Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
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 .
