Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
New MDS model switches include redundant components and multiple power options, as well as support for FibreChannel-NVMe
Google is partnering with ISPs to provide a direct connection between a SMB data center and Google's hybrid cloud platform.
With the Cyxtera Extensible Data Center (CXD) platform, customers can quickly extend their data center into a colocation center as needed, letting them provision compute in minutes or hours.
Contrail Enterprise Multicloud builds on years of Juniper's work on software-defined networking
Enterprises stand to benefit from ISOC's latest campaign to get IXPs to clean up internet routing security
Cisco has merged its two collaboration packages, Spark and WebEx, into a single platform that supports both worlds.
A job listing on Facebook has some speculating that the social media company is building a team to design its own semiconductors, ending their reliance on Intel.
Cray just announced the Cray CS500 product line featuring AMD's Epyc 7000 processor.
Data centers located in poor weather climates may be able to harness the power of sun and rain using a hybrid panel developed by scientists at Soochow University.
Accelize's new app store, AccelStore, offers custom programmed applications for FPGA accelerators for use on premises and in the cloud.
An audit by PureSec found one in five serverless apps has a critical security flaw that would allow attackers to hijack and use the app for malicious purposes.
DNA could replace hard drives, tape and other storage mediums one day. It’s not as far-fetched as it sounds, and significant progress is being made, including new, zero-error individual-file data retrieval.
Acceleration cards target financial, data analysis workloads
Splunk, known as a provider of log analysis and infrastructure management tools centered around an expertise with big data analytics, attempts to stake a claim in the fast-growing Industrial IoT sector.
AWS CTO Werner Vogels listed multiple enterprises that are abandoning data centers to move workloads to the cloud. Don’t expect the data center to disappear completely, though.
Cisco's Tetration-V and Tetration-SaaS give businesses interested in the security-analytics platform the option of a cloud service or software that runs on virtual appliances.
IBM is making rack-mounted versions - ZR1 and Rockhopper II - of its latest z14 mainframe, that are able to securely run containerized software.
Using Overclock's Akash Network, companies can turn their unused servers into Kubernetes-orchestrated Docker containers for rent.
Cockroach Labs says the geo-partitioning tools in version 2 of its CockroachDB distributed database help companies comply with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
Microsoft says it will spend $5B over 4 years on IoT - perhaps on products, infrastructure or acquiring IoT vendors - but it's not clear yet where the money will go.
A combination of laser wireless charging and faster mobile networks could mean the end of the tethered computer.
A robot called HoneyBot, designed by researchers at Georgia Tech’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, can fool bad actors into believing they have compromised an IoT device and send alerts of the attack to hasten defensive response.
After leading Riverbed for 16 years, co-founder and CEO Jerry Kennelly turns the reigns over to Paul Mountford.
A new version of the Fedora Linux distro, Fedora 28, was released in its beta version. Here's a look at some of its new features.
Vendors such as IBM, Pure Storage and Nvidia are providing AI product packages, cloud services and consulting help aimed at accelerating adoption of enterprise-ready artificial intelligence.
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.
