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.
AWS (sort of) brings private 5G to market
New private 5G managed service from AWS lets enterprises kick the tires on a private mobile network, but so far it only supports 4G LTE.
Cisco embraces multi-cloud networking software
Cisco: Cloud networking should let customers place workloads wherever it makes sense for their business
Cisco shakeup: Networking chief Todd Nightingale to helm Fastly
Cisco said it will its enterprise and carrier groups under Jonathan Davidson, the current head of the carrier group.
Top IT vendors report good financials, onging supply woes
Arista, Extreme, Juniper, F5 say supply-chain challenges will likely persist through 2023.
Arista buys software-defined networking pioneer Pluribus
Arista Networks has acquired Pluribus Networks with an eye toward bolstering its own Unified Cloud Networking service.
IBM bolsters quantum cryptography for z16 mainframe
IBM adds NIST’s new public-key encryption and digital signatures algorithms to defend against attacks by future quantum computers.
Aruba boosts AI capabilities to help enterprises manage, troubleshoot the edge
Aruba’s Edge Services Platform gains AIOps features to streamline network troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security controls.
Network automation, SASE, 5G rank among enterprise priorities
Distributed users, applications and workloads are driving enterprises to rethink their network architecture, says World Wide Technology.
Juniper upgrades management platform, adds a switch
Juniper has added troubleshooting features to its flagship Mist AI/ML cloud-based management platform and announced the EX4100 Series Ethernet access switch.
AWS WAN service aims to simplify global network deployments
AWS Cloud WAN service supports SD-WAN packages from Aruba, Aviatrix, Checkpoint, Cisco Meraki, Prosimo and VMware.
IBM brings hybrid-cloud app services to z/OS mainframes
Big Blue’s Wazi as a Service can be used to create z/OS infrastructure instances for cloud app testing and development
VMware brings on-prem cloud connectivity to vSphere, vSAN
VMware has unwrapped subscription-based offerings vSphere+ and vSAN+ to bring cloud connectivity to its core systems
Linux Foundation works toward improved data-center efficiency
The Linux Foundation Open Programmable Infrastructure Project seeks to make it easier to offload tasks from CPUs and onto DPUs and IPUs for more efficient data centers.
AWS moves towards quantum networking
AWS Center for Quantum Networking will focus on communication hardware, software and apps
Cisco puts app-performance tools in the cloud
Cisco moves AppDynamics to the cloud, rolls out two security, networking development tools.
Cisco data-center switches promise 800Gb Ethernet, deliver 400GbE today
Cisco rolls out 5 new Nexus data-center switches for high-bandwidth apps.
Cisco service predicts SD-WAN problems
Cisco's ThousandEyes WAN Insights service provides forecasts and SD-WAN policy recommendations for optimizing enterprise network sites.
Cisco moves Catalyst, Nexus management to the cloud
Cisco is adding a cloud-based option to its on premises management for its Catalyst networking and Nexus data-center gear.
AWS turns-up mainframe-migration service
AWS Mainframe Modernization, offers a set of tools for migrating and running mainframe workloads in the cloud