Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
ITRenew will brings its expertise in IT hardware reuse and disposal to Iron Mountain’s IT asset lifecycle management business.
Exploits of the Log4j vulnerability can lead to loss of data on server systems and denial-of-service attacks.
Equinix Metal service now includes Nvidia, Intel, AMD, and Ampere processors.
By reorienting transistors on the semiconductor, IBM and Samsung say their technology can cut power consumption by 85%.
Intel is working with partners in China to build an infrastructure processing a unit that relies on both a CPU and an FPGA.
EdgeConnect Microbranch , which is a part of Aruba's networking services infrastructure platform known as ESP, offers extended SD-WAN and SASE services, and will be generally available in March 2022.
IBM looks to combat AWS, Google and others in modernizing mainframe applications
US regulators are investigating whether allowing Nvidia to buy Arm would give it too much control over the semiconductor market and hurt competition.
Aryaka expands managed WAN portfolio to offer more flexible enterprise options
Hyperautomation, just-in-time infrastructure, and composable technologies are among the key trends infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals can expect to see in the coming months, according to Gartner.
While missing some details, the Arm-based processor has some key new performance metrics.
Customers may find their appliances compromised or a screw loose.
US actions against vendors of 5G radio-access network gear and challenges about whether standards will actually lower the costs of service providers deploying 5G networks.
AWS rolls out managed WAN service, direct data center connectivity and enhanced Transit Gateway communications with support from Cisco, HPE/Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, VMware, others.
The chip shortage is hitting Wi-Fi 6, the top performing standard for wireless LAN connectivity that is highly in demand, but supply chain issues are slowing its spread.
AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Mainframe aims to get customers off of the Big Iron "as fast as they possibly can"
AWS says workloads constrained by the limited size of the IPv4 address space can now migrate to an IPv6-only environment within its Virtual Private Clouds.
Use of smartNICs in the enterprise is just beginning to appear, and VMware, Pensando, Aruba, Intel, AWS, Nvidia and Juniper are getting in on the action.
The month-long FCC auction of 3.5GHz-to-3.55GHz wireless spectrum seems to have favored large providers looking to move ahead with their 5G-network deployments.
The Xilinx Alveo U55C data-center accelerator is smaller, has more memory, and draws less power than its predecessor, making it more attractive for high-performance computing.
Kyndryl and VMware are beginning a new business life since being spun off by IBM, Dell, respectively. Spinoffs Kyndryl and VMware team up on multicloud
IDC's “MarketScape: Worldwide SD-WAN Infrastructure 2021 Vendor Assessment” looks at the capabilities and evaluates the core features offered by 12 SD-WAN infrastructure vendors.
A set of Bluetooth Classic vulnerabilities has a new proof-of-concept from a Singapore-based security research team, as chipset makers scramble to deploy patches.
Palo Alto rolls out new Prisma Cloud security package with reinforced CASB
Intel Connectivity Analytics provides data about networked PCs, laptops, tablets on Cisco Wi-Fi networks so IT pros can better monitor and evaluate end-user experience.
The new Nvidia Bluefield-3 DPU will be used to provision next-gen firewall services from major providers.
Forrester Research says IT pros now think of IoT and edge as inextricably connected and that the two will be used to help enterprises comply with US government regulations.
Nvidia is blending its BlueField data-processing units with its Morpheus AI security framework to contribute to a Zero Trust architecture.
Kyndryl's partnership with Microsoft is the first of what will likely be many cloud deals for the IBM managed-services spinoff.
ThousandEyes' Application Outages app promises real-time and historic views of software-as-a-service availability.
Powerful new server CPU and a GPU it says tops Nvidia’s best are part of the parade.
Using software developed by the Open Networking Foundation, Stanford researchers thwart wireless attacks in less than a second.
The FCC is distributing money to help mostly rural wireless providers replace 5G network equipment they bought from Huawei and ZTE, whose products are banned in the US over security concerns.
Pluribus software on ITRenew hardware means an open architecture for compute and storage infrastructure.
Cisco Integrated Domain support in its latest release of Cisco DNA Center and SD-WAN vManage boost SD-WAN security.
Billed as a drop-in replacement for Ethernet and InfiniBand cabling and switches, Rockport's switchless network relies on endpoint network cards.
Like it or not, as workers come to expect metaverse communications, enterprises networks will have to support it, so IT pros need to start planning now to fight its biggest enemy: latency.
Kyndryl starts off big but faces challenges in a fragmented, competitive services market.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 9 is edge-friendly and has plenty of new features, but a surprisingly forgiving learning curve.
Cisco’s latest 2022 Global Networking report about network-as-a-service finds concerns about disruption and loss of control, but interest in quicker access to new technologies and less time spent on netops chores.
Juniper's Support Insights is a cloud-based service that analyzes device data to ID trouble spots, inventory networks, and more.
VMware and Dell have untied the knot that has held them together since 2016, giving VMware new flexibility for partnerships and investment.
NetApp continues to evolve its cloud strategy while maintaining on-premises support.
Run.AI is launching software that orchestrates shared use of organizations' GPU resources rather than dedicating entire processors to specific AI workloads.
New AI servers can boost performance into supercomputing territory with a smaller footprint.
Cisco is integrating its ThousandEyes agents to the Webex collaboration platform to give greater visibility into conferencing connections.
Standards for cellular radio-access networks known as Open RAN could make deployment of 5G and other cellular networks less expensive and result in faster innovation of features and services.
Do we need bosses anymore? Is tricky behavior a key enterprise metric? Will synthetic data rule?
Gartner says IT budgets are growing at the fastest clip in 10 years, fueled by purchases of infrastructure software and devices.
