Network World Daily News Alert | | | | The key to creating real business value from data gathered by the internet of things lies with including data scientists at every step of IoT implementation. Read More ▶ | | | Cloud-assisted driving, remote surgery, touch-sensitive VR, and most important for the global economy, a massive jump in industrial productivity, are all on the way and have one thing in common: the continuing evolution of network infrastructure toward 5G. Read More ▶ | | Potential SD-WAN savings can be broken down into hard and soft savings. Hard savings come from new connectivity contracts, including reduction in the use of MPLS in favor of less expensive options, such as broadband or cellular. Soft savings come from ensuring quality of service connections to cloud platforms or other hosted applications; centrally managing and ensuring comprehensive security across the WAN; and ensuring high availability connections to WAN sites and ease of management related to use of a cloud-managed SD-WAN. Read More ▶ | | | AMD revealed the Zen 2 architecture for its family of microprocessors. Sold under the Epyc brand for servers, it's expected to double the performance of the previous generation. Read More ▶ | | Intel formally announced a new class of Xeon Scalable processors that in many ways leapfrogs the best AMD has to offer. Read More ▶ | | As organizations look to next-gen architectures like multi-cloud and SDN, network professionals are getting a leg up with software-fluent certifications. Are they worth it? Read More ▶ | | Control over security is prompting big industrial companies to explore private 5G wireless networks. Read More ▶ | | The Wi-Fi Alliance has introduced the first major security improvement to Wi-Fi in about 14 years: WPA3. The most significant additions to the new Wi-Fi security protocol are greater protection for simple passwords, individualized encryption for Personal and Open networks, and more secure encryption for Enterprise networks. Read More ▶ | | Join the Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ | Get ongoing access to our exclusive Insider content — in-depth articles available only to Insider members. You get access not only to Network World's Insider content but to selected Insider content from Computerworld, CIO.com, InfoWorld, CSO, and other IDG publications. Sign up at no cost today! ▶ | | | |