Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
After a relatively sluggish year, multiple segments of the switch and router networking markets are due for a solid year of growth. Data center switches, in particular, are set for an AI-driven climb.
As AI, SASE, and SD-WAN technologies mature, enterprise customers can expect more secure application experiences, optimized connectivity, and improved troubleshooting.
The company plans to spend up to $65 billion on infrastructure for AI in 2025, and is planning a data center with a footprint almost as large as Manhattan.
Data center power demand is spurred by AI and other high-performance computing needs, researchers say.
This comes after stolen configuration data and passwords from a two-year old hack were leaked last week.
AMD has confirmed an unpatched “processor vulnerability” that may require CISOs to isolate their systems or even air gap them until there’s a fix.
Security researchers have uncovered known firmware flaws in three Palo Alto enterprise firewall devices built on commodity hardware.
Wi-Fi 7 performs significantly better than Wi-Fi 6E, but enterprise adoption estimates so far are modest.
Cisco’s Chuck Robbins said the vendor is seeing early AI applications in the healthcare and manufacturing industries.
The once undisputed king of the chip market is on its knees. Here’s what it needs to do to get back on its feet.
Sysdig extends open-source Wireshark from the local network to the cloud with Stratoshark, a tool for cloud system debugging.
The project is designed to keep the US ahead of competing nations, such as China, in AI.
Uptime Institute predicts the data center industry in 2025 will face pressure over resource consumption, grid integration challenges, and AI infrastructure requirements.
The Biden export limits, enacted during his last days in office, may drive data center construction to US allies while forcing China and Russia to develop their own AI chips.
Red Hat's new Connectivity Link is aimed at bridging the multi-cloud management gap.
Major tech firms may have to remain dependent on Taiwan-based plants, increasing their exposure to geopolitical risks.
Expect to hear more about AI's influence on networking in the coming year, evidenced through M&A activity, increasingly fast Ethernet switches, the maturation of AIOps, and the continued rise of single-vendor SASE.
With shared cloud dominating 62% of total spending, AI-driven infrastructure investments are redefining enterprise strategies globally.
Oracle Exadata servers are designed for cloud and data centers oriented around transaction processing
The acquisition can be seen as part of Lenovo’s strategy to support more AI workloads.
Trump will cancel out any initiative for commercializing and deploying clean energy as soon as he takes office: Analyst.
Hughes survey shows SASE challenges including supporting VPNs, protecting SaaS applications, the distributed workforce, and more.
Nile’s NaaS offering, Nile Access Service, lets customers set up and manage campus network operations.
Enterprise wireless deployments are facing a significant inflection point, according to a new industry roadmap
Qualcomm is once again looking to make a data center server processor
Cisco’s AI Defense package protects enterprise customers developing AI applications.
Ericsson’s generative AI-based NetCloud Assistant promises to simplify 5G wireless network administration.
More bandwidth as Ethernet accelerates beyond 1 Terabit, better optical connections, and optimization for AI and HPC workloads are on the way.
The massive contract to power AI applications on the social media platform marks a significant win for HPE amid fierce industry competition.
Aruba’s retail-ready networking portfolio includes a new Cellular Bridge, compact Ethernet switch, wireless access points, and IoT-focused analytics.
AI optimization startup Neural Magic created software that makes it possible for AI inference models to run efficiently on commodity CPU-based hardware.
AI sustainability, democratization will be hot topics in new year, experts predict.
High-tech deal will fund construction of multiple data centers across the country.
Once known for its gaming cards, the GPU giant with a commanding hold on the AI chip market dominated 2024.
CompTIA PenTest+ certification provides professionals with intermediate-level cybersecurity know-how to better secure environments.
The new data centers are likely to be used to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications.
Cisco needs to complete its corporate restructuring goals, strengthen its platform approach to networking and security, and capitalize on AI-driven data center opportunities.
Nvidia offers customers pre-built templates that can simplify AI development
Oracle says its new Exadata database compute platform will run generative AI workloads faster for the same price as the old version.
The company says its Smart Retimer SoC can maintain signal strength through thin wiring and reduced power.
ThousandEyes tracks internet and cloud traffic and provides Network World with weekly updates on the performance of ISPs, cloud service providers, and UCaaS providers.
More than half of these data centers are expected to be built in the US, Microsoft President Brad Smith said.
Salt Typhoon’s latest victims include Charter, Consolidated, and Windstream, underscoring the widening scope of China’s cyberespionage campaign against critical US infrastructure.
Net neutrality looks to be buried for another five years, with a court halting the current FCC head’s push to reinstate it, and President Trump’s pick as new FCC head hostile to the concept.
Amazon is seeing success with its Arm-based Graviton CPUs, which shows the viability of hyperscalers making their own custom silicon.
Although it isn’t sharing the designs, Microsoft is influencing other data center operators with its zero water consumption cooling system.
Verizon will provide on-premises edge connectivity for AI apps and other workloads.
American Airlines flights were grounded for up to an hour on Dec. 24, while 71 JAL flights were delayed and four cancelled on Dec. 26.
