What will be hot for Cisco in 2019?
Software, SD-WAN, security, high-speed data-centre networking and more software fill up the Cisco hot plate for 2019.
Stories by Michael Cooney
IBM reinforces enterprise multi-cloud growth with automation tools, ServiceNow expansion
IBM wants to make it easier for customers to move to multi-cloud environments by adding automation tools and extending its relationship with ServiceNow.
Cisco marries wireless, wired worlds with new Catalyst 9000 switches
Cisco is making it possible to run, manage, automate and secure wired and wireless networks all on top of a single operating system.
Cisco, Amazon marriage simplifies hybrid cloud app development
Amazon Web Services and Cisco have teamed to help customers build apps in the cloud or data centers and move easily between the two.
Cisco ups the ante for 400G Ethernet with big-bandwidth data centre switches
Cisco has 400G Ethernet switches that fall into two camps: The Nexus 9000 family aimed at large enterprise networks and the 3400-S class for hyper-scale users.
The IBM-Red Hat deal: what it means for enterprises
IBM hopes the acquisition of Red Hat will give its customers the tools to expand their use of cloud by creating and deploying cloud-friendly applications on a larger scale, a goal shared by IBM competitors Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
Arista joins Juniper, Cisco in 400G Ethernet race
Arista’s 7060X4 Series switches feature 32 400G Ethernet ports and are based on Broadcom Tomahawk silicon.
Gartner: IT spending to hit US$3.8 trillion; enterprise software, IT services outlays lead way
Enterprise software spending is forecast to experience the highest growth with an 8.3 percent increase in 2019. Communications services like MPLS and other WAN services will hit 1.4 trillion in 2018.
IBM wants to manage your cloud services no matter which ones you run
IBM’s new Multi-cloud Manager will manage workloads on Big Blue clouds but also workloads on Amazon, Red Hat and Microsoft infrastructure as well
Gartner: Digital business projects in a quagmire? Hack your culture!
If you are a CIO or business leader and you are having trouble moving forward on a new or existing digital business project you should hack your current IT culture to get things moving.
That was but one of the key messages from Gartner analysts as they kicked off Symposium/IT Expo the consulting firm’s annual strategyfest that this year gathers over 9,000 CIOs and IT professionals for a look at the possible future of manifold technologies and trends.
Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, sports evangelist, philanthropist dead at 65
Microsoft co-founder, philanthropist, space enthusiast, owner of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers and the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, Paul Allen, has died. He was 65.
ICANN’s internet DNS security upgrade apparently goes off without a glitch
The KSK rollover involved generating a new cryptographic public and private key pair and distributing the new public component to parties who operate validating resolvers, according to ICANN. Such resolvers run software that converts typical addresses like networkworld.com into IP network addresses.
Juniper advances network automation community, skillsets
Juniper is looking to be an evangelist for network automation by announcing a variety of applications, tools, labs and libraries that it says will hasten adoption the technology for businesses and network professionals.
Juniper CEO Rahim talks network, security and multicloud trends
Juniper made a big bet on 400G Ethernet this summer, detailing how it plans to transition its wide-area network, data center and enterprise portfolio to 400G Ethernet. And earlier this year, Juniper released its Contrail Enterprise Multicloud software, an SDN controller that is the central component of its multicloud, intent-based networking strategy. Ahead of its NXTWORK summit next week, Juniper CEO Rami Rahim talked with Network World’s Michael Cooney.
Cisco Webex outage: Collaboration service finding a lumpy recovery
A Webex post today (October 4) shows some problems such as poor performance are persisting: “Engineering continues to work on the engineering tasks to address the remaining open items. Some Webex Teams users are still experiencing inconsistent results with some user spaces.