Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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
Google says its new quantum computer takes less than three-and-a-half minutes to solve a problem that would take a supercomputer about 10,000 years.
Data centers are being bought and sold at an increasing rate, although since they are often private transactions, solid numbers can be hard to come by.
Gartner: Hyperautomation, AI-based security, distributed cloud computing and intelligent edge systems will be all the rage
This Cisco IOS XE REST API vulnerability could lead to attackers obtaining the token-id of an authenticated user.
HPE Aruba's AOS-CX 10.4 software and stackable CX 6300 and modular CX 6400 Series switches offer intelligence, automation across networks.
Gartner names the most important factors affecting infrastructure and operations
Blockchain and containerized microservices can benefit from the mainframe’s integrated security and massive parallelization capabilities.
Major changes to Cisco's certification program emphasize network programming, automation.
Amazon Relational Database Service on VMware automates database provisioning for customers running VMware vSphere 6.5 or later, and it supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.
New company formed by the merger of AHEAD, Data Blue, and Sovereign Systems will focus on integrating on-premises and cloud infrastructure.
New VSP 5000 storage system is the fastest NVMe array on the market and covers everything from cloud integration to mainframes.
Cisco says it expects rapid future development of 5G mobile technology will be a boon for industrial IoT use cases
The serious number-crunching demands of AI, IoT and big data - and the heat they generate - may mean air cooling is on its way out.
Without properly configured remote-access VPNs, IPv6 traffic from remote devices can escape corporate security controls.
Exploiting a newly discovered sudo flaw in Linux can enable certain users with to run commands as root despite restrictions against it.
The energy industry has embraced IoT technology in its operations, from monitoring well production to predicting when its gear will need maintenance.
Deploying microsegmentation as part of a broad IoT security strategy can enable more granular control of network systems and better isolation if a security flaw is exploited.
HPE hardware plus Nutanix's Enterprise Cloud OS and its AHV hypervisor create a combination for on-premises deployment that's intended to compete with cloud services.
VMware has wrapped up its $2.1 billion buy of cloud-native endpoint security vendor Carbon Black to provide more comprehensive integrated security.
Human error is the chief cause of downtime, a new study finds. Imagine that.
A National Science Foundation-financed Internet replacement testbed project lays out its initial plans.
Like a flat-screen TV that's mounted to save floor space, the EcoStruxure Micro Data Center 6U can be hung from the wall in space-constrained data centers and edge computing environments.
New Vitis kit from FPGA vendor Xilinx will use familiar languages like C++ and Python for everything from IoT to video encoding.
