Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Pure Storage and Equinix will collaborate to offer bare metal as-a-service to provide enterprises more control, flexibility and speed during server provisioning.
Keerti Melkote, president and founder of Aruba, talks future networks, edge computing and 5G.
The integration of Microsoft's Virtual WAN Hub and VMware's SD-WAN is aimed at making it easier for customers to deploy widely distributed business applications.
A report released today by Comcast details the sharp upswing in Internet usage during the ongoing pandemic.
Using trillions of data points this cloud-based machine learning platform can provide the optimal IT solution in seconds.
Cisco gains Acacia high-speed, optical interconnect technologies
New preconfigured private-cloud platforms feature Red Hat on IBM RISC servers.
Cisco issues patches for high-end software systems ACI, Application Services Engine and NX-OS operating system.
Juniper integrates 128 Technology's Session Smart software with its Mist AI-based cloud management family.
Ed Meyercord talks cloud network management, core enterprise network changes and 5G opportunities as Extreme nears its 25th anniversary.
Big names are urging antitrust officials to intervene in Nvidia's $40 billion bit to buy Arm.
Pure Storage's Purity software and capacity-optimized flash platform add new file support and ransomware protection.
Samsung claims its new HBM-PIM power-in-memory architecture will more than double system performance and reduce energy consumption by over 70%.
Cisco ties its Edge Intelligence software with AWS IOT Core service to control industrial-edge networking.
Palo Alto Networks bolsters machine learning, security application development, and licensing flexibility with its recent moves.
New IBM program is designed for moving Unix i-based POWER apps to a private cloud.
Juniper unveils Paragon Automation suite that promises to help eliminate manual tasks and workflow processes
Growing market share and customer wins show that AMD Epyc processors are taking hold.
For older HPE Apollo, ProLiant and Synergy servers still using SATA-connected disk drives, a speedy SSD replacement option is now available.
Cloud APIs, automation, and branch connectivity are top of mind for enterprise network teams.
Cisco Secure Application combines security capabilities with application performance data to simplify vulnerability management.
With data-center recruitment issues projected to increase, researchers from Uptime Institute are concerned the bar is set too high for applicants.
Arista expands its Macro-Segmentation Service (MSS) to include MSS-Group, software that enables creation of logically assigned security groupings.
Dell, VMware and SK Telecom team up to offer OneBox MEC, a single device that integrates private 5G and edge-computing.
Cockroach Labs ranks Google cloud tops for overall performance, Microsoft Azure for the best storage, and AWS for the best latency response.
Servers from major vendors such as HPE and Dell have been certified to provide optimized AI performance.
Achieving Ethernet speeds of a terabit per second and beyond means overcoming technical obstacles of optics, power and network architecture.
New storage systems take up less space than prior generations and offer greater capacity than its competitors.
A vulnerability in sudo can elevate unprivileged users to root privileges.
Cisco adds four boxes to its Catalyst 8000 Edge family and expands the upgrade path for ISR/ASR customers.
Gartner says businesses need to advance their digital-transformation plans 5 years to survive in a post-pandemic world.
Middle-management IT salaries take a hit, bonuses and raises ‘all but eliminated’ by COVID-19, an IT-management consultancy report says.
Former Amazon executive documents how getting off Sun hardware to Linux saved the company and led to AWS.
Three executive departures in less than a month is a tough situation, but Pat Gelsinger is leaving VMware with a deep management bench.
Cisco warns of serious weaknesses in DNA Center management software as well
COVID-19 is driving companies to accelerate their digital transformation efforts, and that's spurring greater cloud adoption.
Cisco raised its takeover offer for Acacia to $4.5 billion, up from $2.6 billion, in a move to boost Cisco's optical-system strategy.
Cisco integrates Data Center Network Manager into Nexus Dashboard, adding support for traditional network environments.
Bob Swan didn’t fail, he succeeded in righting the ship, but Intel has tapped Pat Gelsinger, who started working there right out of high school, as the visionary to move the company forward.
Intel says it will bring on current VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger Feb. 15 to replace Intel CEO Bob Swan.
The French IT giant continues to push into the U.S. market through ambitious acquisitions.
Cisco brokered a deal for Acacia in 2019 for approximately $2.6 billion to bolster its optical systems portfolio, and Acacia wants out.
Work-from-home users to get more sophisticated network hardware and software as enterprises consider options such as SD-WAN and SASE.
CPUs, GPUs, and memory are all in tight supply due to manufacturing issues and high demand.
Microsoft is playing catch up VMware and Nutanix by adding more features to its Azure cloud services via on-premises hardware and software.
Reporting since the SolarWinds hack was revealed indicates the company was warned about insecurities years ago, and another hack has been discovered.
Cisco has added new security labels and enhanced cooperation with online marketplaces to crack down on criminals hawking counterfeit network hardware and software.
The new solutions are designed to enable businesses to harness data more securely and efficiently, from edge to core to cloud.
SolarWinds is recommending that customers hit by the Trojan embedded in a version of its Orion network-monitoring platform update to a new release of the software as Microsoft, Cisco, others weigh in.
With many government agencies and almost all of the Fortune 500 as customers, the SolarWinds breach is very wide-ranging and very dangerous.
