Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Arista’s new line of network switches provides greater performance and scale to meet the demands of cloud providers and cloud-first businesses.
Nvidia says the DGX-2 has as much computing power and performance as racks of x86 servers.
Despite rising spending on IoT security, consumers and businesses are right to worry about how data will be used and protected.
A chain of Ontario-based retirement homes is looking to add sensor bracelets to its Aruba Wi-Fi networks, internet of things devices that will track whether residents are starting to wander away from the facilities so staff can intercept them.
Aruba’s new NetInsight solution uses artificial intelligence and the cloud to improve Wi-Fi troubleshooting and ensure Wi-Fi performance.
Cisco is separating the operating system and applications from the underlying hardware, and it is making it possible to host apps on certain switches and routers.
The sonification of big data will help people better understand and analyze big data, as well as detect anomalies in the data, say researchers at Virginia Tech.
An industry vendor that tested the Meltdown and Spectre patches says one significant area of performance is impacted, and even that is a rare scenario.
Cisco has a diverse corporate social responsibility program, and now it's focusing on ending homelessness in its own backyard with an investment in Destination: Home.
A new LexisNexis study says insurance companies know IoT is important, but they have no idea how to collect the data or what to do with it.
Penn State chose microsegmentation technology from Tempered Networks to isolate and cloak traffic from its smart-building systems, which rely on the BACnet communications protocol to share data.
Corporate spending to protect internet of things devices will be driven to a large extent by regulatory requirements, Gartner says.
But the real winner in this race is Nvidia.
ThousandEyes' monitoring of broadband performance enables network professionals to make an educated decision before moving to a broadband-based SD-WAN.
A recent demonstration by Cisco and Verizon showed that ICN could hold benefits for 5G networking, gathering IoT data and boosting security.
A preview of Windows Server 2019 adds features for hyperconvergence, management, security, containers and more.
Securing the internet of things is proving difficult due to vendors cranking out devices with little regard for security, but regulating IoT security aso a knotty problem.
Windows Server 2019 will be available in the second half of the year, and you can preview it via the Insiders program
From capacity to security, there’s still a lot to like about this venerable format.
IBM's Cloud Private for Data brings the same flexibility and elasticity of the public cloud to your data center.
Huawei rolls out its Intent-Driven CloudCampus to simplify network operations, improve security, and reduce operational overhead.
IBM Watson Assistant is a new artificial intelligence assistant designed to work with autonomous and IoT devices.
The new chips, code-named Everest, will be made with a 7nm manufacturing process, sport as many as 50 billion transistors and target AI, communications and complex data analysis workloads in the data center
Small and mid-size businesses like bare-metal cloud service providers because they are within driving distance -- they want to keep their data center nearby.
HCI is winning over enterprises drawn to its potential to ease management, streamline deployment of new workloads and optimize costs. The market analysis includes hardware vendors and software players such as VMware and Microsoft.
Researchers at Linköping University say previous calculations on multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) wireless limitations are wrong, that could eventually mean wireless everything
CTS-Labs of Israel claims it found 13 critical vulnerabilities in AMD processors, and gave AMD only 24 hours notice before disclosing them.
Farmers may not be getting all the benefits of the IoT technology they use -- or the data it generates. Are these issues a sign of things to come in other industries?
For the good of everyone involved, there should be no mergers involving these three companies.
Microsoft has two IoT-specific operating systems Windows 10 IoT Core for low-power devices and Windows 10 IoT Enterprise for more demanding devices
Marvell Semiconductor's Alaska C 88X7120 transceivers are the first to support the 802.3 standard, which will quadruple network throughput.
New Cisco software will address SD-WAN challenges with help improving application performance, planning bandwidth allocation, and modeling how policy changes might affect network performance.
Cloud services that provide nothing but server hardware can help solve application-migration, performance, customization and hardware-access problems.
VMware has expanded its portfolio of cloud tools to help enterprises improve the manageability of their public cloud and on-premises environments. At the same time, VMware announced the first global expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS, its joint hybrid
Researchers have discovered how to use the Spectre design flaw to break into the SGX secure environment of an Intel CPU to steal information. A fix is coming March 16.
Cisco’s Tetration analytics upgrade focuses on protecting data center workloads and detects potential application vulnerabilities.
EdgeMicro joins the edge network race. The company is working with a "leading North American mobile network operator" to deploy micro-data centers in 30 cities.
ZincFive says the nickel-zinc-style batteries in its new UPS are more power efficient, less hazardous to the environment and physically safer.
RFID devices can help track inventory, improve efficiency of healthcare and enhance services for premium customers in the hospitality industry as part of an IoT strategy
Azure Stack is Microsoft's on-premises version of its Azure cloud service, enabling customers to hold sensitive information within their own facilities but with the ability to reach the Azure public cloud, too.
The internet of things has such a wide range of use cases and individual devices that network architects have to pay attention to a wide combination of variables for communication, power, bandwidth, reliability, cost and more.
The recent IT spending slowdown, caused by enterprises assessing cloud computing services, is about to end, Morgan Stanley says. Investors could see double-digit earnings growth from the IT hardware sector in 2018.
Hyperconverged infrastructure tools in Windows Server 2016 can support storage, SDN and cost savings when building enterprise data centers.
Any Memcached server not behind a firewall is at risk of being hit by a DDoS attack.
Concertio's Optimizer Studio monitors the interactions between applications and systems, adjusts the system configurations accordingly, and learns from patterns.
Next-generation firewalls have a lot of useful features, but they work only if IT pros use them, configure them properly and keep them updated.
Lenovo says the ThinkSystem SD650 high-density server tray will lower power consumption 30 to 40% compared to traditional air cooling methods.
Billions of connected devices means big opportunities for IoT companies
Greater security threats, more traffic and increasingly virtualized infrastructure are driving demand for data center IPS
