Michael Cooney

Senior Editor

Michael is a senior editor with Network World focused on deciphering the strategies of many core high-tech vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, HPE and IBM. Michael has been writing about the industry for more than 33 years and has won coverage awards from ASBPE and FOLIO. He has a BA in Journalism and Technical Writing Certificate from The Pennsylvania State University.

He can be reached at michael_cooney@foundryco.com.

Articles by Michael Cooney

Nvidia moves to accelerate storage access, boost industry cooperation

Nvidia is looking to speed access to AI storage and memory systems by open-sourcing its cuFile APIs and software stack. It's also promoting a new 40-vendor initiative that aims to standardize GPU-driven storage advancements.

By Michael Cooney

Aug 4, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence Data Center Enterprise Storage

Cisco exec testifies at US Senate panel on AI’s network impact

By Michael Cooney

Aug 3, 2026 7 mins

Network Security Networking Devices Wireless Security

Dell, Nutanix combo expands virtualization, private cloud choices

By Michael Cooney

Jul 29, 2026 3 mins

Enterprise Storage Storage Management Software Virtualization

IBM: AI-driven attacks increased 56% last year, and data breach costs are up 12%

The financial toll of AI-powered breaches is significant. It adds an average of $1 million in costs per breach, as attackers use AI tools to increase speed, scale, and precision, IBM reports.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 29, 2026 5 mins

Cyberattacks Cybercrime Data Breach

Fortinet’s new FortiGate platform converges firewall, SASE technologies

New FortiGate 1200G series with FortiSASE Outpost brings threat protection and cloud-delivered SASE to on-premises environments.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 28, 2026 2 mins

Cloud Security Network Security SASE

Cisco, AMD bring enterprise-level security, visibility to Ryzen AI Halo systems

The joint architecture combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo hardware and a variety of Cisco technologies, including AI Defense for model and agent security, DefenseClaw for security policy enforcement, and Cisco Cloud Control to unify policy and control.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 24, 2026 4 mins

Artificial Intelligence CPUs and Processors Network Security

IBM keen on mainframe even after 42% revenue drop in Q2

AI infrastructure buying shift among customers impacted z17 performance in Q2, but the Big Iron remains a critical AI platform, IBM says.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 23, 2026 5 mins

High-Performance Computing Mainframes Technology Industry

Arista debuts unified SD-WAN edge platform

Arista’s new Edge Threat Management (ETM) for VeloCloud SD-WAN is designed to bring integrated security to branch offices and allow enterprises to replace multiple point products with a single, AI-driven edge platform.

By Michael Cooney

Jul 21, 2026 5 mins

Network Security SD-Branch SD-WAN