Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Additions include the new N9100 switch, Blackwell GPU support, and security enhancements for AI workloads.
After data centers in Dubai and Bahrain were targeted in drone attacks, the physical security of data centers is in the spotlight.
Palantir AI OS Reference Architecture covers everything from hardware acquisition to application deployment
The startup says it has achieved record fidelity for entangled logical qubits on a superconducting quantum computer. It’s using an AI-powered digital twin platform that simulates real-world hardware noise.
Google, Elon Musk, and an army of startups are trying to make space data centers a thing.
News that a Korean smelter is in talks with US firms to extract rare earths viewed as ‘a structural shift … inside the global technology infrastructure economy.’
Meta has announced four new generations of its MTIA training and inference accelerator chips.
Arista’s XPO technology offers 12.8Tbps of bandwidth, large ecosystem of photonics developers.
The new architecture shows how quantum processors could work alongside classical HPC, creating hybrid environments to tackle scientific problems neither can solve alone.
AI startup FluidCloud launches a Large Infrastructure Model to simplify multicloud networking, automate Terraform translation, and enable faster, safer cloud migrations across providers.
Cisco adds Open Transport 3000 Series, a multi-rail open line system that integrates optical networking components.
F5 introduces new AI security controls, observability features, and NGINX enhancements to secure and manage modern application traffic.
Datalec focuses on enterprises, hyperscale AI infrastructure teams that need to add capacity quickly
Tech companies have announced more than 45,000 layoffs since the start of 2026, as firms across the industry restructure operations and shift resources toward AI and automation investments.
AI networking startup Eridu launches with $200M in funding to redesign AI data center networking using a clean-sheet network switch and customer silicon.
Cisco ties Splunk technology with its Nexus Dashboard for data center and campus network observability.
Surging DRAM and NAND costs, which now account for more than half the price of a standard server, are expected to keep prices elevated well into 2027.
Cisco is making Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) options for its Silicon One family.
Generative AI is raising the risk of dangling DNS attack vectors, as the orphaned resources are no longer just a phishing nuisance.
A CBRE report reveals that delays in obtaining permits, zoning approvals, and power are putting a major dent in overall new construction activity across NA.
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.
