Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Dell EMC and Cisco renewed their agreement to collaborate on converged infrastructure (CI) products for a few more years even though the momentum is elsewhere.
Everyone wants in on the ground floor of the internet of things, and companies including Nokia, VMware and Silicon Labs are sharpening their offerings in anticipation of further growth.
Cisco's Talos security group says DNSpionage tools have been upgraded to be more stealthy
Move over cloud and traditional in-house enterprise data center storage, distributed storage based on blockchain may be arriving imminently.
For once, the trends are in the favor of customers as IT equipment gets cheaper.
Despite incremental progress and limited regulatory approval in the U.S. and Australia, drone delivery still isn’t a viable option in the vast majority of use cases.
Intel's new U series of processors are aimed at the low-end market where one processor is good enough.
Fujitsu hopes to be the first to offer exascale supercomputing using Arm processors.
Cisco says unpatched vulnerabilities could lead to DoS attacks, arbitrary code execution, take-over of devices.
A consortium of tech companies and universities plan to aggressively investigate the exploitation of D-Band to develop a new variant of 5G infrastructure.
An Informa Engage and Data Center Knowledge survey finds data center workers are content with their jobs, so much so they would encourage their children to go into that line of work.
MemVerge bridges two technologies that are already a bridge.
Cisco Talos says state-sponsored attackers are battering DNS to gain access to sensitive networks and systems
A new survey of IoT developers reveals that connectivity, performance, and standards are growing areas of concern as IoT projects hit production.
Even the cloud has its limits. In certain situations a traditional data center is the best place to host one or more applications.
VPN packages from Cisco, Palo Alto, F5 and Pulse may improperly secure tokens and cookies
Cisco Cloud ACI for AWS lets customers manage and secure applications running in the data center or in Amazon Web Service cloud environments.
Google boosted its on-premises and cloud connections with Kubernetes and serverless computing.
Both companies will sell HP ProLiant appliances with Nutanix software but to different markets.
Anti-lasers get close to providing a 100% efficient signal channel for data, say engineers.
Cisco, VMware, HPE and others tap into new Google Cloud Anthos cloud technology
Juniper rolls out its Contrail SD-WAN cloud offering.
The new industrial IoT Open Manufacturing Platform from Microsoft and BMW runs only on Microsoft Azure. That could be an issue.
There’s a small but growing overlap between the internet of things and blockchain, but there are challenges.
Intel formally launched the Optane persistent memory product line, which includes 3D Xpoint memory technology. The Intel-only solution is meant to sit between DRAM and NAND and to speed up performance.
The miniaturization of electronics is reaching its limits in part because of heat management. Many are now aggressively trying to solve the problem. A kind of reverse-running LED is one avenue being explored.
Intel introduced more than 50 new Xeon Scalable Processors for servers that cover a variety of workloads.
Agilex processors are the first Intel FPGAs to use 10nm manufacturing, achieving a performance boost for AI, financial and IoT workloads
10 VPN service providers have been ordered to link their servers in Russia to the state censorship agency by April 26
Taiwan vendors believe PCIe and SATA will achieve price and market share parity by years' end.
Cisco is issuing 17 new fixes for security problems with IOS and IOS/XE software that runs most of its routers and switches, while it has no patch yet to replace flawed patches to RV320 and RV 325 routers.
Azure Stack is great for your existing hardware, so Microsoft is covering the bases with a turnkey solution.
Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) is developing. Out of the gate, Motorola is creating a land mobile radio (LMR) system that includes enterprise-level, voice handheld devices and fast, private data networks.
HPE's Right Mix Advisor is designed to find a balance between on-premises and cloud systems.
Decibel, an investment firm focused on early stage funding for enterprise-product startups, will back technologies related to Cisco's core interests.
Free (or almost free) Wi-Fi penetration testing tools can help you spot potential Wi-Fi security vulnerabilities and figure out ways to protect against them.
As more corporate workers rely on mobile devices, enterprises need to adopt mobile unified communications, which is easier to scale and manage than wired UC.
Triton malware, which can shut down industrial safety systems, causing damage to facilities and threatening human life, targets the industrial internet of things.
Cisco warns on SIP vulnerabilities in 8800 and 7800 series IP business phones
The company unveils GPU blades, AI software libraries and low-power GPUs.
One company sees an opportunity for the black art that is immersion cooling, while the other has a twist on regular liquid cooling.
Cisco Webex has integrated AI collaboration technologies it acquired from Accompany and MindMeld.
Aurora, the planned Department of Energy supercomputer, will be three powers of 10 faster than the current fastest supercomputer when it is delivered to Argonne National Laboratory in 2021.
VMware networking and security chief Tom Gillis looks at competing with Cisco and how the company will bolster NSX and more.
You build in redundancy for a reason, but in some cases it can backfire.
One normally wants to get rid of noise in data links, but scientists at ETH Zurich say you can harness it to increase the capacity of fiber-optic cables.
Even as smartwatch shipments continue to grow, significant industrial and business use cases for these internet-connected devices have yet to appear.
Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, HPE, Cisco, Dell-EMC, Huawei and Alibaba join forces to create Compute Express Link, a high-speed interconnect for chip-to-chip communication.
