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June 29, 2021
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise expands 5G portfolio with automated 5G management solution

Fully integrated 5G automation software simplifies operations and reduces risk for 5G networks, slices and services with HPE’s innovative infrastructure management and AI/ML-driven automation technologies

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) announced a new 5G software solution that adds fully integrated automated management to HPE’s existing 5G portfolio. The solution includes HPE 5G Automated Assurance and a new 5G capability for HPE Service Director, which together simplify the management of 5G networks and reduce deployment risks through a zero-touch, closed-loop system. The new automation software monitors and orchestrates the network functions, infrastructure, slices and services, automatically acting on issues detected to secure service continuity. The software is pre-integrated with HPE’s open 5G solutions, including the HPE 5G Core Stack, as well as leveraging open-source technologies and offering open APIs to integrate with multi-vendor deployments.

While 5G will bring huge enhancements in terms of bandwidth, latency and the number of devices and services supported, it also introduces massive complexity and operational risks for network operators. 5G standards have been designed to embrace open, cloud-native platforms that utilize disaggregated software and hardware components from a variety of vendors. As a result, telcos deploying 5G networks will need to manage and maintain numerous network slices, thousands of virtual machines and hundreds of virtual/containerized network functions (VNFs/CNFs) across thousands of sites.

HPE’s 5G automation software reduces the risk of managing a multi-vendor 5G network, providing automation capabilities that span from infrastructure management to slice automation, utilizing open and secure software components. Operators can deploy the 5G automation solution in compliance with standards such as ETSI and 3GPP, combining automated assurance with orchestration to enable a full zero-touch closed-loop process. Whenever new network functions, slices and services are deployed, it automatically engages monitoring which detects service degradations and automatically triggers the repair, scaling or optimization of the infrastructure and services.

HPE’s integrated 5G automation solution is designed for countless 5G use cases, introducing key innovations such as intent-based orchestration, AI/ML-based assurance, CNF on boarding, automated slice management, and infrastructure elasticity. This new 5G software solution joins the HPE 5G software portfolio alongside the previously released HPE 5G Core Stack, HPE Open RAN Solution Stack and edge solutions, including HPE Edge Orchestrator. It builds on HPE’s legacy as a leading vendor of service assurance, orchestration and infrastructure management solutions for fixed and mobile networks, accelerating telcos’ ability to deploy 5G.

The software is pre-integrated with the HPE 5G Core Stack, and also integrates with multi-vendor network functions (NFs) from HPE and partners. Integration and testing with both HPE and partner’s NFs is being performed at HPE’s 5G Lab in Fort Collins, Colorado.

“To fully seize the opportunity presented by 5G and network slicing, network operators need to embrace the open, cloud-native principles that have been built into the industry standards”, said Domenico Convertino, VP of Product Management, HPE Communications Technology Group. “In line with this approach, HPE has developed fully integrated automation capabilities that de-risk 5G deployments and maximize business return for network operators. Building on our leadership in telco cloud, operations support systems and orchestration, we are introducing an integrated offering that accelerates automation in the industry.”

The new 5G automation solution brings intent-based orchestration with a new 5G capability for HPE Service Director and provides AI/ML-driven assurance with a new product, HPE 5G Automated Assurance.

A new 5G capability for HPE Service Director

HPE Service Director orchestrates complex 5G infrastructure and services in a simple, codeless way to optimize operational processes across connectivity, compute, application and network functions. It uses intent-based modelling to design service models and their policies to orchestrate the business processes and the complete lifecycle across hybrid environments, enabling operators to embrace DevOps. HPE Service Director’s new 5G Capability provides zero-touch, profile-driven 5G network slicing orchestration and fully automated management of the lifecycle of network slices across all domains. It is complemented by HPE NFV Director, a proven, scalable ETSI-compliant resource orchestration offering for both VNFs and CNFs.

HPE 5G Automated Assurance

HPE 5G Automated Assurance allows telcos to automate the detection, prediction and remediation of 5G network issues and service degradation, thanks to ML-based data-driven 5G-ready intelligence and an open, secure design. It collects and analyses a huge amount of diverse information from the 5G network in real time to detect anomalies or problem patterns and trigger appropriate remediation. The HPE 5G Automated Assurance solution has been designed from the ground up to operate in a multi-vendor ecosystem, easily interworking with different technologies from multiple vendors.

These two new automation solutions are complemented by the HPE Resource Aggregator for Open Distributed Infrastructure Management that simplifies the management of telco grade compute infrastructure across thousands of sites.

