Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Global server shipments are expected to slow down as new processors appear on the horizon, according to TrendForce. Meanwhile, an oversupply of NAND flash memory causes prices to drop.
Wireless mesh networks can be a fit for enterprises that need connectivity in settings where it's hard to run cable, outdoor areas, and rented spaces or temporary locations
ICANN will complete the switchover this week to a new internet security key that protects DNS, the internet's address book. The old Root Key Signing Key will be decomissioned Jan. 10.
The Internet of Things has spawned a broad range of sensors and monitors that make for smart home conveniences and also make businesses run more safely and cost-effectively.
5G wireless network technology is set to boost the bandwidth, capacity and reliability of cellular broadband. Are you ready to leave your 4G world behind?
Old servers don’t just burn electricity; they contribute heavily to toxicity of the environment.
Microsoft, Xilinx, Intel, and Broadcom are all reportedly interested in acquiring network chip maker Mellanox.
Supply chain, automotive, and sales of industrial sensor data emerge as initial use-case contenders for blockchain and its ilk in the Internet of Things.
CIsco has issued a critical patch of a patch for a Cisco Prime License Manager SQL fix.
IT executives differ on whether network and security pros should work on separate or integrated teams, but they agree collaboration is key, particularly as enterprise networks grow more complex.
If you're embarking on an enterprise IoT monitoring project, be sure to allocate enough time to dig deep and exhaustively test your top picks.
The Industrial Internet of Things Consortium and the OpenFog Consortium have wed to bring together the clout of member vendors Arm, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Juniper Microsoft, others.
How the Internet of Things is changing the restaurant business.
Combination of on-premises and cloud services works great if you are invested in Oracle’s cloud.
Cisco says the $660 million it's paying for optical semiconductor company Luxtera will address the rapidly growing need for speed in data centers and webscale networks.
LeoSat plans to build a constellation of low-orbit satellites that provides max transmission speed of 5.2 gigabits per second and latency of 20 milliseconds.
Spinning the company’s Predix IIoT platform into its own company pulls GE's approach to the technology back into line with the competition
Kubernetes gets all manner of networking, management love from VMware, Arista, and more at KubeCon+ CloudNativeCon 2018
A third-party organization tested a sampling of Super Micro motherboards and found no evidence of any spy chips.
Transistors, superconductors, and chip design have all seen efficiency breakthroughs this year. So much so, that we may see the cold-running computer before too long.
IBM and Nvidia partner again to produce a tower-sized DGX server that combines high-end IBM hardware with Nvidia GPUs and is specific for AI.
It's the end of the road for Qualcomm's Centriq, its ARM-based server processor.
Juniper CTO Bikash Koley looks at disaggregation, cloud computing and intent-based networking as he looks toward 2019.
Voice, video, email, file sharing, collaboration – organizations need a solid strategy to assure more manageable, cost-effective, and secure enterprise communications.
Solid state drives use interconnected pools of flash memory that are managed by an SSD controller to deliver speeds far beyond what a hard disk drive (HDD) can offer.
Neuristor circuits will perform super-edge computations similar to how the brain does them, reducing network loads and possibly making some networks redundant.
IoT spending will increase in 2019 due mostly to companies' need to integrate real-time intelligence into their business models.
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?
