In the not-too-distant past, network operating systems (NOS) pretty much meant one thing: a Novell NetWare server for managing files and printers on a local area network. For some government agencies, ...

It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and ...

Familiar names like Windows, macOS, and Linux dominate the world of operating systems. Beneath that mainstream layer, though, lives a shadowy ecosystem of niche projects that often carry strange ...

What if you could manage your data center switches and routers the same way you manage your servers, and cut capital expense costs in the bargain? That’s the pitch for white-box networking, the move ...

Managing the information systems in a large company is a huge task that is performed by many people. Following are some of the major functions. See systems management and enterprise networking. There ...