Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
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.
