Net Virtualization Gets Real in 2017
Despite a slowdown in global investment in networking technology, particularly in Asia, 2017 is seen as the year when network virtualization came of age. Meanwhile, industry groups are rolling ...Full Article
Consumers Ready to Push Back, GDPR Survey Warns
Two thousand and eighteen is shaping up as the year of consumer pushback as strict data regulations give the generators of boundless data new rights to see and demand ...Full Article
Digital Transformation: Private Optical Networks and the ‘Third Platform’
In order to remain competitive in today’s all-digital world, enterprises are embracing digital transformation (DX). Cloud applications are now a vital component for how organizations develop products, reach the ...Full Article
Booming Bitcoin Mining is an Energy Hog
The mining of crypto-currencies is proving extremely lucrative, as witnessed by a spate of reports this week on the booming Bitcoin market. While the processing-intensive practice has been a ...Full Article
Cost, Security Issues Persist Amid Cloud Boom
The billowing cloud market that is growing at an estimated 40 percent annually is being driven to new heights by the enterprise embrace of multi-cloud strategies along with a ...Full Article
Silicon Photonics Emerging to Meet Bandwidth Demand
Hyper-scale datacenters and high-bandwidth, high-data-rate telecommunications applications are expected to drive demand for silicon optics technology that integrates fiber optics with CMOS chip manufacturing and three-dimensional chip stacking, a ...Full Article
Turnaround Complete, HPE’s Whitman Departs
Having turned around the aircraft carrier the Silicon Valley icon had become, Meg Whitman is leaving the helm of a restructured Hewlett Packard. Her successor, technologist Antonio Neri will ...Full Article
Facebook Unleashes Open/R Networking Software
Facebook's network routing software is now available as an open source tool for developing new network applications and functions, the company announced this week. Open/R is currently used in ...Full Article
Ahead of SC17, Mellanox Launches Scalable 200G Switch Platforms
In the run-up to the annual supercomputing conference (SC17) next week in Denver, Mellanox made a series of announcements today, including a scalable switch platform based on its HDR ...Full Article
Startup Puts Container Security in a Container
Among the emerging solutions for securing application containers in production is an application layer security tool that is itself a container. Startup NeuVector, which announced early stage venture funding ...Full Article