Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
AT&T accused Broadcom of attempting to retroactively alter existing VMware agreements and force the telco into buying expensive subscription-based services.
BGP has been open to misconfiguration and abuse for decades; The Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) wants that to change.
Palo Alto and IBM plan to strengthen joint AI security offerings.
Enterprise vendors are lining up to bring Nvidia NIM Agent Blueprints to data center and edge deployments.
Ciena's WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) is the optical networking technology that enabled the new speed record in carrier data networking transport.
The San Francisco office of the DOJ is leading the investigation, which is now focusing on Nvidia’s acquisition of RunAI.
China’s efforts to build a domestic AI ecosystem that can challenge US rivals are being ‘hampered by bug-ridden software,‘ a news report says.
The next generation of processors from Ampere will have up to 512 cores and is designed to fit into existing air-cooled data centers.
The creator of the popular open-source network protocol analyzer talks about what’s new in Wireshark 4.4, how governance has changed, and what to expect next.
When it comes to AI, tech leaders at large enterprises struggle with security concerns, infrastructure investments, and determining how best to apply AI tools alongside human talent, according to research from CompTIA.
Through the integration with Azure, Cisco's AppDynamics platform can manage the performance of applications, virtual machines and other resources hosted on Microsoft's cloud platform.
This week's VMware Explore conference was all about AI, along with an unexpected focus on private clouds.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told analysts in an investor call Wednesday that the glitch has been repaired, but didn’t get specific about the nature of the problem nor of the fix.
F5 and Intel are working together to combine security and traffic-management capabilities from F5’s NGINX Plus suite with Intel’s OpenVINO open-source toolkit for optimizing AI inference and Intel IPU hardware accelerators.
The new Fortinet Sovereign SASE offering provides a delivery option that lets organizations maintain local control over security inspection and logs.
In a keynote address at VMware Explore 2024, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan talked up the new version of VMware Cloud Foundation and extolled the future of the enterprise: ‘private cloud, private AI, your own private data.’
New technology features that address obstacles encountered during the joint development of a quantum computing architecture could help improve error correction in gate-based systems.
At the VMware Explore conference this week, Broadcom announced expanded AI support, including a new AI model store for VMware Private AI running on VMware Cloud Foundation.
Dublin County Council cites insufficient renewable energy plans as key reason for turning it down.
Intel’s photonics group demonstrated a new high-speed optical interconnect chiplet co-packaged with an Intel CPU and running live data at the show.
Plans call for integrating Robust Intelligence's AI security platform with Cisco Security Cloud to streamline threat protection for AI applications and models and increase visibility into AI traffic.
VMware announced the addition of a generative AI copilot to its vDefend cybersecurity platform at the VMware Explore conference this week.
VMware added connectivity options and traffic-management capabilities to its software-defined edge products to better support generative AI workloads.
Coforge ENZO is designed to streamline emissions data management by identifying, consolidating, and transforming raw data from various emission sources across business operations.
Report recommends the initiative involve researchers from national labs, academia, and industry.
7 takeaways from CBRE’s look at data center trends in North America.
At the Hot Chips 2024 conference, IBM announced its Telum II processor and previewed its Spyre accelerator for AI and other high-performance Big Iron workloads.
Chinese firms are using a loophole in the US restrictions to access the banned AI chips and AI models through cloud services as this does not violate US regulations.
The service, currently in preview, will allow enterprises to run their real-time AI inferencing applications serving large language models on Nvidia L4 GPUs inside the managed service.
AMD says the $4.9 billion deal to acquire the server maker is 'our next major step' in AI.
The mobile cloud provider wants to simplify mobile connectivity and streamline private 5G deployments for enterprise customers.
New AI resources from Juniper are designed to streamline enterprise adoption of its AI-Native Networking Platform and include training modules, free product trials, and deployment tools.
Analyst maintains there is a still a long way to go before hydrogen fuel cells hit mainstream status.
This could enhance AMD’s ability to develop high-performance systems, bolstering its competitiveness against Nvidia.
Softness in Intel's server business allowed AMD to make progress, but the gap remains very large.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is snapping up Morpheus Data for its cloud-agnostic management software, which tackles multicloud automation and orchestration as well as cloud cost optimization.
Cisco is cutting 6,000 jobs in its second round of layoffs this year and combining its networking, security and collaboration groups into one unit led by Jeetu Patel.
Concerns about the new direction VMware is taking are driving some enterprise customers to consider alternative platforms from vendors such as Scale Computing, Nutanix and Oxide Computer.
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 security research group studied changes in enterprise attack surfaces and how those changes lead to increased vulnerabilities in network and IT infrastructure.
Among cloud infrastructure providers, Oracle is finally breaking out, although Amazon, Microsoft and Google still maintain strong leads. Meanwhile, on-premises data center capacity remains stable.
Shortage of skilled workers could affect the deployment of AI, which depends on chip innovation and semiconductor availability to thrive.
After years of review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen three encryption algorithms as the basis for its post-quantum security strategy.
Two industry analysts, two different takes on its overall importance in the enterprise space.
The company has decided not to extend these updates to its Ryzen 1000, 2000, and 3000 series processors or its Threadripper 1000 and 2000 models.
Analyst says both Cisco and Dell are in a position where they ‘need to streamline operations to maintain profit margins.’
Intel says it will focus on 'smaller, more targeted events' for the remainder of 2024.
On a typical day the company transfers over an exabyte of data between dozens of clusters spread across continents.
Using AI-driven behavioral analytics, HPE Aruba's NDR platform can detect suspicious changes in network traffic patterns and device attributes.
The damage is contained to high-end 13th- and 14th-generation desktop processors aimed at gamers.
IBM added generative AI capabilities to its managed threat detection and response services.