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June 21, 2021
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Official Distributor of Digifort 2021-2022

Syscom Distributions LLC has been recognized as the official distributor of Digifort in the United Arab Emirates for the years 2021 and 2022. It’s been a proud moment for us to be the leading supplier of Digifort products.

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June 9, 2021
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Cisco Meraki Customers Build Smarter Workforce Experiences with Expanded IoT and WAN Portfolio

Cisco Meraki’s expanded technology lineup addresses hybrid workforce requirements and the evolving needs of enterprises to protect people, places, and things. Cisco Meraki helps customers, including Bay State College and RRMM Architects, offer safer and smarter workspace experiences. Cisco Meraki hosts an expected 6,000+ customers at first user conference—“Meraki Network”—highlighting customer stories, industry trends, and use cases faced by organizations today.

Cisco Meraki announced expanded IoT and WAN portfolios with new technologies to support hybrid workforces around the globe with smarter and safer workspace environments. As businesses continue to evolve toward a digital-first model for their operations, it is critical that users, employees, and customers have exceptional experiences. With expanded technologies, these experiences can easily be delivered by converging best-in-class networking, security, and IoT. From hybrid workforces to smarter workspaces, organizations can seamlessly optimize network performance across any environment.

“The importance of high-quality experiences for customers and end users is increasingly becoming table stakes for businesses driving digital transformation and intuitive technology models,” said Lawrence Huang, Vice President of Product Management, Cisco Meraki. “With the convergence of cloud, IoT, and networking technologies, our expanded portfolio helps customers connect and secure remote and hybrid workforces, while creating safer environments, both now and in the future.”

Safe environments and smart spaces

As organizations start to bring employees back to the workplace, IT leaders are reevaluating their approach to security and broadening their scope to address the new needs and risks being faced today. From education institutions to healthcare providers, offering experiences that leverage insights and intelligence to make smarter decisions at scale is critical.

Bay State College needed to find a way to help students and faculty return safely to in-person learning. By developing an automated contact tracing app with Cisco Meraki’s unified cloud platform, the college was able to leverage data and analytics to provide real-time alerts to college administrators.

“Like many higher-learning institutions, Bay State College’s top priority is ensuring that our students can safely attend their classes on campus, while meeting public health regulations for social distancing and contact tracing,” said Jeffrey Myers, CIO for Ambow Education USA. “Leveraging Cisco Meraki’s ecosystem and advanced IoT technologies have allowed us to automate contact tracing and enable location-based monitoring and alerts in real time, helping us create safer environments for our students and staff.”

Addressing security needs with IoT and WAN innovation

New additions to the IoT portfolio create an easier experience for businesses to address existing and future physical security needs with confidence. Data and analytics help customers protect their physical environments and focus on growing their business without having to worry about unexpected costs associated with equipment failure. New additions include:

Smarter analytics for small businesses: The new MV2 flex camera improves business outcomes and assuredness by providing intelligent insights into movement and activity. Simple to use and quick to deploy, this smart camera brings enterprise-grade physical security to small- and medium-sized businesses, enabling a safe return to on-site work.

Real-time insights into environmental conditions: The new MT11 temperature probe sensor monitors business-critical refrigerated assets to prevent spoilage and ensure compliance along the entire cold chain. These environmental sensors provide insight where visibility is traditionally lacking. With real-time alerts, users are better able to prevent refrigeration equipment issues that can lead to wasted inventory, the spread of food-borne illness, and costly downtime.

With Cisco Meraki’s agile cloud-based platform, businesses can combine video and environmental analytics from smart cameras and sensors to keep people and critical inventory safe—wherever they are.

The expanded WAN portfolio now includes new gigabit MX security and SD-WAN appliances, as well as MG cellular gateways, that allow customers to provide consistent connectivity and network security for their employees, whether they are at the office or a remote location. This also includes optimized connectivity to cloud security and private cloud environments for workers to safely and easily move between offices and remote workspaces freely.

Hybrid and remote workforces

Over the last decade, organizations have shifted workloads and apps from data centers to multi-cloud environments while transitioning to a highly distributed hybrid or remote workforce model. As a result, this transformation requires secure, connected experiences for employees with enhanced performance and support, regardless of location.

With six locations across Virginia and Maryland, RRMM Architects needed to construct an “in-office” experience for employees that was accessible from anywhere. With Cisco Meraki, RRMM was able to ensure secure, reliable connectivity for new offices and remote employees, all while strengthening the business during a period of significant growth.

