Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
Agentic AI capabilities in the NetBrain 12.3 release can autonomously diagnose network issues, suggest fixes, and support IT teams in the remediation process.
FlashSystem.ai enables autonomous AI agents to manage, monitor, diagnose, and remediate enterprise storage issues.
Targeting massive AI clusters, Cisco unveiled the 102.4 Tbps G300 chip along with G300-powered switches designed for hyperscalers, neoclouds, sovereign clouds, service providers, and enterprises.
Updates to the VersaONE Universal SASE Platform include AI-enhanced data protection, AI-guided troubleshooting, and expanded OS support.
As infrastructure automation demand surges, NetBox Labs is delivering an AI agent that enables natural language interaction with infrastructure data and the ability to automate complex operational procedures.
Major tech companies could be asked to absorb power, water, and grid costs tied to rapid AI data center expansion.
New ZAM memory design will compete with HBM used in AI data centers
Active since at least 2019, the China-linked framework operates at network gateways to inspect and manipulate in-transit traffic, allowing attackers to redirect updates, disrupt security tooling, and deliver backdoors.
Capital expenditure and not new features could now become the clearest signal of cloud resilience, analysts say.
There are too many problems for Space X’s vision to get off the ground.
Ruckus is expanding its ICX portfolio with switches designed to streamline management of audio and video content over Ethernet networks.
Two carry CVSS scores of 8.8, demanding that admins upgrade to the latest versions of the controller.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismisses talk that he is having second thoughts about his massive investment in the ChatGPT maker.
Tech leaders from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Intel examine the many ways AI will change the industry.
A misconfiguration in Microsoft-managed storage accounts triggered cascading failures across virtual machine operations, managed identities, and developer workflows.
Analysts say Intel’s success will hinge less on hardware and more on overcoming entrenched software lock-in and buyer inertia.
At Cisco's second annual AI Summit, Jeetu Patel said 70% of all AI products being developed at Cisco are using code that's generated by AI.
Nvidia plans include use its technology to build AI factories developed and operated by CoreWeave
As attacks on the operating system grow more serious, the company is teasing a plan to bring “verifiable integrity” to Linux.
The new Forward AI capability builds on the vendor's digital twin and is designed to allow network teams to ask complex questions, understand network behavior, validate outcomes and safely automate workflows.
Oracle is considering workforce cuts and selling Cerner to alleviate financial pressure, warns investment bank TD Cowen.
ThousandEyes released its list of the 11 most notable Internet outages and application issues of 2025, along with recommendations to help network teams improve resilience.
Cisco's Mesh Policy Engine supports its own firewalls as well as third-party firewalls from vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Juniper.
Additions to Netscout's nGeniusONE observability platform extend deep packet inspection capabilities to Wi-Fi 7 and allow organizations to more accurately inventory their deployed SSL/TLS certificates.
The limited approvals can ease immediate pressure on local hyperscalers but leave longer-term constraints in place, with implications for global enterprise AI infrastructure.
US nuclear regulators have secretly relaxed rules to hasten the construction of new generating capacity needed to power AI, NPR reports.
Researchers at Pillar Security say threat actors are accessing unprotected LLMs and MCP endpoints for profit. Here’s how CSOs can lower the risk.
Mplify has updated its certification program to address the performance requirements of AI across complex network environments, rebranding MEF 3.0 and adding a new Carrier Ethernet for AI certification.
AWS staff learned of the cuts early when an internal meeting invitation was posted in error.
AI infrastructure limits are shifting from compute to networking, as fiber capacity becomes critical to data center scale.
Calling it the highest performance chip of any custom cloud accelerator, the company says Maia is optimized for AI inference on multiple models.
Neurophos expects the funding to speed up manufacturing development of its chips, which could be used to accelerate AI.
Intel expects CPU supply will improve after the first quarter
After changing its requirements for high-bandwidth memory chips, Nvidia is close to certifying a new source for supplies.
Enterprises are facing storage shortages, long lead times, and dramatic price increases, which may cause some to defer on-prem AI projects.
The tech giant is pivoting its strategy to focus on processors to support AI workloads, meaning less capacity for chips for PCs.
Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.
SATA is being replaced in high-performance storage situations but is not disappearing anytime soon
New Rust release brings major improvements to musl’s DNS resolver and tweaks the standard library to aid global allocators.
The distributed cloud networking market is forecast to hit $21 billion by 2029 as enterprises abandon fragmented WAN architectures.
After months of uncertainty, Intel comes back with a big hire and reaffirms its commitment to GPU technology.
New Relic’s latest observability capability provides enterprises with visibility into the performance, user experience, and reliability of applications embedded within ChatGPT.
The move underscores how satellite networks are increasingly being viewed as a resilience layer for enterprise WANs and data center connectivity.
Infrinia AI Cloud OS automates Kubernetes and inference services on GPU infrastructure.
The company plans to build and pay for dedicated energy infrastructure to reduce the risk of AI data centers straining local grids and slowing expansion.
Cisco is integrating its Nexus 9000 Series AI networking switches with Intel's Gaudi 3 AI accelerators.
The tie-in expands processing options for AI data centers, but leaves rival interconnect UALink out in the cold.
F5's Guardrails blocks prompts that attempt jailbreaks or injection attacks, and its AI Red Team automates vulnerability discovery in AI systems.
AWS’s new sovereign cloud for Europe boosts compliance controls, but analysts say its US ownership raises unresolved questions about legal authority and service continuity.
The latest version of IP Fabric's network assurance platform models cloud-native networking and security constructs as first-class objects in the digital twin.
