Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
CompTIA CloudNetX certification aims to validate the knowledge of network professionals who manage complex, hybrid cloud environments.
FortiSASE offering gains application monitoring capabilities and tools to help customers securely manage wireless LANs and IoT devices.
Cisco Lifecycle Services aim to help companies develop and implement IT optimization strategies that are tied to specific business outcomes.
Highlights include a private AI platform developed with Nvidia that lets enterprises run generative AI applications on their proprietary data within VMware’s hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Enterprise sales now constitute 76% of Nvidia's total revenue, leaving the gaming business in the dust.
IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl will use Cisco’s Security Cloud platform to help enterprise customers bolster their cyber resiliency.
The world of enterprise Linux developers has been roiled of late by a dispute between Red Hat and several companies that sell support for similar distributions.
Versa adds improved malware detection, microsegmentation, generative AI to protect enterprise resources
Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Extreme, and HPE Aruba posted strong quarterly financials and talked up the potential for enterprise AI technologies.
VMware Private AI Foundation with Nvidia will enable enterprises to customize models and run generative AI applications on their own infrastructure in their data centers, at the edge, and in their clouds.
News from the VMware Explore conference includes a unified management platform for VMware’s SASE and edge computing stack, along with a new managed private mobile networking service.
VMware NSX+ is a new cloud-managed service that enables consistent network operations and centralized security policy creation and enforcement in multicloud environments.
Among the announcements at the VMware Explore conference is a new IBM-managed service based on VMware Cloud editions.
The UK’s Competetion and Markets Authority has approved Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware, but the deal still faces hurdles, including Chinese regulatory approval.
Fixes are available for the Intel bug known as Downfall and the AMD vulnerability known as Inception.
Memory expansion modules from Micron comply with Compute Express Link 2.0, which promises new security features and far more versatility than previous versions.
Cisco was eager to talk up an eased supply chain situation and strong demand for hyperscale AI technology in its fourth quarter earnings call this week.
Replication excels at providing immediate data availability, but it shouldn’t be the sole safeguard against human errors, data corruption, or cyberattacks.
A forthcoming image-focused AI chip from Kneron looks to enable a host of improvements around edge compute, security and automotive applications.
IT teams are under pressure to update networks and toolsets to deliver secure remote access, reliable network connectivity, and optimized application performance.
The latest reliability stats from cloud storage provider Backblaze show a rise in hard drive failure rates.
ECL is developing hydrogen-powered data center modules that will allow companies to add capacity as needed.
Oracle, SUSE and CIQ will form the Open Enterprise Linux Association, in response to changes at Red Hat that have upset the enterprise Linux ecosystem.
IBM z/OS mainframe operating system gets AI, cloud infusion with software coming Sept. 29.
Cisco has made nine acquisitions this year to reinforce everything from BGP support, security and application performance to AI development
GPU titan Nvidia doubled down on generative AI at SIGGRAPH this week, unveiling new chips, server designs, and software to fill out its ecosystem of artificial intelligence hardware and systems design products.
Cloud provider PhoenixNAP will offer bare metal solutions on Arm-based servers.
Kyndryl and Microsoft want drive new generative AI applications and services for enterprise customers
The pact to set up a manufacturing plant in Dresden and form a new company is part of a general move by global chip makers to build plants in the West and shore up supply chains.
Aruba Networks is touting forthcoming improvements to its security platform – including zero trust and sandboxing features
AI Lighthouse combines ServiceNow's enterprise automation platform and engine, Nvidia's AI supercomputing and software resources, and Accenture's consulting and deployment services.
The company is offering a range of generative AI solutions across its hardware, software, and services offerings.
Five Arm-dependent semiconductor manufacturers including Qualcomm, NXP, and Infineon are launching a RISC-V joint venture.
CoreWeave, a specialized, AI-focused cloud provider offering high performance compute services, has landed a whopping $2.3 billion in debt financing from several private equity firms.
Fortinet adds network over/underlay monitoring services, 90G NGFW series
The two companies are building a new facility to speed the fabrication and deployment of modular data centers.
Cisco ThousandEyes gains Code BGP’s real-time detection of BGP hijacking, route leaks and other BGP performance and security issues.
Cisco XDR now includes support for Cohesity ransomware recovery technology.
For data center operators, available power supply is a growing problem and it's driving development into smaller markets, according to research from CBRE.
Enterprises are under pressure to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and IBM’s newest offering for its cloud dashboard makes it easier for customers to track carbon emissions tied to their cloud workloads.
Dynatrace Davis AI engine combines predictive, causal, and generative AI capabilities to simplify and accelerate performance management tasks.
The SuperNODE system combines 32 AMD Instinct MI210 accelerators in a single server using the GigaIO’s FabreX low-latency PCIe memory fabric.
Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, Intel, AT&T and Verizon are among the founding members of the Network Resilience Coalition, which will encourage enterprises to patch systems, fix holes, and prepare defenses for routers and switches.
Network-as-a-Service provider Nitel is expanding the reach of its NaaS product to international customers.
New ThinkSystem enterprise storage arrays are designed for high-performance use.
Backed by the Linux Foundation, the new Ultra Ethernet Consortium aims to increase the scale, stability, and reliability of Ethernet networks to satisfy AI’s high performance networking requirements.
One of the first Wi-Fi 7 access points targeting the enterprise will go on sale in the fourth quarter of 2024.
Eight months after launching an investigation into whether the deal would reduce competition in the UK, the CMA has provisionally cleared the acquisition.
Most enterprises will incorporate generative AI in a slow and controlled way, Gartner says.
New high-end 3200F and midrange 900G next generation firewalls from Fortinet use AI for speedier, more comprehensive network threat protection.
