Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Virtual instances of new Arm chip designs will let developers create apps before the silicon arrives.
The Aruba CX 10000 switch integrates a DPU from Pensando that helps support firewall, DDoS, encryption, network-address translation, load balancing, network telemetry, and automation.
Identity management, hybrid work, and product consolidation are among top security issues facing enterprises, Gartner says.
Gartner’s annual look at IT hotness finds use of AI, distributed enterprise, data fabrics and security growing
PowerLight Technologies has teamed up with Ericsson to power up a 5G base station using a laser system rather than a wired electrical connection, which could lead to faster 5G deployments.
With the Loihi 2 neuromorphic chip, machines can perform application processing, problem-solving, adaptation,and learning much faster than before.
The FCC is auctioning off more bandwidth for carriers to deliver the best of 5G, perhaps not at the rate service providers and their corporate customers want.
Windows users can now more easily explore Linux on their Windows 11 desktops.
The managed-infrastructure-services unit of IBM's Global Technology Services faces stiff competition when it goes solo as Kyndryl later this year.
Marvell's Octeon 10 DPU packs the processing power of a server CPU but it’s for network management.
If ever you needed a sign Dell and VMware are parting on good terms, they just gave it.
The company boasts of massive performance gains, but is anyone buying?
Cisco’s new quarterly Hybrid Work Index tracks workforce challenges by analyzing data culled from users of its Meraki networking, ThousandEyes internet visibility, Webex collaboration, and security platforms.
Ananki hopes to attract enterprises with 5G as a service that it says is as simple as Wi-Fi to set up and that incorporates open-source platforms from The Open Networking Foundation.
NAND flash maker's Software-Enabled Flash technology is designed to add customization to SSDs.
An upcoming release of VMware's core NSX networking software will add anomaly detection, analytics, and data-gathering software sensors.
A badly written command, a buggy audit tool, a DNS system that hobbled efforts to restore the network, and tight data-center security all contributed to Facebook’s seven-hour Dumpster fire.
New cross-cloud services, cloud management tools and bolstered security offerings from VMware are designed to help enterprises manage and secure the multicloud world.
At VMworld, VMware rolls out an edge platform to run, manage, and secure “edge-native” apps across multiple clouds.
Cisco's portfolio of data-center networking gear is at the core of Kaleida Health’s modernization efforts.
Power failures remain the leading cause of major data-center outages, according to Uptime Institute’s annual survey.
Fedora has been recognized as a "digital public good" by an international organization focused on promoting a more equitable world.
Juniper has announced QFX5700, a flexible switch that can be upgraded to support 400GbE networks and includes tight integration with the company’s Apstra intent-based networking (IBN) software.
HPE adds to its on-prem Greenlake cloud services program with ransomware-recovery, data lakehouse support, and tools for evaluating and rationalizing enterprise efforts to move data to the cloud.
High density servers are increasingly harder to air cool, so Gigabyte is switching to liquid cooling.
Finance is a heavily regulated field, but these two giants say they can help banks to migrate to cloud and multi-cloud environments.
Dell’Oro Group says robust data-center switch sales over the past year could foretell a looming shortage.
As VMware preps to discuss its products and technology at VMworld 2021 next week, it faces questions about cloud strategy, the evolution of NSX networking software, and executive upheaval.
Cisco patches weaknesses in wireless, SD-WAN and IOS XE configuration software.
Nutanix’s AOS 6 enables enterprises to build virtual private clouds, while Era update eases data-management software for hybrid and multicloud environments.
Everything Lenovo sells, from devices to servers, is now a part of the consumption-based, pay-as-you-go model.
The single-socket server used to be the lowest end of servers, but potent new chips are raising its value.
Cisco targets agile networks, optimized applications, hybrid work, the Internet of the future, end-to-end security and edge networking growth
Palo Alto’s Prisma SASE brings together the company’s core Prisma Access package with its Prisma SD-WAN technology
Juniper offers support for EVPN-VXLAN campus-fabric networks that can be managed, controlled and streamlined by its Mist management service.
IBM's linear tape-open 9 (LTO-9) Ultrium magnetic tape drive promises greater density, performance and resiliency.
IT executives have plans to invest in emerging technologies despite the challenge of finding IT pros with the right training.
Lenovo ThinkSystem SE350 Edge servers will ship with VMware edge software installed.
After 100 days on the job, VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram says its upcoming split from Dell will give the company increased strategic, operational and financial flexibility.
Palo Alto’s Okyo Garde package includes a WiFi-6-based hardware device and mobile application software to deliver malware, ransomware and phishing protection.
The last Unix vendor left promises 2.5x greater per core performance vs x86-based servers.
AWS brings its file storage service to NetApp’s ONTAP storage system.
Western Digital hopes to get hybrid storage right by combining HDD with NAND and a CPU.
The innovations Intel is putting in its Adler Lake desktop processors could also be valuable in chips developed for servers.
If Western Digital does merge with Kioxia, WD would be a storage giant far ahead of the competition.
IBM's Telum processor will have on-chip acceleration for artificial intelligence inferencing.
Deal to acquire software-defined networking company Masergy will give Comcast Business a boost in the enterprise SD-WAN and SASE markets.
Intel's Sapphire Rapids next-gen Xeon chip and Ponte Vecchio GPU promise performance boosts, new architectures.
