Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Updates to Cisco’s Splunk Observability portfolio include new features as well as tie-ins to Splunk AppDynamics to help IT teams unify visibility and improve performance troubleshooting across on-premises and cloud environments.
Micron is also launching a high-capacity SSD. Both vendors promise greater storage density and lower power consumption.
Broadcom research reveals that network teams experience increasing levels of network complexity, a shortage of skilled workers, and a lack of visibility into internet and cloud environments.
Workforce reduction comes amid strong data center growth and a shift in focus toward AI.
Vendors separately unveil Kubernetes support in observability tools to help customers more easily understand Kubernetes components, detect issues, determine root causes, and resolve them quickly.
IBM lays out Power product roadmap for 2025 and beyond.
The F5 AI Gateway is designed to optimize access to AI applications while mitigating attacks and securing critical information.
A new, simplified licensing model provides unified support for Cisco Wi-Fi devices that are managed from the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment.
Setting up a terabit network overseas and operating it securely – the NFL showed how it's done for the matchup between the New York Giants and Carolina Panthers in Munich.
Focus, innovation and investment are key to positioning VMware technology in customer sights, says Joe Baguley, Broadcom's chief technology officer for EMEA.
Data centers powering AI are expected to face severe energy constraints as electricity demand soars 160%, threatening industry growth.
Nile, Meter, Join Digital, and Ramen Networks are among vendors offering campus NaaS services, which use cloud-managed LAN equipment to simplify connectivity for enterprises.
Arista has 10-15 enterprise accounts piloting AI networks, and CEO Jayshree Ullal said she is “pleasantly surprised with the faster acceleration of AI pilots in 2024.”
The hardware provider’s stock is down nearly 20%, its auditor quit last week, and it’s facing delisting. But this has all happened before, and enterprise customers aren’t likely to be fazed, analysts say.
Plans to run US data centers with nuclear power fizzle out in two locations.
Critical flaw affects URWB access points used in outdoor and industrial environments.
Fortinet is adding its FortiAI security assistant to its FortiNDR Cloud and Lacework FortiCNAPP packages.
The reference designs are meant to ease and accelerate deployment of AI-oriented data centers.
The data center power equipment supplier’s CEO lasted just 18 months.
It’s billed as a tool to help AI and non-AI performance, but an analyst says it’s the non-AI workloads we should be focusing on.
Sweet spot, says analyst, is the enterprise business leader ‘in tension with hipster dev teams who want to move fast and break things.’
Pearson research shows technology know-how is becoming a critical component to a majority of roles in the U.S. now and into the near future.
The VCF upgrade includes a 2.5x increase in vSAN capacity and offers customers additional options for compute virtualization.
Cisco points to quantum network orchestrator, security, and management research.
Fortinet's new FortiDLP combines AI and origin-based protection for enterprise data security.
Google brings application awareness to its Cloud Interconnect networking package.
Worldwide spending is expected to reach $5.74 trillion next year, with server sales tripling since 2023 and software and IT services also growing, thanks to AI-related projects.
MEF is working to create a fully connected and automated NaaS ecosystem where enterprises can access dynamic, automated network services that can be provisioned and modified on demand.
Data centers orbiting the earth can ease terrestrial energy constraints, allow for rapid deployment and scalability and reduce operating expenses by ‘orders of magnitude,’ company says.
Google-backed OCC, which launches in the UK and EU, labelled ‘astroturf group’ by Microsoft.
Cisco rolled out a UCS rack server built on the Nvidia HGX platform and introduced plug-and-play infrastructure stacks tailored for specific AI use cases.
NTT Data's managed detection and response service is powered by Palo Alto's Cortex XSIAM platform and combines security analytics and threat intelligence.
Newly upgraded ExtremeCloud Universal ZTNA can automate security policy decisions across hybrid network environments.
HPE's architecture doesn't rely on fans, while Supermicro's rack solution is specifically designed for Nvidia‘s Blackwell platform.
The intersection of AI and networking has the potential to help humans and networks be efficient, or it could be yet another way that networks crash.
The staging S3 buckets created within CDK bootstrapping have predictable naming patterns attackers can exploit.
A 15-year-long roller coaster ride of appeals and counter-appeals over the European Commission’s antitrust ruling has ended in victory for the company.
F5 and Nvidia team to integrate the F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes platform with Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs.
New storage system features multiple Nvidia GPUs for high-speed throughput.
Skillsoft’s annual ranking finds AWS security certifications can bring in more than $200,000 while other cloud certifications average more than $175,000 in the U.S.
India’s cloud providers and server manufacturers plan to boost Nvidia GPU deployment nearly tenfold by the year’s end compared to 18 months ago.
Costs, security, management and employee impact are among the core AI challenges that enterprises face.
Network-as-a-service vendor Alkira looks to extend security down to user policies and posture for a full zero-trust approach.
The company says the computing broker is aimed at solving the GPU shortage for compute-intensive workloads by improving resource allocation and memory management across AI platforms and applications.
The SaaS-based Guardium Data Security Center provides unified controls for protecting data across distributed environments, including hybrid cloud, AI deployments and quantum computing systems.
Enterprises will use AI to eliminate middle management positions, board members will use AI guidance to challenge executive decisions, and bad actors will use AI agents to carry out nefarious activities, Gartner predicts.
The two competitors have become allies in a bid to stave off Arm.
Jointly designed architecture is intended for GPU-loaded AI factories, which will generate tremendous amounts of heat.
For enterprises that need high-speed network monitoring and analytics, the cStor 200S appliance delivers 200 Gbps concurrent packet capture, indexing, and analytics.
Agentic AI, post-quantum cryptography, AI governance, and hybrid computing are among the most pressing and potentially disruptive trends that enterprises are facing, Gartner reports.
