Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
With significant high-throughput frequencies auctioned off to carriers, broad availability of the fastest 5G services are on the horizon.
Cisco adds high-end wired and wireless Catalyst gear and announces private 5G-as-a-service with partners.
Juniper's new Secure Edge package expands security features in its cloud-based security-management platform Security Director Cloud and beefs up its secure access service edge offering.
Adding CASB functionality to Cato’s SASE Cloud architecture is meant to make it easier for enterprises to protect against data breaches and cloud-delivered threats.
Expect a spending surge for cloud and IT managed services as enterprises move from COVID-19 stopgap projects to major IT investments, Gartner says.
AMD's $35 billion all-stock deal for Xilinx is now expected to close this quarter after more than a year of delays.
Cisco-owned network intelligence company ThousandEyes reveals the 10 biggest outages of 2021.
The Nvidia acquisition of Arm that would set up Nvidia as a more formidable processor powerhouse faces strong opposition from the UK, China.
The speed of Meta's Research Super Computer would dwarf that of the current world's fastest supercomputer.
Cisco is adding Webex collaboration to its SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp to support group video calls regardless of where participants are located.
7 new Dell systems and services cover multi-cloud offerings and more.
Verizon and AT&T will address fears that 5G might endanger planes landing in low visibility—for a time.
Networking’s biggest companies get seats on the FCC's 6G council advising on what comes after 5G.
Manufacturing and retail are driving sales of edge technology as advanced computing sees greater use.
The Catalyst IE9300 can bring automation, segmentation, and management to OT environments that typically lack them.
Cisco research is aimed at developing quantum networks, data centers, and internet technologies that will connect differently than classic networks.
Chip giant teams with startup GRC to take immersion cooling mainstream.
The week’s ISP, cloud, and collaboration network outage rates revealed
Juniper’s Session Smart upgrades help speed deployment, boost security, and embrace the cloud.
The ThinkEdge SE450 incorporates Nvidia GPUs for enterprise and industrial AI at the edge.
Buying Bright Computing gives Nvidia in-house clustering software for high-performance computing and includes support for VMware.
A court win and a compromise with the Federal Aviation Administration show that the FCC’s efforts to pry open more spectrum for broadband will move ahead.
As IoT matures, vendors are creating application bundles to simplify deployments, but security remains a worry.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project has issued recommended enhancements of 5G systems architecture and radio access networks.
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Framework is designed to help data-center operators minimize the environmental impacts of their facilities.
Seven organizations are looking to develop a fuel cell platform for data centers.
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.
