Jim Duffy was Senior Analyst for the Networking Channel at 451 Research. He covered enterprise network infrastructure and associated software, and network performance management. Jim had been covering technology for over 30 years, including 25 at Network World. His coverage focused predominantly on enterprise networking infrastructure, including routers, switches and associated software.
Jim is widely recognized in the industry for over two decades of coverage on Cisco Systems and its enterprise competitors. He broke several major stories over the course of his journalism career, and received awards for news, analysis and opinion pieces on numerous industry events and developments.
For decades, Jim has overseen, coordinated and driven coverage of a variety of enterprise and telecommunications equipment and services events, issues and developments. He determined story ideas, angles, emphasis and tone on breaking news, trend and analysis pieces, executive Q&A interviews, market forecasts, user case studies, and product and service announcements on a daily and weekly basis.
Prior to his previous position as managing editor at Network World, Jim held senior editorial positions at Computer Systems News, published at the time by CMP Publications, and MIS Week and Electronic News, both owned by Fairchild Publications. Jim is a graduate of Utica College with a Bachelor of Science degree in public relations/journalism.
Cisco's introduction of the Catalyst 9000 switching line has presented opportunities for the enterprise networking giant, but also for rivals in datacenter switching and those backing white-box offerings. Arista Networks and Pica8 are among the vendors looking to entice customers into a non-Cisco offering.
As part of a product unification, Citrix rolled out several networking enhancements at its recent Citrix Synergy conference to support uniform operation and user experience. It also rebranded its networking, application and analytics products to drive home the product unification.
The acquirer plans to align Plexxi's capabilities with the hyperconverged infrastructure technology it obtained via the purchase of SimpliVity, and will leverage it to enhance its Synergy composable server platform. The deal reinforces the important – but shadowy – role that networking has been playing in managing infrastructure capacity.
At the inaugural Dell Technologies World, VMware announced the Virtual Cloud Network, which combines the company's NSX network virtualization and SDN platform with its recently acquired VeloCloud SD-WAN.
Enterprise campus, datacenter and WAN networks must all become smarter in order to fulfill business intent. Huawei has disclosed plans to expand on the intent-driven network initiative introduced at Mobile World Congress with artificial intelligence capabilities.
The company has enhanced the integration of datacenter management platforms Ansible and Terraform with Avi Vantage's machine-learning capabilities. New features enable enterprises to automate the deployment and scaling of applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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