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