Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
Oracle’s Zettascale10 supercomputer connects 800,000 Nvidia GPUs for massive-context training and inference.
The Basque Government and IBM unveiled the first IBM Quantum System Two in Europe at the IBM-Euskadi Quantum Computational Center in San Sebastián, Spain.
The DGX Spark is already sold out at Nvidia’s online store, although retail chain Micro Center has a few hundred in stock at stores scattered around the US.
The Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) initiative includes AMD, Arista, ARM, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE Networking, Marvell, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
The 800G Thor Ultra NIC implements Ultra Ethernet Consortium specifications and introduces hardware-accelerated capabilities to modernize RDMA.
The collaboration combines custom silicon and open networking, potentially reducing reliance on Nvidia and reshaping next-generation AI data centers.
At the Open Compute Project's Global Summit this week, the semiconductor darling is announcing details of its newest superchip architecture.
Intel goes for cores over threads for new generation of Xeons.
The Cisco 8223 router is based on the 51.2Tb Silicon One P200 programmable chip.
AI agent and other AI capabilities can help IT teams make progress towards autonomous operational resilience.
Wide-ranging software updates from IBM are aimed at helping enterprises scale their AI operations faster and stay on top of emerging quantum risks.
The vendor's universal ZTNA solution aims to help enterprises secure diverse device ecosystems across hybrid environments.
It’s not a matter of being better than Nvidia, because Nvidia chips are becoming virtually impossible to get.
Nvidia and Fujitsu plan to build an AI infrastructure for healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics
IT leaders face rising downtime costs, fragmented tools, and cultural hurdles as they strive toward AI-driven observability, new research finds. Plans to consolidate onto unified observability platforms are in the works.
Intel casting a wide net to make deals government, tech giants and others to survive
IBM Network Intelligence uses AI to gather network telemetry and agents to help with reasoning, root-cause analysis and remediation.
Altera hardware and developer tools are launched as part of the company's newly established independence.
There’s no evidence of exploitation but sysadmins will want to check their environments.
