Networking

Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends

What IT leaders need to know about expanding responsibilities, new titles and hot skills for network professionals and I&O teams.

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.

Cloudflare Internal DNS puts public and private DNS on one policy engine

Cloudflare Internal DNS consolidates public DNS and private DNS onto one control plane, one API, and one audit trail. There’s a single policy engine for every DNS query, whether it is for a public website or an internal application.

Microsoft explains why its West US Azure and cloud services failed

Azure and other Microsoft cloud services were disrupted for five hours when IP routes were accidentally removed from networking equipment.

An “Unstoppable Web” is a reality that Tether is orchestrating

IPv4 address exhaustion drives NetworkManager 1.58 release

Updates to the open-source Linux network configuration tool suite are aimed at advancing IPv6-only support, Wi‑Fi management, and security.

Nvidia unveils Spectrum-X networking platform designed to connect millions of GPUs

Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet platform includes Ethernet switches, Spectrum-X SuperNICs, BlueField DPUs and more.

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.

AI workloads shake up observability market

Observability vendors are racing to build AI-powered operations hubs. Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for observability platforms highlights the need for AI visibility, telemetry, and cost-management capabilities.

Google Cloud configuration update disrupts VMware Engine stretched clusters

A faulty network configuration update disrupted inter-zone connectivity across three regions, temporarily disrupting VMware Engine stretched clusters.