Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Cisco's record-breaking results confirm that networking is at the heart of the AI wave. For IT leaders, AI success depends on making the right investments in silicon programmability, campus Wi-Fi 7, PQC compliance, and AI-driven management.
AI-related hardware and software are driving growth across Cisco's product portfolio.
Data centers are expanding into fresh locations, but power limits, land obtainability and public pushback are growing challenges.
Cisco's ThousandEyes division tracks global internet and cloud traffic and provides Network World with weekly updates on the performance of ISPs, cloud service providers, and UCaaS providers.
Here’s what you need to know about the AI and processor giant’s latest product and company news.
Planned OCI service will provide cloud-based access to Quantinuum’s Helios system, integrating quantum computing with AI and HPC environments.
The partnership with a half-dozen major finance firms wants to make AI chip financing easier, but its impact for enterprise IT operations is tricky to predict.
IBM and Together AI have signed $240 million deal to run an Nvidia-powered AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud.
Rising component costs are forcing the European cloud operator to increase bare metal and public cloud prices for new and existing customers.
Hyperscalers are driving equipment shortages across the board, with no relief in sight this year. But analysts, VARs, and vendors have advice on how to keep AI and other projects moving even if you have to wait for the gear you really want.
Today, the Tor network's biggest threat is centralization, not surveillance, says cofounder Roger Dingledine.
Alongside the disclosure, runZero released OOBscan, an open-source tool that scans for vulnerable BMCs and other out-of-band management devices.
Samsung says AI infrastructure requirements will force memory architecture to be reimagined
More heat would not be welcomed by Poles suffering a record-breaking heatwave.
AMD is betting enterprises will embrace the chips, made to run a single AI model at lower cost, but analysts say the technology’s lack of flexibility means it is only suited to mature, high-volume workloads.
Microsoft Azure and University of Texas researchers found that multi-step AI workflows create CPU-GPU bottlenecks that conventional inference infrastructure struggles to handle efficiently.
NatJack attack class exposes design flaw across decades of network infrastructure.
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The feature explains complex pricing structures and could accelerate procurement by helping CIOs defend AI purchases to CFOs and boards.
Arista sees networking as the central nervous system for infrastructure, from the client to campus to AI data centers.
AI models are finding thousands of zero-day flaws in minutes, forcing defenders to adopt automated, real-time virtual patching to stay ahead of machine-speed exploits.
Availability and price are critical concerns, but IT must first decide how seriously to take the cybersecurity risks: consultants are divided.
Nvidia is open-sourcing its cuFile APIs and putting its weight behind the Storage-Next initiative.
New specs from the LoRa Alliance are aimed at cutting manual work from low-power network onboarding and reducing coverage gaps in hard-to-reach locations.
Numerous jurisdictions around the world already have moratoriums in place on data center construction, while power and other constraints are delaying even more projects. Will this stall the AI boom?
Cisco extols AI's potential to deliver new applications, improve performance, bolster security, and manage complexity.
Nvidia wants to sell hardware, and if neoclouds can't afford it, it's going to help fund them.
AMD’s Instinct MI455X will power AMD's Helios rackscale platform.
The new AI-powered SASE capability predicts attack paths using network and security telemetry and automatically deploys protections against AI-assisted cyberattacks.
New to Groundcover's observability platform is Agent Mode, a built-in AI assistant that helps engineers troubleshoot problems in logs and traces without writing queries by hand.
Among 120 million newly registered domains, more than 22% were weaponized or showed threat characteristics, according to Infoblox's 2026 Threat Landscape Report.
Just as the web is replacing newspapers, so data centers could replace their printing presses, taking over large buildings with existing grid connections close to urban centers.
Three of the five security issues are critical.
The company plans to combine chat, agents and business workflows into a single AI workspace while separating memory, context and orchestration from any one foundation model.
Companies are allocating a larger share of IT workloads to colocation and cloud providers (46%) than to enterprise-owned data centers (44%), Uptime Institute finds. Data center owners and operators are grappling with AI-driven capacity planning chall
A new guide from CISA and allied cybersecurity agencies says organizations should build dedicated isolation points into operational technology to contain attacks and continue delivering essential services.
Dell PowerStore on Nutanix Cloud Platform: Integrated offering targets enterprises looking to modernize their virtualization infrastructure.
The financial toll of AI-powered breaches is significant. It adds an average of $1 million in costs per breach, as attackers use AI tools to increase speed, scale, and precision, IBM reports.
As compute moves closer to the user and the edge becomes the epicenter of business innovation, physical and cloud security must converge.
Facilities lacking independent power sources would face curtailment under a proposal aimed at preserving grid reliability across 13 states and Washington, D.C.
Lava researchers found more than 36,000 internet-exposed baseboard management controllers vulnerable to a 13-year-old IPMI flaw, giving attackers a path beneath the operating system.
The vendor said that the problematic VeloCloud Orchestrator functionality was ‘intended to be for internal use only.’ Analysts stress that intent is not enough.
New FortiGate 1200G series with FortiSASE Outpost brings threat protection and cloud-delivered SASE to on-premises environments.
Following its acquisition of DigiCert's DDoS and WAF services, Netscout is boosting its Arbor Cloud DDoS mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps.
Currence report finds electricity demand, construction bottlenecks, public perception is slowing data center growth
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The joint architecture combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo hardware and a variety of Cisco technologies, including AI Defense for model and agent security, DefenseClaw for security policy enforcement, and Cisco Cloud Control to unify policy and control.
Cloudflare Internal DNS consolidates public DNS and private DNS onto one control plane, one API, and one audit trail. There’s a single policy engine for every DNS query, whether it is for a public website or an internal application.
The French IT services company’s new platform is the latest attempt to restore company to financial health.
Azure and other Microsoft cloud services were disrupted for five hours when IP routes were accidentally removed from networking equipment.
