Cisco observability: What you need to know | Network World
Cisco adds details to its forthcoming Full Stack Observability architecture and plans for integrating telemetry across domains.| Network World
Cisco adds details to its forthcoming Full Stack Observability architecture and plans for integrating telemetry across domains.| Network World
With the ability to analyze ever-expanding telemetry data generated by network infrastructure and applications, open-source projects and AI/ML are helping to create predictive networks.| Network World
ThousandEyes' Application Outages app promises real-time and historic views of software-as-a-service availability.| Network World
The colocation space crisis is worsening, forcing enterprise tenants to deal with rising lease costs and wait times that can stretch to several months and even years for data center capacity.| Network World
HPE has finally closed its $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks and is combining it and Aruba into a new HPE Networking business unit with a dual-pronged strategy: AI for networks and networking for AI.| Network World
Juniper broadens the role of Marvin Minis and extends digital twin functions into public and private cloud environments and applications.| Network World
Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products with a common AI engine and Marvis virtual network assistant.| Network World
Kubernetes 1.34 made its debut this week, bringing with it a host of updates that will help to improve cloud-native operations. Among the enhancements are several significant networking upgrades that directly address operational pain points in large-scale deployments. As is tradition with each Kubernetes release, there is a theme (and a logo, pictured below). For Kubernetes 1.34 the theme is Of Wind & Will (O’ WaW). “What keeps Kubernetes moving isn’t the perfect winds, but the will of ...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
As enterprises adopt AI applications, network infrastructure teams are scrambling to optimize their networks for AI traffic, from the data center and the cloud to the WAN edge. Most projects are focused on transforming data center networks and accelerating AI traffic across the WAN. However, there is another crucial piece of the puzzle that project leaders should consider: network observability. Only 47% of enterprises believe their network observability tools are fully prepared to monitor an...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
The Hot Chips conference was the backdrop for Intel’s newest Xeon processor, the all-E-core codenamed Clearwater Forest and the first Xeon built on the company’s next-generation 18A process node. Hot Chips is an annual conference that takes place every year on the campus of Stanford University, the alma mater of numerous Silicon Valley talents, including Pat Gelsinger and Jensen Huang. It is a deep dive in technology led by a slew of electrical engineers talking shop amongst themselves wi...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Back in April, Infosys helped to start the Essedum open-source networking project for AI at the Linux Foundation’s LF Networking (LFN) division. This week the project hit a major milestone with its 1.0 launch. Essedum Release 1.0 is an open-source platform designed specifically to accelerate AI integration in networking environments. Essedum provides a framework spanning data ingestion, pipeline orchestration and model deployment across on-premises and cloud environments. In addition to co...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Cisco announced this week that it is expanding its certification portfolio with the launch of two dedicated wireless credentials, the CCNP Wireless and the CCIE Wireless, both set to debut in March 2026. The new certifications are designed to help networking professionals build practical skills to design, deploy, and manage advanced wireless networks, validating expertise in in Wi-Fi 6/7, Meraki, and other areas, Cisco says. Cisco is introducing its new wireless certification track in respons...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
IBM and AMD are working together to blend Big Blue’s quantum computers with the chipmaker’s CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs to build intelligent, quantum-centric, high-performance computers. The plan is to combine the power and intelligence of quantum computers with the benefits of classic computing to enable new kinds of algorithms that neither classical nor quantum computers could handle alone, IBM stated. In addition, IBM said the partnership could help it develop fault-tolerant quantum computer...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Research firm Gartner shows generative AI about to fall into the “trough of disillusionment” and AI agents at the “peak of inflated expectations” in its newly published Hype Cycle report. Enterprises offer me a slightly different view. Their IT staff, at least, has never had many expectations for generative AI, and while they agree AI agents are hot, they’ve had that view from the first, and they don’t think they’ll be falling into any troughs of agent disillusionment. The simpl...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
At the VMware Explore conference today in Las Vegas, Broadcom announced new security enhancements for its VMware vDefend and VMware Avi products, which are part of the VMware Cloud Foundation Cyber Compliance Advanced Services. Upgrades include more security for agentic workflows, including model context protocol (MCP) servers, and support for post-quantum encryption, among other improvements. “We are helping customers build their entire data services strategy and environments out, as well ...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Mist AI management package gains enhanced enterprise visibility and data center control features.| Network World
