Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Researcher at DEF CON reveals some critical challenges in widely used SSH protocol and provider recommendations on how to make it better.
The RTX Pro 4000 SFF and RTX Pro 2000 deliver Blackwell-based AI acceleration, advanced ray tracing, and improved energy efficiency.
The latest two-hour disruption affects 27 services globally, prompting experts to question the resilience of the control plane in enterprise hybrid cloud strategies.
SoftBank’s CFO confirms delays in the Stargate AI initiative, exposing the critical role of land, energy, and stakeholder orchestration in scaling AI infrastructure.
Small-form-factor network security appliances are aimed at SMBs with IoT devices, medical equipment, and other local IT devices that need protection.
At Black Hat 2025, HPE showcases new data protection capabilities, SASE copilot, and a unified portfolio following its Juniper Networks acquisition.
Anticipated benefits of the collaboration between Cisco Foundation AI and Hugging Face include more rigorous model vetting, early detection of vulnerabilities, and shared threat intelligence.
Riverbed continues to expand from its network acceleration origins to AI-powered network observability.
Jericho4 joins Tomahawk Ultra and Tomahawk 6 to offer scalable, secure, and lossless interconnects for HPC and distributed AI environments.
The Infoblox Threat Defense platform analyzes DNS traffic to detect and stop malware, phishing, and ransomware.
Storage.AI focuses on data-handling efficiency after packets reach their destinations. Founding members include AMD, Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, NetApp, and Pure Storage.
State media publishes scathing ‘How can I trust you?’ commentary as Beijing escalates pressure over alleged vulnerabilities.
The colocation space crisis is worsening, forcing enterprise tenants to deal with rising lease costs and wait times that can stretch to several months and even years for data center capacity.
Four national labs will be the site of future energy technology development.
Many enterprises are avoiding complete infrastructure replacements in favor of phased SD-WAN transitions, ISG reports.
Two platforms dominate the UK market to the detriment of customers. But what will the CMA do about it?
Data center operators embrace AI for efficiency and productivity gains but remain wary of handing over critical controls, Uptime Institute finds.
The observability platform provider will continue investments in product development, AI innovation, and global hiring.
The cybersecurity giant is finally ready to tackle the identity management space it has long avoided, and it's willing to pay big.
Micron’s 9650 SSD is designed to deliver performance gain, better energy efficiency, and support future AI infrastructure.
AI oversight is lacking, and attackers are exploiting weak access controls, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2025. On the flip side, security teams that use AI and automation extensively are reducing the cost and duration of breaches.
IT teams don’t feel well-prepared to take on core challenges such as AI, cybersecurity, and hybrid workforces, according to SolarWinds' 2025 IT Trends Report.
Backblaze brings new anomaly alerts, enterprise web console, and role-based access controls
Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now.
FluidCloud translates infrastructure between cloud dialects in minutes, not months. A key focus for the startup is helping VMware users migrate to other cloud platforms.
Under the Linux Foundation, vendors including Cisco, Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat will collaboratively develop the open-source AI agent management platform.
While Nvidia’s GB200 significantly outperforms Huawei CloudMatrix 384 at the chip level, Huawei gains an advantage at the system level by integrating five to six times more compute and HBM chips.
FuriosaAI touts its chips’ energy efficiency for enterprise inferencing, LLM development
The big takeaway from this year's Linux Foundation tech talent report is that despite fears of layoffs, jobs are being created, with particular growth in jobs requiring AI. In addition, there are still significant talent shortages in cybersecurity, c
New research released on SysAdmin Day shows rising AI adoption, but it also reveals where sysadmins remain skeptical of the technology.
Ambitious plans are being scaled back as the project struggles to find partners.
Survey finds unexpected cloud costs, customization needs and more driving on-premises computing.
Cloud infrastructure group claims European regulator ‘under-estimated risk of the deal.’
The revamped certification reflects expanded know-how with AI, automation, cybersecurity, and DevOps.
Enterprise SSD technology breakthroughs mean record capacity capabilities
Customers without active support contracts are being denied critical security updates, raising enterprise risk amid active exploits and legal scrutiny.
The investment in NetBrain will accelerate innovation and scale its AI-powered platform that automates network operations.
Rapid changes in hardware, tariffs and other detriments might slow data center development
Former Cisco executive Pankaj Patel wants to eliminate the complexity of enterprise networking with NaaS startup Nile, which offers a zero-trust network that streamlines management and operates on a pay-as-you-go model.
IBM z/OS 3.2 will be the cornerstone of the z17 mainframe and includes support for the Big Iron's new AI acceleration technologies.
Following criticism of the company’s use of Chinese workers to advise on operation of Department of Defense cloud systems, Microsoft has changed its policy.
Alphabet, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft are asked to disclose cable ownership, partners, and security measures.
The airline confirmed that the failure of a third-party piece of hardware grounded flights, underscoring the fact that even systems that are multiply-redundant can go down.
The shift to a 3-year cadence and longer support for VCF 9.0 reflects mounting pressure from enterprises grappling with Broadcom’s licensing overhaul and upgrade fatigue.
Kyndryl rolls out its Agentic AI Framework, an orchestration platform designed to manage agents.
Cisco's 400G BiDi technology lets customers upgrade to higher throughput without ripping out existing fiber, paving the way for future optical network modernizations.
Powered by Intel Xeon 6 P-Cores, the new modular platform targets AI, HPC, and in-memory workloads, marking Supermicro’s most critical launch since its recent governance setbacks.
The two vendors are the latest to acknowledge the necessity of liquid cooling in the AI era
Conventional Ethernet switches optimize for maximum throughput, but Broadcom's new Tomahawk Ultra data center networking chip prioritizes ultra low latency.
F5's new AI Assistant and iRules code generation service are designed to help automate enterprise operations and simplify application and security management.
