Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
SD-WAN, hybrid cloud, hyperconvergence and IoT move from hyped to happening
Easy-access network tools are simple but essential and can be downloaded from the online Microsoft Store and pinned to the Windows 10 Start menu
Finding the best SD-WAN fit starts with evaluating branch WAN bandwidth and application requirements
By 2025, IDC says worldwide data will grow 61% to 175 zettabytes, with as much of the data residing in the cloud as in data centers.
With Internet of Things traffic poised to explode, vendors take on fleet management and the ISO ratifies an IoT standard addressing security, management, and interoperability.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) acknowledges it’s a hybrid world and announces eight hybrid storage offerings. Meanwhile, Red Hat acquires multi-cloud storage startup NooBaa.
From quantum computing to smart drones, network security goofs and AI developments it has been an interesting year.
Amazon Web Services announces Outposts, a hybrid-cloud offering that uses the same hardware AWS uses in its cloud and can be upgraded with the latest hardware and next-generation instances to run all native AWS and VMware applications.
Ultrasonic sounds could be overlaid onto audible sounds for Internet of Things (IoT) communications, says IoT startup Trillbit.
These six trends cover everything from what you buy to how it’s sold and even how stores work — and those are only the ones we can see right now.
Cisco's annual look at the state of the internet finds that IoT, tons of new internet users, video surveillance, and IP WANs drive traffic growth.
HPE storage advances include improved InfoSight AI-driven optimization recommendations.
HPE is uniting information and operational technology in edge-network hardware and software systems.
Companies will invest more in building and renovating data centers and will look to alternative energy sources to power them, a new AFCOM survey finds.
Software, SD-WAN, security, high-speed data-center networking, and more software fill up the Cisco hot plate for 2019.
HCI is appealing for more workloads now that systems can independently scale compute and storage capacity via a disaggregated model. The ability to create a hyperconverged solution using NVMe over fabrics is another draw.
Gartner shares its key trends and technologies for the Internet of Things. Social issues and user experience are the most intriguing among them.
Oracle has a significant communications software business, and it’s betting that Talari’s SD-WAN technology will ensure performance and reliability of communications over any network.
A new microprocessor manufacturing technique could keep future electronics 18 degrees cooler, providing huge efficiency gains for data centers.
AMD has a few things in its favor as it takes on Nvidia in the high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) arena.
Be prepared for management complexity, immature standards, IoT security challenges, and more edge computing.
The use of IoT tech in the retail sector is growing fast, but where’s the killer app?
The driving idea behind both moves is to help customer simplify what can be a daunting task – moving applications to multicloud environments.
After the initial rush to the cloud, many firms are discovering it’s not cheaper and are taking workloads back to their data centers, a Nutanix survey finds.
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning are boosting automation capabilities across network operations, including configuration, troubleshooting, and problem remediation.
Large swaths of additional unlicensed spectrum will become available in the U.S. for connected devices, including Wi-Fi, if various proposals and schemes by the FCC come about.
In the four years since the introduction of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7, the IT world has evolved. RHEL 8 Beta brings innovation and dozens of new features.
Is it really possible to bring the benefits of the Internet of Things to older systems? Yes, according to one edge/IoT company.
Cisco makes it possible to run, manage, automate, and secure wired and wireless networks on top of a single operating system. And it expands its wired family with Catalyst switches for medium-sized businesses.
Researchers at UCLA Riverside discover GPUs can be victims of the same kinds of attacks as Meltdown and Spectre, which have impacted Intel and AMD CPUs.
Cisco secures SD-WAN software, bolsters cloud-based Office 365 application access, and offers DevNet SD-WAN development options.
The choice facing hyperconverged-infrastructure shoppers is simple: an integrated HCI appliance from a single vendor, or hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software. It's making the final decision that's difficult.
Cisco, Amazon Web Services package streamlines Kubernetes-based containerized application development, management
Performance varies widely among the big three cloud service providers – AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure – and their networks are a big reason why, a ThousandEyes study reveals.
AMD’s new GPUs designed for the data center give it a chance against Nvidia, but the software is still an issue.
IBM's purchase of Red Hat may be a good strategic fit for IBM, but the payback is anything but guaranteed.
Cloud-assisted driving, remote surgery, touch-sensitive VR, along with a jump in industrial productivity, are coming and have one thing in common: the continuing evolution of network infrastructure toward 5G.
The key to creating real business value from data gathered by the Internet of Things lies with including data scientists at every step of IoT implementation.
Control over security is prompting big industrial companies to explore private 5G wireless networks.
AMD revealed the Zen 2 architecture for its family of microprocessors. Sold under the Epyc brand for servers, it’s expected to double the performance of the previous generation.
Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard savings, such as reduced MPLS costs, as well as soft savings, such as ease of management
Intel formally announced a new class of Xeon Scalable processors that in many ways leapfrogs the best AMD has to offer.
The U.S. Supreme court’s refusal to remove a lower court’s decision to uphold net neutrality rules could help supporters in future legal battles if the policy is re-introduced.
Sierra -- the newest supercomputer and the second-fastest in the world -- runs Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which isn't surprising given the role Linux plays in supercomputing in general.
Oracle was disturbingly quiet about its Exadata and Exalogix on-premises servers at the recent OpenWorld. But IDC's Ashish Nadkarni says not to worry yet.
The WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard tackles WPA2 shortcomings to better secure personal, enterprise, and IoT wireless networks
Cisco has 400G Ethernet switches that fall into two camps: The Nexus 9000 family aimed at large enterprise networks and the 3400-S class for hyperscale users.
802.11ax, now called Wi-Fi 6, will start being adopted in earnest in 2019, making wireless networking simpler and boosting capacity of each Wi-Fi access point.
