’re ready to announce seizure of a few hundred million from industrial scale #PigButchering #scams.

You can almost hear the bacon sizzling. In #SBBlogwatch, we grab the lettuce and tomato:

MEF goes beyond metro Ethernet, rebrands as Mplify with expanded scope on NaaS and AI The renamed Mplify Alliance has multiple efforts underway for carrier Ethernet, SASE, lifecycle services orchestration, and NaaS, as well as an emerging set of initiatives for AI.

Group originally tasked with bringing Ethernet to metro and carrier deployments has expanded over the years to handle SASE, NaaS and now AI too. Today it's got a new name to reflect that expansion.

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Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.

Never.Bet.Against.Ethernet.

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Meter secures $170 million to scale NaaS stack from the ground up Naas startup Meter built its own hardware, software and protocols.

There's a lot of opportunity (andd $$) to made in Networking-as-a-Service

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Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it Databricks Agent Bricks automates enterprise AI agent optimization and evaluation, eliminating manual processes that block production deployments.

Building agents isn't enough. Enterprise need to be able to measure, evaluate and improve them and that takes some...TAO. @venturebeat.com
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FinOps Cloud Cost Management Evolves Beyond Traditional Boundaries FinOps X 2025 unveiled major advances expanding cloud cost management beyond traditional boundaries to include AI, SaaS, and data center spending worth $2 trillion globally.

The cloud financial management landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift as organizations grapple with increasingly complex technology stacks that extend beyond traditional public cloud infrastructure.
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Netgear's enterprise ambitions grow with SASE acquisition Known as a networking hardware vendor for consumers, Netgear is increasingly focused on delivering enterprise-grade security solutions for SMEs.

Just now • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn
NETGEAR yeah that Netgear the same one you see in the store..is gearing up to take on the tough challenge of security for SMEs
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Intel spinout Cornelis Networks offers alternative to Infiniband or Ethernet for HPC and AI networks The CN5000 platform from Cornelis Networks is engineered to tackle compute underutilization and alleviate bottlenecks in AI and HPC workloads.

There's more to networking protocols than just Ethernet and Infiniband - Intel's Omni-Path lives on Cornelis Networks, which is out today with a new 400G option with some big numbers.
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CockroachDB’s distributed vector indexing tackles the looming AI data explosion enterprises aren’t ready for Scaling distributed SQL queries needs more performance and efficiency in the agentic AI era. It’s a challenge Cockroach is looking to solve.

CockroachDB 25.2 debuts proving that even in the AI era, it's hard to kill a cockroach (database)

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Enterprise alert: PostgreSQL just became the database you can’t ignore for AI applications Analysts provide insight on what the latest acquisition of a PostgreSQL database vendor means for enterprise data and AI.

Another PostgreSQL database vendor gets acquired. Why Snowflake's $250M acquisition of Crunchy Data matters to enterprises.

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How Snowflake’s open-source text-to-SQL and Arctic inference models solve enterprise AI’s two biggest deployment headaches New open-source efforts from Snowflake aim to help solve that unsolved challenges of text-to-SQL and inference performance for enterprise AI.

Open-source Text-to-SQL that works and a faster open-source Inference server? Yes please and thank you Snowflake!

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What Salesforce’s $8B acquisition of Informatica means for enterprise data and AI Industry analysts explain how Salesforce's $8 billion Informatica acquisition will transform enterprise data management and accelerate agentic AI adoption .

Without data agentic AI doesn't work. Salesforce will soon have more access and control of data thanks to its $8B acquisition of Informatica
With insights from Noel Y. (Forrester), Kevin Petrie (BARC) and Hyoun Park (Amalgam Insights).

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The battle to AI-enable the web: NLweb and what enterprises need to know Microsoft's NLWeb protocol transforms websites into AI-powered apps with conversational interfaces.

“NLWeb leverages the best practices and standards developed over the past decade on the open web and makes them available to LLMs.."

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Open MPIC project defends against BGP attacks on certificate validation Open MPIC provides certificate authorities with an open-source framework for implementing multi-perspective validation, protecting against BGP hijacking attacks that threaten the web's trust infrastru...

Open MPIC: The open-source defense against BGP attacks on Certificate Validation

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IP Fabric weaves advanced firewall discovery into network assurance platform IP Fabric 7.2 introduces firewall filtering simulation, transparent firewall discovery, and enhanced compliance tools to help enterprises gain greater visibility into their network security infrastruc...

Discovery and configuration have always been network challenges, just ask Pavel Bykov - that's why he started IP Fabric a decade ago. The company's latest release continues to add features to solve networking professionals real-world issues.
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