Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Unified Update Platform is supposed to cut the size of updates and require less processing power
Some products are up to 42% off, and the Surface 3 is gone
Internet use via mobile shot up from 40% to 70% globally—in just four years. That growth is expected to continue and suggests the fixed-line internet’s glory days are over.
Wi-Fi Auto Connect and Wi-Fi calling pose privacy risks for mobile device users, researchers show
The problem resided with a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability found in websites from Wix
Samsung Galaxy Android tablets, TV, Linksys wireless routers among hot Black Friday deals
This new network tap will be of value on networks running bandwidth-intensive, mission-critical applications that need to be secure
Acquia Labs prepping open source Drupal to support conversational UIs like Amazon Echo's Alexa & Apple Siri, among other browserless interfaces
Viveport Arcade offers arcade operators curated software with a pay-per-use license
The cancer spectrometer was created for an iPhone 5, but can be adjusted to work with any smartphone
The Honeycomb SaaS platform lets engineers ask ad hoc questions in real time to cut outages and find bugs and performance issues
The amount of threat information coming in from security systems is overwhelming for many companies
The company already faces lawsuits over employee classification and benefits for drivers
It turns out blocking out the world isn't great for work
The company now has an app store for SaaS products integrated into Spark
Analysts say there are plenty of potential suitors for Brocade’s data center networking business
Neither shows any growth in the prior month
Fix goes out Nov. 8 for vulnerability used by Russian hackers who penetrated the Democratic National Committee
Precision Packet Capture grabs files just before they are encrypted
Dell will put a $99 Inspiron 11 3000 laptop on sale on Black Friday, in limited quantities
Thread hopes to replace proprietary networks for lighting and other systems with its IP-based protocol
Live chat service makes it possible for people to work together
Data centers are a big, expensive and increasingly important part of the fabric of technology. A new center opening soon looks to change the cost models in the industry.
Upgrades to Cisco AMP for Endpoints now has a SaaS option
At this week’s Cisco Partner Summit, Cisco made several announcements, including Cisco Spark Flex Plan, Cisco Spark Depot and Cisco Hybrid Spark Media Service
Broadcom wants Brocade's Fibre Channel business, but not its faster-growing IP networking activities
NASA moves forward with Asteroid Redirect Mission
One more mobile security thing to worry about: corporate data on smartphones sold when workers trade in their phones
IT employees at insurer expect to train replacements as work shifts to India-based IT services contractor
New Salary tool gives users access to aggregate compensation data
Lawmakers say companies like Facebook will be more sensitive if they hire more Blacks and Hispanics
The company plans to certify IoT products to take advantage of network security capabilities
The FBI contacted 150 people suspected of buying drugs from the sites
The White House has established the Semiconductor Working Group to encourage semiconductor development
The modular S-Series servers let enterprises mix and match storage and computing for flexibility
After extending deadline by two years, Microsoft puts a fork in the world's most popular operating system
Hundreds of mobile developers will be hired in-house in every Fortune 100 company, Forrester says
Project Olympus has been donated to the Open Compute Project
With the right technology, 650,000 emails is not an obstable to quickly completing the investigation
The rootkit implements a new attack against a PLC's input/output interface
Cisco says Roland Acra has rejoined the company as a senior vice-president/general manager for its data center business
T-Mobile Black Friday deals leak out as well, though not confirmed
The goal is to make the U.K. one of the safest places in the world to do business
Google Chrome will stop trusting digital certificates issued by the WoSign and StartCom certificate authorities after Oct. 21
For most of us, pagers went out when cell phones came in, but some companies are still using them and when the messages sent without encryption, attackers can listen in and even interfere with the communications
Point-of-sale malware has been targeting retailers to steal credit card data
Each company has been a core OpenStack contributor in recent years, and now they’re both laying off OpenStack workers
The best of both worlds? A management platform that spans cloud-native and legacy apps sure sounds like it.
Microsoft argues that Google isn't cooperating on vulnerability disclosure
