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Fortinet Acquires ENhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) Vendor, Bradford Networks
Well known security company, Fortinet, acquired privately-held Bradford Networks on June 4, 2018, citing the need to extend segmentation and security to the edge of enterprise networks, including Internet of Things (IoT). Fortinet does not expect the transaction to have a material impact on the Company’s 2Q or full year… Read More »Blog
Wi-Fi NOW Conference: Mojo, Mist, Google, Quantenna
We attended the Wi-Fi NOW conference in Redwood City, CA this week and attended some interesting presentations. We are writing about our observations and notes from the Google, Quantenna, Mist Systems and Mojo Networks presentations. Google Station presentation. “GOOGLE STATION: PUBLIC WI-FI TO CONNECT THE NEXT BILLION INTERNET USERS.” … Read More »Blog
Aerohive A3 – Enhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) System Hitting the Market
Earlier this year, Aerohive issued a press release about its A3 software system. A3 is what we categorize as an Enhanced Network Access Control (ENAC) system; we calculate market share statistics on this market in our Security report series. The company is now getting ready to bring the product to… Read More »Blog
NBASE-T Webinar Themes
Tomorrow, 650 Group’s Alan Weckel will be a featured speaker on the NBASE-T hosted webinar, entitled “Growth of NBASE-T, Market Trends and Forecast.” In this webinar, we will review Ethernet trends that related not only to Campus Switch ports, but also WLAN, computing and other devices. The NBASE-T ecosystem continues… Read More »Blog
NetApp Industry Analyst Meeting announcements – Google and more flash
There were two main announcements, a new relationship with Google Cloud Platform and a new flash device – the AFF A800. Also, in our interviews with NetApp, we learned about the future of Fibre Channel at the hyperscalers. Google. Google Cloud Platform now integrates NetApp Cloud Volumes as a drop-down… Read More »Blog
Arista Networks – Campus Core – A Little Bit of Campus, A Little Bit of Data Center
Today Arista announced its entry into the campus market launching several products in the core and aggregation layer for campus switching. For years there has always been a blurry line on how one defines campus core, partially driven by the utility of the Cat 6500 installed base. But this has… Read More »Blog