Digital assistants using artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact as an IT support tool, as Mist Systems' virtual network assistant Marvis demonstrates. The use of digital or virtual ...

Steve Herrod envisions a world where we build entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...

Virtual machines are just as vulnerable as their physical counterparts. So Altor Networks has created the virtual firewall to address these challenges. Altor Networks is a Redwood City, Calif. based ...

Networking pro Greg Schaffer was stumped when he couldn't solve a connectivity problem and initially told his client it wasn't a networking issue. Then he checked again. Several years ago, a new ...

In many ways, the art of networking today is quite different from when I entered the field about 17 years ago as a part-time student assistant in the networking group at the university where I was ...

Network technology improves and advances every year. New standards promise interoperability, new devices simplify configuration, and monitoring solutions declare preemptive problem resolution. Does ...