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Micro-segmentation

Network security approach that enforces fine-grained policy on east-west traffic between individual workloads rather than only at the perimeter.

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Broadcom's VP says VMware "walked back" from SmartNIC network offload

The Distributed Services Engine still ships inside Cloud Foundation, but the SmartNIC-resident distributed firewall that justified it is no longer sold, and Broadcom's lifecycle documentation ends the matching security capability by October 2027.

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Evidence46
Adoption20
Hype gap+12
Incentives52
Confidence44