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Firewalls
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ZTNA
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Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP)
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IT Management
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IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Remote Access
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Managed DNS
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Operating Systems (OS) for Business
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IT Alerting and Incident Management
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Cloud Computing
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Cisco Security Portfolio
PaaS Clouds
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Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
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Relational Databases Tools
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Data Masking
NoSQL Databases
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Data Observability
Application Development Software
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
Application Security Tools
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IT Operations Analytics
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Functional Testing Tools
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Enterprise Communications and Networking
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Digital Marketing Service Providers
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Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) vs. Amazon AWS
Amazon EKS vs. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Microsoft Azure File Storage
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Amazon QuickSight vs. Microsoft Power BI
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Cisco
Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Fortinet FortiGate
Aruba Wireless vs. Cisco Meraki Wireless LAN
Aruba ClearPass vs. Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Cisco Umbrella vs. Zscaler Internet Access
Aruba Switches vs. Cisco Ethernet Switches
Cisco Wireless vs. Ruckus Wireless
Cisco Linksys Ethernet Switches vs. NETGEAR Switches
Cisco Intersight vs. Cisco UCS Manager
Cisco Meraki MX vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls
Cisco Secure Email vs. Trellix Collaboration Security
Dell Technologies
Dell PowerEdge R-Series vs. HPE ProLiant DL Servers
Dell PowerFlex vs. VxRail
Dell PowerStore vs. Dell Unity XT
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain vs. HPE StoreOnce
Dell PowerEdge T-Series vs. HPE Proliant ML
Dell Avamar vs. Dell PowerProtect Data Manager
Dell PowerScale (Isilon) vs. NetApp FAS Series
Dell APEX vs. HPE GreenLake
Dell RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines vs. VMware Live Recovery
Amazon AWS vs. Dell ObjectScale
Google
Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Entra ID
Apigee vs. Microsoft Azure API Management
Google Cloud DNS vs. Quad9
Azure OpenAI vs. Google Vertex AI
Amazon WorkMail vs. Google Workspace
Google Firebase vs. Microsoft Azure
Alibaba Cloud vs. Google Cloud
Google Gemini AI vs. Grammarly Pro - Enterprise
Amazon S3 Glacier vs. Google Cloud Storage Nearline
AWS Snowball vs. Google Transfer Appliance
IBM
IBM Security QRadar vs. Splunk Enterprise Security
IBM Security Guardium Data Protection vs. Imperva Data Security Fabric
ActiveMQ vs. IBM MQ
IBM DOORS vs. Polarion Requirements
IBM API Connect vs. IBM DataPower Gateway
Camunda vs. IBM BPM
IBM MaaS360 vs. Microsoft Intune
IBM Db2 Database vs. SQL Server
IBM Maximo vs. ServiceNow
IBM Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB
Microsoft
Amazon API Gateway vs. Microsoft Azure API Management
GitLab vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps
Hyper-V vs. VMware vSphere
AWS Secrets Manager vs. Azure Key Vault
AWS GuardDuty vs. Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Amazon Route 53 vs. Azure DNS
Windows 11 vs. Windows Server
Jamf Pro vs. Microsoft Intune
Google Cloud Identity vs. Microsoft Entra ID
Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) vs. Microsoft Azure File Storage
OpenText
OpenText Functional Testing vs. Tricentis Tosca
OpenText Core Application Security vs. SonarQube
Jira vs. OpenText Software Delivery Management
Sentinel vs. Splunk Enterprise Security
OpenText Documentum Content Management vs. SharePoint
OpenText Communications vs. Quadient Inspire
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional) vs. Tricentis NeoLoad
Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. OpenText Application Quality Management
OpenText Dynamic Application Security Testing vs. PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint vs. OpenText Core Endpoint Protection
Oracle
Oracle VM VirtualBox vs. Proxmox VE
Oracle VM vs. VMware vSphere
Oracle Linux vs. Ubuntu Linux
Firebird SQL vs. MySQL
Microsoft Power Apps vs. Oracle Application Express (APEX)
Oracle Database vs. SAP HANA
Oracle HCM Cloud vs. SAP SuccessFactors
Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) vs. Oracle Integration Cloud Service
Oracle WMS vs. SAP Warehouse Management
NetSuite ERP vs. Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
Palo Alto Networks
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks vs. Wiz
Cortex XSIAM vs. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR
Cisco Secure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks WildFire
Netskope vs. Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks
Island vs. Prisma Access Browser
Fortinet FortiGate vs. Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls
Cortex XDR by Palo Alto Networks vs. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Cisco Umbrella vs. Palo Alto Networks DNS Security
Azure Firewall vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vs. Prisma SD-WAN
SAP
Celonis vs. SAP Signavio Process Manager
SAP ERP vs. SAP S/4HANA
SAP SuccessFactors vs. Workday
Amazon AWS vs. SAP Cloud Platform
Oracle Database vs. SAP HANA
Microsoft Dynamics CRM vs. SAP CRM
Kinaxis vs. SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain
SAP PowerDesigner vs. erwin Data Modeler
SAP Analytics Cloud vs. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform
Oracle WMS vs. SAP Warehouse Management
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