Intel's Future of the Enterprise looks to cloud repatriation

A fundamental question regarding the astonishing rise of public cloud companies is how far will they go in capturing the enterprise networking and IT services businesses?  Nearly every week, this journal tracks another "all-in" customer migration story to AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alicloud, etc. However, in reading the press announcements in detail, we often find caveats. Sometimes it is only one division of a corporation that is fully migrating...

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IETF completes Transport Layer Security 1.3

The IETF has officially completed and published Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3, which is the most important security protocol update for the Internet since SSL was completed twenty years ago. The preceding TLS 1.2 version was known to have several high profile vulnerabilities. TLS 1.3 brings major improvements in security, performance, and privacy in the way that client/server applications communicate over the Internet. The...

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NVIDIA's 8th GPU architecture for real time graphics and AI

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company's  NVIDIA’s eighth-generation GPU architecture, which he described as "the greatest leap since the invention of the CUDA GPU in 2006." The new GPU architecture, which is codenamed "Turing", leverages dedicated ray-tracing processors — called RT Cores — accelerate the computation of how light and sound travel in 3D environments. It also employs Tensor Core processors to accelerate deep learning...

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Samsung supplies 16Gb GDDR6 Memory for NVIDIA Quadro

Samsung Electronics has supplied its latest 16-gigabit (Gb) Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) memory for NVIDIA’s new Turing architecture-based Quadro RTX™ GPUs. Samsung's 16Gb GDDR6, which doubles the device capacity of the company’s 20-nanometer 8Gb GDDR5 memory. The new solution performs at a 14 Gbps pin speed with data transfers of 56 gigabytes per second (GB/s), which represents a 75 percent increase over 8Gb GDDR5 with its 8Gbps pin speed. Samsung...

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BAE Systems partners with Flexera for government cloud migration

BAE Systems, the British defence, security and aerospace company, has formed a partnership with  Flexera to help government agencies moving to the cloud better manage their software licenses and more accurately plan and budget for their future information technology (IT) needs. Specifically, BAE Systems will integrate Flexera’s  asset and license management tools into its scalable, hybrid cloud environment for government. The federated...

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U.S. Defense Authorization Act bans Huawei and ZTE from government purchase

The John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019, which was signed into law by President Trump, officially prohibits the  U.S. government from purchasing telecommunications equipment produced by Huawei Technologies, ZTE Corporation, or any of their affiliates.  The U.S. government is also prohibited from using telecommunications or video surveillance services from any entities using such equipment. Earlier versions of...

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Nokia supplies Optical LAN for new Korean resort hotel

Nokia has completed the first phase of an Optical LAN deployment for the Jeju Shinhwa World in Jeju, South Korea. The new hotel is a massive resort project that will incorporate a theme park and other attractions. The installation brings fiber to each of the 1,326 hotel rooms for supporting in-room IT services such as IPTV, VoIP, room control and Wi-Fi. Technology used for the deployment: Nokia's 7360 Intelligent Services Access Manager (ISAM)...

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256 GB microSD cards are aimed at mobile gamers

Kingston Technology introduced a 256 microSD car under its HyperX brand aimed at gamers. The new Gaming microSD Card line is designed for mobile gamers who need additional storage to store and play games. The HyperX Gaming microSD cards feature read speeds of 100MB/s and write speeds of 80MB/s, meeting or exceeding Nintendo Switch requirements. The new product line is available in 64G, 128G and 256G capacities. The HyperX Gaming microSD Card is...

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Deutsche Telekom activates vectoring upgrade in more areas

Deutscke Telekom announced another milestone for its broadband upgrade program as 226,400 households in 151 municipalities can now surf faster on the Internet with download speeds of up to 100 Mbps and upload speeds of up to 40 Mbps. The cities benefiting include Haltern am See, with 12,000 households, Werdau, with 11,200, Aachen with 10,900, Illingen with 8,300, and Peißenberg with another 6,400 households. “We’re not just building information...

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Switch posts $102 million in revenue

Switch, the Las Vegas based company that develops and operates the SUPERNAP data centers, reported record quarterly revenue of $102.2 million, compared to $92.1 million for the same quarter in 2017, an increase of 11%. Operating income of $15.8 million, compared to $23.5 million for the same quarter last year, a decrease of 33%. Operating income in the second quarter of 2018 includes the impact of $8.2 million in equity-based compensation expense...

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BigBear cites rapid growth in government cloud services

BigBear, a privately-held company offering cloud-based big data analytics solutions for government and commercial customers, reports more than 220 percent revenue growth last year and is on track to gain another 50 percent boost to revenue by the end of this year. The company has office locations in Charlottesville, Virginia, and San Diego, California, and is opening a new office in Reston, Virginia. “We’re excited about our new office location...

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