Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Aruba’s AP 635 will support the 6GHz spectrum that doubles the space previously designated for unlicensed wireless by the FCC.
The Arm server chip maker is lining up major cloud players for its processors.
The company specializes in inferencing with its analog, in-memory processor.
Palo Alto Networks has added products and features for enterprises looking to build a zero-trust security environment.
At RSA, Cisco announces new features for SecureX, Secure Endpoint, and Umbrella, plus integration between Cisco/Meraki Wi-Fi and Cisco SD-WAN
New financial-trading algorithms promise quantum-computer performance improvements over classical computers within 5-10 years rather than 10-20.
Tech executives and analysts say the current processor-chip shortage and disruption of supply chains thanks to COVID-19 could have a long-term impact on price and availability.
The company is offering its products and capabilities as services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
A set of vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi’s basic design offers a long-standing and widespread threat vector, but the probability of compromise remains low.
AMD takes the high end of the CPU performance market while Intel gets the low-end.
Raghu Raghuram is considered an experienced technologist who helped shape VMware’s strategy and is expected to stick to it.
Other sectors of the economy are doing poorly but tech keeps hiring, according to analysis of government data.
IBMs newly announced 2nm chip won’t be available for four years, but it is still going to be significant.
Young storage companies are innovating products that range from storage arrays to mainframe storage management to cloud storage and more.
UK-based startup Graphcore believes its AI-focused processor can take on GPU Goliath Nvidia.
IBM now offers Tailored Fit Pricing options for hardware and software with an eye toward hybrid-cloud enterprises.
IBM has broadened the scope of security features in its Cloud Pak for Security bundle, and has partnered with Zscaler for SASE and other enterprise security efforts.
Juniper is rolling out Security Director Cloud to provide a central point of management for enterprise security management.
Dissatisfied with chips on the market, Google makes a video-transcoding chip to send better quality YouTube videos.
Dell Apex consumption-based storage, server, and hyperconverged services are designed to enable cloud-like pricing and deployment flexibility in on-premises environments.
HPE is rolling out Data Services Console, a cloud offering that utilizes HPE Aruba Edge Services Platform to support AI-based analytics, workflow automation, and security.
Cisco expands DNA Spaces location services to Catalyst 9000 switches as workplaces reopen post-COVID.
Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord says its tools that incorporate automation, AI, and ML can help IT catch more problems earlier and head them off before they hit the network.
IBM adds higher capacity and software-defined storage systems for deployment on-premises and in the cloud.
Report: Large enterprises are looking toward robust hiring and developing skills for IT teams this year.
New features in Red Hat’s latest enterprise Linux release emphasize the company’s focus on edge computing.
By acquiring Turbonomic, IBM gains tools that manage performance of everything from applications and containers to virtualization, cloud, and on-prem compute, storage, and network resources.
Arm claims a 50% performance boost for Neoverse V1 for HPC and a gain of 40% its Neoverse N2 over the previous generation.
The IEEE 802.1X standard allows network switches and access points to hand off device authentication to a specialized server so it can be managed and updated centrally.
Slackware Linux, first released in 1993, is different from the more popular flavors, and that might be its appeal.
Google Cloud's AI and machine-learning capabilities will be combined with Siemens' factory automation portfolio.
5G has a wealth of features suitable for Department of Defense uses, but its vulnerability to cyber attack calls for bulletproof security.
Vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure VPN software have reportedly been exploited by attackers, some believed linked to China, to compromise networks.
Power issues are less likely to cause a major IT service outage, while IT configuration and network problems are becoming more common, according to the Uptime Institute.
Organizations that failed to make sure their cloud data was backed up properly learned the consequences the hard way when an OVHcloud data center burned last month.
Sale of Dell's cloud business, Boomi, could bring in $3 billion.
Verizon's 5G Business Internet offerings run from 100Mbps to 400Mbps with no data limits and a 10-year price lock for new customers.
VMware's new Anywhere Workspace packages networking, SASE, cloud security, and access control.
Cisco Telemetry Broker works across enterprise siloes and has no ties to proprietary protocols or data.
The latest in a long line of vulnerabilities in a key part of the networking stack threatens a major open-source operating system, printers and medical IoT devices.
From hardware leasing to AI tools we’ve got at least a partial roundup of announcements.
VMware and Dell say separating gives both companies financial flexibility but lets them continue to grow their technology-development partnership.
AT&T, Hughes, and Verizon scored first, second, and third in a ranking of managed-SD-WAN service providers by Vertical Systems Group market research.
Cisco’s revamped DevNet certification portfolio focuses on network programing, automation and application development, and those software-based skills have never been more important.
At its GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia talks about its first data-center CPU that is meant to fill a hole in its server processor line, but details are scant.
It's twice as fast as existing memory and has twice the capacity, paving the way for new use cases.
Power savings is just the start of benefits, along with the potential for much lower hardware failure.
Arista introduces CloudVision 2021, which enables easier automation and management of workflows.
Gartner forecasts the biggest growth in IT spending this year will be on laptops, mobile phones and enterprise software.
Intel is trying to wrest back leadership from AMD with a host of new features, massive core count, and 40 new chips tailored for three different markets.
