Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Five questions to ask to get the right content delivery network for your organization
The $6.9 billion deal further cements Nvidia as a data center player.
Facebook will serve the “middle mile” through its massive campuses around the nation.
VMware Service-defined Firewall works in bare-metal, VM, container environments and supports hybrid cloud.
Ethernet networking technology is inherently insecure and hard to manage. To address that, researchers say a blockchain approach to network management is needed. The Marconi Foundation says it has the answer.
There’s no shortage of the radio spectrum essential to wireless communications, thanks to greater spectral efficiency and improving regulatory policies. But vigilance is required.
Cisco is patching holes in software for Nexus 3000, 3500, 7000, 9000 switches and for Firepower 4100 Series next-generation firewall and Firepower 9300 security appliance.
Mobile World Congress, the wireless industry’s big annual showcase, featured a heavy emphasis on 5G, the next generation of licensed mobile networks.
While many workloads are shifting to the cloud, on-premises server hardware continues to be vital to the workplace, a new Spiceworks survey finds.
A container flaw discovered just last month has been exploited by hundreds of attackers, including cryptocurrency miners, cybersecurity company Imperva says.
Juniper's $405M buy of Mist brings with it WiFi technology and a significant Cisco-pedigree
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIE) certification is a career pinnacle for many network professionals. But not everyone thinks it's worth the investment in time and money.
The hyperscale-optimized data center gear is expected to top $10 billion in sales in three years.
As companies move farther away from on-premises data centers toward the cloud, figuring out how best to leverage that shift becomes increasingly important. That's where FinOps comes in.
Cisco puts Elasticsearch cluster, Docker/Kubernetes, Webex customers on guard, as well
If successful, a computing technique being developed by researchers at Arizona State University would allow transistors to fit on individual molecules – smaller than Moore ever envisioned.
Operational intelligence vendor OSIsoft shares eight things it says will define the Internet of Things (IoT) this year, including how industrial IoT will drive the market.
VMware's NSX-T 2.4 includes network-configuration automation, management and security among 100 new features to better support corporate hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
According to CompTIA, the business community is still conflicted about whether Internet of Things implementations should save businesses money or help them make money.
Emerging network technologies such as SDN, SD-WAN and intent-based networking promise to improve service and streamline operations, but don't let the transition process throw a wrench into existing activities.
It’s the end of one size fits all, as Western Digital ships two drives for two very different markets.
Cmd helps organizations monitor, authenticate, and block user activity that goes beyond expected system usage.
Continuing attacks on directory name services have prompted ICANN to prompt enterprise DNS uses to push their suppliers for DNSSEC services to block some of these attacks that can compromise corporate data.
This IoT roundup covers a satellite-based IoT network, commercial real estate, and IoT on the road.
Google's Cloud Services Platform allows enterprises to deploy Kubernetes locally and easily shift it to the Google Cloud Platform.
The first two chips in Arm Holdings’ cloud-to-edge platform, Neoverse N1 and Neoverse E1, promise greater performance and improved power efficiency.
Weaknesses in Cisco's HyperFlex hyperconverged data-center gear could allow command-injection exploits.
New materials and techniques for collecting power from radio waves could spur mass battery-free IoT sensors.
Cisco’s Scott Harrell says Wi-Fi 6 and 5G will change how businesses think about wired vs. wireless networking and add new options for SD-WAN deployments.
The managed network services market has traditionally been dominated by telcos that provide a common MPLS network, but that is slowly changing as new approaches are developed.
Virtualization mainstay VMware wants to build and manage multi-cloud infrastructure and so much more.
Cisco: By 2022, mobile will represent nearly 20 percent of all global IP traffic, fueled in part by the Internet of Things.
A recent Bain & Company report suggests predictive maintenance is just one area of industrial IoT that hasn’t met expectations.
The Kinetic Edge Alliance, a group of hardware, software and networking companies, will collaborate to accelerate the integration edge solutions.
IBM is introducing Cloud Integration Platform so customers can better integrate data securely no matter where it resides in on-premises, private, hybrid or public cloud.
Researchers found some subscription VPN services have programming errors that cause leaks, monitor user traffic, and lack privacy policies — all reasons to set up your own VPN server.
The goal is to give as many people as possible an organization access data to perform analytics and machine learning in a friendly manner.
Unix was the standard for mission-critical computing. Now it’s clinging for life. How will it end?
Lenovo is launching TruScale, a pay-per-use system for its servers that it says offers true pay-per-use and no requirement of a minimum capacity purchase.
A flaw in runC and Docker may allow access to underlying file systems when SELinux is not enabled.
Cisco closes Luxtera deal, giving the networking giant a major photonics boost
As 5G networks become a reality, vendors including D-Link, Inseego, Netgear and Samsung are readying 5G gateways, routers and mobile hotspots.
With its new software, Dell EMC Data Domain on-premises restores are up to 2.5 times faster than prior versions.
New light absorption techniques in semiconductors get clock rates 5,000 times faster than current PCs. It’s one more step towards an all-light computing environment.
Everyone talks about IoT platforms, but they don’t always agree on exactly what they’re talking about. This analysis helps make sense of it.
The tricky art of provisioning network bandwidth is getting help from new tools. AI and machine learning provide the ability to precisely predict network needs.
Intel announced the promotion of CFO Bob Swan to CEO, ending a seven-month search, set a deadline for the life of its Itanium processor, and reportedly wants to buy Mellanox.
If enterprises have defined their disaster-recovery needs and validated vendor capabilities, DRaaS can make it easier to weather service outages.
A completely new government-developed computer architecture could ultimately lead to widespread, commercial-oriented data-security fixes as information moves between systems.
Old SGI technology lives on in Jean Zay, an HPE SGI 8600 supercomputer designed for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads.