CEO Lip-Bu Tan continues to make big moves to restore Intel4 to relevance.| Network World
Intel’s CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees that he doesn’t consider Intel to be among the leading chip companies, a stark contrast to the perpetual sunny, cheerful optimism of his predecessor Pat Gelsinger.| Network World
In deal with Silver Lake, Altera will continue offering field-programmable gate array products| Network World
Uptime Institute’s latest research shows that energy efficiency and environmental efforts are slowing as AI growth, regulatory uncertainty, and legacy infrastructure create new obstacles.| Network World
Vertiv OneCore rolls out modular, factory-assembled data center platform for rapid deployment of up to 50 MW systems.| Network World
IBM z/OS 3.2 will be the cornerstone of the z17 mainframe and includes support for the Big Iron's new AI acceleration technologies.| Network World
Here’s what you need to know about the networking giant’s latest product and company news.| Network World
Nvidia wants to make long-haul GPU-to-GPU communication over Ethernet faster and more reliable, and hopes to achieve that with new Ethernet algorithms introduced on Friday. The Spectrum-XGS algorithms are software protocols baked into Nvidia’s latest Ethernet gear. The algorithms automatically adjust long-distance networking performance so distributed GPUs in servers across multiple data centers operate as a single, unified AI supercomputer. “It’s not a new hardware element, but it’s ...| Nvidia: Latest news and insights | Network World
New Versiv testing bundles are designed to identify and troubleshoot copper and fiber network connectivity issues in hyperscale and enterprise data centers.| Network World
Cisco’s MDS 9000 Series multilayer switches, including the MDS 9148V switch, have been tested and validated for use in AI-oriented IBM z17 mainframe environments.| Network World
At its Accelerate user conference, Pure Storage outlined its vision for the future of storage and backed it up with the products to make it real today.| Network World
With NVMe over Fabric, a big limitation on SSDs in the enterprise is going away. This will be worth the upgrade.| Network World
NetApp Cloud Volumes for Google Cloud Platform integrates with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)and brings together public cloud data services and cloud-connected flash storage.| Network World
HPE is rolling out the next generation of its Nimble Storage platform, overhauled to better meet the ever-increasing performance demands on data center workloads including real-time web analytics, business intelligence, and mission-critical enterprise resource applications.| Network World
Dell EMC is kicking off its Dell Technologies World conference with storage, servers and hyperconvergence upgrades aimed at enterprises that are grappling with new application types such as artificial intelligence and machine learning; ongoing digital transformation efforts; and the pressure to deliver higher performance and greater automation in the data center.| Network World
Cisco joins BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, MGX, Microsoft, Nvidia and xAI in the AI Infrastructure Partnership.| Network World
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
The companies are promising cloud-based AI services at a more affordable cost than the alternatives.| Network World
Aimed at high-data-rate AI networks, the AMD Pensando Pollara 400 network interface card is the first NIC compliant with the Ultra Ethernet Consortium 1.0 specification.| Network World
The MI355X accelerator delivers up to 40% higher token-per-dollar efficiency compared to rivals, AMD claims.| Network World
Brium addresses a key gap in enterprise AI deployment — reliance on CUDA-optimized toolchains.| Network World
This could enhance AMD’s ability to develop high-performance systems, bolstering its competitiveness against Nvidia.| Network World
Colocation capacity in North American data centers has dropped to near zero availability, and most of the construction pipeline is already pre-leased, which will impede economic growth and threaten national security, says a new report by a data center construction and real estate services provider JLL.| Network World
Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations, multicloud networking, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and SD-WAN. Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center teams. Check back for regular updates. CompTIA launches AI prompting cert CompTIA has released A...| Study finds data center colocation capacity near zero | Network World
The tech giant’s deal with Kairos Power and TVA brings molten salt reactors into the commercial energy mix, offering stable, carbon-free power for data centers amid soaring AI energy demands.| Network World
The latest developments in the ongoing soap opera that is Intel sees the federal government considering purchasing a stake in the company in a bid to speed up completion of its delayed advanced fabrication facilities, while yet another executive is casting aspersions on CEO Lip-Bu Tan.| Network World
Serverless computing platforms are one of the hottest technologies in the IaaS cloud market. Amazon Web Services and Google have their own tools and now IBM is joining the fray with the announcement of OpenWhisk, an open source event-driven computing platform.| Network World
