Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Dell enhancements cover server, storage and data protection portfolios
The 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index tracks new and existing trends and attack patterns, including a spike in lower-profile credential theft and overall decline in ransomware attacks on enterprises.
A free version of the ESXi hypervisor is available, but Broadcom notes the entry-level VMware hypervisor is for non-production use.
CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale.
Kyndryl’s AI Private Cloud includes managed services and consulting options aimed at streamlining the design, deployment and management of production-ready AI workloads .
In deal with Silver Lake, Altera will continue offering field-programmable gate array products
The SASE provider adds generative AI security controls to its Cloud Access Security Broker application to track the use of genAI.
Emergency patches for Active Directory (AD) Group Policy clear up potentially confusing reports around auditing.
But analyst shoots down claim the move will lead to creation of hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
Apps and services running on the domain controller could become inaccessible or fail unless admins execute the workaround.
The suite of tools is designed to identify weak links that degrade the performance of AI data centers.
Startup Groundcover joined the crowded observability market with a few differentiators: eBPF-enabled visibility into application stacks, an architecture that keeps data in the customer's environment, and a node-based rather than volume-based pricing
The change in pricing applies to any region where the service is available.
AI, cybersecurity, and the workplace of the future are key areas of focus for Cisco.
Arm has introduced a series of developer tools and services designed to support rapid migration of x86 apps to Arm architecture
New products showcase the integration of Infoblox’s Universal DDI and Google WAN Cloud to address challenges in hybrid, multi-cloud networking cloud and cybersecurity.
The 12.1 release of NetBrain's network automation platform incorporates more powerful AI capabilities for network discovery, post-mortem outage assessments, and autonomous troubleshooting.
As hyperscalers adopt different approaches to expansion, enterprise IT leaders face new considerations for their AI deployments.
Integration between Cisco SD-WAN and Google Cloud WAN will offer enterprises simplified network management, optimal performance, and greater agility, the vendors say.
Fortinet added FortiAI support to its core Security Fabric platform to strengthen protection from threats and simplify network and security operations.
Tailscale uses the open-source WireGuard VPN protocol, which offers security and performance advantages over legacy VPN solutions.
The multivendor UALink Consortium has defined its first low-latency, accelerator‐to‐accelerator communication specification, UALink 200G 1.0.
The new chip is designed to run LLMs that support reasoning, which typically require more compute to generate each response.
IT leaders should not expect favorable pricing negotiations any time soon, says one analyst.
HPE Aruba Networking Central is now available via a virtual private cloud (VPC) environment and an on-premises offering.
Outfitted with the Telum II processor and Spyre accelerator, the IBM z17 bolsters response times, throughput, observability, and security with AI workloads in mind.
New observability modules for Riverbed's unified agent can provide a comprehensive view of IT infrastructure components.
New export curbs on critical minerals may increase hardware costs and delay next-gen infrastructure deployment.
The new AI feature in the PGA Tour's Tourcast platform brings every golf shot to life with real-time context and insights, enabling more players to get meaningful coverage instead of just those at the top of the leaderboard. What can IT teams learn f
Enterprises that aren't trying to learn about autonomous AI agents and their potential to transform network operations centers are going to be left behind, warns Kristopher Beevers, CEO of NetBox Labs.
The time is now to create cryptography polices and plan for a transition to post-quantum encryption.
Admins need to change default credentials promptly on Juniper SSR, patch Cisco SLU, warns SANS Institute.
Chinese APT group UNC5221 appears to have studied a recent Ivanti Connect Secure patch to develop a remote code execution exploit on previous versions, and on end-of-support Pulse Connect Secure appliances.
Intel CEO Tan has a vision; non-core products could be on the chopping block, but details are needed
In celebration of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, let’s take a look back at Microsoft’s initial public stock offering 39 years ago.
Enterprise IT leaders are trying to figure out if they should plan data centers outside of the US, but the changing nature of global tariffs is making that into a no-win dilemma.
Logik.ai’s CPQ technology will expand ServiceNow’s CRM portfolio and complement its service management solutions.
Mechanical Orchard's Imogen platform uses generative AI to recreate mainframe operations as a digital twin in the cloud.
New eAPM capability increases IT productivity and application uptime by discovering and monitoring apps running on Kubernetes clusters.
The improved benchmarks will help enterprises select hardware for AI workloads, but are still no substitute for measuring real-world performance.
Nvidia may have to make other customers wait if it wants to fulfill a reported $16 billion in outstanding orders from Chinese customers for its H20 chips before a possible US government ban on sale of them to China takes effect.
IBM is making Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerators available on IBM Cloud to help customers scale gen AI workloads and optimize performance for AI inferencing and fine-tuning.
Updates to Splunk’s observability platform help organizations identify monitoring gaps and gain visibility across complex cloud environments.
Its GB200 NVL72 system delivered up to 30 times higher throughput on the Llama 3.1 405B workload compared to firm’s H200 NVL8, Nvidia said.
NetBox Assurance automates the process of detecting and remediating unplanned changes and errors to prevent configuration drift.
SolarWinds delivers Squadcast Incident Response following its recent acquisition and updates its observability platform.
Network automation, security, and predictive maintenance are the top AI applications, according to LF Networking's global survey on the state of open networking.
CISPE's cloud investment is intended to give businesses a Euro choice that is "immune to disruption, access and potential removal by foreign actors.”
AMD says its ZT acquisition will further the combination of AMD CPU, GPU and networking silicon, and its deal with Rapt will bolster AI inference and training applications.
Cisco’s Outshift team is developing JARVIS to help enterprises deal with the challenges of complex Kubernetes environments and cloud-native workloads.