“For RRMM, providing our employees with seamless digital experiences at scale, whether they are in the office or not, is critical,” said Aaron Sturniolo, Director of IT, RRMM Architects. “With Cisco Meraki’s cloud-first platform, we were not only able to ensure a consistent and secure network experience, but also increased employee efficiencies and drove cost savings.”

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June 8, 2021
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Syscom won the 2020 SMB Partner of the Year

SonicWall has proudly announced that Syscom Distributions LLC has won the 2020 SMB Partner of the Year award in United Arab Emirates.

We take this opportunity to thank SonicWall for recognizing the efforts of our sales, technical and alliance teams in helping customers meet the changing workplace challenges of last year.

This award from SonicWall is a testament to our commitment and excellence in delivering industry-best cybersecurity solutions.

This appreciation award that we received was presented by

Mohamed Abdallah,
Regional Director – Middle East, Turkey & Africa
SonicWall

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May 26, 2021
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Fortinet Integrates with Google Cloud Network Connectivity Center to Simplify Cloud On-ramp

In March, Google Cloud announced Network Connectivity Center (NCC), designed to provide its customers a cloud connectivity framework for Google Cloud. Using Network Connectivity Center, Google Cloud helps customers improve the cloud-connected SD-WAN experience to create, connect, and manage cloud networks on its global infrastructure.

Fortinet is pleased to announce that they continue to expand their already broad coverage of cloud on-ramp and security use cases by adding support for Network Connectivity Center to Fortinet’s industry-leading Secure SD-WAN and Adaptive Cloud Security solutions. This is great news for customers using Google Cloud as part of their cloud transformation journey.

Addressing Cloud on-ramp, Multi-cloud and Hybrid Cloud Challenges

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN integration with Network Connectivity Center allows customers to more effectively interconnect applications and workloads running on Google Cloud for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. This delivers the best of both worlds, bridging a first-party native cloud underlay from Google Cloud with a best-in-class secure SD-WAN and cloud on-ramp service from Fortinet. The result is an even more simplified, automated, and operationally efficient cloud on-ramp and SD-WAN experience.

With more than 90% of enterprises employing multi- and hybrid clouds (according to the Flexera 2021 State of Cloud report), applications and workloads can reside anywhere among the various combinations of data centers, network edges, and clouds that may be used. And let’s not forget the extra twists that can be added when global and regional deployments are thrown into the mix. This combination often results in significant challenges and overhead for network, security, and cloud operation teams to manage, operate, and secure, particularly if these teams are also faced with a lack of resources and a skills gap shortage.

  • Where applications reside should not matter to end users. It’s no stretch of the imagination to say that end users are typically unforgiving and expect a superior application experience at all times. As such, an organization’s choice of deployment options and strategy should be transparent to its users. As a result, the interconnecting of applications across cloud regions, hybrid clouds, and multi-clouds requires performance, scalability, and visibility into the application user experience to make timely adjustments as required.
  • Spanning across multiple points of deployments across data center, hybrid clouds, and multi-clouds creates extra work and visibility gaps for network and security teams. Often, this means needing to configure and manage multiple networks and clouds. To simply, streamline, and secure across this highly distributed environment, organizations need to pursue consistent policies across their deployment and automate operational and response tasks as much as possible.
  • Organizations are driven to deliver business results and outcomes. In today’s and tomorrow’s world, this means cloud. However, given the inherit complexities of hybrid- and multi-clouds and the need to interconnect applications and data across these instances, organizations sometimes do so at the expense of security and operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Fortinet Secure SD-WAN and Adaptive Cloud Security

Fortinet Secure SD-WAN together with Adaptive Cloud Security helps customers solve these challenges by enabling better, more secure application experiences for users and branch offices by providing encrypted data transports, granular segmentation, and application-layer protection against advanced threats, along with a seamless overlay network with uniform policies across multi-clouds. As a recognized leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls and WAN Edge Infrastructure, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN is the only solution in the market providing converged networking and security capabilities through one single solution, including:

  • Site-to-Cloud and Site-to-Site Connectivity for Improved User Experience: Fortinet Secure SD-WAN delivers seamless cloud on-ramp orchestration to provide customers fast and reliable network connectivity for organizations to keep productivity across globally distributed sites and across cloud environments.
  • Protection of the Cloud On-ramp: Fortinet supports organizations’ cloud on-ramp journey, providing faster access to cloud resources and the best possible user experience. As a result, organizations are able to ensure their critical data, applications, and workflows are consistently available while receiving consistent protection.
  • Security Across Multi-cloud Environments: Fortinet provides centralized visibility and control and consistent security policies across multi-cloud environments, enabling secure applications and connectivity from data center to cloud.
  • Security Within the Cloud: Fortinet delivers leading cloud network security, segmentation, visibility, and best-in-class security protection powered by FortiGuard Labs to protect applications, workloads, and their underlying data within the cloud from inbound and lateral threats.

