Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
CISPE is pursuing its legal action in the General Court of the European Union to overturn the European Commission’s 2023 approval of Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, saying that the deal has harmed customers.
FinOps Foundation releases FOCUS 1.3 to address cloud cost management data gaps.
Energy-starved AI workloads are driving companies to space, but analysts say the technology remains years from general enterprise use.
As Oracle pours billions into AI data centers, enterprises may face rising costs — but Oracle too is in a tight spot, which gives CIOs leverage in negotiations.
The open-source tool tracks power, temperature, airflow and interconnect health across thousands of GPUs, helping operators spot issues early and prevent throttling.
Updates include massive-scale campus Wi-Fi infrastructure, an expanded release of Arista's AVA AIOps software, and new ruggedized switches.
The latest ISC2 workforce study reveals that skills gaps are increasing as cybersecurity professionals adopt AI tools and report critical staffing needs across organizations.
Arista, AT&T and Palo Alto made some of the largest networking buys in a busy year for tech M&A.
A new pre‑tested, multi‑ASIC distribution from Aviz Networks is aimed at helping enterprises get started with an open-source SONiC option that works across multiple hardware vendors and offers production-grade support.
The move introduces fresh uncertainty into an already constrained GPU market, forcing buyers to rethink both their timelines and their broader procurement plans for upcoming data-center upgrades.
Despite shrinking share, Intel decides to hold on to its network/edge NEX business.
Micron will focus reallocating its output and investments in enterprise-grade DRAM
CISA and the NSA warn that Chinese state-sponsored attackers are deploying malware dubbed BRICKSTORM on VMware servers to perform lateral movement inside victim networks.
IBM Cloud Sync supports AWS' Route 53 DNS service. Future releases will add support for Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Cloudflare, and other DNS services.
In attempting to fix one problem, Cloudflare caused another.
CompTIA aims to help employees develop competency in ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and other AI tools.
An antitrust lawsuit filed by the DOJ posed an obstacle to HPE’s acquisition of Juniper. A June 28, 2025, settlement cleared the way for the deal to go through, but it required divestitures.
Antonio Neri unveiled the first joint HPE-Juniper products, took stock of HPE's 10 years as an independent player, and reflected on a future that leverages network, cloud and AI technologies.
AWS is changing the cost equation for enterprises weighing up where to put AI infrastructure for processing sensitive data.
HPE touts integrated Aruba-Juniper networking and AI technology as it arms for data center competition.
The LogicMonitor-Catchpoint combination will unify observability and internet monitoring.
AMD comes out on top, HPE, Dell, Nvidia do well
Nvidia’s investment in a UALink board member follows a similar move with Intel, raising concerns about the GPU giant’s influence over alternatives to its proprietary NVLink interconnect.
Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization.
The Thanksgiving outage was described as ‘a case study in how a single physical failure inside a data center can escalate into a global market disruption.’
A clearer AI-analytics strategy, AI platform cohesion, more plug-and-play products, and a better vibe for coding need to be on show in Las Vegas to satisfy customers.