VMware is in the midst of turbulent times: It announced 800 layoffs this week and the departure of its CFO; the merger of its parent company EMC with Dell is hanging over its head; its vCloud Air public cloud has had fits and starts. But CEO Pat Gelsinger is banking on this one network virtualization feature to help turn the company’s fortunes around.| Network World
Extending IT to reach the 40% of employees who don't work in traditional offices requires new applications to boost those users' productivity, which creates the business case to spur genuine network transformation.| Network World
Nvidia may have to make other customers wait if it wants to fulfill a reported $16 billion in outstanding orders from Chinese customers for its H20 chips before a possible US government ban on sale of them to China takes effect.| Network World
The deal to acquire VMware has been finalized for more than a year, but the fallout continues ahead of VMware Explore 2025, which kicks off on Aug. 25 in Las Vegas. Broadcom is still wrangling in the courts with disgruntled entities. Siemens, United Healthcare and AT&T are among the companies that have filed lawsuits over VMware licensing, and as recently as last month, an organization of cloud service providers in Europe made a play to overturn the European Commission’s decision to approve...| Despite the hubbub, Intel is holding onto server market share | Network World
President Donald Trump accused Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan of being compromised to China but changed his tune days after demanding Tan's resignation.| Network World
The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations. ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how providers are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on the performance of cloud providers and ISPs. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, inclu...| Despite the hubbub, Intel is holding onto server market share | Network World
Everything isn’t moving to the cloud because the cloud isn’t best for everything.| Network World
Network World provides news and analysis of enterprise data center technologies, including networking, storage, servers and virtualization.| Network World
Dynamic host configuration protocol simplifies and improves the accuracy of IP addressing but can raise security concerns| Network World
Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) still assigns dynamic addresses for IPv4 networks, but two newer protocols – SLAAC and DHCPv6 – are vying to do the job for IPv6.| Network World
The Domain Name System (DNS), one of the foundations of the internet, resolves the names of internet sites with their underlying IP addresses, adding efficiency and security in the process.| Network World
IPv6 has been in the works since 1998 to address the shortfall of IP addresses available under Ipv4, yet despite its efficiency and security advantages, adoption is still slow.| Network World
NAT, or network address translation, is a function embedded in even the simplest of SOHO routers. Simply put, NAT hides your device’s “real” address from the network by translating this address to a different address for network communications, thereby supplying a measure of security.| Network World
IoT devices make good botnet material because they are poorly defended and the Mirai source code to create them has been made public.| Network World
One of the most enduring models in networking is the famous seven-layer OSI model. X.25 roughly, but pretty accurately, is based on the first three layers. And it stopped there. Subsequently - partly because of technology and partly because of marketing - Layers 4 through 7 have taken on a life of their own in the network as well as the applications.| Network World
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
Arista’s new switches are aimed helping customers consolidate servers, network and FPGA devices to reduce footprint, cabling, and power consumption.| Network World
Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical devices that IT pros and data scientists can use to run simulations before actual devices are built and deployed. Digital twins can also take real-time IoT data and apply AI and data analytics to optimize performance.| Network World
Wi-Fi 6 is the latest wireless standard that is designed for dense deployments like stadiums and offices, but an even faster standard, Wi-Fi 6E, is enabling emerging technologies like virtual reality and 4K/8K video| Network World
When discussing Ethernet data, the terms frame and packet are often used interchangeably. Frames and packets are the electronic containers that carry our data from point-to-point by navigating LANs and WANs and, as they both serve similar functions, their differences are often misunderstood. So what’s the difference?| Network World
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
A few years back, picking the protocol to link your computers together into a network was a no-brainer. The servers in a mid-sized data center were wired together using Ethernet. And if you wanted to connect many nodes into a single high performance computer (HPC), you went with InfiniBand.| Network World
Web application firewalls backed by artificial intelligence and machine learning are beginning to surface as major successes against DDoS attacks and the application DDoS world.| Network World
Wrapping a firewall around the perimeter is no longer sufficient to meet the needs of modern networks. Technologies such as IPS need to be pushed into the network, not just at the edge, but throughout the entire infrastructure.| Network World
Transport-layer security is more effective than its predecessor SSL, and its latest version - TLS 1.3 - improves both privacy and performance.| Network World
Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a technique that has seen success in traffic management, security, and network analysis. It is a technology that performs content analysis of network packets at line speed but is different from header or metadata-based packet inspection, which is typically performed by switches, firewalls, and IDS/IPS devices. A general DPI solution provides deep packet inspection for different applications.| Network World
Five ways service providers, first responders, utilities, and manufacturers are overcoming their edge networking challenges.| Network World
Follow Intel news as the company continues to focus on foundry leadership and regaining market momentum in the processor sector.| Network World
SoftBank’s CFO confirms delays in the Stargate AI initiative, exposing the critical role of land, energy, and stakeholder orchestration in scaling AI infrastructure.| Network World
Swedish pest control company Anticimex is using IoT to trap rats more efficiently.| Network World
The battle of 6VDT, as it's now known, was a historic moment for video games. Four thousand players, representing two of the biggest power blocs in the popular space MMORPG Eve Online, slugged it out Sunday in a gigantic virtual Cannae that resulted in the destruction of more than 2,500 ships and effectively ended a long and bitter conflict.| Network World
IT can help boost productivity and encourage the best workers to stay by boldly adopting cutting-edge technology that makes tasks easier.| Network World
Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now.| Network World
CISA has added CVE-2024-54085 to its known exploited vulnerabilities list as enterprises struggle with incomplete vendor patches.| Network World
The company has secured an agreement with a yet-to-be-named company, which some speculate could be OpenAI or an equivalent. But analysts say the move won’t impact its capacity to serve its other clients.| Network World
AWS is the latest hyperscaler reported to be scaling back its plans for leasing new colocation capacity — but the moves should not affect enterprises for now, analysts say.| Network World
From gaming to AI, GPUs have revolutionized computing. Discover how these powerful processors work, their key applications such as HPC, IoT and edge computing, and the leading companies driving GPU innovation.| Network World
Trillium, the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), is nearly five times more efficient than its predecessor, TPUv5, in peak compute performance and memory bandwidth, Google said.| Network World
New chips from Microsoft along with other custom chips from the likes of AWS, Google and Oracle, though limited in their impact initially, are expected to provide stiff competition for chipmakers such as Nvidia, AMD and Intel, analysts said.| Network World
In a fiercely competitive CPU market, follow the latest news and analyis as AMD surges in data center and races for AI leadership.| Network World
NS1 Connect can make dynamic decisions about where to send internet requests to ensure the best connections across complex, distributed networking environments.| Network World
CoreWeave is among the first cloud providers to bring GB200 NVL72 systems online at scale.| Network World
Enterprises that aren't trying to learn about autonomous AI agents and their potential to transform network operations centers are going to be left behind, warns Kristopher Beevers, CEO of NetBox Labs.| Network World
NetBox Labs expands network automation platform with new discovery and assurance tools.| Network World
The core NetBox platform models infrastructure relationships in detail, while NetBox Discovery provides network device and service discovery, and NetBox Assurance adds configuration compliance and drift detection capabilities.| Network World
Worldwide IT spending is expected to surpass $5 trillion in 2024, a 7.5% increase over 2023. Gartner's forecast reflects 'ravenous demand' for data center infrastructure.| Network World
Vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure VPN software have reportedly been exploited by attackers, some believed linked to China, to compromise networks.| Network World
TC Cowen report indicates firm has pulled back on ‘converting negotiated and signed’ docs that are precursors to data center leases.| Network World
The Mount Pleasant site was initially earmarked for a manufacturing plant operated by electronics giant Foxconn.| Network World
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has said that the internet domain name system is unlikely to be government property, ahead of the planned transfer by month end of the oversight of key technical functions supporting the internet, including the domain name system, to an independent multistakeholder body.| Network World
Analysts say the move signals a strategic pivot from generic cloud to AI-first infrastructure, reshaping CIO priorities.| Network World
Although OpenAI says that it doesn’t plan to use Google TPUs for now, the tests themselves signal concerns about inference costs.| Network World
Record pricing and pre-booked facilities will force companies to rethink infrastructure strategies amid an AI-driven market squeeze.| Network World
The company plans to make Cloud for Sovereignty generally available in December.| Network World
Login failures, IAM issues, and control plane disruptions rendered IBM Cloud services inaccessible for hours across regions.| Network World
The planned investment with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will result in Oracle expanding its existing cloud region in Jeddah and opening a new one in Riyadh.| Network World
Cisco adds to its mesh firewall portfolio, bolsters security support with partner Nvidia, and extends Splunk integrations.| Network World
