Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
A breakdown of what the Meltdown and Spectre exploits are, what they aren’t, the risks they pose, and what you should do.
Design flaw affects the processes behind virtualization the hardest. Users could see a VM slowdown of 20 to 30 percent.
Do you have the expertise to deploy SD-WAN yourself?
Most people think of IoT as a security vulnerability, but Enterprise IoT could also be a security tool — and maybe a privacy issue.
Capacity is only half the battle. You also need fast access to data, the company says.
The Internet of Things is already too big to put off security concerns.
Teaching AI machine learning systems that they don’t need a lot of resources could make neural networks portable and reduce data transmission costs.
Juniper Bots facilitate automation by making it easier for people to interact with their network.
How separating software from hardware has given us virtualization and cloud computing
Smarter infrastructure, workload rationalization, as-a-service procurement on tap for data centers worldwide
New hardware from HPE, Dell EMC and Lenovo, as well as demand for capacity, helped drive worldwide server sales in Q3 2017.
Intent-based networking is Cisco’s big push for the future of network management. Here’s a preview of DNA Center – Cisco’s IBN software
If you listened to AWS CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent, you might think the cloud is the key to the Internet of Things — and vice versa.
The modular design of Vapor Kinetic Edge will enable small data centers to be deployed throughout a city.
Unprecedented data traffic growth, along with global emissions from data centers, will impede attempts to rein in climate change, say experts.
ZeroStack outlines the five stages to creating self-driving clouds and provides a roadmap to get there.
IHS Markit report shows the two companies have jumped out and are leading the SD-WAN market.
SaaS, AI and machine learning will be mandatory, and the data center will become less relevant.
With Aerohive's SD-WAN solution, customers now have a single console for managing wired networks, Wi-Fi and the enterprise WAN.
Undersea internet-carrying cables are susceptible to a cut and are an accident waiting to happen.
Leaf-spine disrupted the data center network, and now it's disrupting routing.
Azure instances powered by AMD Epyc are targeted at high-bandwidth applications.
At AWS re:Invent, big, traditional companies say they want to abandon their data centers.
Turnkey all-in-one systems are becoming all the rage.
Cisco, Juniper and other networking vendors evolve their network automation platforms for containers too
The Power System AC922 servers offer Power9 processors with up to 22 cores, running Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux
Nominations are open for Computerworld's 2018 list
Here’s the highlights of what AWS announced so far at re:Invent
New developments aim to increase the appeal of hyperconverged systems among large enterprises
Software-defined WAN is growing from early adopter to mainstream
802.11ac will remain state of the art
2018 promises the IoT-ification of a lot of existing technology
Public cloud gets all the attention, but private and hybrid clouds are set for big growth in 2018
Also, partnerships with vendors and service providers are on the rise
Prefabricated MMDC combines IT and supporting infrastructure in a self-contained unit
As Cisco transitions from hardware to software, it’s rolling out a whole new line of products for IoT and cloud
Those who are keeping their data center are spending more to cool it.
NXP Semiconductors announced OpenIL, a Linux distribution meant for smart factory automation.
OneSphere will promote 'useful' shadow IT on premises and in conjunction with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
All 500 machines on the TOP500 supercomputer list run Linux. Here’s how the little OS that could, did.
From CPUs to controllers, Marvell will be more ubiquitous than Intel.
InfoSight will also be rolled out to HPE's 3Par flash-storage customers, later throughout HPE products
The failure of Emberlight reminds us that Internet of Things devices may not work when the vendor stops supporting them.
HPE announced new ProLiant DL385 Gen10 servers running AMD’s Epyc processor, plus Apollo-based servers running ARM processors developed by Cavium.
Economics don't allow all internet of things devices to have baked-in security, so it has to be addressed elsewhere.
Hacker ER doctor says medical IoT devices are a security disaster.
OpenStack Private Cloud is designed to compete with public cloud by offering pay-as-you-go service.
Fossil-fuel backup generators could be on the way out, replaced by cleaner hydrogen fuel cells.
Cavium ARM processors make big server wins, showing Qualcomm isn't going to own this space that easily.
As the Internet of Things moves from “experimentation to business scale,” research firm Forrester shares its predictions for 2018. Think specialization and cloud — and big security risks.
