Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
With plans to aggressively compete with SpaceX’s Starlink in place, rapid ramp-up is expected.
Fortinet enhances its OT Security Platform and closes a deal to acquire data loss prevention player Next DLP.
U.S. employment data for July shows fewer new high-tech positions added and more IT jobs lost as employers remain cautious.
Data center operators are grappling with rising costs, the impact of AI on capacity requirements, and persistent staffing shortages, Uptime Institute reports.
Shipments of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell architecture could be delayed for three months or more, according to published reports.
Extreme and Intel are working together to leverage AI technology to bolster network performance, detect security threats, and reduce operational costs.
The European Commission unconditionally approved HPE's Juniper buy. Next up: US and UK regulatory approval?
When companies increase IT/OT integration, they can simplify operations, boost security and streamline decision making, according to Cisco’s industrial networking research.
The filing also targets Nokia customers, saying that the company’s actions may subject them to patent litigation too.
Threat actors are selling stolen GenAI credentials for ChatGPT, Quillbot, Notion, Huggingface, and Replit.
The US will continue to lead the global public cloud services market, with spending expected to surpass $432 billion in 2024.
The average cost of a data breach jumped to $4.88 million, up from $4.45 million a year ago, according to IBM’s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach Report.
NeuReality claims its AI appliance can significantly cut costs and energy use in AI data centers.
The chipmaker aims to empower more industries to build physically based virtual worlds and digital twins.
A six-month extension of vSphere 7.0 support has been announced, but VMware customers using AWS on-demand hosts need to move fast to keep running there. Also new: updates to VMware Cloud Foundation.
Liquid cooling technologies for data centers are transitioning from niche options deployed in specific market segments to mainstream applicability, according to research firm Dell’Oro Group.
The US government is shopping for the successor to the fastest supercomputer in the world. You might want to sit down before we tell you what it wants.
Despite being late to market, Microsoft's secure service edge (SSE) offering has some advantages, including cost and ties to Microsoft's identity access management services.
A flawed update to CrowdStrike Falcon sent Windows servers and PCs across the globe into an endless reboot cycle that IT organizations are still working to remediate.
A misconfiguration during 'routine night maintenance' caused the 12-hour disruption in mobile network service, suggesting the need for more stringent internal review of system updates before deployment
Diversity of AI workloads means there’s a market for many types of chips.
CIOs are looking at ways to avoid single points of failure and are re-evaluating their cloud strategies to prevent any 'blue screen of death' incidents.
Attempts to mitigate a novel Windows threat caused systems running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor to crash.
A bad software update from security software vendor CrowdStrike has paralyzed Windows machines around the world.
DARPA’s Quantum Benchmarking Initiative will work to validate the progress of quantum computer hardware development.
British chip designer Graphcore has been acquired by Japan's SoftBank Group, which retains significant control over Arm Holdings, its earlier semiconductor investment.
Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) is an open-source networking operating system that has the potential to become 'the Linux of networking,' experts say.
Network as a service (NaaS) promises to give enterprise organizations quick access to new technologies and improved performance while also filling critical skills gaps, according to EMA Research.
The Dell PowerEdge XE9680 ships with Instinct MI300X accelerators, AMD's high-end GPU accelerators that are designed to compete with Nvidia Hopper processors.
Juniper continues to grow its AI-Native Networking Platform while HPE's $14 billion deal to acquire Juniper continues to advance through the requisite regulatory hurdles.
Worldwide IT spending is expected to surpass $5 trillion in 2024, a 7.5% increase over 2023. Gartner's forecast reflects 'ravenous demand' for data center infrastructure.
Google reportedly offered CISPE €14 million in cash and €455 million in software licenses to maintain its complaint with the EU, but ultimately CISPE decided to settle with Microsoft.
To speed its ability to innovate, AWS builds its own network operating systems and network devices, including NICs, switches, and routers.
As high-density data centers continue to add AI workloads, there’s growing interest in liquid cooling, thanks to its ability to transfer heat more efficiently than air cooling.
AWS says Graviton4 is its most powerful and energy efficient processor, suited for a broad range of workloads running on Amazon EC2.
The lawmakers want an assessment before the investment moves to the second phase, which involves the transfer of export-restricted semiconductor chips and model weights.
Ransomware actors often prioritize gaining initial access to targeted networks, says Cisco’s Talos security intelligence group.
A design flaw in the decades-old RADIUS authentication protocol allows attackers to take over network devices from a man-in-the-middle position by exploiting MD5 hash collisions.
Other cloud providers, including Google and AWS, seem unhappy with the settlement, saying they hope regulators would continue to investigate Microsoft’s licensing practices.
AMD's acquisition of Europe’s largest private AI lab is its third AI-themed deal in less than a year, the latest installment in its plan to build an AI stack to rival Nvidia's.
The UK’s new Labour government is pushing ahead with plans for economic growth, including encouraging the construction of more data centers.
FortiGate-as-a-Service offerings lets customers choose the hardware they want, and Fortinet will handle the firewall management.
The latest announcement indicates the options ahead for Chinese AI tech companies.
The expansion will be aided by technology from US-based electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, according to reports from Chinese news outlets.
According to Gartner, Broadcom’s new licensing models, which transition from enterprise license agreements to more complex consumption models, can force businesses to pay 2-3 times more.
Investing in sustainability can cut corporate costs, especially for electricity and water usage. But Google acknowledges that some moves can both reduce and expand costs and that ROI can take a long time to materialize.
The moderate-severity vulnerability has been observed being exploited in the wild by Chinese APT Velvet Ant.
Customers struggling with managing systems able to handle the scale and power needs of soaring generative AI and cloud operations is fueling the deal.
Enforcement of charges could significantly impact global AI markets and customers, prompting operational changes.
Lenovo’s updated liquid cooling addresses the heat generated by data centers running AI workloads, while new services help enterprises get started with AI.
