Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Broadcom's latest court filing alleged that AT&T’s lawsuit is an attempt to secure more time to transition to other software while still receiving discounted support services, which Broadcom has already phased out for perpetual license holders.
Cisco’s current round of layoffs will impact about 6,000 jobs as the company looks to sharpen its focus on AI networking, security and collaboration.
High-tech layoffs, job instability, and economic uncertainty have tech professionals concerned about the future of their careers.
Juniper's announcement includes new campus EX switches and Mist Wi-Fi 7 access points.
Cisco upgrades its Routed Optical Networking portfolio with management and automation features.
Microsoft and BlackRock aim to launch a $30 billion fund for AI infrastructure with future plans for up to $100 billion in total investment potential.
The news isn’t all good on the foundry front, but it is a step in the right direction for Intel.
The percentage of enterprises that automate more than half of their network activities will climb from less than 10% in mid-2023 to 30% by 2026, predicts research firm Gartner.
The creator of Linux detailed the latest Linux updates at the Linux Foundation's Open Source Summit Europe event.
IBM today announced its Quiskit Functions Catalog, a collection of services that are designed to make it easier for enterprise developers to experiment with quantum use cases.
Investments in AI are driving growth in data center Ethernet switching, according to new research from IDC.
Two new surveys indicate that IT spending priorities in 2024 include AI, data analytics, networking, and security.
Developed by the Indian Institute of Science, the neuromorphic computing platform is designed to work alongside existing AI hardware, rather than replace it.
The new status adds extensive cybersecurity protections for cloud and on-premises environments, alongside energy and water systems.
eBPF is a foundational Linux networking technology used for routing, monitoring and security, and soon it will be coming to Microsoft Windows, too.
GPUs have become increasingly important for several large software firms such as AWS, Google, and OpenAI, as the demand for generative AI continues to grow steadily.
Given the lack of specifics in the AWS statement, it’s difficult to know how much cloud infrastructure it will buy, but the investment is table stakes in the European cloud battles with Microsoft, Google.
While AI optimism remains high, many organizations are experiencing a reality check and are not fully realizing the benefits of the technology yet.
The antitrust investigation appears to have no public complainants or perceived victims.
The announcement includes Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a new suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, and the new 5.0 version of Juniper Apstra.
Kyndryl’s annual survey of Big Iron users finds generative AI, security, observability and skills are 2024’s top topics.
A senior AMD executive spelled out what many have suspected: AMD is prioritizing AI performance over gaming performance as it joins other chip makers in chasing more AI business.
Boeing plans to send a satellite into space to facilitate quantum communications, the company announced at the Quantum World Congress.
The latest version of the Netskope One SASE platform gives IT teams tools to improve network visibility and boost performance for distributed employees.
This, along with other AI regulations, sparks worries for enterprises about escalating compliance costs and curbing innovation.
For small to midsize organizations and the MSPs that support them, Auvik’s network management update targets network visibility, data collection and alerting.
The DCS511 switch delivers up to 12.8 Tb/s of switching capacity with support for open-source network operating systems including SONiC.
Despite a request for a US government investigation into Chinese-made TP-Link, evidence presented by a US House committee fails to support allegations they are a national security risk, experts say.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI is aimed at making it easier and cheaper for enterprises to deploy generative AI technologies with open-source tools sets and models.
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.
