Prices of enterprise-grade solid-state drives are likely to jump in the coming months, perhaps by as much as 15% over current SSD prices, says TrendForce, a Taiwanese market research firm that focuses on the memory market. In a rare and no doubt unintentional move, Intel and AMD are on a path to begin shipping new processors at roughly the same time: Intel with its Ice Lake generation of Xeon processors and AMD with its Milan processors. You…

Network-operations types tell me that, in the future, AI is going to manage their networks. They also tell me that their vendors told them that very same thing. The good news is that’s sort-of-true. The bad news is the same; with emphasis on the qualifier “sort-of”. To get the most from AI network management, you have to navigate out of that hazy “sort-of” zone, and you do it by thinking about ants and farmers. Ants…

The continued growth of cloud applications, wireless technology and the COVID-19-driven enterprise hybrid workplace is making flexible networking a must. As a result the networking industry as a whole is set to experience the highest growth in years, according to Extreme Networks’ president and CEO Ed Meyercord. Extreme Networks Extreme CEO Ed Meyercord Such growth is represented in part by the company’s record $1.009 billion in annual revenue for FY2021, which ended June 30. “The…

Innovation is today’s new constant. Innovation from open source, startups, the public cloud providers and companies like Cisco. The sheer speed, number and quality of choices at our fingertips offers unprecedented opportunity, but comes with a tax of rapidly increasing complexity. When operating models, tools and applications are splintered across multiple clouds, on-premises and in the public cloud – Dev teams and Ops teams carry the burden of that complexity. This reminds me of a collection of remote controls I once had for my entertainment setup. I created a very intricate sequence – the right remote for the right system in the…