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“SD-WAN doesn’t replace MPLS, but it has largely capped its growth. 5G is poised to change that,” VMware's Ramkumar Venketaramani and Ajitesh Gupta said. Read more.

Build applications in the cloud like cattle, not pets, says Aaron Ansari, VP of cloud security at Trend Micro. He also strongly endorses ant relay races. Read more.

More than a quarter of the respondents thought they'd already deployed NaaS, according to Cisco's latest report. Read more.

Malware infection rates in North America's fixed networks have also declined throughout the course of 2021 to 2.5%, but still remain well above the low point of 1.1% in March 2020. Read more.

Qualys determined that the 36 most prevalent ransomware families used about 110 CVEs. And all of them have patches available for the past several years. Read more.

Intel CFO George Davis announced his retirement; Ivanti named a new CEO; and Snyk appointed Sanjay Poonen to its board of directors. Read more.