Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Arm boasts the new Neoverse processor designs will deliver 50% better performance for the same power as the previous generation.
Ericsson’s $1.1 billion purchase of Cradlepoint could broaden its customer base beyond service providers and expand the 5G services that its carrier customers can support.
A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have?
On the surface it would seem contradictory for one market to rise and another to fall, but there is a pattern here.
Palo Alto upgrades the SD-WAN gear it bought via CloudGenix with machine learning and artificial intelligence to embrace cloud deployment
Extreme Networks takes the wraps off new core switches; cloud-based management platform adds wireless intrusion protection, location services, IoT management, guest access, and compliance apps.
Bans on Huawei, ZTE mean fewer choices for wireless carriers building 5G services
While Nvidia says it won’t interfere with Arm Holding’s chip-design business, its competitors and regulators may be skeptical
The O-RAN Alliance is working on standards that could help create 5G networks that are software-driven and less reliant on a single-vendor to ensure interoperability
Hard on the heels of auctioning off CBRS bandwidth for 5G, the FCC moves to provide more and more spectrum for commercial use.
Nvidia's deal to buy Arm would launch the processor maker as a world-class power with reach into servers and cell phones - if regulators allow it.
The option of unlimited data plans, a choice of providers, and greater investments are among the top needs cited in a Federated Farmers survey.
Hyperconverged infrastructure from Lenovo targets workloads including VDI, SAP HANA, Microsoft Azure, and Kubernetes.
Cisco and Microsoft have teamed up on another joint effort, this time to make it easier for enterprise branch offices with Cisco Meraki SD-WAN gear to tap into the Azure Virtual WAN service.
Telemedicine is seeing rapid adoption gains as physicians and patients become more comfortable using videoconferencing for telehealth visits.
Arm's Cortex-R82 can do both storage and data processing at the same time.
The IBM/Red Hat Marketplace features more than 50 commercial partner products
Demand for virtualization skills rises as pandemic pushes more enterprise functions to cloud. IT pros are cashing in with or without certs, for now.
The company instead will focus on vertical markets and working with hyperscalers to produce custom silicon.
Next-gen Milan will see up to 20% better core performance while Genoa will change in other ways.
Researchers have logged the fastest ever data speed over optical fiber, using methods that could be applied to upgrade existing networks.
The U.S. Army wants to develop new, more secure communications networks for soldiers in the field using free-space ultra-violet optical transmissions.
With many remote workers likely to keep working from home even after COVID-19 subsides, Cisco joins other vendors offering infrastructure to make the remote network experience close to what it's like at corporate sites.
With massively increased capacity, the FlashArray//C storage platform from Pure Storage eliminates the need for hard-disk storage, the company claims.
Because of the amount of energy and resources used to create and store digital information, the data should be considered physical, and not just invisible ones and zeroes, according to one theoretical physicist.
The Federal Communications Commission wrapped up five weeks of bidding on county-by-county licenses for Citizens Broadband Radio Service eyed by 4G and 5G service providers, private firms
The Department of Defense has relinquished mid-range frequency spectrum for use by 5G providers, a move that is expected to encourage U.S. manufacturers to develop 5G network technology.
Cisco's Cloud-Native SD-WAN project marries SD-WANs to Kubernetes applications to cut down on the manual work needed to optimize latency and packet loss.
Some of the software will be released as open source but much of it will fade out as the company refused to sell to a closed-source vendor.
Pluribus rolls out new Netvisor One software; adds new Broadcom white box switch support
Apstra adds operational features to Apstra Operating System; enhances impact of IBN
While 5G use cases tend toward connecting many devices to a network, using the wireless technology for private backhaul can have a surprising amount of utility.
A new version of VMware vRealize Suite includes support for Kubernetes in VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid or IBM/Red Hat OpenShift environments as well as integration with third-party tools such as Cisco/AppDynamics, Datadog and Dynatrace.
New CPU is optimized for enterprise hybrid cloud and AI inferencing, and it features a new technology for creating petabyte-scale memory clusters.
Customers can choose on-prem deployments or opt for a cloud service from Avaya.
AWS joins IBM, Microsoft, Google and others in growing quantum computing arena
Researchers from Intel, MIT and Georgia Tech are working on an AI engine that can analyze code similarities to determine what code actually does, setting the stage for automated software writing.
Juniper access points feature automated WLAN configuration, anomaly detection
July saw a loss of 134,000 IT jobs, but net IT employment is still up by more than 203,000 positions since the outbreak of COVID-19.
Cisco plans to rely more heavily on selling products as services and will make 10-figure cost reductions to deal with a FY2020 revenue drop of 5% that it blames on COVID-19
The Ethernet Alliance and Avnu Alliance separately are moving Ethernet technology forward with a standard for twisted-pair Ethernet and a push for time-sensitive networking over wireless.
The CBRS window is open as bidders battle for choice parts of a unique chunk of U.S. airwaves.
Early adopters are driving the use of AI to optimize power and cooling systems, automate predictive maintenance, and improve workload distribution in enterprise data centers.
Get ready to hear the term 'circular' a lot more in reference to data center gear.
Researchers from Penn Medicine are studying new AI models using federated learning to improve how brain tumors are detected and treated.
Power efficiency has plateaued as data-center workloads expand and become more process-intensive.
Newcastle University researchers propose using organic LEDs for optical wireless communications because they're cheaper than regular LEDs, easy to distribute and eco-friendly.
The pandemic took a measurable toll on the market for wireless infrastructure, but 5G spending remains a bright spot.
HPE 5G Lab is designed to help telcos accelerate 5G deployment and adoption.
The Linux operating system runs all 500 of the world’s fastest supercomputers, which help to advance artificial intelligence, machine learning and even COVID-19 research.
