The OpenStack cloud infrastructure project keeps on going, 15 years after it was first created as a joint effort of NASA and Rackspace. Today the open-source effort debuted its 32nd release known as OpenStack Flamingo. The new release follows a year of change for OpenStack. In March, the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra), itself an evolution of the OpenStack Foundation, was merged into the Linux Foundation. That integration has created operational efficiencies for the organizations...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Large enterprises aren’t the only targets of cybercriminals. Small and mid-sized organizations face sophisticated threats but often lack the resources and expertise to deploy enterprise-grade security infrastructure. That’s why Netgear acquired SASE vendor Exium back in June of this year. Today, the company is revealing how its integration plans are coming along and where it is embedding and extending Exium’s SASE security to help SMEs. The first integration of the Exium security stack ...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Cato Networks this week introduced the Cato Browser Extension that expands the company’s secure access service edge (SASE) platform and its universal zero-trust network access (ZTNA) capabilities to unmanaged devices and distributed bring-your-own-device (BYOD) endpoints. The Cato Browser Extension, according to the company, is a lightweight onramp to its SASE platform, which brings zero-trust policies and enforcement to unmanaged and other devices, such as personal, partner, contractor, or...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Network-as-a-service (NaaS) startup Alkira has spent the past year building momentum in the enterprise networking market, growing revenue approximately 60% and landing its largest customer to date, a Fortune 10 company. That growth has coincided with a wave of network transformation projects driven by shifts in traffic patterns and infrastructure architecture. A year ago, the company released zero-trust network access (ZTNA) functionality, which helped to improve security. Now Alkira has turn...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Zayo has been building out its networking infrastructure and delivery platform over the last two decades. Today the company is expanding its network delivery capabilities with the debut of its DynamicLink network-as-a-service solution. Zayo defines NaaS more specifically than most vendors. The company views it as the ability to access a network and perform any logical provisioning in real time once that initial connection is established. This means turning up circuits, scaling bandwidth and c...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
A catastrophic fire at South Korea’s National Information Resources Service data center has crippled 647 government systems for nearly a week, with 96 directly destroyed and 551 shut down preemptively, exposing critical vulnerabilities in disaster recovery execution and battery safety protocols that analysts say should prompt immediate CIO attention worldwide. The September 26 incident, triggered when a lithium-ion battery exploded during routine UPS maintenance at the facility in Daejeon, ...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
The manufacturing industry is a prime target for cyberattackers. Last year, 80% of manufacturing firms saw a significant increase in security incidents, according to data from research firm Omdia. OT cybersecurity provider Dragos also noted an 87% increase in ransomware attacks against industrial organizations, with manufacturing the hardest-hit sector. And, of the incidents that Dragos responded to in 2024, 75% involved a partial shutdown of operational technology, and 25% led to a full shut...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Networking specialist HighPoint has launched its Rocket 7638D PCIe 5.0 switch card designed to enable direct interconnection between an Nvidia AI GPUs and NVMe storage devices, which could greatly reduce system lag when processing massive data sets. Right now, for data to be processed in the GPU requires retrieval from the storage device and processing by the CPU, because only the CPU can talk to storage. The GPU cannot. That is until Nvidia introduced the GPUDirect function in the Ampere gen...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools? Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment. Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O, and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missing any of your favorites. September 2025 Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, Gold Coast, Australia: Sep...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Bell Labs invented the transistor, the fundamental building block of all modern electronics, in 1947. In the decades following, it invented Unix, C, the first practical solar cell, the laser, and more. Along the way, it has won ten Nobel prizes and countless other awards. But what has it done for us lately? Well, with a renewed focus on fundamental research, the lab, which is now part of Nokia, is working to bring the quantum age closer by helping make photonic quantum computing a reality. In...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Researchers have published details of two new flaws in Supermicro baseband management controller (BMC) firmware that hint at deeper weaknesses in the way the company currently secures this type of low-level software. Supermicro is a leading maker of the server motherboards widely used in data centers. The BMC is a critical motherboard chip used to monitor system health independently of the OS on these systems, including when they’re powered down. Anyone able to hijack this firmware would ga...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Data center provider Equinix has launched its Distributed AI infrastructure, which includes a new AI-ready backbone to support high-performance AI deployments spanning multiple data center facilities, an AI Solutions Lab to test new solutions, and Fabric Intelligence to better support next-generation enterprise workloads. Equinix designed Distributed AI from the ground up to support the scale, speed, and complexity of modern intelligent systems, such as autonomous, agentic AI capable of reaso...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Cisco has announced a package of prototype software it says will facilitate distributed quantum computing networks and support real-time applications. Cisco’s Quantum Labs designed a software stack that includes three layers: an application layer with a network-aware distributed quantum computing compiler that supports quantum algorithm execution in a networked quantum data center; a control layer with quantum networking protocols and algorithms that support the applications as well as mana...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
Pure Storage unveiled a raft of platform enhancements at its Pure//Accelerate conference this week, targeting enterprises struggling to manage data across fragmented cloud environments while implementing AI initiatives. The storage vendor made three major announcements: cloud integration with Microsoft Azure, AI-powered management tools, and security partnerships with companies including CrowdStrike. The moves are part of Pure Storage’s strategy to expand beyond traditional storage into wha...| OpenStack Flamingo pays down technical debt as adoption continues to climb | ...
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Cisco adds details to its forthcoming Full Stack Observability architecture and plans for integrating telemetry across domains.| Network World
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Mist AI management package gains enhanced enterprise visibility and data center control features.| Network World
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Initiative led by Jio Platforms Limited will combine AMD’s computing solutions, Cisco’s networking and security, and Nokia’s RAN and core technologies.| Network World
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Dynamic host configuration protocol simplifies and improves the accuracy of IP addressing but can raise security concerns| Network World
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Extreme Networks has extended its Universal Switch family and added a SD-WAN subscription package aimed at offering customers more flexible enterprise networking options.| Network World
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It seems that for years, the death of Fibre Channel has been speculated, as Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) or even IP networks would be the death knell for the more traditional storage protocol. However, Fibre Channel is still alive and kicking.| Network World
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Transport-layer security is more effective than its predecessor SSL, and its latest version - TLS 1.3 - improves both privacy and performance.| Network World
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