Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
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.
Spending on compute and storage products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, climbed nearly 15% in the first quarter, according to research firm IDC.
Catalyst 9300 gains Cisco Secure Firewall ASA, packaged as a Docker container, to enable more simplified, secure segmentation of network resources.
Memory isn’t going to get more expensive overnight, but it’s not going to get much cheaper, either.
The phased rollout of Cradlepoint’s 5G SASE solution will enable enterprises to create hybrid wireless and SD-WAN environments that optimize availability, quality of service, and security to edge, distributed, and mobile locations.
Aiming for more public cloud customers, Akamai opens three new data center POPs and plans more to come.
In a benchmark meant to measure the performance of training machine-learning models, Nvidia came out on top.
Other 2023 Cisco acquisitions include Accedian for network performance monitoring, Armorblox for large language models, and SamKnows for monitoring broadband networks.
The Kyndryl Bridge integration platform is set to gain dozens more enterprise infrastructure-management tools in the coming months.
Microsoft is adding to its Entra suite to offer an SSE package, joining a slew of competitors including Netskope, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler.
Broadcom’s bid to buy up VMware clears a key regulatory hurdle with the conditional approval of EU authorities.
Cisco’s updated Secure Network Analytics platform has higher capacity, supports more data flows, and generates more detailed security alerts.
A lack of cutting-edge 5G chips, reseller uptake, and integration challenges will slow the growth of private cellular network use over the next two years, according to IDC.
A pair of reports from Omdia paints a positive picture of the impact of AI on business as well as a decline in overall server shipments as buyers prioritize GPU-driven systems.
Tech leaders are optimistic about growth but warn of a lack of agility, talent shortages, and global connectivity challenges, according to research from Expereo.
A new report from China’s Ministry for Industry and Information Technology states that the country’s manufacturing abilities are less advanced than other countries and improvement is needed across three core industries.
Cisco recommends using AES-CBC for encryption and SHA1 for authentication to protect against performance risks to some of its Catalyst and ASR gear.
VMware has enlisted AMD, Samsung, and RISC-V members to collaborate on its open-source Certifier Framework project.
The Cisco Encrypted Visibility Engine can identify threats and applications in encrypted traffic without requiring decryption.
The demands of AI are too much for current IT infrastructure, according to 42% of respondents to an Equinix survey.
The Biden administration is reportedly considering placing new restrictions on the export of AI chips to China, in a move that could specifically target products previously compliant with the rules.
SamKnows technology will be integrated into Cisco’s ThousandEyes cloud-based network-intelligence software.
Network security company Cato Networks has released an AI-powered system designed to identify and block domains used to control malware.
In its latest bid to support home-grown chip manufacturing, the Japanese government has sought to consolidate the country’s grip over some chemicals that are vital to the chip making process.
A year after AMD acquired Xilinx, the chipmaker has announced plans to build on the semiconductor ecosystem Xilinx had already established in Ireland.
