Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
A new multinational advisory warns that state-sponsored attackers continue to compromise critical infrastructure by exploiting outdated protocols, default credentials, and neglected network devices.
Data center operators are grappling with risks that include weather, fire, labor, energy constraints, and power and water supplies.
CompTIA reports continued tech hiring gains while Indeed finds AI-related job titles expanding across industries.
Chips and thin-film bulk acoustic resonator (FBAR) filters are on the menu.
Quantum computers are being seen as partners for AI, and specialist firms are emerging to help take quantum technology from research labs into the real world.
Infoblox acquires Kentik to pair DNS authority with real-time traffic visibility.
By combining AI models, supercomputing, satellites, and launch capabilities, the newly unified company is making an ambitious play for AI infrastructure.
AI-optimized servers to account for 31% of data center power consumption in 2026
The z17 and LinuxONE Rockhopper offer power and security in small, customizable packages.
The would-be AI infrastructure provider aims to solve the problem of rising memory prices in a cost-effective way.
Support is building for the Europe Union’s push to build its own sovereign cloud.
The US government is discouraging, but not yet forbidding, buying from certain Chinese manufacturers. But following other hardware manufacturers and making those deals is a risky move for Apple and a potentially riskier move for IT buyers.
Cisco Live Protect for Nexus promises increased security and less downtime for data center networks.
Regulatory filings and new business models suggest hyperscalers are shifting from simply building AI capacity to managing the enormous financial risks that come with it.
Enterprise organizations investing in workforce readiness, role redesign, and change management are seeing stronger AI outcomes, according to Kyndryl research.
Netgear’s Insight 10.0 offers AI-powered network management, AIOps capabilities, automation, and cloud-based visibility
As the Department of War doubles down on post-quantum encryption, enterprises need to get going on plans to establish inventory and remediation programs for post-quantum cryptography, Gartner advises.
The cloud service provider group is concerned about the company’s bullying tactics.
This week's presidential order aims to close the gaps holding back U.S. quantum computing, from a thin supplier base to the lack of any way to compare quantum systems.
Skeptics chip away at the company’s claims in a long-running dispute over its Majorana chip program.
It's the world’s first sub-1 nm chip technology, IBM claims. The fingernail-size chip is built with IBM's new transistor architecture, called nanostack, which vertically stacks and staggers transistors to pack more onto a chip.
Qualcomm paints the deal as delivering ‘a silicon-agnostic compute layer’ to make data centers more flexible and cost-effective.
The collaboration will integrate Palo Alto's network-based virtual patching technology with IBM and Red Hat’s Project Lightwell software remediation initiative.
New activity targets CVE‑2026‑20230, an SSRF bug that can allow unauthenticated file writes and potential root‑level access on vulnerable systems.
Upscale AI raised $190M in new funding to support AI networking scale up and scale out architecture. Skyhammer is its switch silicon designed to connect GPUs and XPUs at very high speed.
Five takeaways for network professionals from Rami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper Networks and current head of HPE Networking.
China’s LineShine system debuts atop the TOP500 rankings, becoming the fifth exascale supercomputer and ending U.S.-based El Capitan’s run at No. 1.
Here’s what you need to know about the AI and processor giant’s latest product and company news.
Dell and Super Micro each unveiled new AI servers as part of Nvidia's Vera Rubin rollout.
Nvidia packs Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, networking technologies, and software into a rack-mounted supercomputer.
Researchers say threat actors harvested FortiGate credentials at scale, exposing organizations in 194 countries to potential long-term network compromise.
New research finds AI is putting pressure on enterprise campus and branch networks, creating new capacity, security, and modernization demands.
At HPE Discover, CTO Fidelma Russo details Data Fabric 8.2, Morpheus 9, and GreenLake Intelligence.
UPS failures, switch problems, and generator failures are the leading outage triggers.
The acquisition adds software designed to make flash behave more like DRAM and lower data center memory costs.
CEO Antonio Neri kicked off HPE Discover 2026 with AI-focused announcements that span the vendor's networking, compute, storage, and cloud product portfolios.
HPE unveils new QFX switch, tightens integration between its Juniper networking portfolio and HPE AI Data Center products, and much more.
Cisco’s advisory renews attention on SD-WAN management systems that control how enterprises connect sites to cloud environments and critical applications.
The multi-billion-dollar investment in R&D, capital expenditure, manufacturing, partnerships, and M&A supports IBM’s goal of achieving scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing in 2029.
NetBox Labs designed its newly launched platform to span the full infrastructure lifecycle, from initial procurement through decommission.
Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel is turning Cisco from a sprawling holding company of dashboards into a unified, AI-native infrastructure platform.
New figures position the company ahead of rivals on water consumption as hyperscalers race to prove AI's growing infrastructure footprint is sustainable.
New silicon is designed to support high-bandwidth throughput and low latency.
The goal is to open decades of interconnected legacy systems to AI technology.
F5 adds AI-powered web application firewall (WAF) to guard networks against pre-exploit attacks.
Cisco is increasingly aiming its software power at network fabrics, integrated security and observability and more
Research from Infoblox finds the traffic routing technology is widespread across corporate, government, and financial networks, and defenders often cannot see it.
The reported deal would add financing to an already expanding OpenAI-Nvidia infrastructure partnership.
The vStrata power-delivery architecture is aimed at improving data-center power efficiency.
Arista’s 1.6T 7060XE7 portfolio features fixed switch platforms and rack-scale systems.
