Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The company says this is the last design before exascale, but it’s a big leap in its own right.
Forming light waves into a spiral pattern allows multiplexing within fiber cable, adding throughput to traditional networks, researchers say.
Enterprise network pros share SD-WAN best practices and lessons learned.
Forget smartphones — the U.S. Copyright Office’s new DRM exemptions could be a big deal for farmers and other heavy equipment operators and vendors.
IBM says Red Hat will continue to be a contributor to the open-source community and that Red Hat will continue its commitments with current partners even after IBM buys the company for 34 billion in the second half of 2019.
IBM hopes the acquisition of Red Hat will give its customers the tools to expand their use of cloud by creating and deploying cloud-friendly applications on a larger scale, a goal shared by IBM competitors Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
SDN and virtualization are driving a shift from hardware-based application delivery controllers toward a microservices model that enables more flexible ADC licensing options
The internet of things devices gather massive amounts of data in corporate settings, and that puts a range of demands on networks and data centers.
Rackspace's fully managed disaster recovery service promises improved business continuity for on-premises, colocation, and multi-cloud environments.
The Open Stack Foundation's StarlingX is designed to help organizations build mission-critical edge clouds needed for industrial IoT deployments.
Arista’s 7060X4 Series switches feature 32 400G Ethernet ports and are based on Broadcom Tomahawk silicon.
Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, and server vendor Inspur will begin offering data center platforms based on Xilinx’s FPGA-as-a-service model, mostly targeting AI inference workloads.
So far, there’s no issue with Windows Server 2019, but because it shares a code base with Windows 10, and Windows 10 has a problem, Microsoft has made the server unavailable for download until it clears things up.
The Internet of Things has largely been an earthbound phenomenon. That could be about to change.
The HCI platform combines Lenovo's hardware with Scale Computing's HC3 software platform to create edge computing systems designed for a single user's private corporate network.
Preparing its IT customers for big business changes, Gartner warns on a of a number of technologies – quantum computing, artificial intelligence and software delivery among them – that could shift the business of business.
Akamai and Limelight ramp up edge networking; Splunk gets into industrial IoT management and monitoring.
Here's how properly executed site surveys can make for better performing Wi-Fi networks by dealing with potential frequency conflicts, blocked signals and more.
Gartner says IT services will be a key driver for IT spending in 2019, as the market is forecast to hit $1 trillion in 2019
The number of severe weather incidents is expected to increase, yet most data centers don't have plans to ensure uptime should an event hit, an Uptime Institute study finds.
IBM’s new Multi-cloud Manager will manage workloads on Big Blue clouds but also workloads on Amazon, Red Hat and Microsoft infrastructure, as well
Ocean Energy's ability to create electricity from seawater may prove to be the most efficient and eco-friendly way to bring edge computing to coastal population centers.
AI, augmented analytics, quantum computing, and blockchain are among technologies that soon could dominate the IT landscape, according to Gartner’s annual Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends.
The latest version of Windows Server has reached general availability, so subscribers who haven’t already given it a test drive should check out new security, redundancy, management and SDN features.
Gartner says changing corporate culture is but one area business leaders need to master – developing privacy, artificial intelligence plans matter, too
Myriad industries from technology to space and sports mourn passing of multifaceted icon Paul Allen
Huawei's artificial intelligence (AI) strategy is not just chips, but a full-stack portfolio, including chips, cloud services, and products.
DNS Root KSK rollover happened Oct. 11 and will tighten security for the internet’s address book
A new IDC study shows private cloud spending increased 28.2 percent year over year. Off-premises private cloud, in particular, is seeing strong growth.
Off-brand server competitors to Dell and HPE have gained traction with Amazon and Google, but enterprise data centers are reluctant to follow
Juniper has put significant investment into network automation development by introducing training programs, cloud-based lab services, testing as a service, and the new Juniper Engineering Network
For decades, network professionals needed to know router protocols and command-line interfaces, but with the advent of programmable networks, in order to advance in their careers it may be prudent to get training writing code.
A Walmart patent application suggests putting IoT sensors in shopping-cart handles. Will customers be OK with that?
Wi-Fi experts share best practices for establishing and maintaining optimal WLAN performance
Gurus from Cisco, Aruba, Ekahau, Extreme and Mist share ways to speed your Wi-Fi network
Intel reveals its FPGA strategy, which includes the Stratix 10 and Arria 10 chips, a Storefront for FPGA workloads, and support for VMware vSphere.
The Wi-Fi alliance has changed the naming scheme for Wi-Fi standards, abandoning the 802.11 designations for simpler names like Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, Wi-Fi 4, etc., but that may gloss over some of the finer points of the old IEEE system.
Data capture, data governance, and availability of services are among the biggest challenges IT will face in creating an IoT analytics environment.
Intel and AMD are proclaiming massive performance records, although in both cases they come with an asterisk next to them.
Open source networking has become the 'new norm,' and many at the recent Open Networking Summit Europe said they’re seeing it play out in the industry.
Cisco Webex says some latency, connectivity problems persist a week after the outage
Computing icon and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak talked about AI, IoT and more at the 2018 Fog World Congress
Cisco’s Container Platform will work with SAP’s Data Hub to integrate large data sets that may be in public clouds such as Amazon Web Services, Hadoop, Microsoft or Google.
LinkedIn offers to “open source” hardware designs it created to lower costs and speed up its data center deployment.
Cisco says the Duo deal will help customers securely connect any user to any application on any network.
