Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
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.
