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Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Check Point Lead Gartner’s Firewall Magic Quadrant

“It becomes very important to have complete or comprehensive zero trust across the enterprise,” Palo Alto Networks CPO Lee Klarich said. Read more.

C-band 5G Delay Bites AT&T, Verizon

There's no guarantee the one-month delay, which pushes back initial 5G network activations to the first week of January 2022, won't be extended further into next year. Read more.

AMD Targets Intel, Nvidia With EPYC, Instinct Refresh

The EPYC refresh comes as AMD scores another victory over rival Intel. Meta this week announced a new, more power-efficient server platform powered by team red’s EPYC 3 processors. Read more.

Cisco’s ThousandEyes Amps SaaS Visibility

The update marks Cisco's latest move in its full-stack observability strategy that began with its $1 billion Thousand Eyes acquisition. Read more.

Oracle Cloud Bakes In WAF, Vulnerability Scanning

“We offer all our security features baked into the cloud, so we don’t make the customers choose between cost and security,” Oracle VP of Software Bala Chandran said. Read more.

Nvidia Quantum-2 Gives InfiniBand a 400 Gb/s Switching Boost

The new switch silicon complements Nvidia's growing networking ecosystem, including its upcoming ConnectX-7 NICs and BlueField-3 DPUs. Read more.

Meta Stitches Cisco, Arista to Open Compute Project Switches

Meta also said it wants to develop an “open and standard die-to-die interface” for data center operators to integrate open chiplets into their facilities. Read more.