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eBPF Explained: Why it's Important for Observability

Kentik

eBPF, which stands for Extended Berkeley Packet Filter , is a lightweight virtual machine that can run sandboxed programs in a Linux kernel without modifying the kernel source code or installing any additional modules. In this post, we’ll look at what eBPF is, how it works, and why it’s become such a common technology in observability.

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Seamless network integration: connecting OpenShift to your data center with Apstra

Juniper

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that allows a single physical network device or the NIC to be shared among multiple virtual machines or containers. By dividing a physical function (PF) into multiple virtual functions (VFs), SR-IOV enables direct, high-speed I/O access to the network device.

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Why is Cisco ACI replacing traditional networks?

The Network DNA

Security devices integration Cisco ACI allows you to establish a firewall or an intrusion prevention system (IPS) between EPGs as a Layer 47 service. Virtual Environment Support The inclusion of Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) allows the ACI fabric to extend network policies to the end hosts' virtualization switching layer.

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Seamless network integration: connecting OpenShift to your data center with Apstra

Juniper

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) is a technology that allows a single physical network device or the NIC to be shared among multiple virtual machines or containers. By dividing a physical function (PF) into multiple virtual functions (VFs), SR-IOV enables direct, high-speed I/O access to the network device.

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Why FWaaS Is the Only Way Out of Endless Appliance Patching

CATO Networks

The Right FWaaS Architecture: Cloud-Native, Not Legacy Virtualized While FWaaS offers a clear alternative to appliance-based firewalls, not all FWaaS solutions are created equal. These virtual machines inherit many of the same problems as their physical counterparts: they require updates, capacity planning, and operational oversight.

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Fortinet's Anti-Phishing Solution

Akins IT

FortiMail is one of the more unique solutions that is available on a platform level as an Appliance, Virtual Machine, or as a SaaS Solution. FortiSandbox utilizes two machine learning models with static and dynamic analysis of suspicious objects. There is no requirements to implement and is available for all email platforms.

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New Insight Into SASE from the Recent Gartner® Report on Impact Radar: Communications

CATO Networks

SASE is evolving from five contributing security and network segments: software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), firewall, SWG, CASB and ZTNA. Appliance-based products will need to transform into cloud native services, not merely cloud-hosted virtual machines (VMs).

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