Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
ZincFive battery handles the power requirements of AI workloads in mission-critical data centers.
Key takeaways from Arista's Q3 financials
DRAM prices could increase over 23% in coming year, report says.
Improved performance and redundancy come with deeper vendor entanglement. CIOs must benchmark architecture costs and enforce pricing clarity, analysts suggest.
Cisco IQ taps into a host of enterprise best practices for proactive infrastructure management strategies
Commitment to invest $38 billion to run its workloads on AWS follows last week’s promise to buy $250 billion of Azure services.
Infoblox expands Universal DDI with new Microsoft, Google Cloud, and external DNS integrations for hybrid multi-cloud environments.
Cisco Unified Edge integrates networking, compute and storage for distributed AI workloads.
Verizon/AWS deal designed to provide dedicated networking paths to accelerate generative AI.
The two AMD-based supercomputers will be geared towards discoveries and science, energy, and national security.
HPE, Flex and Oracle grow Nvidia partnerships; Nvidia tops $5 trillion in market value.
Cloudflare identifies high-risk top-level domains, with .motorcycles ranking No. 1 among the most abused TLDs.
To be used to train and run the AI model Claude.
Expanded DRAM and HBM output is expected to relieve infrastructure bottlenecks for hyperscalers and data centers amid rising AI demand.
It could be a concern for enterprise CIOs as well as for creditors due to ‘profound change in the company’s capital posture.’
US company ‘continues to tighten the screws on Europe’s cloud infrastructure sector’ and regulators need to act.
IBM’s decision — forced on it by Broadcom’s new partner program policies — opens up a new option for customers dissatisfied with VMware licensing changes: OpenShift.
The Duane Arnold Energy Center will power Google's new data center.
Startup lands $7 million in seed funding for its AI-powered site reliability engineering platform that speeds incident resolution.
Arista is bulking up its R4 series with speedier models and line cards to advance high-performance networks.
Nvidia working with Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC and T-Mobile to demo 6G applications
Packages from Cisco and Nvidia target enterprise customers, neoclouds and sovereign cloud buildouts.
IBM’s technology services group is adding new support options for Cisco’s Secure Firewall platform and Hybrid Mesh Firewall.
Nvidia rolls SuperNIC 1.6T per GPU; BlueField 4 will double the throughput of its predecessor and offer six times the compute power.
The Seeker quantum processor from Quantum Circuits now supports Nvidia's CUDA-Q, enabling developers to combine quantum computing with AI and machine learning.
The new features are designed for companies training massive AI models, making it easier to manage complex workloads and keep systems running smoothly.
Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 move beyond GPU-style training hardware to optimize for inference workloads, offering 10X higher memory bandwidth and reduced energy use.
Investors are pushing huge sums into building data centers to fulfil the promise of AI. But is this based on rosy assumptions?
IT teams are prioritizing AI-driven network management when choosing Wi-Fi vendors, looking for features such as automated troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and guided remediation.
Intel will prioritize the data center business over client-side production
Access to one million purpose-built AI accelerators, among other things, is part of the deal.
Hosting provider Patmos uses brownfield facilities to speed colocation data center development. Its latest is a former printing press.
The Service AI Agent from Extreme can handle a variety of tasks, including network planning, configuration, and root-cause analysis.
The Willow processor runs the first verifiable algorithm with real-world applications, marking a shift from theory to practical quantum computing.
While the report generation feature will help enterprises accelerate post-mortem of an incident, it is far from enough to avoid similar outages in the future, analysts say.
By running production workloads simultaneously on x86 and Arm, Google is signaling a new era of hardware neutrality and accelerating Arm’s growing role in hyperscale cloud environments.
SolarWinds’ State of ITSM Report 2025 shows that generative AI helps IT teams speed incident response and resolution.
A decline in critical thinking skills, AI-related safety failures, and fragmentation of the AI landscape are among the challenges IT leaders will face in 2026 and beyond, Gartner predicts.
The major speed bump in CoreWeave’s $9B acquisition of Core Scientific is an indication that data center merger mania may have peaked.
Enterprises need a dedicated AI leader as AI supercomputers, cybersecurity risks, and multi-agent systems will challenge IT teams.
IBM integrates Groq technology with watsonx, Granite for AI inferencing applications.
Riverbed Data Express aims to move petabyte-scale datasets 10X faster than traditional methods.
Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes consistent performance under challenging conditions and introduces dynamic spectrum management and hardware-accelerated telemetry designed for AI workloads at the network edge.
Foote Partners research uncovers a pay divide emerging between certified and non-certified AI skills.
DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.
Nvidia, Infineon want to get rid of the spaghetti cluster of power cables and offer one high-voltage cable.
As the data center market consolidates and hyperscalers buy up capacity years in advance, IT leaders must adopt new strategies to secure compute power.
Meta shares Ethernet and optics advances at OCP Global Summit.
Arm to focus on high-efficiency infrastructure standards for AI data centers.
Research finds 60% of organizations cut their cyber insurance costs with microsegmentation.
