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