Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
HPE’s quarterly revenue rose 16% compared to a year ago, but challenges lie ahead.
Microsoft’s expanded partnership with Veeam benefits customers and indicates a significant shift in the data resiliency market.
Goldman Sachs report finds more data centers and even more power will be needed to support growing AI demand
SolarWinds will combine Squadcast’s intelligent incident response product into SolarWinds’ observability platform.
Broadcom has patched three vulnerabilities in the VMware ESXi hypervisor and related products, with Microsoft reporting the flaws are being actively exploited to take control of host systems.
Investment from former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger raises profile of U.K.-based company.
Netskope added more data centers to expand its global SASE reach. Updated platform features include automated network diagnostics, AI-powered root cause analysis, and an expanded customer portal for viewing cloud performance.
President Donald Trump has threatened to hit semiconductor imports with a 25% tariff
Analyst calls it a step forward, but says true data sovereignty is not being guaranteed.
Palo Alto says protecting the growing range of private 5G network services can be challenging for enterprise customers
A network-as-a-service offering typically includes integrated hardware, software and licenses delivered in a subscription-based platform. NaaS providers include hardware vendors, telcos, cloud providers, muticloud vendors, and WAN-transport carriers.
The case raises concerns over AI chip smuggling, while Microsoft warns US restrictions could backfire, benefiting China.
Amazon says its Ocelot chip will cut error correction overhead by 90% and bring practical quantum computing closer to fruition, but some experts are skeptical
Big Blue’s $6.4 billion HashiCorp deal targets enterprise data center, infrastructure customers.
The F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform brings together the company’s load balancing, traffic management, security features.
Key features in StarlingX 10.0 include IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support, a unified software management framework, and a new tool for collecting data about hardware usage in the platform.
Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 featurees compact, high-density infrastructure demands
Cisco aims to help customers do more with AI, and at Cisco Live in Amsterdam, company leaders talked up its security direction, Silicon One network processors, and platform approach.
Upgrades include support for UDN custom network segmentation and integration with third-party secret management systems.
The company connects providers with excess compute capacity with those who need it, and will host its second auction beginning Mar. 3.
Nvidia will couple Cisco Silicon One technology with Nvidia SuperNICs as part of its Spectrum-X Ethernet networking platform, and Cisco will build systems that combine Nvidia Spectrum silicon with Cisco OS software.
DataStax and its open source Apache Cassandra will bolster IBM’s watsonx portfolio.
New Relic’s observability platform now integrates with ServiceNow and Google Gemini and enables AI agent to AI agent integration.
The investment signals Alibaba’s ambition to compete with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as it expands beyond its core e-commerce business.
Procuring power for a carbon-free or low-carbon data center is a complex endeavor. Forward-looking developers are collaborating with energy retailers and utilities to tailor power packages and identify sites with access to wind farms or solar arrays.
TC Cowen report indicates firm has pulled back on ‘converting negotiated and signed’ docs that are precursors to data center leases.
Mid-range Xeon 6 enterprise chips and edge SoCs aimed at memory-intensive data center workloads and more.
A data center can consume as much water as a small town, and needs are only increasing
Versa brings new competition to the growing market for sovereign SASE models, which allow customers to deploy SASE in their own on-premises or private cloud environments.
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.
