Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform E990 delivers enterprise features including high ratio deduplication and AI management.
RHEL 8.2 has new capabilities for management of hybrid-cloud environments and container tools to help fuel cloud-native development.
The Federal Communications Commission has approved a chunk of wireless spectrum called the 6GHz band for unlicensed use by Wi-Fi 6, and gear that supports it could be available by the end of the year.
Recruiting site Glassdoor reports says the month from early March to early April was as bad for IT jobs - and jobs in general - as the first nine months of the Great Recession.
A new, joint Cisco and Google platform integrates Cisco's SD-WAN connectivity with applications on Google Cloud
The COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted one manufacturer of connected thermometers to national prominence, as Kinsa provides a possible window into the spread of the disease.
Lasers will be used to power underwater devices and transmit data below the ocean's surface.
As microsegmentation technology evolves, enterprises are taking different paths toward reaching the same goal: unyielding security.
To meet a need for faster high-end Ethernet, 800GbE has become a formal specification, but the reality on the ground is that 400GbE shipments are just ramping up, and much lower speeds are what’s in common use.
With new EPYC 7Fx2 processors, AMD claims to offer the fastest per-core performance in the server space.
The specification for 800GbE doubles the maximum speed of the current Ethernet standard, but also tweaks other aspects including latency.
Microsegmentation promises to thwart network attackers by curbing their movements and limiting access to enterprise resources.
Cisco posted 17 security warnings about authentication vulnerabilities in its Unified Computing System
Magnetic fields found naturally around electrical devices could be diverted and converted into electricity to power the IoT.
Network World survey finds 5G, IoT, server consolidation and WAN optimization top priorities.
IBM continued to reshape the mainframe with an eye toward further integrating it within hybrid clouds and further securing Linux-based workloads.
Enterprises accelerated their videoconferencing deployments to fill a sudden void. Ensuring network availability, scalability and security requires long-term thinking.
Memory was becoming the drag on performance in the many-core era, so DDR5 plans to address that.
Schneider Electric's Uniflair brings air conditioning to places where traditional data-center cooling is not possible.
VMware NSX-T 3.0 includes improved baked-in security and network control functions.
Artificial intelligence will play an important role in how future networks become sliced, supporting multiple uses, including IoT and private 5G networks.
New server hardware from Lenovo processes data at the edge instead of sending it upstream to a data center.
IBM installs Arvind Krishna as CEO, and appoints Red Hat execs to round out new cloud-oriented team
Cisco wants Fluidmesh to bolster wireless connectivity applications in large-scale distributed sites
The Japanese electronics giant is making bold performance claims about its supercomputer processor.
With colleges finishing semesters via remote learning, IT departments are growing their remote-access networks and trying to help students overcome access-network challenges.
If approved, a Federal Communications Commission proposal would add the 6GHz band to the unlicensed spectrum used by Wi-Fi 6, making room to support more devices from a single Wi-Fi access point.
Folding@home has done what IT vendors and the federal government have been racing to do – break the exaFLOP barrier – and the crowdsourced distributed-computing program did it while fighting coronavirus.
A key industry standard for the development of new-radio 5G will remain unreleased for at least two more months, holding back the availability of 5G products for the enterprise.
Automation can play an important role in maintaining IT operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, say network pros from Netflix, Zoom, Dropbox and Equinix.
Palo Alto looks to build up SD-WAN, SASE portfolio; take on Cisco, VMware with CloudGenix technology
Insect brains are a better model for artificial intelligence in IoT than human brains are because they are simpler and focus on key processes, scientists say.
Execs from Netflix, Zoom, Equinix and Dropbox share tales of how the coronavirus has changed usage patterns and how they've dealt with the issues that caused.
You don’t need to downsize your data center, you need to expand it, says the survey.
Researchers from UMass say that a Raspberry Pi edge device can help identify flu-like symptoms in crowds, broadening the range of tools that can be used to track the spread of disease.
Dell has some suggestions on how to disinfect sensitive electronics
Oxbotica’s software platform could help upload and download data from autonomous vehicles to help in managing autonomous fleets.
The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium, which includes IBM, AWS, Google, HPE and Microsoft as well as NASA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and U.S. Department of Energy, will fig
New design clobbers Intel and AMD in core and thread count, but the proof will be in the independent benchmarks.
A new generation of private cloud options, including Amazon Outposts, Microsoft Azure Stack and Google Anthos, is leading enterprises to rethink their cloud strategies.
COVID-19 has sent thousands of employees to work from home, placing untold stress on remote-access networks.
New Intel Xeon processors with technology for AI training will only come on four- and eight-socket servers. Single and dual-socket versions of Cooper Lake CPUs have been canceled.
Cisco warnings include three high-impact SD-WAN vulnerabilities
Cisco moves its OpenRoaming development, campaign to the Wireless Broadband Alliance
COVID-19 sends IBM, Google, Amazon, AT&T, Cisco, Apple and others scrambling to securely support an enormous rise in teleworkers, and puts stress on remote-access networks.
Uptime Institute has created a COVID-19 response guide based on tips and recommendations from its network of data center operators and partners.
Scientists think that in much the same way the human body releases perspiration to cool down, special materials might release water to draw heat from electronics.
Two new microprocessors from Arm promise to miniaturize artificial intelligence.
