Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Record hot weather across Europe is concentrating attention on how plans for new water efficiency standards could affect datacenter cooling systems.
DOJ green-lights HPE's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper, but the settlement requires the combined company to divest HPE's Instant On wireless networking business and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software.
Record pricing and pre-booked facilities will force companies to rethink infrastructure strategies amid an AI-driven market squeeze.
Chronosphere launches advanced logging control features to help companies manage observability costs.
CISA has added CVE-2024-54085 to its known exploited vulnerabilities list as enterprises struggle with incomplete vendor patches.
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage Product line includes new services, platforms, and validated profiles designed to drive AI ROI
Collaboration makes access to advanced AI and HPC resources more affordable.
NAND flash SSDs are used to provide GPUs with extra memory.
Qunnect’s quantum networking products have a standard server rack form factor and are designed to operate at room temperature and over existing telecommunications fiber.
At its Discover conference it also unveils new AI factories, and new plans to help pay for it all.
Broadcom's EMEA CTO defends the new VMware license packages: Those who get more out of VMware Cloud Foundation also recognize the added value.
Study shows emerging server CPU connectivity service will see $3.4 billion growth by 2028.
The renamed Mplify Alliance has multiple efforts underway for carrier Ethernet, SASE, lifecycle services orchestration, and NaaS, as well as an emerging set of initiatives for AI.
Aimed at high-data-rate AI networks, the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 network interface card is the first NIC compliant with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium 1.0 specification.
Intel is reportedly planning to lay off 20% of its factory workers amid faltering demand for its core products.
Broadcom delivers VCF 9.0, designed to simplify private cloud operations across data centers, edge environments, and managed infrastructures.
A new KAIST roadmap reveals HBM8-powered GPUs could consume more than 15kW per module by 2035, pushing current infrastructure, cooling systems, and power grids to breaking point.
Built on eBPF technology, the Isovalent Load Balancer is designed to run in any environment, from servers and virtual machines in the data center, to the public cloud, to Kubernetes containers.
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.
Invalid quota update triggered cascading failures across core infrastructure; services now restored, but questions remain over resilience.
The MI355X accelerator delivers up to 40% higher token-per-dollar efficiency compared to rivals, AMD claims.
Oracle knew that a massive wave of orders was coming, but they refused to build out infrastructure until contracts were signed. They faced an impossible choice: Insufficient capacity or excess capacity.
AMD had a strong showing, with its processors and coprocessors powering the No. 1 and No. 2 most powerful supercomputers in the world.
Naas startup Meter built its own hardware, software and protocols.
Cisco's Deep Network Model relies on telemetry data from ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, and NetFlow; AI Canvas troubleshoots network issues with real-time dashboards that guide corrective actions.
The 2025 edition of Cisco Live delivered a hefty payload of AI-related infrastructure innovations.
Cisco adds to its mesh firewall portfolio, bolsters security support with partner Nvidia, and extends Splunk integrations.
As SK hynix leads and Samsung lags, Micron positions itself as a strong contender in the high-bandwidth memory market for generative AI.
The Kyndryl service is based on the AWS Transform package that uses agentic AI system to modernize mainframe workloads.
Nexus data center management software, campus Smart Switches, and integrated branch routers will debut at Cisco Live in San Diego.
Analysts suggest that the company may be downplaying its hardware to avoid additional US restrictions.
IBM announced an error correction breakthrough that will lead to a large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029.
The two-time No. 1 system maintains its title ahead of Frontier and Aurora in the latest TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
The purchase will help Qualcomm pair its processors with high-speed connectivity and compute technologies to support ever more sophisticated AI applications.
The reprogrammable processor has found its niches, and that includes a place in AI.
The state of cloud security has reached a critical tipping point, as attackers increasingly turn attention to cloud environments that enterprises aren’t doing enough to secure.
The reduction in prices could help AWS compete with rivals as demand for GPUs and cost of securing them continues to grow.
The earnings reflect a continued upward trend since Broadcom purchased the cloud computing and virtualization company, but increased prices may drive some customers elsewhere.
Known as a networking hardware vendor for consumers, Netgear is increasingly focused on delivering enterprise-grade security solutions for SMEs.
The latest four-hour outage locked out global users and disrupted critical IBM Cloud functions.
Brium addresses a key gap in enterprise AI deployment — reliance on CUDA-optimized toolchains.
Gartner details the key capabilities that SSE offerings should include to protect access to data, applications, and the internet.
LiquidStack’s new Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) cooling system can handle an entire AI data center.
The Tomahawk 6 doubles the bandwidth of its predecessor from 51.2 Terabits per second to a staggering 102.4 Tbps.
The CN5000 platform from Cornelis Networks is engineered to tackle compute underutilization and alleviate bottlenecks in AI and HPC workloads.
Data center power requirements will change designs, industry workforce engineering requirements, according to Dell’Oro Group
Security experts call vulnerability a 'textbook case' of dangerous coding practices; Cisco issues urgent patch.
Login failures, IAM issues, and control plane disruptions rendered IBM Cloud services inaccessible for hours across regions.
F5 is adding Fletch's threat intelligence and analytical data agents to its Application Delivery and Security Platform.
HPE expands its flagship and entry-level Nonstop Compute fault-tolerant servers.
