Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
ProLiant Gen 13 portfolio includes four new high-core-density models for running heavy enterprise workloads.
The capacity ramp could improve AI compute availability, but supply chain constraints are likely to keep capacity tight and prices elevated through much of 2027.
Cisco shared details about its prototype Quantum Network Controller along with an updated release of its Network-Aware Quantum Compiler for networking distributed quantum environments.
Google’s unified modernization portfolio could simplify decision-making for CIOs and reduce handoffs across complex transformation programs, analysts say.
Zella DC platform brings computing capacity to locations where conventional infrastructure is hard to deploy.
AWS says its Well-Architected Agent can speed up cloud optimization, especially as agentic deployments scale, but analysts warn that its performance will depend on context.
Recent networking enhancements—including 100G Ethernet and integrated RoCE/RDMA networking—continue to advance IBM’s goal of delivering higher bandwidth, lower latency, greater simplification, and stronger integration of the IBM Z mainframe across hy
A new player in the DRAM space could help alleviate current memory constraints.
Doxx.net takes its plans for Agentic Defined Networking live with $38M backing.
Big Blue says its agent can now offer more help in heavily regulated environments.
Bring on more robots and self-driving cars to help the tech firms make money.
At its Networking Investor Day, HPE shared positive growth projections for its networking businesses, including data center, campus and branch segments.
CoreWeave says Nvidia Vera support targets agentic AI workloads
For most of the AI boom, everyone has agreed that security matters, yet few have led with a security-first approach. The conversation has centered on tokens, gigawatts, GPUs, and other infrastructure.
Micron says most of next year’s supply is already committed, and market trackers see prices rising into 2027.
Attackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to access its API as an administrator.
One-size-fits-all design will support most current and future AI hardware designs.
Apple already operates specialized servers for its Private Cloud Compute system, but scaling that infrastructure could create bandwidth, cost, and performance challenges.
OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus, hardens DNS and compute while AI reshapes the security workload.
World Labs will add spatial AI to AMD’s software and compute stack, narrowing Nvidia’s lead a little.
Citrix published patches for two critical flaws and six lesser ones on Sunday; “Monday will be too late” to patch, said one expert.
Google is sending the first batch of its AI chips to space next week on a SpaceX rocket to see how the TPUs handle the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and temperature extremes of space.
The gaming GPU from Nvidia is almost on par with its data center GPU, with one glaring difference: onboard memory.
Petal will have twice the capacity of any other undersea cable yet built or planned.
IP Fabric builds a read-only digital twin of enterprise network infrastructure, and version 8.1 of the platform adds application infrastructure mapping and a redesigned cloud-native data model.
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw that exposes the SD-WAN management system and edge devices it controls, while fixes for some affected versions remain pending.
The critical remote code execution vulnerability was added to CISA’s KEV, with more than 15,000 deployments potentially at risk.
New Selector Foundry runtime environment lets network operations teams build, test, version, and govern their own AI agents inside the company's NetOps platform.
Cisco survey of 1,000 IT pros shows unsustainable growth in network complexity and alerts, leading to a willingness to let agentic AI tools take actions on their own.
The Buffalo Bills eliminated fragmented legacy systems, streamlined IT operations, and transformed the game-day fan experience at Highmark Stadium.
New hardware and deployment tiers are designed to streamline enterprise modernization projects.
At least 45 US data center projects worth an estimated $68 billion were blocked or delayed in the second quarter, as communities increasingly push back on power, water, and land demands; analysts say enterprises need a different approach.
Huawei’s next AI chip will arrive nine months early as it focuses on connectivity and clustering in its bid to outdo Nvidia.
NEC has abandoned development of a quantum computer, citing the level of investment needed and the long time to profitability.
As well, says a report from BAN, much of that hardware is being retired prematurely.
Under active exploitation, the 10.0 Identity Services Engine vulnerability can give attackers root privileges without authentication.
Riverbed’s NPM 360 combines agentic AI with packet, flow, and endpoint data to help enterprises speed troubleshooting in complex network environments.
Axelera's betting enterprises don't need Google-scale power bills to run serious AI—just a smarter chip that fits the servers they already own.
ECCO condemns VMware licensing changes and the shutdown of its main reseller program; SAP fares slightly better.
‘A root-level, unauthenticated RCE in an email gateway is about as good a foothold as an attacker gets.’
New Splunk capabilities let enterprises run AI in self-managed environments while monitoring agent behavior, controlling token costs, and correlating network and application data.
Newly announced Network Intelligence App for Splunk Observability brings Cisco network topology, device health, and event data into Splunk so engineers can trace an alert to an affected device without leaving the platform.
Cornelis takes aim at AI bottlenecks with programmable network fabric.
We've tracked the Broadcom-VMware saga since the deal was announced. Here’s what you need to know about VMware's products, services and support changes since its acquisition by Broadcom.
New chips from Arm are specifically designed for agentic AI.
An SDK useful to enterprises rolling their own tools for migrating off VMware is now only available to Broadcom’s top partners.
The two companies hope to (help you) gain insight into your supply chain too.
1.6T networking advances on Ethernet and data center interconnect fronts.
The deal gives MediaTek access to Nvidia's data center infrastructure.
MikroTrick chains together two of six patched vulnerabilities to obtain root privileges on MikroTik devices with SSH exposed to the internet, of which they are more than 120,000.
