Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Zscaler data shows huge amounts of unencrypted IoT traffic moving in and out of enterprise networks.
IT giant targets telco hardware makers with deployable pure 5G networks and Wi-Fi integration.
28 wireless providers paid more than $7.5 billion for 3.4 GHz of spectrum auctioned off by the Federal Communications Commission.
Mellanox delivers fast new switches, while Inphi focuses on high-speed interconnects for massive data movement.
Early adopters are beginning to test private 5G deployments, inspired by the promise of superior performance and support for previously infeasible applications.
While computing capacity has exploded in recent years, power consumption is growing more slowly thanks to greater energy efficiency.
VMware has rolled out its Kubernetes technology, Tanzu, across its major software platforms, including vSphere and Cloud Foundation, in a major revamp of its key product families.
Networking is a crucial component in the container ecosystem, providing connectivity between containers running on the same host as well as on different hosts.
Alveo U25 SmartNIC is designed to offload network processing tasks such as SDN, AI and NVMe over Fabrics, leaving the CPU to focus on processing data.
Data gathered by security provider Zscaler shows that not only are most internet-of-things transactions unsecured, they are also unauthorized as IoT creeps in as shadow-IT devices.
Geely is developing a satellite network to provide high-bandwidth wireless needed by on-board applications in self-driving vehicles.
It’s early days, but network automation is gaining ground as enterprises look to streamline network device management, reduce human error and speed problem resolution.
From canceled tech conferences to shutdowns of hardware suppliers, the coronavirus is disrupting the professional lives of networking staffers.
Cisco will meld its recently released Intelligent Edge software with Microsoft’s Azure IoT Hub to make transferring data from edge devices to applications in the Azure cloud simpler.
IT pros across a broad spectrum of UK industries can compete for £30 million in the government-funded 5G Create competition to encourage business use of 5G wireless technology
Researchers around the globe are working on new ways to generate huge amounts of power that will be needed for the shift to a data-driven society.
On the chance that the COVID-19 virus forces masses of employees to work from home, this could be the time to review your disaster-recovery plans and address shortcomings
Hyperconvergence offers speed and simplicity compared to the old ways of server configuration.
Intel has ambitious plans to grab the 5G base station marketplace, which is still in its infancy.
Cisco details security vulnerability warnings with Firepower firewall (FXOS), Unified Computing System software and Nexus (NX-OS) switch operating system.
Combining wake-up receivers with the parasitic use of ambient radio waves could drastically slash IoT power consumption.
Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) — a 50-50 joint venture between Vodafone and Hutchison Telecommunications Australia (HTA) — says that the uncertain environment it faced last year meant it had focused on maintaining rather than growing its customer
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has begun a public consultation on allocation limits for telcos that seek to snap up spectrum in the first ‘mmWave’ band to be auctioned for use with 5G services.
Upgrades to VMware security software rely on technology it bought with the purchase of Carbon Black, Avi Networks, Cloud Coreo and CloudHealth.
Citizens Broadband Radio Service could be a boon for enterprise mobile edge computing and help supplement wireless coverage where Wi-Fi falls short.
IT pros considering Cisco professional certifications to improve their CVs face new requirements that address hot areas such as IoT and SD-WAN and new choices that include programming certifications.
Juniper further integrates Mist wireless; adds support for encrypted traffic analysis
Cisco rolls out SecureX SAAS offering for controlling complex security environments
Federated Wireless is using one of the hottest newly opened bands of RF spectrum – Citizens Broadband Radio Service – to support a plug-and-play service in partnership with AWS and Azure.
Cisco's CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE certifications have changed as of Feb. 24 to emphasize areas such as network programmability, multi-cloud, Internet of Things, SD-WAN, and other software-focused initiatives.
Major server vendors aren't talking, but IDC says that short-term, supplies of a variety of IT devices will be short due to the coronavirus.
Google bought Cornerstone Technology, whose technology facilitates moving mainframe applications to the cloud.
Using some very fancy physics for stacking electrons, Showa Denko K.K. plans to quadruple the top end of proposed capacity.
Cisco Internet Report prognosticates M2M, 5G, WiFi, broadband impact by 2023
Startup NextMind is readying a $399 development kit for its brain-computer interface technology that enables users to interact, hands-free, with computers and VR/AR headsets.
40% year-over year SD-WAN growth through 2022 is being fueled by relationships built between vendors including Cisco, VMware, Juniper, and Arista and service providers AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Anthos, and IBM RedHat.
Big Blue is the latest to pare down multiple storage products under one umbrella, after HPE did it last summer.
Arista acquires Big Switch software to grow multicloud networking software war chest
Demand isn’t tapering off, but China is grinding to a halt under the strain of the pandemic.
MIT researchers are developing a wallpaper-like material that’s made up of simple RF switch elements and can be applied to building surfaces. Using beamforming, the antenna array could potentially improve wireless signal strength nearly tenfold.
Industry groups and governmental agencies have been taking a stab at rules to improve the security of the internet of things, but so far there’s nothing comprehensive.
Under the new VMware licensing pricing model, one CPU license will cover up to 32 cores in a single CPU. If a CPU has more than 32 cores, additional CPU licenses will be required.
While the flagship application of enterprise internet of things is undeniably valuable, effective predictive maintenance still takes hard work.
As a foundational network defense, firewalls continue to be enhanced with new features, so many that some important ones get overlooked.
Enterprise server sales aren't typically strong in Q4, but Intel and AMD benefited from high demand for server, desktop and notebook processors as 2019 came to a close.
Intel is focusing its efforts around the newly acquired Habana product line and moving to a single hardware architecture and software stack for data-center AI acceleration, winding down work on its Nervana AI chip.
The growing use of cloud services is changing the pattern and the volume of branch-office data across the WAN, but wireless cellular services along with the intelligence of software-defined WAN can help keep traffic and costs in line.
Troubleshooting issues in a sea of virtual hosts can be a challenge. One enterprise with a 99% virtual environment has found a tool that monitors the VMs and helps reduce troubleshooting time.
As businesses look to the near future when 5G services will be widely available, they need to know about what it can do, how and what’s needed to get ready for it.
Cisco fixes vulnerabilities in its Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) that could let remote attackers take over products without any user interaction
