Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Virtual private networks can create secure remote-access and site-to-site connections inexpensively, are a stepping stone to software-defined WANs, and are proving useful in IoT.
Restructuring move puts Intel's gaming and data center products into separate categories to better serve both markets.
The investigation relates to concerns of price gouging and decreased competition for hardware components that interoperate with VMware's software.
GreenLake enhancements include expanded container deployment options and workload-optimized instances for compute, memory, and storage.
Hybrid and multicloud initiatives are driving changes in data center networks, including new security rollouts, greater automation, and evolving netops strategies.
The new services from the former IBM unit will be offered across public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.
Arista is adding 8 new switches including a high-end box that supports 800G of bandwidth
Equinix is considering a multi-year project to run its data centers at higher temperatures to conserve energy.
Tests by Meta and Iceotope find that new, sealed hard disk drives can be given precision liquid cooling that is more even than air cooling.
Intel's new server chips will have special functions locked away and available to turn on—for a fee.
SASE, wireless, cloud, platform engineering among trends driving I&O changes, Gartner says
Startups Aviz Networks and Hedgehog lead commercial support and innovation for the open-source network operating system Software for Open Networking in the Cloud, hoping to attract large enterprises.
Gartner says working to attain environmentally sustainable infrastructure is a marathon, not a sprint, that requires long-term goal setting.
Rackspace’s hosting for Exchange servers remained offline Tuesday after an outage Friday that the company now ascribes to a ransomware attack.
iperf, Wireshark and Nmap among useful tools
The outage that affected the region in Ohio lasted for about 75 minutes, according to the cloud services provider.
As Elon Musk drives Twitter users to Mastodon, its underlying architecture can overload content-provider networks
AWS re:Invent: An Arm-based CPU for high-performance computing, a networking chip that doubles performance of its predecessor, and a TCP protocol replacement to speed up networks in the AWS cloud.
Two major companies, one specializing in high-tech industrial systems and the other in enterprise management software, are deepening their partnership, with the idea of making industrial IoT application deployment easier, and improving sustainability
Latest Cisco SD-WAN release will include new features to automate connectivity and expand support for regions, enabling greater redundancy and failover-centric network designs.
Seagate's Exos 2X18 features multiple drive heads that enable it to match SATA SSD speeds.
AWS re:Invent: Cisco announces the addition of business transaction insights to its AppDynamics Cloud management platform .
The UK’s Competition and Market’s Authority is the third regulatory body to announce it will be scrutinizing Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware on anticompetition grounds.
News includes upgrade of Dell’s APEX data storage services to provide more secure backup storage in a pay-per-use consumption model.
Deal involves AMD’s Instinct GPU accelerators, which are also used in Frontier, the fastest supercomputer in the world.
Layoffs are expected at Cisco, which reported a $600 million restructuring charge along with better-than-expected quarterly revenue.
PAN 11.0 Nova, the latest version of Palo Alto's firewall operating system, enables upgraded malware sandboxing and ties into the vendor’s new CASB.
Cisco’s hybrid cloud report details the key challenges that network operations teams face in supporting diverse enterprise workloads.
OEMs including HPE, Dell and Supermicro, along with cloud providers Microsoft and Oracle, showed up for the debut of AMD’s fourth-generation server processor.
You can now get a scaled-down and less expensive supercomputer that's based on the same architecture of the machine that broke the exaFLOP barrier.
The top 10 of the semiannual TOP500 list of supercomputers for November 2022 has just one new entrant, Leonardo, which jumped in at #4.
IBM's most powerful quantum computer yet, Osprey, is a 433-qubit machine, and the company is enlisting partners to identify quantum-computing use cases for businesses.
Intel's CPU Max and GPU Max HPC chips use high bandwidth memory to solve bottlenecks and underpin supercomputers.
VMware has added more security capabilities to Project Northstar, its security and networking service due out next year.
VMware SD-WAN Client promises to provide secure access for hybrid workers' devices plus management, visibility, and policy support as if they were in the office.
The chips were delayed nearly two years due to manufacturing challenges, but now the company promises rapid ramp-up to volume production.
Nvidia testing of data-processing units in servers says the DPUs free up CPUs to do more of the work they are designed for and also reduce overall power draw by the servers.
Kyndryl looks to cloud integration, mainframe modernization, increased infrastructure management, and more to succeed a year after spinning out from IBM.
AMD’s quarterly results show a sharp loss in overall operating income, but the company’s data center and embedded businesses look strong enough to help the company weather difficult economic conditions.
HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers are designed with heavy emphasis on security and a hybrid-cloud workloads.
Cisco integrates its Intersight cloud management with Red Hat OpenShift Assisted Installer to support bare-metal server-based container networking.
All of NetApp’s dozen-odd storage software products will now work via the new BlueXP control layer, in a move to simplify storage management for IT teams.
Cisco launches a Secure Firewall for hybrid workers and adds data-loss prevention and passwordless authentication to security products.
The Open Compute Project's Caliptra spec for Root of Trust could lead to better interoperability among cards used in data-center servers.
Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord says supply-chain challenges haven't prevented a record revenue jump last quarter, particularly in Wi-Fi.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says the goal of buying VMware is more and better products without raising prices.
Cisco is offering software updates for two of its AnyConnect for Windows VPN products it says represent a threat ranked 'high'.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will feature tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs and software that are aimed at artificial-intelligence processing.
SolarWinds Observability, the company's new SaaS offering, provides management insight into distributed, hybrid, and multi-cloud IT environments.
The company's third quarter financial report reveals a strong showing for mainframes as well as hybrid infrastructure, as total quarterly revenue hits $14 billion.
