Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Aruba's Edge Services Platform (ESP) can analyze telemetry data and automatically optimize connectivity, find network problems, and secure edge networking.
Easy scalability and pay-per-usage pricing are two of the draws of enterprise cloud storage. Potential drawbacks include management complexity and security concerns.
The possibilities of digital twinning are rapidly expanding, but the networking and interconnection technology behind it need to keep pace.
Given the realities of COVID-19, WLAN engineers are finding ways to extend enterprise security and Wi-Fi management capabilities to employees' home networks. They've also got a new role to play as enablers of future, contactless business operations.
Cisco issued 23 Security Advisories that describe 25 exposures in its IOS and IOS XE systems
Nautilus Data Technologies brings the experience of cooling nuclear power plants to cooling data center floating on barges in bodies of water.
Companies that specialized in corporate consulting services are being hit as clients move from on-prem to the cloud.
Aerospace multinational Airbus says it is 'quantum-ready' and helping to shape the future capabilities of quantum computing.
Cisco Nexus NX-OS software could be exploited to create a DOS attack.
Researchers have created a device that can greatly expand the raw data rate of existing optical networks while reducing the amount of hardware necessary.
Network pros can be learning new technologies - 5G, edge networking, security, automated management - during the pandemic to support shifting IT priorities.
Contact tracing, temperature checking and overcrowding will be monitorable with new and enhanced features of wireless networks.
Cisco will upgrade and integrate access-control, networking and security products to address the goals of secure access service edge
Cisco says it will embed ThousandEyes technology in a variety of its products including its AppDynamics application performance, SD-WAN, WebEx and Meraki families.
TrialCard rolls out secure access service edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN capabilities with network security services.
Deployment will run through next year but Fugaku is already being put to work. Against Covid-19, naturally.
Dell EMC's Cloud OneFS for Google Cloud promise to move 50 petabytes between corporate data centers and Google Cloud at very high speed for computational jobs.
Surge in telework drives interest in secure access service edge (SASE), which combines SD-WAN capabilities with network security services.
IoT blockchain and cryptographic specialist WISeKey says it's making progress on a system that could detect new virus spread and automatically advise regional lockdowns.
Two announcements from Lenovo reflect a push into the lucrative high-performance computing market.
Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure 5.0 software targets large scale data center cloud networks
The coronavirus isn’t just a threat to the health of human beings as cyberattacks against healthcare providers ramp up, experts say.
By melding their products together, Schneider Electric and Aveva offer multi-site data-center operations management.
VMware Cloud on Dell EMC 2.0 brings support for high density and high-performance data-center applications
With an almost flawless failure rate despite constant use, mechanical drives still have a place in computing.
Nvidia used to design chips for gamers but with its latest hardware has now fully become an HPC and AI developer.
Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim plans expansion of its Mist artificial intelligence technology into cloud, data center, Wi-Fi and SD-WAN environments.
As hyperscale service providers overhaul their data center gear with the latest technology, they're selling off their old equipment, which is likely more powerful than most enterprises use today.
Gartner forecasts spending on data-center systems will be hit hardest in 2020
European airplane maker Airbus is one company exploring virus-spotting IoT sensors in an attempt to keep COVID-19-infected passengers off planes.
Reliability, connection issues, failure to deliver power traced to interoperability issues with Power over Ethernet.
Cisco, Microsoft and others play up VPN split-tunneling features to handle growing enterprise remote workload security
Improvisation and partnerships are the name of the game, municipalities struggle to provide wireless internet access to those who don't have it but need it.
The VPN market was forecast to grow, even before COVID-19 caused VPN use to skyrocket.
Storage remains a popular on-premises technology and Dell and Pure have significant new products for customer needs.
Every company will be an AI company new IBM CEO Krishna tells Think! virtual gathering
Companies are putting more compute into less data-center space and shifting some workloads away from the cloud.
Unlocked Wi-Fi spectrum in the 6 GHz band, just approved by the FCC, will do more than increase capacity. IoT will be a big gainer.
Nvidia buys Cumulus open networking software, targets large data center, cloud and enterprise environments
A Cisco report on IT trends says new jobs to address changing IT needs include business translator, network guardian and network detective.
In a first, a member of the former Toshiba group introduces flash drives managed by software, something that could never be done with hard-disk drives.
The short answer to why the internet has survived a huge surge in traffic during the global coronavirus pandemic is that the infrastructure that makes up its backbone was designed to survive just such an emergency.
Scavenging energy by foraging for metal could power Internet of Things electronics and robots, suggest researchers at University of Pennsylvania.
Major cloud providers are having trouble getting basic components for new data centers so they've put off some construction plans, but they have enough surplus capacity already to ride out the problem.
Network World updates the latest COVID-19-related networking news
COVID-19 has quashed in-person events worldwide. Red Hat Summit, Cisco Live, and VMware's VMworld are just a few of the upcoming network industry events that will now be held virtually.
A glimpse of how three microsegmentation products work, key features, and differentiators.
Cisco, Dell, HPE, and Nutanix craft payment deferrals, lower initial payments, and trade-in deals as short-term sweeteners for businesses that need new gear but whose budgets are pinched by COVID-19
Red Hat OpenShift, containers and Kubernetes are all part of Big Blue's hybrid-cloud vision as laid out by IBM's new CEO Arvind Krishna.
