Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
It's doubtful that even Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, imagined it would play such a major role in everything from supercomputers to tiny embedded devices.
Intel has announced infrastructure-processing units aimed at cloud providers to give customers full control of the CPUs they lease.
Schneider Electric launches a new channel program for its American Power Conversion line of uninterruptible power supplies.
Researchers say a voltage-glitching attack can access encrypted virtual-machine data on AMD Secure Processors, but it's not easy.
From Cisco's year-end earnings call: Its software strategy is working, 400G Ethernet is on the march, chip-supply shortages remain an issue.
Marvell is spending $1.1B and will get Innovium's high-speed chip for cloud providers, complementing its on-prem network offerings.
Starting next year carrier networks will end their 3G support. Make sure you're prepared.
Cisco’s fifth acquisition this year is Epsagon, whose application-performance technology will be integrated into Cisco’s AppDynamics performance-management platform.
Japanese carrier NTT is bringing a new offering to the US: P5G, its name for setting up private 5G networks for enterprises.
As Atos acknowledges challenges to its on-premises data-center consulting, other players are investing in other areas, notably cloud.
Juniper’s chief operating officer Manoj Leelanivas sees AI and automation as leading a change in network architecture.
ITRenew will provide the slightly used data-center hardware, and Vapor IO will provide the colocation, networking and interconnection services.
Extreme Networks says it will acquire Ipanema’s SD-WAN business for about $73M.
The cost of servers and other data-center equipment could rise sharply in the near term, experts say.
Juniper Cloud Workload Protection controls application execution, monitors for signs of attacks, and takes steps to block them.
The Pliops eXtreme Data Processor moves your app to flash storage to process data where it resides rather than load it into memory.
New server processors from Intel and AMD are due at the same time, which means a sales spike and accompanying price hike for enterprise SSDs.
As Extreme Network's revenues top $1 billion, CEO Ed Meyercord claims the company's XIQ management has features that Cisco's and other company's products lack.
New names come with new descriptions and new manufacturing processes as the old nanometer measure is left behind.
Cisco says its employees will work from home part of the time and be supported with its networking gear.
An executive order issued in May by the Biden Administration has elevated the status of the software bill of materials, by mandating their use in federal government contracting.
Comcast Business Mobile offers 4G and 5G services as well as Wi-Fi.
Citizens Broadband Radio Service is shared wireless spectrum in the 3.5GHz band that could have big implications for building private LTE networks and for extending public 4G and 5G services.
IBM's latest version of z/OS addresses easier provisioning and embraces Linux applications and utilities.
The Versal HBM series from Xilinx includes fast memory, secure connectivity and adaptable compute in a single platform.
HPE and Iceotope have an agreement for Isotope to sell HPE ProLiant servers in its liquid-cooled, ruggedized chassis.
Improvements in network-attached storage density and performance target unstructured data workloads. Here's how a NAS server works, how it is different from a SAN, and what IT buyers want in file-level storage.
IBM's Safeguarded Copy takes a snapshot of your systems and stores it where ransomware can't reach it.
In announcing the next version of Windows Server, Microsoft set the stage for TPM, so hardware makers know what’s coming.
Subdomain takeover is a 'DNS problem that can hurt the credibility of your organization, and too many enterprises let it continue.
Cisco bought Kenna Security to integrate its data-science-driven, security risk-management technology into Cisco's Secure X platform.
Everactive combines very low power requirements with electricity generated from ambient energy to make IoT sensors that need no batteries.
The June 2021 TOP500 list of the fastest supercomputers has Fugaku ranked at number one, attaining the top slot for the third time and still three times faster than any other.
Big changes at Intel include two new business units and splitting of an existing one to focus on data center, networking, and software.
The APC Smart-UPS Ultra from Schneider Electric is designed to deliver greater power density and longer life.
HPE adds to its pay-per-use, consumption-based pricing lineup with the HPE GreenLake Lighthouse platform for rapidly delivering cloud services and Project Aurora for zero-trust architecture.
Intel describes its IPU as an evolution of the SmartNIC with intelligent processing.
Cisco extends Catalyst industrial networking gear with new routers to enable a united architecture across edge-computing sites, including branch offices, substations, remote operating locations and fleets.
NetApp announces its ONTAP operating system, FlexPod storage appliance and a hybrid cloud-storage arrangement with Equinix.
Sunlight claims its software streamlines virtual environments, cutting the need for server hardware by two thirds and promising similar power savings.
The new DNA Center software integrates a ThousandEyes agent to improve network-intelligence monitoring, double the number of clients the system supports, and strengthen security.
Legacy spinning media will live alongside SSDs with the new non-volatile memory express 2.0 protocol that addresses the needs of HDDs.
Cisco UCS X-Series servers have a new architecture that supports blade- and rack-server features to simplify data centers and come loaded with management software to unify hybrid cloud environments.
Supermicro is offering three types of liquid cooling: direct to chip (D2C) cooling, immersion cooling, and rear-door heat exchanger (RDHx) cooling.
Researchers say their Morpheus processor changes its underlying implementation hundreds of times per second, giving attackers a very small time window to create and execute exploits.
Attractive properties of antiferromagnetic memory would include greater density of transistors than silicon provides and immunity to magnets erasing data.
Oracle Cloud is offering VM instances, low-cost tools, and some free processing powered by Ampere Altra Arm processors.
The goal of CIS Controls V8 is to provide practical and specific actions that can spark creation of a better network security environment.
Juniper aims to improve its data-center story with streamlined configuration tools, real-time monitoring, and support for VMware NSX and the SONiC network operating system.
