Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
The new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) device increases bandwidth by 73% and reduces power consumption by 35%, according to AWS.
A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks.
Microsoft’s partnership with Nvidia and Anthropic continues the incestuous couplings that may force changes in how IT makes AI choices.
Dell AI Factory with Nvidia includes PowerEdge servers featuring Nvidia Blackwell and Hopper GPUs.
Kentik launches agentic AI for autonomous network troubleshooting.
IBM expects undisputed quantum advantage next year. Last week, it announced its new Nighthawk quantum computer with 5,000 two-qubit gates and improved error correction.
Analysts say enterprises face a trade-off: reduced operational toil versus increased administrative overhead and governance requirements.
Problems with Cloudflare’s content delivery network followed hot on the heels of an incident with its third-party support portal provider.
VMware’s shift to real-world telemetry data reveals a significant gap between recommended and actual resource usage.
Microsoft says the attack, sourced from more than 500,000 compromised IPs, exposes deep weaknesses in home IoT and raises questions about enterprise DDoS readiness.
Nvidia says it rolled out a combined total of 4,500 exaflops of AI performance for scientific discovery.
Nvidia expands NVQLink quantum interlink as it preps for future quantum processor connectivity
Opening the NVLink ecosystem is a ‘masterstroke’ that leaves Nvidia firmly in control, says analyst.
Germany’s JUPITER Booster marks Nvidia’s first 1-exaflop system on the TOP500 List, earning the fourth spot.
The world’s largest memory chipmaker’s aggressive pricing threatens to push AI server costs up 10-25% as supply constraints remain through 2026.
Microsoft is investing heavily in quantum computing, aiming to bring the world’s most powerful quantum computer online by 2026 to advance security, research, and next-gen technology.
Supercomputer customers have a choice of either company’s processors or a mix of both.
StarlingX cranks open-source cloud network infrastructure to 11.
Unified solution leverages Arista’s AI networking fabric and Palo Alto's next generation firewalls for zero-trust security in the data center.
New AMD CPUs and GPUs are coming in 2026 that will feature improved performance
Extreme envisions offering specialized, easy-to-deploy AI agents for analytics, sustainability and security.
AI, campus, router and security refreshes led to a strong quarter for Cisco.
The year isn't over yet, but we've already seen record-breaking quantum computers, skyrocketing levels of investment, and demonstrations of real-world benefits.
Broadcom unveils a unified networking fabric and integration with Cisco to enhance interoperability and simplify private cloud operations with VMware Cloud Foundation.
Cast AI report says managing cloud GPU resources requires operational and geographic agility.
The tool could help enterprises gain future visibility into planned expansion of services across cloud regions, helping avoid costly replanning and deployment.
Twice the price-performance of comparable modern x86 VMs is Google’s claim for its new N4A instances, now available in preview.
Businesses already writing for TensorFlow, or building from scratch, stand to benefit most, while enterprises with legacy code written for Nvidia’s CUDA may find moving costly.
The latest Cisco AI certifications are targeted at IT pros who are doing the work to deploy, manage and scale AI workloads across enterprise environments.
TransferEngine enables GPU-to-GPU communication across AWS and Nvidia hardware, allowing trillion-parameter models to run on older systems.
Corporations are in a race to analyze data from above the clouds.
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.
