Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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
What IT leaders need to know about expanding responsibilities, new titles and hot skills for network professionals and I&O teams.
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.
ISC2 is developing a new AI security certification to help enterprises address emerging AI threats, governance challenges, and cybersecurity skills gaps.
AI-RAN is Nokia’s bid to turn the RAN into an AI computer — and a new revenue engine for mobile operators.
Updates to the open-source Linux network configuration tool suite are aimed at advancing IPv6-only support, Wi‑Fi management, and security.
Google’s custom AI chips are beginning to evolve from a cloud-only capability into a commercial hardware business, executives said during its quarterly earnings call.
A split-second race inside the Linux kernel was all it took to turn a routine filesystem copy-on-write operation into a serious privilege escalation.
The federal government awarded $125 million to quantum computer maker PsiQuantum this week, along with a new $5 billion commitment to cutting-edge technologies including quantum.
AI infrastructure buying shift among customers impacted z17 performance in Q2, but the Big Iron remains a critical AI platform, IBM says.
AI and agents are driving unprecedented computing demands, and Google is looking at the future to keep its data centers ready.
Amid the rise of AI agents and agentic use cases, Google is readying new silicon to support middleware changes and making network and storage improvements to cut training and inference time.
Base Database Cloud@Customer could help regulated enterprises modernize databases and deploy AI closer to sensitive data, although its appeal is likely to remain strongest among existing Oracle customers, analysts say.
Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet platform includes Ethernet switches, Spectrum-X SuperNICs, BlueField DPUs and more.
Arista’s new Edge Threat Management (ETM) for VeloCloud SD-WAN is designed to bring integrated security to branch offices and allow enterprises to replace multiple point products with a single, AI-driven edge platform.
With a full rack-scale design and an early Microsoft deployment, AMD is seeking to establish itself as a credible alternative to Nvidia for AI computing.
The convenience store's StorMagic rollout is being done remotely and without requiring a hardware upgrade.
Observability vendors are racing to build AI-powered operations hubs. Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant for observability platforms highlights the need for AI visibility, telemetry, and cost-management capabilities.
New York has paused issuance of new hyperscale data center permits while it develops new rules around energy, environmental impact, and community investment.
Huawei faces the challenge of being a startup in a new business as well as US government pushback
IBM aims to bolster infrastructure rollouts with autonomous, AI-assisted portfolio.
A faulty network configuration update disrupted inter-zone connectivity across three regions, temporarily disrupting VMware Engine stretched clusters.
Fortinet wants to better manage AI risk with FortiEndpoint platform enhancements.
AI is reshaping cybersecurity roles, with IT professionals spending more time validating outputs, managing risk, and overseeing AI decisions.
