Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
InspireSemi's Thunderbird chips are compatible with multiple programming languages, making it easier to compile more existing HPC code for them.
Software-defined wide area networks offers ease of deployment, central manageability, reduced costs, and can improve connectivity to branch offices and the cloud.
The new AWS Asia Pacific region will be based in Bangkok, and comprise three availability zones in the country.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of its Networking Academy, Cisco has launched new courses and partnerships to meet ambitious targets for cybersecurity, networking and general IT skills training.
Fortinet is extending its FortiSASE platform so enterprises can deliver a more consistent security and user experience, including access to privately hosted applications and SaaS apps.
Here are the latest broadband speed test data ranks winners and losers among fixed and mobile broadband internet service providers, according to a report from network analysis firm Ookla.
Cisco is extending its advanced Silicon One chip technology to core enterprise switches and routers.
Alloy lets enterprises deliver infrastructure and platform services, based on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), that they operate and manage in their own data centers.
IT can help boost productivity and encourage the best workers to stay by boldly adopting cutting-edge technology that makes tasks easier.
Gartner highlights wireless, AI, superapps, and sustainability among key strategic considerations for 2023.
Now you can start very small with a single 1U server and expand.
Google Cloud says its new C3 virtual machine instances deliver performance gains up to 20% over its previous generation C2 instances.
Google Cloud rolls out 20+ new features including Layer 7 security, policy analysis, and expanded network-connectivity options at its Google Cloud Next event.
Dual Run for Google Cloud lets customers simultaneously run workloads on their existing mainframes and on Google Cloud.
Intel is taking its FGPA lineup beyond the data center and extending its Agilex products to remote, edge computing, and embedded systems.
Kyndryl and Microsoft integrate Kyndryl’s zCloud mainframe service with Microsoft’s Power Platform.
TrendForce Research predicts that oversupply of SSDs will lead to price cuts as much as 20%.
Cisco SD-WAN customers can use Microsoft’s Azure Virtual WAN and its multi-region fabric for worldwide, regional connectivity
Aryaka's Secure Web Gateway and Firewall-as-a-Service adds cloud-based security services to its Zero Trust WAN platform, as it moves toward providing SASE capabilities for its users.
VMware eases the use of SmartNICs based on digital processing units to handle networking, security, storage, and other processes, freeing up enterprise-server CPU cycles.
SambaNova DataScale servers can perform both AI training and inference, which eliminates expensive data movement.
Goal of GSMA Post-Quantum Telco Network Taskforce is to help develop standards and mitigate future quantum security challenges.
