Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
A new RHEL Long-Life Add-On lets enterprises keep aging infrastructure fully supported for decades, not just for vendor-defined upgrade cycles.
At its Summit this week, Red Hat is framing sovereignty as vendor independence, control over AI, and operational autonomy.
One Linux vendor likes the idea, but analysts and users view it as a two-edged sword.
New data from CompTIA shows U.S. tech job postings topped 575,000 in April, with rising demand for AI, software, cybersecurity, and systems roles.
The 64TB HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 is built with Intel Xeon 6 processors and features a modular architecture suited for complex transactional and analytics workloads.
The PCI Express 8.0 specification due in 2028 targets AI, high-speed networking, Edge computing and more
A cooling system failure caused servers to overheat and power down, with impairments to EC2 and EBS services underscoring global dependency on the core region.
AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia collaborating on networking protocol designed to address GPU network congestion
Gluware is expanding its AI platform with Titan Exposure Management, an agentic capability that maps live network device configurations directly to CVE advisories. Titan is built to slay Mythos — and your CVE backlog with it.
Instinct MI350P is ideal for companies looking to gradually invest in AI rather than making a large hardware commitment.
Arista says enterprise AI networking is in a calm before the storm stage. The vendor raised its 2026 AI revenue target to $3.5 billion, expecting to more than doubling its AI sales.
Lumen's existing NaaS provides connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud providers, or north-south traffic. Alkira addresses east-west traffic, which moves between clouds and between data centers.
HPE Mist and Aruba Central use AI to diagnose and resolve issues without human intervention.
Netskope One AgentSkope uses AI agents to automate alert triage, streamline SOC and NOC workflows, and reduce SIEM data ingestion costs.
Intel is looking beyond the current AI hardware boom to what comes next.
Facing shortages, data center switch vendors are pledging allegiance – to AI infrastructure networks.
Extreme bolsters AI agent, Platform ONE management, and Wi-Fi 7 portfolio.
Upgrade described as an attempt to move private cloud platform up the stack and become a ‘governed control surface for production AI.’
The ‘AI Operating Model’ is built on the integration of data, agents, automation and hybrid; IBM says it represents a shift that changes how a business operates.
Belden gains Wi-Fi and enterprise switching products in the deal and adds to its existing portfolio of passive networking infrastructure, OT wireless, and industrial switching gear.
AMD/Intel developed extensions will ensure the same code runs consistently and without fragmentation across both platforms.
Cisco will bring technology from Astrix Security to its Identity Intelligence, Secure Access, and Duo Identity and Access Management portfolios.
The open-source StarlingX distributed cloud platform gains precision timing support in its first major update of 2026.
Cisco looks to keep the force with network operators protecting the realm.
With on-prem deployments becoming costlier and slower to scale, cloud is emerging as the faster alternative.
Bucking industry trends, Extreme says memory supply is secured through fiscal 2027.
Data centers have rapidly gone from being mundane to the bane of many communities existence
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Churchill Downs' network refresh highlights how standardization, AI-driven security, and automation allow enterprise engineers to manage extreme demand peaks while transitioning legacy systems.
New Foote Partners data shows certification premiums surging while noncertified skills post their steepest decline in more than two decades.
Neutral atom company QuEra has run a simulation showing a dramatic reduction in the number of physical qubits needed to create one logical qubit, but for memory, not computation.
The new EL2000 chassis and DL145 Gen11 are purpose-built to push distributed AI inference, computer vision, and IoT processing to factory floors, power plants, and remote outposts.
Latest Cisco SD-WAN software adds network protection services and more AI awareness.
EMA research shows chatbot-based AIOps is losing ground to agentic AI, with collaborative, proactive models delivering faster operations, fewer errors, and stronger results.
Auvik is bringing agentic AI to network and IT operations with its Aurora platform.
Admins are being warned by cyber experts from the US and UK that this is part of continuing campaign to crack Cisco firewalls.
AI-related traffic moves differently, especially during training cycles. To cope with sudden spikes, network managers have to rethink their infrastructure.
The company is assembling a multi-architecture stack spanning AWS, Nvidia, AMD, Arm, and its own silicon. In the agentic era, no single chip wins, so it’s betting on all of them.
Cirrascale customers can run Gemini inferencing locally, preserving data sovereignty.
We're keeping tabs on efforts to launch AI into orbit, including new customers for the largest orbital compute cluster, the first commercial space data storage service, and a proposed marketplace for AI inference capacity in space.
Cisco's Universal Quantum Switch runs at room temperature and links resources over standard telecom fiber.
Major data center projects from Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, and others are expected to miss target opening dates.
The new eighth‑generation TPUs mark a shift away from one‑size‑fits‑all accelerators, targeting distinct cost, memory, and networking needs for training versus inference.
SUSE and Cloudbase promise zero-downtime migrations off VMware, but whether enterprises are ready to move is another question.
Zero Networks extends microsegmentation to govern AI agents and block AI-driven attacks.
A multi-tenant authentication gap in Microsoft’s AI operations agent exposed live command streams, internal reasoning, and credentials to any Entra ID account, researchers said.
The investment underscores a shift from pure funding to securing long-term compute, as Anthropic looks to ease capacity constraints and lock in infrastructure amid intensifying demand for AI workloads, analysts say.
A slew of updates from Cloudflare includes its Mesh private networking fabric for AI agents and its Registrar API interface, which allows domain registrations to be handled by AI agents.
Cisco report finds 86% of organizations struggle to hire wireless talent, increasing security risks and costs as AI draws skills away from networking roles.
Logs in wireless access point flash memory grow by 5MB a day in certain IOS XE devices until space runs out.
