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February 01, 2022

Top 10 outages of 2021

Cisco-owned network intelligence company ThousandEyes reveals the 10 biggest outages of 2021. Read more ▶

Image: Sponsored by Sophos: 5 Cyber Criminal Ransomware Mistakes to Make You Smile

Sponsored by Sophos: 5 Cyber Criminal Ransomware Mistakes to Make You Smile

Even criminals have an off day. After all, human-led ransomware attacks are just that; human. Which means the criminals behind them can often make errors.

Where have all the global network aggregators gone?

SD-WAN can reduce network transport costs for enterprises, but only if there’s enough competition among network access providers. Consolidation in the market means IT teams need to strengthen their procurement practices.

How and why to adopt SDN despite its dark side

Software-defined networking gives tighter control over network topology and management, and those not using it might find SDN is already supported in their networking gear.

Image: China finally green lights AMD–Xilinx merger

China finally green lights AMD–Xilinx merger

AMD's $35 billion all-stock deal for Xilinx is now expected to close this quarter after more than a year of delays.

Gartner: Worldwide IT spending to reach $4.5T in 2022

Organizations of all sizes are ready to move on from COVID-19 stopgap projects and initiate major IT investments, according to Gartner, which forecasts in surge in cloud spending and managed IT services.

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