Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Platformization buy-in has been elusive in the past, but AI could be the impetus for enterprises to give new consideration to the idea of a consolidated network and security platform.
HPE unveils one server, and Dell launches several compute and storage products.
Gluware's AI copilots offer a natural language interface for managing tasks such as device discovery, attribute updates, and remediation workflows.
While the cybersecurity workforce continues to expand, there are only enough workers to fill 83% of available cybersecurity jobs, reports job market source CyberSeek.
Deepak Jain used a fictitious company named Uptime Council to issue his data center a Tier 4 certification.
Women in IT say they struggle to further their careers and that workplaces could do more to achieve gender equality.
Switches from Arista and Cisco, as well as Meta’s own switches, are part of Meta's large-scale AI networks.
A10 Networks fortifies its portfolio with ACOS upgrade, bot defense, DDoS improvements and unified management capabilities to combat evolving cyber threats.
Cisco its scaling up its Nexus 9000 data center switches and Series 8000 routers for AI-ready networking.
The settlement could have potential implications for enterprise customers navigating Broadcom's new subscription pricing models.
Netskope gains data security posture management (DSPM) capabilities, which it plans to incorporate into its Netskope One platform.
In addition to the rack architecture contributions, Nvidia is broadening its Spectrum-X networking support for OCP standards.
Cato DEM gives IT teams visibility into application traffic and tools for optimizing network performance issues.
SUSE Edge 3.1 includes a new stack validation framework and an image builder tool that are aimed at improving the scalability and manageability of complex Kubernetes and Linux edge-computing deployments.
Other tech giants, including Amazon and Microsoft, are pursuing similar strategies as AI-driven power demands are set to surge.
Six holes in the configuration migration tool could allow theft of cleartext passwords and more.
New Epyc chip to offer scale-up performance or scale-out capacity for a wide range of data center workloads.
A report based on the company’s telemetry of its cloud security customers discovers that 74% have publicly exposed storage or other misconfigurations, opening the door to cyber criminals.
New and upgraded DevNet sandboxes from Cisco are dedicated to Catalyst Center, CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation, and Meraki products.
Enterprises are integrating AI into mainframe operations to enhance system management, and they’re using genAI for application modernization efforts, new research finds.
New PCIe switch fabric aims to remove networking bottleneck for large AI clusters in the cloud.
Cloudera is using partnerships and acquisitions in its bid to become the platform of choice for data, analytics, and enterprise AI .
BMC will focus on mainframe and software automation, while BMC Helix will concentrate on digital service and operations management.
Tighter integration among Juniper's AI-driven security products is aimed at promoting consistency in security policies and strengthening collaboration between networking and security teams.
The Linux founder urges developers to make their language more clear.
Global network services provider RETN says the impact of the cable cuts has been underestimated, and calls for industry-wide efforts to build resilient networks.
However, the chipmaker’s dramatic claim for the performance gains of its GPUs is over a 10-year span, and only applies to one type of calculation.
Wi-Fi 7 enterprise readiness hinges on ‘deterministic’ features, including the ability to schedule traffic, handle contention, and manage interference.
Aryaka expands its unified SASE platform with CASB, AI optimization, and interactive testing capabilities.
The announcement follows IBM’s recent partnership with Intel, signaling a rising interest in Intel’s AI hardware.
Despite White House encouragement to implement RPKI, the protocol is not yet stable or secure enough, according to a team of German researchers.
IBM has opened its Quantum Data Center in Ehningen, Germany, to enable European companies to develop quantum computing use cases.
IBM Cloud users can now access Nvidia H100 Tensor Core GPU instances for AI and high-performance computing workloads.
Data centers in the Middle East can now access advanced AI chips under new rules, but only after passing stringent security and vetting measures.
Nextcloud, the firm which filed the complaint three years ago, calls the move a major step to ‘prohibit future anti-competitive practices.’
Xeon 6 delivers twice the performance of its predecessor, Intel claims.
Altera CEO Sandra Rivera shares ‘big, audacious, ambitious goal’ to dominate FPGA market.
Device42’s InsightsAI will provide IT managers with tools to more quickly access and analyze data within their configuration management databases.
Networking innovations from the web infrastructure and security company include Encrypted Client Hello, Speculation API, Zstandard compression and TURN protocol implementation.
The 19th annual BMC mainframe survey shows mainframe development and modernization are hot topics.
The observability vendor updates its product with domain-specific agents, OpenTelemetry-native application performance monitoring, and Snowflake data observability capabilities.
The data center is expected to not only enhance the UK’s capabilities in AI but also strengthen Blackstone’s position in Europe’s rapidly evolving tech landscape.
Twelve of the 14 computer-related positions tracked by the BLS are expected to see headcount increases over the next decade.
The Infoblox Universal DDI Product Suite provides centralized management and automated tools to streamline DNS, DHCP, and IP address management.
The vendors are combining their multicloud networking and data management platforms to make it easier for enterprises to retrieve data from distributed environments and combine it with an LLM.
HPE Aruba is expanding the scope of its core management platform to help enterprises more effectively run distributed resources, including devices from multiple vendors.
Real-time Enterprise File aims to address traditional file storage limitations, with Universal Credits to make budgeting easier.
An employee may have inadvertently tipped a major reboot of Intel’s x86 architecture.
Selector AI’s network-specific language model is a fine-tuned version of LLama optimized to understand networking concerns.
SmartNICs are designed around CPU-to-CPU communication, making them less optimal for GPUs, the company argues.
