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Ixia announced a new feature for its CloudLens platform that provides visibility into East-West traffic without requiring hypervisor access. An administrator can virtually tap (vTap) or capture, filter and forward a copy network traffic directly to either tools or a network packet broker. The new Cloud Sensor vTap enables organizations to better manage their security […]
A fundamental question regarding the astonishing rise of public cloud companies is how far will they go in capturing the enterprise networking and IT services businesses? Nearly every week, this journal tracks another “all-in” customer migration story to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alicloud, etc. However, in reading the press announcements in detail, we often find […]
The IETF has officially completed and published Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3, which is the most important security protocol update for the Internet since SSL was completed twenty years ago. The preceding TLS 1.2 version was known to have several high profile vulnerabilities. TLS 1.3 brings major improvements in security, performance, and privacy […]
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company’s NVIDIA’s eighth-generation GPU architecture, which he described as “the greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006.” The new GPU architecture, which is codenamed “Turing”, leverages dedicated ray-tracing processors — called RT Cores — accelerate the computation of how light and sound travel in 3D environments. […]
Samsung Electronics has supplied its latest 16-gigabit (Gb) Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) memory for NVIDIA’s new Turing architecture-based Quadro RTX™ GPUs. Samsung’s 16Gb GDDR6, which doubles the device capacity of the company’s 20-nanometer 8Gb GDDR5 memory. The new solution performs at a 14 Gbps pin speed with data transfers of 56 gigabytes per […]
BAE Systems, the British defence, security and aerospace company, has formed a partnership with Flexera to help government agencies moving to the cloud better manage their software licenses and more accurately plan and budget for their future information technology (IT) needs. Specifically, BAE Systems will integrate Flexera’s asset and license management tools into its scalable, […]
The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019, which was signed into law by President Trump, officially prohibits the U.S. government from purchasing telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, or any of their affiliates. The U.S. government is also prohibited from using telecommunications or video surveillance services from any entities […]
Nokia has completed the first phase of an Optical LAN deployment for the Jeju Shinhwa World in Jeju, South Korea. The new hotel is a massive resort project that will incorporate a theme park and other attractions. The installation brings fiber to each of the 1,326 hotel rooms for supporting in-room IT services such as […]
Kingston Technology introduced a 256 microSD car under its HyperX brand aimed at gamers. The new Gaming microSD Card line is designed for mobile gamers who need additional storage to store and play games. The HyperX Gaming microSD cards feature read speeds of 100MB/s and write speeds of 80MB/s, meeting or exceeding Nintendo Switch requirements. […]
Deutscke Telekom announced another milestone for its broadband upgrade program as 226,400 households in 151 municipalities can now surf faster on the Internet with download speeds of up to 100 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 40 Mbps. The cities benefiting include Haltern am See, with 12,000 households, Werdau, with 11,200, Aachen with 10,900, […]
Switch, the Las Vegas based company that develops and operates the SUPERNAP data centers, reported record quarterly revenue of $102.2 million, compared to $92.1 million for the same quarter in 2017, an increase of 11%. Operating income of $15.8 million, compared to $23.5 million for the same quarter last year, a decrease of 33%. Operating […]
BigBear, a privately-held company offering cloud-based big data analytics solutions for government and commercial customers, reports more than 220 percent revenue growth last year and is on track to gain another 50 percent boost to revenue by the end of this year. The company has office locations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and San Diego, California, and […]
China Tower, which had been pitched as the world’s largest IPO – and not just for telecoms, drew lacklustre investor enthusiasm this week as its shares began trading on the Hong Kong Exchange. Trading opened on Wednesday at the bottom of the forecasted range at HK$1.26 and closed at exactly the same price. This raised […]
