Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Arista has extended its CloudEOS software to ease cloud networking tasks.
Cisco has issued a number of critical security advisories for its data center manager and SD-WAN offerings that customers should deal with now.
While service providers might regard private 5G as a competitor to Wi-Fi, short-term its enterprise use will be supplemental.
Juniper now features WAN, LAN and wireless management under a central AI-based service called WAN Assurance to better compete with Cisco, VMware, HPE/Aruba, and others.
Switch will power its giant data centers with massive amounts of solar energy and use Tesla Megapacks to store it.
Legacy medical IoT devices may lack security features, but newer ones built around commodity components can have a whole different set of vulnerabilities that are better understood by attackers.
A new version of VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer distributes workloads uniformly across the network to boost efficiency, reliability.
Both are designed to span multiple clouds and bring faster, secure connectivity.
IT vendors are offering billions in financial aid to keep enterprise IT sales from being cancelled and partners afloat, but do they benefit customers?
As data use changes, so do technical needs of the data center operators, who want speed and intelligence.
Connected machines and digital twins will help drive 6G networks, Samsung says.
Alphabet spinout Loon uses balloons to create a floating network of cell towers.
Graphcore is putting its new AI processor, the Colossus MK2 IPU, up against Nvidia's Ampere A100 GPU.
F-Secure details enterprise security threats posed by counterfeit network gear.
Mainframe modernization vendor LzLabs is targeting Big Iron enterprises that want to move legacy applications into public or private cloud environments.
Rather than using a hard disk form, Kioxia's EDSFF SSD uses new designs for chip placement and cooling efficiency.
The British government has re-evaluated the role Huawei can play in the UK's future 5G networks – from limited to none at all.
Offering links on-prem and cloud networks and provides single-pane security monitoring.
Silver Peak's Unity WAN technology will slide into HPE subsidiary Aruba's portfolio and give it an immediate boost in the hot SD-WAN arena.
If your business needs IP addresses for new servers or IoT devices, there is a marketplace for all the addresses you need.
Reliance on SD-WAN analytics grows as customers move toward cloud, security services
Juniper joins VMware, Cisco and many others in chasing edge security customers
IDC: We have seen two years of IT digital transformation in 2 months
As mortgage lender Fannie Mae adopts SD-WAN, it’s realizing dramatic improvements in latency and network performance.
Wireless network devices maintain a connection by handing off from one cell tower to another. The data created should be used to fight coronavirus, say researchers.
StorOne is combining its software-defined storage technology with Intel servers, Optane and QLC flash storage technologies.
IoT devices configured in a wireless mesh network can be quickly deployed to provide basic connections when natural disasters knock out traditional communications links.
Cisco adds Terminal Services Gateway for network management
COVID-19 is driving enterprises to evaluate technologies that can improve network availability and agility, such as SD-WAN, SASE, and network automation.
From remote data-center commissioning to strengthened e-commerce, some tech startups and their investors find opportunity in the COVID-19 global economic disruption.
An all-flash NVMeoF system from Western Digital is designed to replace SATA and SAS for high-performance applications in the enterprise.
Machine-learning formula will help different radio protocols, such as Wi-Fi and LTE, work together more efficiently in the same wireless spectrum.
New chip will be socket-compatible with the 80-core Ampere CPU now on the market.
VMware SD-WAN Zero Trust Service addresses the need to secure remote access for growing remote workforces.
A serious security flaw in a TCP/IP library used by thousands upon thousands of IoT devices remains difficult to address even though a fix exists.
The AWS Snow family of secure edge-computing and data-transfer devices gains its smallest member: the 4.5-pound Snowcone.
The TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers for June 2020 is led by an ARM-powered machine that performs 415.5PFLOP/sec and that can be tuned to handle AI apps at 1 exaFLOP/sec.
Aimed at HPC and AI, the chips come with new instructions and high-speed interconnects well beyond the previous generation.
Azure IoT users can look for additional security and monitoring capabilities as Microsoft announces plans to buy CyberX
FCC rules limit the restrictions cities can place on where 5G wireless base stations can be placed and what they look like.
HPE CEO Antonio Neri advances intelligent edge, AI/ML, and everything-as-a-service by 2022 as important subjects at the company's Discover event next week.
Terahertz radiation, some of it generated by Wi-Fi and converted to DC current could charge batteries for cellphones, IoT devices, medical implants, researchers say
CPU-level security capabilities in new Intel chips are designed to thwart in-memory attacks.
With machine learning added to Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS firewall operating system, the firewalls are better equipped to defend IoT devices and containers, whether on-prem or in the cloud.
Cisco DNA Center now supports end-point, group policy analytics
Chuck Robbins said at the company's virtual customer conference that 2020 has brought lot of pain, sadness and anger, and detailed some technology upgrades.
Q1 saw hyperscalers turning to colocation providers for extra capacity at the edge, while enterprises spent less on data-center hardware and software.
Designed with the GPU and virtualization in mind, new Dell servers are meant for quick deployment of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing systems.
Following several acquisitions, Rackspapce prepares for an IPO and to tackle lifecycle management.
