Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
LiquidStack’s low-power, closed-system server-cooling technology, has caught the eye of Microsoft Azure.
The new Armv9 microarchitecture from Arm will cater to the demands of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and add security features.
Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed an antenna that can translate millimeter-wave 5G signals into usable electrical power.
Cisco is making it simpler to buy its SASE offerings, adding passwordless authentication, and helping to customize the package through a SASE channel in its DevNet software-developer community.
At Cisco Live! 2021 Cisco integrates ThousandEyes technology with Cat 9000 switches, AppDynamics dashboard
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is going forward with Intel's chip-foundry business, with plans later this year to announce its expansion in the US and Europe.
Cisco unwraps Cisco Plus, a NaaS offering focused on security and hybrid cloud for now
Missing security-validation steps in network slicing design pose a risk of serious privacy and security breaches.
If enterprises adopt the operational models of hyperscalers, it would maximize the reduction of CO2 that can be attributed to data centers, but just moving workloads to the cloud would help a lot.
As networks rely more on software, industry experts expect open-source to play a role in Layer 2 and 3 functionality, and that data-centers will rely more on cloud-like services.
Cisco has integrated its SD-WAN technology with Google's Network Connectivity Center, a new management platform designed to simplify on-prem and cloud networking.
Mesh7's security technology will be combined with VMware's Kubernetes-based Tanzu Service Mesh.
The FCC is auctioning off 100MHz more of mid-range radio-frequency licenses suitable for 5G services and to trying to make it easier for the winners to put them to use quickly.
AMD's new Milan processor features a 19% performance bump and socket compatibility with its older processors.
NetApp is ending production of its hyperconvergence hardware and plans to focus on software-defined infrastructure.
Cisco is using AMD’s new EPYC 7003 processor to boost performance in its Unified Computing System family of servers.
Expanded partnership aims to make it easier for enterprises to run GPU-accelerated AI applications.
A S$30 million fund will support a range of projects, including autonomous port vehicles and smart manufacturing.
Cisco's Silicon One webscaler-device family now has 10 members
Enterprise data-center pros are embracing cloud services, growing high-speed networks, enabling remote workforces, and adopting automation and AI.
Alveo SN1000 SmartNICs come with 100Gb/s line rate network function offload and composability features for customization.
With backing from Nvidia and Intel, startup Pliops is working to make data-center storage more efficient.
These 5 tools can help automate the detection and remediation of vulnerabilities, they're available at no cost, and some are upgradeable to more fully featured platforms.
