Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Data center operators will have to provide generation capacity to match their expected power demand under new rules proposed by Ireland's electricity regulator.
FortiAnalyzer eliminates the need for additional security operations tools, Fortinet says.
Majorana 1 is the first quantum processor with a topological core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip.
New to Aryaka's SASE platform is the AI Observe tool, which can help networking professionals glean more from the deluge of network logs, telemetry and security alerts.
Investigators report that fraudsters are now modifying HDD serial numbers to further legitimize the used products as new.
A recently disclosed medium-severity bug was chained with critical, older bugs to gain root-level access to PAN firewall systems.
AI is driving an unprecedented transformation in data centers, with global data center CapEx spending projected to more than double from $430 billion in 2024 to $1.1 trillion by 2029.
PAN admins urged to block open internet access to firewall management interfaces after discovery of vulnerability.
If the Department of Justice successfully blocks the deal, customers will lose the benefits of a combined company and Cisco will preserve its controlling market share in wireless networking, insist HPE and Juniper.
The UK-based chip designer pivots to selling its own chips, securing Meta as its first major customer, and challenging long-time industry partners.
Company says a 'small number' are affected, and admins seeing the issue should ask for the hotfix.
New EX4000 series switches, driven by Juniper's Mist AI technology, are aimed at branch, remote office and campus networks.
Cisco core campus switching orders were up double digits in second quarter
The European cloud service providers’ association also warned all is not well in its drive to get Microsoft to level the software licensing playing field.
HPE ProLiant Compute Gen12 servers will feature upcoming Intel Xeon 6 processors for data center and edge environments.
Nvidia allies with Armis, Check Point Software Technologies, CrowdStrike and World Wide Technology
At Cisco Live EMEA, Cisco announced new and updated certifications for AI skilling to support the AI-enabled workforce.
The new N9300 Smart Switch series combines Cisco Silicon One chips and AMD Pensando DPUs and fuses security directly into the network fabric by integrating Cisco Hypershield services.
Among the updates to IP Fabric 7.0 are greater visibility into AWS networking environments, expanded BGP analytic capabilities, and network digital twin capabilities.
The two vendors codeveloped an AI agent that's designed to conduct real-time analysis, offer recommendations, and speed up the customer renewal process.
GPUs have overshadowed FPGAs in terms of AI use potential, but that may change with technology like DeepSeek.
Some of these drives have had their internal usage logs reset to appear as new, deceiving customers.
Justin Hotard will be based in Finland and will take up his position on April 1, 2025.
Amazon’s CEO plans to invest more than $100 billion this year, mostly in AI infrastructure — but could face challenges buying enough hardware and power.
The insecure deserialization and authorization bypass flaws could enable attackers to escalate privileges and run arbitrary commands.
New FortiGate G-series next-gen firewalls feature boosted performance and support for Fortinet's FortiAI generative AI assistant.
With the rise of attacks on edge devices enabling further incursions by attackers into enterprise networks, it’s time for everyone to step up their security game, say agencies in the Five Eyes alliance
Vendor’s speed claim is achieved through Nvidia Spectrum-X processing of large language models
The SASE market is projected to hit $17 billion worldwide by 2029, according to Dell‘Oro Group, which says that single-vendor SASE, combining SD-WAN and SSE, will dominate among enterprises.
As part of their AI threat research, Cisco security researchers share new vulnerabilities and adversarial techniques that they've seen, including an increasing number of attacks that target large language models.
When AMD finally issued patches for its critical microcode security hole on Monday, it said that the glitch 'could lead to the loss of Secure Encrypted Virtualization protection.'
President Trump wants more leading-edge chips manufactured in the US
Version 2.1 of Linux Foundation's open-source L3AF project promises seamless network management across cloud and enterprise.
Gartner analysis shows the cost of a VMware migration could outweigh the benefits when software and hardware purchases, personnel costs, early termination fees, and other operational expenses are calculated.
Transport-layer security is more effective than its predecessor SSL, and its latest version - TLS 1.3 - improves both privacy and performance.
Broadcom urges the application of patches that address pressing vulnerabilities in VMware’s cloud management tools.
Microsoft is stuck in an infrastructure investment arms race that could lead customers to ask difficult questions about costs, said analysts.
DOJ cited reduced competition in the wireless market as the biggest problem with the proposed $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The vendors say they plan to “vigorously defend the transaction in court.”
Opengear survey reveals high investment costs, regulatory compliance, and lack of skills as obstacles to successful AI implementations.
Cisco’s Outshift group envisions standards-based, shared infrastructure components that enable quantum-safe, agent-to-agent communications.
The program promises to provide realistic scenarios and practice activities while teaching tech professionals the fundamentals of artificial intelligence.
Both OpenAI and Microsoft are reportedly probing the Chinese startup to check if it accessed and used OpenAI’s technology to build its R1 reasoning large language model.
Infusing automation platforms with greater AI capabilities can help enterprises improve network troubleshooting, avoid configuration errors, and streamline workload management.
Verizon AI Connect packages look to speed AI workload deployment
While the tariffs aim to boost domestic manufacturing, they are unlikely to divert production from Asia immediately.
If the companies are found to have ‘strategic market status’ then they could face restrictions on egress fees and software licensing.
Admins are urged to scan for possible compromise.
A relatively small addition to the v6.13 Linux kernel could trim data center costs by optimizing how data is delivered to an application based on network traffic conditions.
IBM Synthetic Data Sets are designed to help with training or fine-tuning AI models quickly on IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes.
Cisco subsidiary ThousandEyes released its list of the most notable Internet outages and application issues of last year, along with recommendations to help ITOps teams improve digital resilience.
