I recently attended Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Discover in the United States, meeting with the company’s executive leadership and product teams. This year’s event was especially significant, highlighting HPE’s progress with integrating its hotly contested acquisition of Juniper Networks, which was finally approved by regulators last July. I was bullish on the combination from the onset of the announcement, while other analysts and pundits viewed it as a share consolidation play that was potentially anticompetitive. From my perspective, the opportunity for HPE to create a formidable engineering team to better compete with other AI infrastructure by utilizing networking as its market penetration tip of the spear is powerful. It has the potential…
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Image: RSA Conference 2026 RSA Conference yet again welcomed scores of security practitioners, executives, and infrastructure providers to San Francisco this year. I had the opportunity to attend in person and meet with thirty companies over four long days. Not surprisingly, agentic AI security punctuated all my conversations. With a continued theme of summarizing my event attendance with three big takeaways – let’s dive in! You Can’t Protect What You Can’t See Agentic frameworks are moving at hyper speed, and enterprises are struggling to keep pace. Historically, technology roadmap refreshes were measured in years. In contrast, modern AI application innovation can be measured in months. OpenClaw experimentation is a glaring…
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Gigamon held its fifth annual Visualyze Bootcamp virtual event over three days in early September. Since its founding 20 years ago, the company has developed a deep observability pipeline that leverages network intelligence to detect threats often missed by traditional security tools. The Bootcamp serves as an opportunity for Gigamon to share its industry and technical knowledge with customers. Most organizations using cloud services employ a multi-cloud model to benefit from competitive pricing and access to best-of-breed service offerings. Additionally, the trend toward containerization and virtualization aims to enhance operational and cost efficiencies. However, hybrid cloud deployments can introduce complexities that require careful management. The Bootcamp addressed many of these challenges, with…







