Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Chinese hackers are behind attacks on AsyncOS Software that allow complete takeover of the appliance, company says.
A previous virtually identical zero day DoS vulnerability was targeted in the wild, and there's already a PoC for this one.
Uptime Institute warns that the gap between data center construction timelines and power infrastructure availability will exacerbate industry challenges.
Dell PowerStore adds storage density and promises to reduce total cost of ownership by 15%.
With utilities quoting four‑to‑ten‑year wait times — and one offering a 12‑year study period — Google says grid constraints are becoming the defining limit on AI‑era data center growth.
The multibillion-dollar deal shows how the growing importance of inference is changing the way AI data centers are designed and operated.
By decoupling sovereignty from dedicated data center regions, IBM's Sovereign Core aims to help CIOs meet rising regulatory scrutiny, automate continuous compliance, and deploy sensitive AI workloads into production under strict data‑residency condit
Just as the US approves exports to the country, Chinese customs officers have reportedly been told not to allow the chips into the country. What now?
Former Akamai engineers are behind startup IO River, which is developing an edge platform that creates a virtualization layer across multiple CDN providers.
The enterprise remains a key target for Cisco, which is keen to deliver the technologies to enable AI transformation, digital resilience, and workforce transformation.
Zhipu’s GLM-Image demonstrates the viability of domestic alternatives amid US export restrictions.
The company has unveiled a community-first AI infrastructure strategy promising no increases in local power or water costs, highlighting the mounting pressure on tech companies to balance AI growth with environmental and social impact.
A Texas energy company is proposing to use nuclear reactors from decommissioned Navy vessels to power data centers. Repurposing the reactors will be prohibitively difficult, critics warn.
A new top-level effort unifies data center and network oversight as the company targets multi-gigawatt AI scale.
Cloudflare argues that the requirement is technically unreasonable and would impair DNS performance globally.
Announcements include new HPE Aruba Networking CX switches, integration with Juniper Mist AIOps to optimize connectivity across distributed store environments, and upgrades to HPE Nonstop Compute to improve system availability.
Economic uncertainty, elevated interest rates, and AI adoption have driven workforce reductions across tech companies worldwide, according to a RationalFX report.
The Cloudflare hiccup involved a sequencing change that confused some systems, and Cloudflare quickly walked it back, but the incident showcases enterprise network fragility in an uncomfortably concrete way.
A successful attacker could view sensitive information that even admins can’t access.
The vendor has issued a patch to close four holes in its flagship Backup & Replication suite; version 13 users are advised to audit their backup config files and closely monitor backup jobs.
New Lenovo servers cover high-performance tasks and edge computing.
In the past, AWS has almost always lowered prices or changed pricing models instead of raising them directly.
With capacity shifting to high-margin HBM for AI data centers, traditional DRAM supply is collapsing, pushing enterprise IT costs sharply higher and eroding procurement leverage.
Lenovo’s “AI cloud gigafactory” model promises speed and scalability for enterprises, but experts caution that utility, cooling, and fiber bottlenecks could slow adoption.
As AI networking requirements grow, the Ethernet Alliance will take up a 400G/lane project while the Ultra Ethernet Consortium will prioritize flexible congestion management and small-message performance.
ThousandEyes tracks internet and cloud traffic and provides Network World with weekly updates on the performance of ISPs, cloud service providers, and UCaaS providers.
AMD announced new products, acquisitions and partnerships in 2025 as it worked to boost AI performance across platforms ranging from desktops and mobile devices to data centers and supercomputers.
The Nvidia Rubin platform consists of six new chips, including four networking processors.
The move could reshape cost planning for enterprises running large-scale AI workloads.
Announcements included the MI440X GPU for on-prem enterprise deployments and a longer-term roadmap that includes rack-scale AI systems and next-generation accelerators.
A new form factor and performance boost make SOCAMM appealing, especially for AI use.
Explore the details behind the floating‑point operations (FLOP) benchmark for measuring compute performance.
While Wi-Fi 7 adoption is accelerating among enterprises, retail Wi-Fi 8 products could arrive as early as summer 2026. Wi-Fi 8 is aimed at boosting reliability and lowering latency in dense, interference-prone environments.
The plan is to reduce the country's dependence on foreign technology.
This non-acquisition could help Nvidia diversify its supply chains and address new markets, while limiting antitrust scrutiny.
DigitalBridge’s assets in data centers, fiber, and towers would bolster SoftBank’s $500B Project Stargate and other AI bets.
This year's most-read stories about Intel span leadership changes, CPU launches, new major shareholders, and plenty of industry scrutiny.
We look at the year's top enterprise infrastructure, networking and partnership news from Nvidia, arguably the bellwether of the AI economy.
Google will work with Intersect to explore emerging technologies and increase and diversify energy supply, the tech giant says.
The US and Canada spend the most money.
“Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit this vulnerability in the wild,” warns vendor.
GreyNoise has identified a coordinated credential-based campaign abusing VPN login portals from Cisco and Palo Alto Networks.
Cloud data platform’s backward-incompatible database schema change left customers unable to query data or ingest files
An unauthenticated user can execute the attack, and there’s no mitigation, just a hotfix that should be applied immediately.
The unpatched flaw affects AsyncOS-based Secure Email appliances, with Cisco investigating scope and urging rebuilds in confirmed compromise cases.
Cisco's AI Security and Safety Framework includes a unified taxonomy that aims to classify a range of AI safety threats, such as content safety failures, agentic risks, and supply chain threats.
Kubernetes 1.35, dubbed 'Timbernetes,' delivers in-place pod resource adjustments, a capability that benefits AI training workloads and edge computing deployments.
AI-powered applications are driving enterprises to upgrade legacy compute, storage and network resources as well as consider private cloud options for AI and HPC, according to new research from World Wide Technology.
By acquiring the developer of Slurm, Nvidia is strengthening its influence over how AI workloads are scheduled across GPUs and data center networks.