And, Fortinet brings it all together on a single broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity platform through the Fortinet Security Fabric. Using FortiManager within the Fortinet Security Fabric, customers have a single place to manage, automate, respond, and gain visibility across their entire deployment— from campus to branch to data center to cloud to Google Cloud.

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Expanding Partnership with Google Cloud

For customers leveraging Google Cloud with Fortinet, this goes beyond 1+1 = 3. Not only do customers benefit from Google Cloud’s global and secure infrastructure, but they can seamlessly deploy Google Cloud-integrated solutions from Fortinet to gain an even higher level of security protection and simplified cloud operations.

  • FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall on Google Cloud: The FortiGate Next-Generation Firewall on Google Cloud delivers networking and SD-WAN capabilities for organizations of all sizes, with the flexibility to be deployed as next-generation firewall and/or VPN gateway. With Network Connectivity Center support, it’s even easier to interconnect and manage applications and workloads on Google Cloud and across all points of deployments secured and connected by FortiGates.
  • FortiWeb Cloud WAF-as-a-Service: FortiWeb WAF gateways are able to run in several Google Cloud regions. This allows organizations to scrub application traffic within the same region that their applications reside, addressing performance and regulation concerns, as well as keeping traffic cost to a minimum.
  • Cloud Workload Protection with FortiCWP: FortiCWP uses API-level integration into Google Cloud management and security services to monitor and track cloud resources, including their configurations, activity, traffic flows.

End-to-End Security for All Cloud Environments

No one ever said deploying and managing applications and workloads across hybrid- and multi-clouds is easy, but many agree it’s a necessity. Fortinet is committed to helping organizations simplify cloud operations and secure any application on any cloud to deliver seamless, secure, and superior quality of experience (QoE) of applications, no matter where the application is deployed. With the integration of NCC, Fortinet continues this mission and empowers Google Cloud customers to more effectively interconnect applications and workloads running on Google Cloud for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. The result is an even more simplified, automated, and operationally efficient cloud migration experience, all with the industry-best security intelligence and protection from FortiGuard Labs.

Lastly, multi-cloud customers should be happy to know that Fortinet also offers the broadest native cloud security with tight integrations on major cloud platforms in addition to Google Cloud, including Azure, AWS, and others, and is supported by a large number of Fortinet Fabric-Ready ecosystem partners and integrations. This further enables customers to integrate, automate, and orchestrate securely between all major public cloud platforms, network edges, and data centers.

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May 19, 2021
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SonicWall Capture ATP Receives Perfect Score in ICSA Labs ATD Certification

In 2020, the pandemic forced businesses to find new ways to conduct their operations. But it also revealed that cybercriminals can adapt to new workplace realities as quickly as corporations. When your adversaries are as nimble as you are, third-party validation of your advanced security solutions is more important than ever.

That’s why we’re proud to announce that SonicWall Capture ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) has received a perfect score from ICSA Labs. Capture ATP uses patented RTDMITM (Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection) technology to catch more malware faster than traditional behavior-based sandboxing methods, with a lower false positive rate. This fact can be seen in the test results, as Capture ATP detected 100% of previously unknown threats with no false positives. This marks the fifth consecutive ICSA certification for SonicWall Capture ATP.

During the 35-day test cycle, ICSA conducted a total of 1,471 tests against Capture ATP, with a mixture of 580 new and little-known malicious samples and 891 innocuous applications. Capture ATP correctly identified all malicious samples while allowing all clean samples through, proving the effectiveness of the solution against unknown threats.

According to the report, “SonicWall Capture ATP did remarkably well during this test cycle — detecting 100% of previously unknown threats while having zero false positives.”

What is ICSA Advanced Threat Defense?

Standard ICSA Labs Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) testing is aimed at vendor solutions designed to detect new threats that traditional security products miss. The test cycles evaluate how effectively vendor ATD solutions detect these unknown and little-known threats while minimizing false positives.

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