Small Business News, Features, and Interviews

• How to deal with the impact of digital transformation on networks

  To unleash the promise of digital transformation, businesses need to embrace automation, software-defined networking and security.

• Wi-Fi 6 will slowly gather steam in 2020

  There’s a lot to look forward to about 802.11ax, aka Wi-Fi 6, just don’t expect it to be a top-to-bottom revolution in 2020.

• Johnsonville Sausage makes cutting-edge links with SD-WAN

  Johnsonville Sausage’s IT department modernized its wide-area network, getting costs down and simplifying the overall enterprise network environment, to move the business forward.

• A new spin on interconnects for colocation data centers

  Stateless, Inc. launches its Luxon platform that enables provisioning of network functions as microservices.

• 5 questions to answer before deploying Wi-Fi 6

  Wi-Fi 6 offers many valuable new features including speed and higher density, but it’s different from its predecessors.

• Cisco: 5 hot networking trends for 2020

  Cisco exec says SD-WAN, Wi-Fi 6, multi-domain control, virtual networking and the evolving role of network engineers will be big in 2020.

• Cisco buys Exablaze for low-latency chip technology

  Cisco continues to build up its internal electronics tools by acquiring Field Programmable Gate Array technology designer Exablaze.

• 7 considerations when buying network automation tools

  Here’s the factors IT leaders need to weigh up to make a smart decision about network automation tools.

• Cisco targets hyperscalers with silicon, high-end routers

  Cisco rolls out its Silicon One plan, 8000 Series carrier-class routers and aims at selling chips to whitebox or hyperscale developers.

• What’s hot at the edge for 2020? Everything

  From SD-WAN and cloud interconnection to security, the edge will be one active place in 2020.

• Passive optical networking: Its day is dawning

  As bandwidth demands continue to increase, passive optical networks looks like an alternative that can solve a number of problems.

• Private 5G keeps Whirlpool driverless vehicles rolling

  When interference disrupted the Wi-Fi guidance for driverless vehicles in one of its factories, bringing the vehicles to a halt and backing up production, Whirlpool turned to on-premises 5G through a partnership with AT&T.

• What's big in IT tech for the coming year

  From data centers to the edge to the WAN, 2020 promises to be an active year for enterprise-technology development

• What’s hot for Cisco in 2020?

  Experts expect that Cisco will focus on building-out cloud, SD-WAN and security in 2020.

• Juniper broadens SD-Branch management, switch options

  Juniper has taken the wraps off new software and switches to broaden user options in deploying software-defined branch offices and enterprise networks.

• Extreme targets data centre automation with software, switches

  Extreme has unveiled new automation software and switches to help customers turn-up and manage new data centre​ networking segments.

• White-box switches yield initial savings but pose challenges

  White-box switches outfitted with independent network operating systems solutions have seen only limited adoption in leading enterprise IT shops.

• Arista targets cloud networking with CloudEOS software

  Two new Arista software packages address connectivity issues between public and private clouds, create instances of its Cloud EOS in a Kubernetes container.

• Cisco Meraki ups security with new switch, software

  Cisco is bringing some of the bells and whistles of it Catalyst environment to Meraki customers with hardware and software to help customers better support and secure distributed network resources.

• VMware amps security with in-house, Carbon Black technology

  VMware is moving Carbon Black technology across its product lines with an eye toward helping users protect their distributed enterprises.