Cloudera Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Observability for your most secure data For your most sensitive, protected data, we understand even the metadata and telemetry about your workloads must be kept under close watch, and it must stay within your secured environment. For scenarios like this, we have now created Cloudera Observability Premium on-premises service.

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Kentik

MARCH 13, 2023

How it used to be When I started my career in networking, servers were down the hall or in the campus data center. Most resources were local, accessed remotely over some sort of leased line, or at worst, over a site-to-site back to the organization’s private data center.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 4, 2025

Networking Fundamentals and Firewalls After mastering CCNA and CCNP, it’s time to delve into firewalls. Understanding routing (and switching) is essential for configuring firewalls; many modern firewalls also include routing capabilities. Learn Firewall Technologies (Fortigate or Palo Alto).

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Kentik

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The major cloud providers made it very easy for non-network engineers to handle basic networking operations, such as setting up VPNs and configuring firewalls. These advanced network engineers are responsible for designing and implementing complex network infrastructure, such as data center and service provider networks.

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Packet Pushers

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Best known for firewalls and other security products, Fortinet has a full line of switches for the campus and data center, as well as a robust portfolio of wireless APs. Fortinet is here to make its case. Read more » Today on the Tech Bytes podcast we talk Ethernet switches and wireless APs with sponsor Fortinet.

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Kentik

APRIL 15, 2020

Discovering what applications are running between sites, the internet, and to the data center. SD-WAN + Cloud + Data Center : According to research , 69% of SD-WAN users say cloud connectivity undermines their network confidence. Best practices include: Baselining traffic bandwidths. Evaluating security traffic patterns.

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NW Kings

JANUARY 14, 2025

Strata Strata is the central firewall product of Palo Alto Networks. These firewalls are specifically designed for installation in different environments like data centers, hybrid cloud setups, and remote branches. Hybrid Data Centers: Combines on-premises and cloud resources, offering flexible security options.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 27, 2016

Figure 1: Backhauling all locations to on-premise global SAP instance in the datacenter While the benefits of HEC are obvious, migrating SAP from the data center into a Cloud-based hosted instance isn’t trivial. It is backhauling traffic to that data center from manufacturing and distribution facilities throughout the world.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Organizations can face challenges moving all their security to the Cloud, particularly when dealing with internal traffic segmentation (East-West traffic protection), legacy data center applications that cant be moved to the cloud, and regulatory issues (especially in Finance and Government sectors). See Figure 1 below.

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Kentik

JANUARY 6, 2021

Data center : Leaf and spine switches, top of rack, modular, fixed and stackable. Firewalls and other security appliances and services : As physical and logical (VM, VNF, CNF) gateways, policy enforcement, and telemetry sources, the security layer is both part of the network and key to full-stack debugging of operational issues.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

While BCP is a company-wide effort, IT plays an especially important role in maintaining business operations, with the task of ensuring redundancy measures and backup for data centers in case of an outage. Can you provide access to data and applications according to corporate security policies during an outage?

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CATO Networks

JANUARY 18, 2017

Before Shlomo and Gur cofounded Cato, Shlomo cofounded Check Point Software, creator of the first commercial firewall. Their mission was clear: secure the resources inside the firewall from the wily and dangerous world outside of the firewall. Back then life was much simpler for networking and security professionals.

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CATO Networks

APRIL 2, 2019

In 2014, Gartner analysts wrote a Foundational Report (G00260732, Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance) providing guidance to customers on deploying communication hubs, or cloud-based network hubs, outside the enterprise data center. What is a communication hub? This helps deliver predictable network performance.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Ground shaking can damage data centers, servers, networking equipment, and other critical infrastructure. Smoke and ash can infiltrate data centers, causing hardware damage and affecting cooling systems. Smoke and ash can infiltrate data centers, causing hardware damage and affecting cooling systems.

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Akins IT

OCTOBER 21, 2019

SECURING YOUR AZURE VIRTUAL NETWORK WITH A NG FIREWALL PART 1- SETTING UP A BASIC AZURE NETWORK When setting up your Azure Virtual Network (VNET), there are some things to consider before getting started.

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Kentik

MARCH 7, 2021

Over the last 3 years of my last gig, I built a little bundle we could deploy with tools across public cloud instances or in our data center. Transactions queueing quickly become the failure point in the application stack, and it usually takes out multiple components along the way — firewalls, service mesh, API gateway, etc.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 18, 2022

Cato SSE 360: Finally, SSE with Total Visibility and Control | Whitepaper A Close Look at Catos Networking Policy Catos SASE Cloud is comprised of over 75 (and growing) top-tier data center locations, each connected with multiple tier 1 ISP connections forming Catos global private backbone.

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Akins IT

JANUARY 26, 2016

Most organizations will use a combination of private computing resources (such as data centers and private clouds) and public services, where some of the services existing in these environments touch each other which is equivalent to a hybrid cloud environment. Thus, a private cloud sits behind a firewall.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

One sticking point has always been the branch network stack: deploying, configuring, managing, and retrieving the router, firewall, WAN optimizer, etc., Cloud Stack Benefits the Enterprise: Freedom and Agility People want a lot out of their SD-WAN solution: routing, firewalling, and WAN optimization, for example. Please see figure 1.)

