Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
IBM says its latest mainframe will support AI analytics at scale and security to withstand expected quantum attacks.
Fortinet adds new security, SD-WAN, branch, and zero-trust capabilities to FortiOS software.
Enterprises may not need supercomputers, but regularly upgrading the computing gear they do use can improve speed and power consumption.
Research from TeleGeography says prices for SD-WAN, particularly at low-bandwidth sites, have started to decline.
Network and security perimeters are becoming outdated, and AI can help optimize network efficiency, says Aruba chief product and technology officer David Hughes.
It will take a few years, and a lot of negotiation, but the thawing relations between Intel and Nvidia could help ease processor supply issues.
Enterprise IoT growth has to battle skills and chip shortages, but maturing 5G and AI will help drive it forward.
The G-Cloud service can now be more easily contracted through the NIA digital service support system and the Public Procurement Service’s digital service mall.
Aruba NetConductor offers a centralized management platform that provides policy and security enforcement across the LAN and WAN.
Arista’s Cognitive Unified Edge service is a turnkey package of Arista network and security gear all controlled via a single dashboard.
ODMs lead the way as public cloud nears 50% of data center hardware spend.
Nvidia's Grace superchips cater to AI as well as legacy high-bandwidth applications not optimized for GPUs.
Based on a new ASIC, DPU, smartNIC, and SDK, Nvidia ups the speed and efficiency of its switching platform.
New data has highlighted the extremes of broadband internet service speeds across the 37 countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, and Kolkata have the potential to be the destinations of choice for data centre providers. And other regions of India are vying for their share.
Cisco has added new features to its Intersight cloud management system, UCS X-Series server, and HyperFlex hyperconverged system.
IBM’s new Unified Key Orchestrator lets customers integrate multiple security key-management systems into a single managed service that spans hybrid and multicloud environments.
HPE unveiled 12 new cloud services in networking, data services and high performance computing, expanding its GreenLake platform to more than 50 cloud services.
Nvidia’s H100 GPU is the first in its new family of Hopper processors that the company claims will underpin the world’s fastest supercomputer.
Cisco’s DevNet certifications emphasize network programing, automation, and application-development skills.
Four new EPYC high-end server processor SKUs from AMD (formerly codenamed Milan-X) have reached general availability, aimed at demanding enterprise workloads like modeling and visualization.
Memory is performance, and DDR5 promises much faster memory at a lower power draw.
5G-capable smartphones have surpassed 4G/LTE for the first time globally, according to a Counterpoint report, but experts say the impetus for faster 5G network deployment will come from elsewhere.
The cloud giant will build new data centre capacity and create 1,500 apprenticeship roles over the next two years in a renewed UK investment pledge.
A mix of factors influences how well your 5G phone can take advantage of 5G networks, with South Korea, Sweden, UAE, Norway, and Qatar topping the 5G performance rankings.
South Korea shows above-average 5G speeds while countries in Southeast Asia that adopted 5G later come close and fare better than countries with more access in some speed measures.
New Cisco and NetApp FlexPod XCS features better management and automation capabilities.
Pluribus can extend its switch fabric to Nvidia data processing units as a way to reduce the workload on CPUs across distributed infrastructure.
Juniper Networks is extending its Apstra software to edge data centers and branches offices to support intent-based networking and analytics in smaller environments.
Web Werks too is adding data centre capacity in Hyderabad, as India’s data centre usage grows.
The current news on 5G, broadband, and telecommunications services that IT relies on.
The Xscale SL2x and SL3x data centres in Seoul will support both hyperscale cloud providers and local enterprises.
Marvell announced a new Arm-based smartNIC, and Dell will be the first to use it.
Hiccups in the growth of industrial IoT endpoints and the lingering effects of the pandemic will undercut the rapid growth of private cellular deployments in the enterprise, according to an IDC analysis.
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) will take advantage of the 6GHz spectrum recently allocated to unlicensed wireless technology.
The physical and network infrastructure of the Russian internet is more or less unchanged, but moves to heavily limit certain kinds of access may be afoot.
Beamforming uses the science of electromagnetic interference to make Wi-Fi and 5G connections more precise.
The latest Ethernet Alliance roadmap predicts higher speeds over longer distances for the protocol as driven by the needs of service providers, particularly their deployments of 5G.
As supply-chain woes make Wi-Fi 6E gear hard to find, enterprises are opting to delay upgrades until Wi-Fi 7 is available late next year.
Supply chain issues and talent retention remain top challenges for chip makers, according to KPMG.
New services from Verizon are specifically designed around supporting edge networks.
The internet in Ukraine has suffered outages, poor performance, and myriad malware yet, it's still working.
US intelligence agency lays out security steps IT admins should take to protect their infrastructure from threats.
Policies and technical limitations do not allow ICANN to perform actions requested by Ukraine, according to ICANN CEO Göran Marby.
PowerVault ME5 doubles the performance and capacity of Dell's ME4 storage platform and is optimized for SAN and DAS.
5G uptake proceeding faster than prior-generation mobile technology, the GSMA says, but most connections are for lower-band spectrum that does not support the most advanced capabilities.
With lead times as long as 400 days, enterprises need to start looking at alternative ways to get the network equipment they need.
A core internet routing protocol is at the center of a proposed FCC investigation amid potential threats to the internet at large from state actors like Russia.
Cisco offers subscription-based private 5G managed service that would feature its own products integrated through third parties and managed through a single portal.
The July auction will represent the sale of 200MHz of highly valuable midband 5G spectrum.
