DNS performance study reveals significant disparities among providers
It also revealed that managed services outpace self-hosted solutions.
News - Sean Michael Kerner
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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VMware Avi Load Balancer gets boost to better scale and manage cloud workloads
The software-defined load balancer technology is targeted at hybrid cloud environments and is well-suited for private cloud environments. -
Broadcom’s 400G Ethernet NIC engineered for unique AI requirements
The BCM57608 400G NIC aims to meet artificial intelligence networking needs like high bandwidth utilization, intermittent data surges, and long job durations
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IBM's Qiskit Quantum Software Platform edges toward quantum advantage
The new Qiskit stack update comes as IBM claims that it has already demonstrated quantum utility and is on a path to demonstrating quantum advantage. -
Supercomputer champ repeats, Infiniband tops Ethernet and Linux dominates
Oak Ridge National Laboratory again boasts the world’s fastest supercomputer and Infiniband takes back lead from Ethernet for network interconnect. -
Red Hat infuses AI across its hybrid cloud portfolio
Red Hat is racing to integrate and expand artificial intelligence on its platform and services. -
Cisco Isovalent expands open-source security with Tetragon update
The new Tetragon open source 1.1 and Isovalent Enterprise for Tetragon 1.13 updates bring advancements in runtime security for Kubernetes environments. -
What is a DNS water torture attack and why are they on the rise?
Netscout found that DNS query floods experienced a staggering 553% surge from the first half of 2020 to the last six months of 2023. -
IBM acquires HashiCorp for $6.4B, open source Terraform questions remain
In one of its largest acquisitions ever, IBM announced its intention to acquire HashiCorp. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year. -
HPE Aruba boosts wireless network capacity with new generation of Wi-Fi 7 access points
HPE Aruba claims that its 730 Series Wi-Fi 7 access points provide up to a 30% boost in wireless capacity over its competitors. -
OpenSSF, CISA, Homeland Security team to boost software supply chain security
Protobom is an open source tool that simplifies creating, reading and translating software bill of materials data across various industry standard formats. -
DDoS attacks jump by 50% to start 2024
Cloudflare mitigated 4.5 million distributed denial of service attacks in the first three months of the year, equal to a third of all DDoS attacks in 2023. -
Trellix aims to help accelerate zero-trust adoption
The Trellix Zero Trust Strategy offering is designed to map to the five pillars of zero-trust defined by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. -
Identity management is your weakest link, but you can strengthen it
Microsoft Active Directory and Okta handle basic user identity, Zilla focuses on governing and securing access that identities have after authentication. -
Cato Networks doubles SASE speed, accelerates to 10 Gb/s
With this high throughput, enterprises can optimize, enhance and streamline network security operations without compromising on speed or reliability. -
HPE advances AI-powered network operations with Aruba Networking Central
The Aruba platform brings new generative artificial intelligence power to help networking administrators perform provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. -
It’s Prime time for SUSE, as Rancher Prime 3.0 debuts
SUSE updated its container management and edge computing platforms with a pair of releases that boost security and automation. -
IBM Cloud gets a Power Virtual Server upgrade to better performance
IBM has updated its Power Virtual Server offering running on IBM Cloud to enhance usability, reduce costs and minimize risk for clients. -
Startup brings quantum-safe security encryption to Cisco routers
QuSecure is launching a new product to fortify Cisco router-to-router communications against emerging quantum threats.
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NetBox Labs brings open-source network automation platform to the enterprise
NetBox Enterprise offers a version of NetBox on-premises, including enterprise integration capabilities that users of the cloud version already have.
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Arista promises unified view of network infrastructure with new observability tool
Arista's CloudVision Universal Network Observability product provides a deep level of contextual data and insights about network and application dependencies. -
Real-time Ubuntu Linux chooses Amazon EKS for open RAN deployments
Canonical is offering Real-time Ubuntu using Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Service Anywhere, which is designed specifically for open RAN deployments. -
Juniper Networks advances high-capacity routing for AI workloads
Juniper Networks has released a new routing platform that's aimed at transforming high-capacity networks for the artificial intelligence (AI) era. -
Aviz Networks brings genAI to network ops as Networking 3.0
"Networking 3.0 ... leverages data-driven and [artificial intelligence]-driven techniques to automate network operations and improve efficiency," CEO Vishal Shukla said. -
SUSE’s ATIP 3.0 brings automation, control to 5G deployments
SUSE's Adaptive Telco Infrastructure Platform 3.0 "aligns well with telcos' move toward cloud-native packet core solutions," said Keith Basil, SUSE GM.