Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Cisco’s revamped CCNA and CCIE certifications are a skills blueprint for AI-era networking, where automation, observability, and human judgment converge.
In June, Microsoft Secure Boot certificates are set to expire for the first time ever.
Forward Predict runs proposed network changes against a network digital twin and models the impact before any change touches the live environment.
New AI-powered features target proactive troubleshooting, observability, and governance across applications, networks, and endpoints.
New capabilities built into Selector's NetOps platform allow it to correlate network data across branches, colocation facilities, on-premises data centers, and public cloud infrastructure.
Research from two groups shows that enterprises are accelerating their AI security training and workforce development amid concerns over prompt injection, agentic AI, and AI-powered social engineering tasks.
AI is helping bad actors to attack wireless networks – and enterprises to defend them.
Bolt Graphics says its GPU can outperform the top Nvidia GPU on the market at only half the power draw.
Foote Partners finds employers are paying premiums for AI engineering, cybersecurity, governance, and data architecture expertise as enterprises accelerate operational AI adoption.
A $5 billion joint venture gives enterprises a non-Nvidia path to Google's custom AI silicon and reframes AI compute as an asset class.
The authentication bypass bug (CVE-2026-20182) in Catalyst SD-WAN gives remote attackers admin access, with no workaround available.
Power failures are to blame for the most impactful data center outages, while network issues are the most frequent culprits for IT service disruptions, according to Uptime Institute's latest analysis.
Cisco's momentum has implications for enterprises with plans to refresh campus networks and boost their AI readiness.
Cisco saw growing demand for AI infrastructure from hyperscalers in Q3, and on the enterprise front, it reported solid gains across data center switching, enterprise routing, wireless networking, and industrial IoT.
SPAN builds fractional data centers and proposes a distributed network of compute nodes located in residential and commercial spaces
AI data centers and hyperscalers are outbuying enterprises and SMBs amidst the hard drive shortage.
Cisco's Foundry spec can evaluate existing AI models and frontier LLMs such as Anthropic's Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber.
New HPE GreenLake updates unify VM, Kubernetes, and AI management with expanded storage and recovery tools as enterprises look for hybrid cloud alternatives.
Versa Networks adds cloud security posture management to SASE platform as enterprises struggle to correlate risk.
Red Hat makes the MCP server generally available for Ansible and previews an orchestrator that funnels AI actions through deterministic playbooks.
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.
