Linda Hardesty, Author at NetworkingNexus.net

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AWS Unveils New Data Backup Service

Amazon’s move into the backup space may hit some other backup vendors in the wallet, including Rubrik, Commvault, Veeam, and Kaseya.

AWS Buys TSO Logic to Help Customers Decide Where to Best Run Workloads

With its entry into the private data center ecosystem, it now makes sense for AWS to help customers place their workloads where it's more cost effective.

Nokia Nuage SD-WAN Supports Moneyball-Like Analytics App for Soccer

SD-WAN is supporting a service that rates soccer players based an analytics that are derived from live video feeds around a stadium.

Bloomberg Chose Apstra’s Network Monitoring for Its London Broadcast Facility

Bloomberg’s network engineers are using Apstra’s software to gain visibility across the network fabric supporting the building's media production systems.

AMD President Says Its Next Epyc Server Processor Is the ‘Best the World Has Ever Seen’

Advanced Micro Devices, under the direction of its President and CEO Lisa Su, garnered some big headlines in 2018 for both its technology advances as well as its growing stock price.

Is Intent-Based Networking Real or Just ‘Intent Washing’?

It's been more than a year since Cisco made a splash with its intent-based networking announcement. But the term seems to apply to everything from a bird's-eye-view to a worm's-eye-view.

Chiplets: The Way to Beat Moore’s Law?

First came the disaggregation of software from hardware. Now comes the disaggregation of functions on a chip.

Huawei Works With Arm, Not Intel, on New CPU

Huawei says it will still continue its long-term strategic partnerships with Intel, but that computing demands have become more diverse.

ZTE Taps Former Senator Joe Lieberman to ‘Lobby’ on Its Behalf

William Plummer, Huawei’s former VP of external affairs, said that company needs to diversify its leadership and not solely rely on Chinese nationals in its relations with the U.S.

Networking Vendors Jump On 400GbE in 2018

The 400GbE standard is four times as fast as 100 gig Ethernet, and it offers an economically attractive price-per-port and better power efficiency.

Trump Considers New Attack on Huawei, ZTE

But Huawei may be getting the best kind of revenge. The company says its revenues in 2018 grew 21 percent over the previous year.

2018 Is a Year Huawei Would Like to Forget

Can it get much worse than having its CFO arrested and being accused of violating sanctions?

Oracle’s Purchase of Talari Makes It the First Major Public Cloud Provider to Offer SD-WAN

Oracle had previously tried to create its own SD-WAN technology, but it couldn’t get it to market fast enough for its customers.

InterDigital Solves Mobile 5G Problems Far in Advance of Standards

InterDigital competes with Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and Samsung. These vendors also do technology innovation in conjunction with emerging standards. But their standards work is “subsumed” within other business units, while InterDigital does its work on a standalone basis.