Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
Cisco has rolled out a new family of switches, software, developer tools and blueprints to meld IoT and industrial networking with intent-based networking and classic IT security, monitoring and application development support.
Cisco spreads its data-center ACI to AWS and Azure clouds, takes Hyperflex to the edge
Downloadable network analyzers, remote access apps and testing utilities turn your iPhone and Android smartphone into powerful network tools.
Cisco finds Kubernetes, legacy application integration and edge computing technologies are among cloud growth showgrounds
An IoT-powered Walgreens “smart cooler” knows if you’re a man or a woman, plus how old you are, to target ads at you. Is that a good thing?
Network firewalls were created as the primary perimeter defense for most organizations, but since its creation the technology has spawned many iterations: proxy, stateful, Web app, next-generation that are explained here.
Storage-class memory (SCM) overcomes the limitations of NAND flash, which makes the takeover inevitable.
The Cisco SD-WAN security problems were part of 23 security advisories Cisco announced on Jan. 23
A new group called LF Edge is pushing for an open unified framework that will promote plug-and-play interoperability, cloud provisioning, other streamlining to improve edge networks.
Cisco AppDynamics Central Nervous System leans on machine learning, AI for app performance management
Studying how tree frogs regulate their communications, so each amphibian in the colony can hear everything, could provide ideal data traffic routings, scientists say.
Slow demand, plus overproduction equals a buyer’s market.
A look at some IoT news including a survey that finds a lack of insight into threats to business internet of things devices and a medical application of IoT senors to spot health problems in patients with dementia.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server has been around a while, but this is the first official release.
Huawei's new data center switches, the CloudEngine 16800 series, use an AI-powered chip to improve network operations.
An unclonable, quantum physics-driven microprocessor might be the solution to securing the Internet of Things.
Major vendors such as Dell and HPE are jumping in to meet the need for these edge devices that can make IoT networks run more efficiently and that adapt to individual use cases.
To get ahead, network and data-center professionals should study up on "infrastructure as code" and capitalize on whatever cloud experience they can acquire.
Cisco's cloud-based DNA Spaces includes Cisco’s Connected Mobile Experience (CMX) and enterprise geolocation technology that it purchased from July Systems.
A Cisco exec says the top 5 technologies that will impact enterprise networking customers the most include Wi-Fi 6, or 802.11ax, 5G, geolocation, SD-WAN and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning for network management.
New Xeons, AI processors, and 5G capabilities are among the announcements Intel made at CES this week.
IoT security could shift to the network level, especially the edge, as the need for data anonymization and customized security becomes essential.
Edge computing raises technical concerns, such as security and scalability, as well as cultural considerations, such as how to improve collaboration among IT and operations teams
