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The global software-defined networking market has been growing by leaps and bounds for the past decade. Despite a slowdown in overall IT spending during the COVID-19 pandemic, the market is expected ...

Cloud providers offer their own security, networking, and management-and-orchestration tools that third-party networking software platforms can abstract to make management simpler for enterprise IT ...

Network devices control how traffic can travel across the network and have security monitoring features. Refine and preserve your settings by managing network device configurations. Network devices ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

Meet the AI networking products and services that are helping to simplify network operations for IT teams and channel partners, while increasing efficiency and reducing costs. Arguably one of the most ...

There's nothing worse for getting online than having slow home internet. This can cause frustration not only for yourself but everyone else who attempts to access their favorite app or service. We've ...

There’s a common lament among people who switch to Macs, especially those coming over from the Linux and Unix worlds, that goes something like this: “Mac people are willing to drop an insane amount of ...

Internet-based social networking tools are the hottest thing to hit Silicon Valley in the last 12 months. But they face a shaky future. Social networking tools assist people in either managing their ...

IBM announced Monday a new set of social networking tools that offer enterprise-wide, controlled MySpace-style environments to corporations. Big Blue is billing its Lotus Connections platform as the ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...