Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
HPE plans to to use Athonet 5G technology in Greenlake and Aruba networking services.
Dell’s announcements at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona include new edge-specialized servers and partnerships with 5G networking services and hardware providers.
Cisco has re-engineered parts of its Webex Room Navigator to prevent the Ethernet port from popping out when users persist in dragging it around by the cable.
AWS claims its new Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances provide 25% better performance vs. the past generation of instances.
As businesses adopt AI, high performance computing and cloud technology, servers gobble up memory chips to the point where there is more DRAM inside servers than in all mobile devices combined, TrendForce reports.
The companies have now given themselves until May 26, 2023, to complete Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware.
The new investment is a part of the company’s Singapore+ strategy, which involves constructing data centers in Batam, Indonesia, and Johor, Malaysia, to enable its Singapore-based customers to expand their infrastructure beyond Singapore data centers
The SD-WAN and SASE provider said that it will expand its global footprint, bringing its growing range of services to a wider audience as companies turn to SaaS-based applications.
Oracle outages this week, following Microsoft and AWS service interruptions, are a cautionary tale for system administrators.
Cisco, Arista and Juniper continue to struggle with product backlogs but are optimistic supply-chain issues may ease up by yearend.
Cisco adds new Catalysts, a UCS compute module, and easier-to-use SD-WAN software.
After a dip due to surplus inventory and economic concerns, server CPU market expected to rebound.
Snapdragon X35 5G Modem-RF caters to edge devices in low-power environments.
In addition to the layoffs, which would impact about 1,400 employees, the company is undergoing an internal restructuring to create two business units, Twilio Communications and Twilio Data & Applications.
The prominent CDN (content delivery network) provider announced a range of data center build-outs as well as new cloud egress pricing and regulatory compliance plans.
Cisco adds details to its forthcoming Full Stack Observability architecture and plans for integrating telemetry across domains.
The FBI and CISA have released a recovery script for the global ESXiArgs ransomware campaign targeting VMware ESXi servers, but the ransomware has since been updated to elude former attempts at remediation.
The ExtremeCloud SD-WAN platform gains better automation, streamlined connectivity to AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds.
Cisco adds new visibility, security software to its IoT Operations Dashboard, launches new Catalyst switches.
Cisco bolsters Duo to combat MFA fatigue, adds new risk-measuring app, and expands SASE options.
Hardware durability metrics are drawn from the cloud storage provider’s portfolio of more than 230,000 hard drives under management.
IBM says its roadmap for AIX development and new features runs through 2030, countering a published commentary.
Fortinet’s new custom chip, the FortiSP5, will power its converged network and security devices.
The planned investment with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will result in Oracle expanding its existing cloud region in Jeddah and opening a new one in Riyadh.
Using a managed services provider to deliver SASE can streamline deployment and free up enterprise resources.
AMD issued 31 alerts covering client and desktop that allow for a BIOS attack.
ECL says its hydrogen fuel cells will provide electricity to power its data centers and produce enough water to cool the servers.
Old rivals Red Hat and Oracle have teamed up for RHEL-based virtual machines running in Oracle’s OCI service.
How to architect a hybrid cloud that combines on-premises and public cloud infrastructures. Definitions of hybrid cloud vary, but here’s what it means to Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
Unstable border-gateway routing tables led to high packet loss, leaving Microsoft customers unable to reach Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and other services and resulting in a 'really poor experience,' according to ThousandEyes.
SD-WAN and analytics can help optimize performance of cloud-based applications, IDC says.
Apstra intent-based networking software from Juniper gains new configuration capabilities, multivendor support and improved environmental analytics.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is expected to support more than 2,500 new jobs with the opening of the Melbourne region, and is planning to invest an additional $4.5 billion in Australia by 2037.
Short-term expectations: Delay new IT projects with ROI of more than 12 months. Longer term: Step up IT automation.
Despite the challenges its US-EAST-1 region has faced in recent years, AWS plans to establish multiple data center campuses in the state by 2040.
Data-center IT teams must balance the need to consume less electrical power with the need to use power-hungry next-gen silicon, Uptime Institute says.
T-Mobile’s fast 5G deployment has average connection speeds well above the competition, while competition among fixed broadband providers stays tight.
With the ability to analyze ever-expanding telemetry data generated by network infrastructure and applications, open-source projects and AI/ML are helping to create predictive networks.
From HPE to Inspur, server vendors are coming out with dozens of new configurations.
IBM will quadruple the core count of its RISC CPUs specifically to benefit one of Oracle’s databases, perhaps to get around licensing issues, but won't say exactly why.
The biggest outages of 2022 hindered services from AWS, British Airways, Google, Twitter and more, according to Cisco-owned network intelligence company ThousandEyes.
Intel's 4th Generation Xeon processors include virtual machine security as well as AI accelerators.
New high-end Cisco Unified Computing System servers with the 4th Generation Xeon processors will be more powerful and energy efficient.
The Instinct MI300 server accelerator from AMD looks like an absolute beast on paper, with eight times the performance of its predecessor.
Giga Computing Technology is a new Gigabyte subsidiary focused on supporting servers and other enterprise gear as well as liquid cooling.
Fungible acquisition is aimed at accelerating networking and storage performance in datacenters with high-efficiency, low-power data processing units.
New Arm-based Mt. Hamilton servers target a range of use cases, from traditional server workloads to cloud and AI.
Tom Gillis, who left VMware in December, is expected to drive growth in Cisco's cloud, AI and end-to-end security initiatives.
AI Spine relies on Arista’s switches with deep packet buffers and its networking software to control heavy AI traffic, reduce latency, and eliminate packet loss.
TrendForce believes core parts of the server supply chain will shift to Southeast Asia and the Americas as a result of geopolitical risks and trade disputes.
