Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Google Cloud now offers Google Bare Metal Solution, a service that supplies hardware in the cloud for enterprises that want full control of the entire stack from operating system on up to their most important legacy apps.
Experts expect that Cisco will focus on building-out cloud, SD-WAN and security in 2020.
By using two separate drive heads, a single drive effectively becomes two in Seagate's Exos 2X14 hard disk drive.
A Microsoft Research project uses laser optics and artificial intelligence to store data in quartz glass.
The traditional VPN is being replaced by a smarter, safer approach to network security that treats everyone as equally untrusted.
Juniper expands Contrail SD-WAN package to include support for SD-LAN operations.
It’s the edge without the need for edge hardware, according to Verizon and Amazon, but limited 5G coverage will stall availability.
Cisco, Aruba, Juniper are among others that support Amazon's Outposts hybrid-cloud service supported by hardware in customers' private data centers.
Cisco aims to make it easier to provide consistent network and security polices for multicloud workloads.
The newest part of AWS’ huge public-cloud ecosystem is Braket, a way for companies to experiment with quantum computing without having to own quantum computers.
A new Ampere chip due out next year is single-threaded to avoid the 'noisy neighbor' problem that can impede customer workloads in multi-tenant cloud-provider networks.
Before the last hard-disk drive spins down, IT teams need to navigate an HDD-to-SSD transition. Here's a look at current options and best practices.
Inphi claims its new signaling chips will triple throughput while reducing power draw for transmissions up to 100 kilometers.
Nvidia has upgraded its Volta line of Tesla GPU-accelerator cards to work faster using the same power as its old model.
Artificial intelligence requires greater processor density, which increases the demand for cooling and raises power requirements.
Extreme Fabric Automation lets customers bring up new data center networks quickly
Company says its Linux is to networking what Red Hat is to servers.
To extend battery life, IoT radios that send data should be powered only when there's data to send, and a second, power-sipper radio should just listen for a wake-up signal for the principal radio. Academics say they’re making progress getting that a
IBM Cloud Pak for Security features open-source Red Hat technology for hunting threats and automation to speed response to cyberattacks
Intel is looking to offer a unified CPU, GPU, and platform architecture that Nvidia doesn’t have but AMD does.
Leading-edge technologies, including NVMe, storage class memory, and intent-based storage management, promise to change the way IT organizations store, manage and use data.
PlatformDIGITAL offers a single source for global data-center coverage, capacity and connectivity. Implementation blueprints aim to allow customers to quickly deploy enterprise infrastructure where they need it.
New DXC CEO Mike Salvino talks about getting rid of distraction businesses to focus on what he calls the enterprise stack.
HPE's Cray will co-develop Fujitsu's A64FX CPU to meet the requirements of likely customers such as universities and national research laboratories.
Harvesting solar energy in space would provide off-grid electricity at night, and for areas that don’t receive much sunlight. A project has just received funding.
Red Hat calls for updating Linux software to address Intel processor flaws that can lead to data-theft exploits
IPv6 can help provide better performance than IPv4 for customers, employees and third parties trying to access your hosted applications.
U.S. Postal Service plans to use servers powered by Nvidia GPUs and deep learning software to train multiple AI algorithms for image recognition, yielding a tenfold increase in package-processing speed.
Secure access service edge might be the newest Gartner buzzword, but BioIVT implemented its SASE platform more than 18 months ago and is already reaping the benefits of business acceleration based on technology simplification.
Juniper further integrates AI technology it acquired from Mist, while adding new features to its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud software.
HPE SimpliVity hyperconverged infrastructure gains artificial intelligence capabilities; HPE Primera storage platform gains composability features to boost agility and scalability.
Two new Arista software packages address connectivity issues between public and private clouds, create instances of its Cloud EOS in a Kubernetes container.
Swarm Technologies joins a slew of new satellite communications providers who have obtained FCC launch and communications approval. This startup is aiming at IoT.
Cisco is bringing some of the bells and whistles of it Catalyst environment to Meraki customers with hardware and software to help customers better support and secure distributed network resources.
Dell, HPE and Lenovo have more than doubled their AMD-powered server offerings. Meanwhile, Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Microsoft Azure have announced plans to deploy Epyc processors in their data centers.
VMware's Carbon Black platform, along with VMware NSX, VMware Workspace ONE, VMware Secure State and future innovations, will deliver built-in security to networks, endpoints, workloads, identityies, cloud and analytics.
A broadened Cisco-Microsoft partnership promises extending Cisco SD-WAN to the Azure cloud and optimizing and securing connectivity to Office 365.
Strategic acquisition will give Digital Realty a huge boost globally, thanks to Interxion’s European data center sites and its interconnection capabilities linking Europe to Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Teridion’s SD-WAN service for China complies with government restrictions on IPSec traffic leaving the country yet supports broadband IPSec WAN interfaces for international businesses with branches in China.
The not-so-new line will go where eight cores will do instead of 28 cores.
New drive offers DRAM-like performance and is targeted at analytics and transaction workloads.
A look at some of the pros and cons of IoT services from AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon
On-off noise power communication (ONPC) protocol creates a long-distance carrier of noise energy in Wi-Fi to ping IoT devices.
Juniper CTO Bikash Koley outlines key networking trends ahead of firm’s customer event
The next 50 years may bring pervasive connectivity, brain-computer interfaces and walled-off areas of the internet.
A powerful IoT networking technology used by the major carriers continues to gain ground, Congress makes noise about training for federal workers, and a prominent researcher warns of trouble ahead.
One-petabit-per-second signals could send 8K resolution video to 10 million people simultaneously, researchers say. Japan’s national research agency says it has just successfully demoed a networked version of it.
When baseline SD-WAN security is not enough, enterprises are adopting extra measures such as intrusion prevention, anti-virus, unified threat management and more
Gartner’s top strategic predictions for 2020 and beyond is heavily weighted toward the human side of technology