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CATO Networks

JUNE 6, 2018

Firewall as a Service (FwaaS) a firewall delivered as a cloud-based service. Unlike appliance-based firewalls that require management of discrete firewall appliances, FwaaS is a single logical firewall in the cloud that can be accessed from anywhere. Click here for a detailed overview of FwaaS.

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CATO Networks

OCTOBER 22, 2018

To establish their facilities, companies need reliable and high-performance network connectivity to global data centers both in-region and out-of-region. For instance, a known challenge to having a WAN presence in China is the Great Firewall of China. Growth is especially brisk in the Asia Pacific region and China in particular.

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The Network DNA

JULY 31, 2024

Routing is performed by routers, firewalls, multi-layer switches and gateways. CCNA RnS #17: Switching Process CCNA RnS #16: Campus vs Data Center Network CCNA RnS #15: Memory Types - The Network DNA CCNA RnS #14 - CLI Introduction! - This needs to be unique in a network to avoid any unpredictable behavior.

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CATO Networks

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At the core of NFV is the notion that network functions, such as SD-WAN , firewalling and secure web access, can be delivered as virtual appliances and run either on premises (vCPE) or at the carrier core data centers (hosted). Running VNFs at the carrier data centers requires a scalable and elastic underlying infrastructure.

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Kentik

APRIL 3, 2023

For example, to determine latency using traffic generated from probes or by analyzing packets, that traffic would likely pass through routers, firewalls, security appliances, load balancers, etc. Second, in a busy network, devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls may be very busy operating at a relatively high CPU.

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The Network DNA

JUNE 10, 2024

Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Next generation SDN solution and is designed for data centers spine-leaf architecture for the policy-driven solution. Cisco ACI provides application agility and data center automation with simplified operations. What is Cisco ACI ? Continue Reading.

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CATO Networks

MAY 6, 2018

Delivering DIA locally will require the deployment of IPS, malware protection, next-generation firewall (NGFW) and other advanced security services at each site or, in the regional hubs, increasing costs and complexity. The lack of SLAs for broadband Internet and limited MPLS capacity results in unpredictable performance slowdowns.

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CATO Networks

AUGUST 25, 2022

Network responses then flow back through the same stack and travel from the data center to the remote user. If you are in a remote office, your organization may not be able to afford a stack of security appliances (firewall, secure web gateway or SWG , etc.) Why does this compromise exist? in your office.

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CATO Networks

MAY 28, 2017

Hell also provide insights into how attendees can better evaluate the security mechanisms in AWS and Azure, commercial firewall products, and emerging options.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Advanced threat protection addresses these risks with various technologies, such as next generation firewall (NGFW) , Secure Web Gateway (SWG) , malware protection , and Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). The most common way to deliver threat protection at a branch is to deploy a local firewall or UTM appliance.

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CATO Networks

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Improved Security Posture In todays threat landscape, where users, applications, and data are everywhere, security must extend beyond the traditional data center perimeter. Operational Efficiency Managing disparate point solutionsSD-WAN devices, firewalls, VPNs, etc.creates unnecessary complexity.

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CATO Networks

JULY 15, 2024

Because of this, all network traffic tends to be backhauled to a primary data center or hospital to enforce security against that traffic. If connectivity to the main hospital or data center is lost, access to the applications is also lost.

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CATO Networks

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

SASEs built-in SD-WAN functionality offers network optimization, while the integrated security stack including Next Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), and more secures traffic over the corporate WAN. According to Gartner (that coined the term), SASE is the future of network security.

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CATO Networks

JUNE 5, 2018

Most SD-WAN vendors provide basic security features such as encryption, layer 2 access control, and possibly some basic firewall functionality. By using service insertion or service chaining, separate security services such as firewalls and IPS are inserted into the data flow.

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Cloudera Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Most users have restrictions on firewalls for wildcard rules. DNS servers are usually deployed in the hub virtual network or an on-prem data center instead of in the Cloudera VNET. If service endpoints are not allowed, firewall and private endpoints will be the other two options.

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CATO Networks

JULY 4, 2023

The need for 5 Gbps is happening on the most intensive, heavily used network connections within the enterprise, such as connections to data centers, between clouds in multi-cloud deployments, or to clouds housing shared applications, databases, and data stores in hybrid clouds.

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Kentik

MARCH 19, 2020

The richest data sources are from the VPN devices or firewalls. Leading VPN solutions also export performance data. Kentik can ingest all three sources as traffic data. This data is useful for Kentik’s automated capacity planning workflows and building topological maps (layer 2 and layer 3 connectivity).

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CATO Networks

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Cato Cloud service proved its resiliency during the massive hours-long service outage of the LON1 Interxion data center at its central London campus on January 10. The result was complete loss of power leading to service outages for numerous customers dependent on this particular data center.

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