Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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
Updates to Juniper's portfolio allow customers to upgrade their network to keep up with bandwidth demands, then transition to a more cloudy business when they are ready.
Nokia is launching a blockchain-driven Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network for its telco equipment users to sell on.
NAND flash memory maker Micron announced plans for quadruple-level cell (QLC) flash memory. With 4 bits per cell, storage density will increase 33%.
After years of worry, the long-anticipated backlash to the changes wrought by the Internet of Things may finally be arriving. That could be a good thing.
Juniper Networks' new offerings include products to connect the data center to the cloud, as well as security and connectivity tools for branch offices.
Ultrasonic signaling that triggers sensors to switch on or off could add to efficiency efforts being made in IoT design, researchers at Stanford University say.
The Xeon D-2100's system-on-chip design and low power are key for constrained environments.
With the VxBlock 1000, Dell-EMC’s next-generation CI platform, customers can mix and match storage, networking and compute technology for greater data center agility.
Worldwide managed SD-WAN services are expected to grow to $10 billion by 2022 as organizations look to service providers to help them reliably connect distributed locations.
Support for container technology deriving from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is getting a boost in enterprise and commercial markets through the formation of a new company, Sylabs.
As of Feb. 1, antivirus testing firm AV-TEST had found 139 malware samples that exploit Meltdown and Spectre. Most are not very functional, but that could change.
Researchers say 5G won't be able to accommodate the growing demand for bandwidth. Terahertz-frequency networks, with their larger capacity and smaller power needs, will be the better option.
AMD's Epyc 7000 processors will power three new Dell PowerEdge servers. The emphasis is on one-socket solutions for the enterprise.
Cisco says by 2021, 94 percent of all workloads will run in some form of cloud environment. Even on-premises workloads will run in a virtualized environment.
AMD intends to have a silicon fix for the variant 2 of the Spectre exploit, the only one of the Meltdown and Spectre exploits it’s vulnerable to, by 2019.
The Industrial Internet of Things connects machines and devices in industries such as transportation, power generation, and healthcare. The potential is high and so are the risks.
A new way of providing the same optical bandwidth optimization as one sees in huge-scale core networks could appear in homes and small businesses.
Cisco Container Platform brings order to containers and enables applications to run the same way on premises as they do in public clouds.
Cisco announced this week it is bringing its intent-based network (IBN) system to the data center. In doing so, it is adding a third leg to the IBN stool -- assurance.
Strava’s fitness app usage heatmap accidentally reveals military deployments — and it won’t be the last time good IoT intentions lead to unanticipated problems.
Computer Economics research echoes a common finding that on-premises computing is falling out of favor as IT shops look to migrate as much work as possible to the public cloud.
Microsegmentation is a way to create secure zones in data centers and cloud deployments that allow you to isolate workloads and protect them individually.
Cisco has advanced its intent-based networking gear so now it can both verify that networks are actually running according to the intentions set by admins and also so it can help to find and resolve network problems faster on both wired and wireless
