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