Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
IT has typically shunned the market for secondhand IT equipment, but younger staff members are driving green policies that include buying used IT gear.
Samsung collaboration delivers a compute-on-storage SSD that comes with a Xilinx FPGA processor, while Kameleon Security deal produces a security chip for cloud servers.
Spot Storage is aimed at helping enterprises build and deploy microservices-based applications on Kubernetes without having to administer storage and data services.
IDC predicts 80% of enterprises will speed up their shift to a cloud-centric infrastructure.
Palo Alto’s Enterprise Data Loss Prevention service will help protect intellectual property
IBM unwraps new Cloud Paks for automation and data operations
Key multicloud management metrics involve network performance, security, application availability and more.
New AWS instances are several times faster and more powerful than existing instances thanks to Nvidia processors.
A rumored Trump administration proposal for a national 5G network has drawn a Congressional inquiry about what could be a sea change in spectrum-allocation policy.
An alliance of IBM and AT&T brings together 5G, Kubernetes and cloud management in an effort to simplify enterprise edge-computing deployments.
Xilinx is in many fields where AMD does not play, allowing for some expansion of territory.
Cisco expands its SecureX integrated security platform, which has gained 11,000 customers since June, and streamlines its renamed Cisco Secure portfolio.
Cisco tools look to bridge gap between DevOps and NetOps.
Wall Street continues to see the data center industry as a viable investment.
One million volunteers and more than 2.5 exaFLOPS later, the group behind the crowdsourced distributed-computing project says it has found possible targets for stopping the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Demand for PC and server SSDs has weakened, so now may be the time for enterprise IT buyers to buy or negotiate.
At this stage of 5G availability, offerings that blend fast cellular service with compatible software and hardware may attract early adopters.
New technologies will help meet IT goals, and responsibility for digital business success will rest more squarely on CIOs, Gartner says.
A remote IT workforce, distributed cloud services, and core modernization efforts are driving changes in enterprise infrastructure and operations teams.
Dell's Apex program is designed to accelerate adoption of IT-as-a-service, starting with storage-as-a-service across public cloud providers.
There has never been a market with this much volatility, says Gartner, which expects 2020 declines in all IT spending segments, including data center systems, IT services, enterprise software and devices.
Cisco unpacked Catalyst 8000, a new family of edge networking gear that support SD-WAN, branch office, zero-trust security, SASE.
With work-from-home becoming the MO of more companies, Masergy offers employees a way to have in-office SD-WAN benefits.
Cybersecurity mesh, AI engineering, and distributed cloud services are among the top trends that Gartner says will shape future enterprise IT operations.
Equinix Metal will provide 'lift and shift' migrations of entire operating environments, including OS, hypervisor, apps and data, from on-premises data centers to the cloud.
IBM adds data, threat intelligence and security service to Cloud Pak for Security system.
AMD's new Zen 3 processor architecture is socket-compatible with older designs but with faster performance.
The red pigment in bricks can be converted into a plastic that conducts electricity, allowing researchers from Washington University to turn bricks into electricity storage devices.
Huawei and ZTE 5G gear is still present on some service-providers' networks despite an FCC ban prompted by security fears.
IBM plans to dedicate itself to hybrid cloud, AI, quantum computing, and mainframe technologies, and is breaking out its $19B Managed Infrastructure Services group in order to do so.
Adaptive Cloud Fabric from Pluribus can now support up to 1,024 switches in a unified fabric.
Intel goes all-in for 5G radio access networks while Nvidia pushes its newly acquired Mellanox business.
Juniper adds to its Advanced Threat Prevention (ATP) Cloud and releases an in-house VPN offering
Centripetal Networks sued Cisco for infringing on four security patents related to encrypted traffic and packet filtering.
A partnership between VMware and Nvidia will enable deployment of AI-ready infrastructure where data resides.
The collaboration is designed to speed up Lightbits NVMe/TCP storage, reducing enterprise reliance on Fibre Channel and improving storage hardware utilization.
VMware is tackling the challenges of securing distributed enterprise resources with product enhancements including the new Carbon Black Cloud Workload software and upgrades to its SD-WAN and SASE products.
Wireless technologies could help mitigate clinical errors and improve caregiving in hospitals and at home.
VMware is filling out its SASE and SD-WAN offerings and bolstering NSX security capabilities, the company announced at its virtual VMworld event.
Arista has added IoT monitoring and management to its CloudVision platform that can be shared with products by VMware, Microsoft and IBM's Red Hat.
Federal Communications Commission policymaking targets creation of new services by making more spectrum available
VMware Project Monterey includes NVIDIA, Intel and goes a long way to meld bare metal servers, graphics processing units
Windows XP code is almost 20 years old, but it could still live on in newer operating systems.
Memory Machine does in-memory virtualization and memory snapshots using DRAM and Optane in combination.
Rare warning from CISA instructs government agencies to patch a vulnerability in a core authentication component of Active Directory from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2019.
Cisco this week posted 25 security advisories defining 34 vulnerabilities rated high that should be fixed right away
Ongoing research explores biologically-based communication networks and electronics that could directly connect to human tissues.
Tests involving Ericsson and Qualcomm overcame some of the limiting characteristics of 5G millimeter connectivity, more than doubling its effective distance.
The mainframe-Linux alliance turns 20 this month and is proving to be more vital than ever, primarily in the form of Big Iron-based Red Hat OpenShift.
New Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp features simplify access to multi-cloud services and provide better security and lower latency.
