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Numerous early Starlink testers have been notified that they’ll soon be linking up to the Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) internet in the “Better Than Nothing Beta” test. Better than nothing actually sounds pretty darn good. In this early stage, Starlink tells its early users to “Expect to see data speeds vary from 50Mb/s to 150Mb/s and latency from 20ms to 40ms over the next several months as we enhance the Starlink system. There will also be…

When Michael Bishop, senior network engineer with SolarWinds, was tasked with upgrading the IT Management company’s global network, the goals included improving network management and visibility while lowering the costs of its legacy MPLS infrastructure. Bishop says the company accomplished all of that and more by deploying the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect™ software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) edge platform. After deploying EdgeConnect at all of the company’s 30 branch offices, Bishop says that SolarWinds has increased networking visibility,…

The Folding@home project has shared new results of its efforts to simulate proteins from the SARS-CoV-2 virus to better understand how they function and how to stop them. Folding@home is a distributed computing effort that uses small clients to run simulations for biomedical research when users’ PCs are idle. The clients operate independently of each other to perform their own unique simulation and send in the results to the F@h servers. (Read more about where…

If someone had told me five months ago that the name of the game for cloud in 2020 would be “the ability to scale,” I would probably have thought they were 10 years late. Fast-forward to now, and it seems the biggest asset for organizations is indeed the ability to scale their digital selves to meet the tremendous demand of a world where their physical self is literally constrained by social-distancing mandates. The dramatic, global…

Strategic Planning Assumptions By the end of 2022, the number of enterprise network teams using a SaaS-based console to manage data center networks will increase by more than 10 times to more than 1,500.   By 2023, more than 10% of large enterprises will be running on-premises public cloud infrastructure (such as AWS Outposts) in their private data centers, which is an increase from less than 1% in 2019.   Customers who use management consoles…

No one asked Microsoft to port its Edge browser to Linux. Indeed, very few people asked for Edge on Windows. But, here it is. So, how good — or not — is it? First, you should know that the experts always knew Edge would run on Linux. Today’s Microsoft Edge isn’t the one that first shipped. This model, which went into beta on Windows last year, is built on the open-source Chromium codebase. Besides being the…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Dell Technologies delivers PC and IT infrastructure innovation across edge, core data centers and public clouds while shifting 90% of its global team to work remotely The company modernizes its infrastructure portfolio with Dell EMC PowerStore, PowerScale and PowerFlex The company expands hybrid cloud capabilities with Dell Technologies Cloud and ruggedized VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for edge environments Dell Technologies customers grow in spite of…

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Oct. 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ —                                                     News summary Project APEX simplifies how Dell Technologies customers can consume IT as-a-Service Dell Technologies Cloud Console gives customers a single self-service interface to manage every aspect of their cloud and as-a-Service journey Dell Technologies Storage as-a-Service will be deployed and managed on-premises by Dell Technologies Dell Technologies Cloud Platform advancements make cloud compute resources accessible with instance-based offerings, lowering the barrier of entry and extending subscription…

Anyone can run their own Wi-Fi network. Cellular networks have been another matter entirely, until now. With Facebook’s Magma open-source distributed mobile packet software project, FreedomFi enables anyone to build low cost, private, long-range, reliable, and secure 4G LTE and 5G networks. This is done using its its beta FreedomFi Gateway hardware and software package.  Historically, building a cellular network requires a lot of proprietary hardware from incumbent network equipment manufacturers. This has made it…