Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Flaws in the web management interface give unauthenticated attackers remote root access.
Despite finding last year that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are dominating the market for cloud services in the UK, the regulator has taken no action.
As sovereign computing requirements continue to mount, enterprises may need offerings that run on-prem, not just in the cloud. Cisco, IBM, Fortinet, and Versa are among the vendors offering solutions.
Automated threat-prevention capability adapts in real time, using behavioral analysis to identify and stop multi-stage cyberattacks.
In a fiercely competitive CPU market, follow the latest news and analyis as AMD surges in data center and races for AI leadership.
Companies are advised to carefully examine their DR plans and SLAs so they're not caught off-guard by major events like this.
AI cuts both ways in industrial environments, introducing new security risks while at the same time offering capabilities that can enhance threat detection and strengthen network defenses.
AMD’s new EPYC processor contains specific technologies vital to edge telco compute plans
Its investment of $2B in each company is viewed as laying the groundwork for its future as a competitive provider of AI training infrastructure.
Intel Xeon 6+ features advanced memory capacity and bandwidth for AI networking
Nvidia says 6G will be driven by software-defined AI
While reaffirming its Microsoft partnership, the company is building a Bedrock-native orchestration layer that positions it firmly in multi-cloud territory.
The vulnerability is especially dangerous because this model sits in the network core, so attackers could intercept or redirect data, says an expert.
New support for Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, and F5 targets ransomware and misconfiguration recovery for network control plane components that most enterprises do not manage with infrastructure-as-code.
Misconfigurations and access control issues trigger many enterprises security problems, according to IBM’s X-Force security research and threat intelligence group.
Netskope’s NewEdge AI Fast Path addresses the security vs. speed challenge by optimizing paths to public and private AI destinations and allowing enterprises to inspect AI traffic without degrading performance.
AMD/Meta deal encompasses 6 GW worth of CPUs and AI accelerators.
The Juniper PTX12000 and PTX10002 router families from HPE are geared for hyperscalers, neoclouds, and cloud-scale enterprise customers that need advanced networking for AI buildouts.
Updated capabilities, including an AI agent focused on site reliability engineering, aim to take observability dashboards from alert delivery to AI-driven incident response.
Nvidia partnerships with Akamai, Forescout, Palo Alto Networks, Siemens and Xage Security are aimed at delivering AI-powered security for OT environments and industrial control systems.
Pure Storage is broadening its focus from enterprise storage to data management. As part of that transition, it's changing its name to Everpure and acquiring data intelligence company 1touch.
WLAN market forecast shows lower-than-normal pricing for Wi-Fi 7 offerings, but supply chain volatility suggests the deals may be short-lived.
Cisco will integrate its mobility services and IoT management products with AT&T's 5G Standalone service.
Enterprises face continuing silicon supply shortages as a few big customers take all.
As AI workloads shift from centralized training to distributed inference, the network faces new demands around latency requirements, data sovereignty boundaries, model preferences, and power constraints.
Western Digital aims to significantly scale HDD throughput to avoid performance bottlenecks
LoRaWAN adoption is accelerating in smart buildings and facility management, and satellite integration is next, says LoRa Alliance.
Borosilicate glass, the same material used in lab equipment and kitchen cookware, can encode data using femtosecond lasers at densities and lifespans no existing archival medium can match, according to Microsoft researchers.
Forthcoming AI telemetry extensions aim to give operators a unified view of what's happening in the network as well as the host, say Arista execs.
Spirent Luma uses a multi-agent architecture and deterministic rule sets to automate root cause analysis in multi-technology network environments.
ECL FlexGrid platform is targeting AI deployments in locations with limited electricity supply.
Two years after its acquisition by Broadcom, VMware is shedding customers but maximizing value from those who remain, says a CloudBolt survey.
The Koi deal comes one week after Palo Alto closed its acquisition of CyberArk to bolster its AI security portfolio.
The new certification is aimed at bolstering cybersecurity skills and addressing the spike in AI-driven security threats.
The conglomerate's sovereign AI play comes as power constraints and regulatory pressure stall data center growth in the West.
Arista exceeded its AI networking and campus expansion goals in 2025 and delivered revenue of $9 billion, which is up 28.6% compared to 2024.
A new report from Gartner argues that by 2028, misconfigured AI will shut down the national critical infrastructure in a G20 country. Consultants counter that it will likely happen much sooner.
The federal agency has begun issuing CIDs to Microsoft competitors in the business software and cloud computing markets.
Pairing Nvidia's Blackwell GPU with open-source models from Baseten, DeepInfra, Fireworks AI, and Together AI cut costs, vendor says
Edge cloud provider posts strongest quarterly growth in three years as AI-driven traffic patterns create new revenue streams and validate edge economics.
Roles that require using judgment, taking risk ownership, and architectural thinking yield the highest bonuses, according to data from Foote Partners.
But even the CEO of AWS is skeptical of plans to put data centers in space.
Dell’Oro Group estimates that while the top four hyperscalers will be spending big, so too will be the neo cloud service providers.
AI networking demand rose, as did deployments of Cisco's Silicon One architecture.
Intel’s INT31 and Google’s Cloud Security teams identified five vulnerabilities and 35 less critical weaknesses
It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘ready’ is.
Researchers say the victims are systems with weak SSH password authentication.
Cisco’s expansion of AgenticOps impacts a number of its core data enter, networking and security platforms.
Programs designed to enable load flexibility and demand response in data centers are becoming more critical as constraints on the electric grid intensify.
AI will represent 30% of global WAN traffic by 2034, while IoT applications that span facilities will drive traffic growth, Nokia predicts. Some experts aren’t quite convinced.
