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