

Michael Cooney
Senior Editor
Michael Cooney is a Senior Editor with Network World who has written about the IT world for more than 25 years. He can be reached at michael_cooney@idg.com.

Cisco adds to its Nexus data-center-management software
Cisco has added support for traditional network environments to the company’s recently available data center management console.

VMware loses CEO Gelsinger to Intel
Intel says it will bring on current VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger Feb. 15 to replace Intel CEO Bob Swan.

Cisco fights to keep alive its planned $2.6B purchase of optical-tech vendor Acacia
Cisco brokered a deal for Acacia in 2019 for approximately $2.6 billion to bolster its optical systems portfolio, and Acacia wants out.

Spotlight on home-office connectivity intensifies in 2021
Work-from-home users to get more sophisticated network hardware and software as enterprises consider options such as SD-WAN and SASE.

Cisco takes additional steps to fight counterfeit network gear
Cisco has added new security labels and enhanced cooperation with online marketplaces to crack down on criminals hawking counterfeit network hardware and software.

SolarWinds Trojan: Affected enterprises must use hot patches, isolate compromised gear
SolarWinds is recommending that customers hit by the Trojan embedded in a version of its Orion network-monitoring platform update to a new release of the software as Microsoft, Cisco, others weigh in.

Multicloud management: Challenges for technology, people, processes
While cloud computing has been around in some form for about a decade, tools to manage its current enterprise iterations from private, on-premises or public locations are still evolving, but at a rapid rate – Gartner says that more...

AWS improves SD-WAN-to-cloud connectivity with Cisco, Aruba, Arista and others
Cisco taps into AWS Transit Gateway Connect with SD-WAN, ACI integration

Aruba unveils new data-center orchestration software, switches
New Aruba CX 8360 switches plus Fabric Composer software is intended for distributed data centers.

Juniper reinforces its intent-based networking with Apstra buy
Juniper adds Apstra to two other recent acquisitions to boost its networking portfolio.
