Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Security improvements and confidential computing enhancements are also part of OpenStack 2025.2, known as Flamingo.
Netgear is embedding firewall software gained in its acquisition of Exium into its router platform to eliminate the need for separate firewall appliances or virtual machines at branch locations.
A new browser extension brings Cato Networks' zero-trust policies and enforcement capabilities to unmanaged and BYOD devices.
Newly launched MCP server provides structured, high-level access and orchestration capabilities, while Alkira’s NIA copilot guides network administrators through configuration and troubleshooting.
Zayo DynamicLink combines network ownership with software-defined delivery.
With services offline for a week, the incident may reshape safety standards, insurance premiums, and infrastructure design, forcing enterprises to balance efficiency with resilience and regulatory compliance.
HighPoint’s Rocket 7638D PCIe 5.0 switch card exploits Nvidia's GPUDirect interconnection to communicate with storage, bypassing CPU
Researchers uncover problems with firmware validation checks and Root of Trust.
Attackers have already exploited the SNMP vulnerability to execute remote code or deny service.
Equinix rolls out fabric intelligence for real-time awareness and automation for AI and multicloud workloads.
Cisco software includes a compiler that enables quantum workloads to run in distributed environments, including multivendor quantum compute nodes.
New features unveiled at Pure//Accelerate promise easier cloud migration, smarter Kubernetes ops, and built-in threat detection, helping CIOs manage data sprawl and AI risk across hybrid environments.
Two systems are better than one, say vendors. But what about vendor lock-in?
The microfluidic cooling system tested by Microsoft promises up to 3x better heat removal than cold plates, improved power usage, and reduced operational costs.
Investment in AI continues to grow, but just one in 10 AI projects is fully deployed.
Nvidia will invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI, and OpenAI will build and deploy at least 10 gigawatts of AI data centers with Nvidia systems.
Australia's telecommunications regulator is investigating an outage at Optus after an upgrade went wrong and network monitoring failed to spot the problem.
Nvidia's $5 billion Intel investment will have long-term implications for enterprise data center and networking products.
Nvidia intends to combine Enfabrica’s tech stack with its own hardware and software to offer more efficient training clusters for more powerful frontier models, analysts say.
Upscale aims to challenge Nvidia's dominance in AI networking infrastructure with an open solution that builds on SONiC and other standards-based initiatives.
LogicMonitor, Honeycomb separately update observability offerings with AI tools to reduce alert fatigue and speed developer processes.
The impact for enterprises in terms of chip availability, pricing and functionality is unclear, but it all-but kills worries about Intel’s near-term viability.
Once it gets rolling, the AI avalanche is unstoppable. In 2026, global AI spending is forecast to top $2 trillion, according to Gartner.
buzzword bingo, user errors top irritating problems IT pros face list, according to SolarWinds study
Power availability and infrastructure delivery timelines are making it extremely difficult for data center inventory to keep up with demand.
Analysts say enterprises may face higher GPU costs and delivery delays by late 2025 as Nvidia absorbs potential revenue losses.
Arista executives discuss liquid-cooled networking gear and support for Linear Pluggable Optics to achieve power and cost optimization for AI data centers.
The growing AI Processor market has seen over $13.5 billion in start-up funding, but rapid consolidation is expected in coming years
CalypsoAI’s platform to provide real-time threat defense against attacks and data security guardrails to help enterprises securely deploy artificial intelligence and generative AI.
Google's new Data Transfer Essentials is designed to enable enterprises to transfer data between clouds at no cost for supported Google services, aligning with the EU Data Act and aiming to reduce vendor lock-in.
Nebius deal promises to deliver additional resources to Azure customers.
Splunk’s agentic AI empowers security and IT teams with intelligent automation, proactive threat response, and real-time observability.
AI adoption is accelerating among mainframe users, and it’s spurring increased usage of the big iron platform, according to Kyndryl’s annual State of Mainframe Modernization Survey.
Cadence brings Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems to enterprise digital twin package
Nvidia’s Rubin CPX chip combines Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs and is aimed at massive-context processing
Broadcom makes modest technological changes, drops partners and customers, raises prices, and reaps the rewards of a record fiscal quarter.
Broadcom is expanding VMware Cloud Foundation to include on-prem AI capabilities, but the free bundling doesn’t move the needle forward on AI technology.
The Cisco Data Fabric and Splunk Federated Search for Snowflake will enable enterprises to unify, analyze, and gain insights from distributed business and machine data.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan says private clouds offers a superior user experience over public clouds.
Prisma SASE 4.0 defends against sophisticated, browser-based web threats
The role of load balancing is growing in the genAI era.
Microsoft confirms rerouting delays after subsea cable faults; experts warn of rising costs, fragile connectivity, and urgent need for resilience planning.
Weave Network Topology Agent from Articul8 ingests network logs, configuration files, and traffic data and transforms it into semantic knowledge graphs.
Google update addresses a critical security and connectivity gap for organizations in highly regulated industries.
Cisco says the integrated package will enable fast data extraction and retrieval to unlock agentic AI use cases for enterprises.
Cato will integrate Aim's AI security capabilities into its SASE platform to give enterprise IT teams tighter controls over AI interactions, including agent workflows and model development.
Large-scale AI workloads, with their high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements, are reshaping data center network architecture, Nvidia says.
SAP Sovereign Cloud On-Site “delivers the highest levels of data, operational, technical, and legal sovereignty.”
Researchers at the Chinese cloud giant have published details of their networking software optimizations.
UK startup Quinas looks to solve memory problem Intel, others have not
