Sovereign clouds, designed to keep a nation’s data firmly within its borders, are upending traditional approaches to cloud computing for global enterprises operating in the Asia-Pacific.| Network World
Its GB200 NVL72 system delivered up to 30 times higher throughput on the Llama 3.1 405B workload compared to firm’s H200 NVL8, Nvidia said.| Network World
AI servers are playing an increasingly pivotal role as enterprises across industries race to implement sophisticated gen AI tools and AI agents.| Network World
High-performance computing (HPC) aggregates multiple servers into a cluster that is designed to process large amounts of data at high speeds to solve complex problems. HPC is particularly well suited for artificial intelligence (AI) processing, a technology that is gaining broader usage in many applications.| Network World
Data centers powering AI are expected to face severe energy constraints as electricity demand soars 160%, threatening industry growth.| Network World
It’s not a matter of being better than Nvidia, because Nvidia chips are becoming virtually impossible to get.| Network World
IBM and AMD want to develop hybrid computing resources for advanced quantum algorithms.| Network World
AMD has issued an alert to users of a newly discovered form of side-channel attack similar to the infamous Meltdown and Spectre exploits that dominated the news in 2018.| Network World
Cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean Holdings has announced a collaboration with AMD to provide DigitalOcean customers with low-cost access to AMD Instinct GPUs starting later this year.| Network World
As the demand for AI and VFX workstations grows, AMD is challenging Intel's dominance in the segment with Threadripper Pro 9000, which offers 96 cores.| Network World
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The chip giant must try to maintain x86 dominance while adapting to AI-driven computing and emerging architectures.| Network World
Mid-range Xeon 6 enterprise chips and edge SoCs aimed at memory-intensive data center workloads and more.| Network World
Infineon’s Power & Sensor Systems division is teaming up with Nvidia to upgrade the outdated power architecture of AI data centers and replace them with a centralized high-voltage DC power setup. With GPUs consuming more than 1 kW of power per chip, the amount of power going into a rack has exploded, and so are the racks. The rate of power failure is increasing due to the growing power burden. Racks have gone from demanding on average 120 kilowatts to 500 kilowatts in just a few years, and ...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
A consortium led by private equity firm BlackRock is buying Aligned Data Centers for $40 billion. It’s said to be the largest data center deal in history — but more than that, it highlights a market shift that’s putting enterprise CIOs at a strategic disadvantage when it comes to accessing AI infrastructure. As private equity and tech giants consolidate ownership of data center capacity, they’re not removing it from the market, but they are fundamentally changing who gets first access...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Meta shared details about its AI and networking advances at this week’s 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Calif. Facebook was a founding member of Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2011, and its now-parent-company Meta has used the annual conference to showcase systems it’s developing to stay on the bleeding edge of technology. At this week’s event, that meant detailing Meta’s AI and networking advances. “The advent of AI has changed all our assumptions on how to scale our infrastruct...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Chip designer Arm Holdings plc has announced it is joining the Open Compute Project to help address rising energy demands from AI-oriented data centers. Arm said it plans to support companies in developing the next phase of purpose-built silicon and packaging for converged infrastructure. The company said that to build this next phase of infrastructure requires co-designed capabilities across compute, acceleration, memory, storage, networking and beyond. The new converged AI data center won...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Network segmentation has been a security best practice for decades, yet for many reasons, not all network deployments have fully embraced the approach of microsegmentation. With ransomware attacks becoming increasingly sophisticated and cyber insurance underwriters paying closer attention to network architecture, microsegmentation is transitioning from nice to have to business imperative. New research from Akamai examines how organizations are approaching microsegmentation adoption, implement...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is not just going all-in on AI, but on AI at incredible scale. This week, the company announced what it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, OCI Zettascale10. The multi-gigawatt architecture links hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to deliver what OCI calls “unprecedented” performance. The supercomputer will serve as the backbone for the ambitious, yet somewhat embattled, $500 billion Stargate project. “The platform offers benefits such as...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Wireless connectivity is standard across corporate campuses, in warehouses and factories, and even in remote locations. But what about wireless power? Can we get rid of all cables? Many of us are already using wireless chargers for our cellphones and other devices. But induction chargers aren’t a complete solution since they require very close proximity between the device and the charging station. So, what can enterprises try? Some organizations are deploying midrange solutions that use rad...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
The Guipuzcoan city of San Sebastián is now operating the IBM Quantum System Two quantum computer, the most advanced of its kind that IBM has developed commercially to date. This is the first installation of its kind in Europe and the second in the world—the first was installed in the Japanese city of Kobe before the summer—not counting the equipment IBM has in its own quantum labs in New York. The IBM computer, which integrates a 156-qubit quantum chip (called Heron), is located in the...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
The Basque city of San Sebastián is beginning to play an interesting leading role in the radically different field of quantum technology. The official launch of IBM Quantum System Two, the most advanced quantum computer of the ‘Blue Giant,’ happened in Donostia-San Sebastián. This infrastructure, which the technology company has implemented on the main campus of the Ikerbasque scientific foundation in Gipuzkoa, aims to solve problems that have remained unsolvable in combination wi...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Nvidia’s “personal AI supercomputer,” the DGX Spark, may run fast but it’s been slow getting here. It finally went on sale on Oct. 15, five months later than the company initially promised, and early units are hard to find: Nvidia’s online shop was out of stock on launch day, and retailers have few units in store. When Nvidia unveiled the machine, then known as Project DIGITS, at the CES 2025 electronics show in January, it said it would go on sale in May. But by the time Nvidia gav...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
As AI networking technology blossoms, yet another group has formed to make sure Ethernet can handle the stress. AMD, Arista, ARM, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE Networking, Marvell, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI and Oracle have joined the new Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) initiative, which promises to advance the networking technology to handle scale-up connectivity across accelerated AI infrastructure. ESUN was formed by the nonprofit Open Compute Project, which is hosting its 2025 OCP Glo...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Network infrastructure has become a performance constraint in large-scale AI training, and Broadcom has spent the past three years building an AI networking portfolio that aims to solve this problem. Over the last several months, the company rolled out Tomahawk 6 switches for scale-out networking and Jericho 4 for inter-data-center connectivity. Today, Broadcom is taking the next step with Thor Ultra, an 800G Ethernet network interface card purpose-built for AI backend networks. Thor Ultra ...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
OpenAI has partnered with Broadcom to co-develop and deploy its first in-house AI processors. The move could reshape data center networking dynamics and chip supply strategies as the ChatGPT maker races to secure more computing power for its rapidly growing AI workloads. The multi-year collaboration will deploy 10 gigawatts of OpenAI-designed accelerators and Broadcom’s Ethernet-based networking systems starting in 2026, underscoring a move toward custom silicon and open networking architec...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Nvidia will be front-and-center at this week’s Global Summit for members of the Open Compute Project (OCP), emphasizing its “grid-to-chip” philosophy. The company is making announcements on several fronts, including the debut of Vera Rubin MGX, its next-gen architecture fusing CPUs and GPUs, and Spectrum-XGS Ethernet, a networking fabric designed for “giga-scale” AI factories. [ Related: More Nvidia news and insights ] It’s all part of a bigger play by Nvidia to position itself ...| Network jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends | Network World
Intel has revealed more details of its next-generation Xeon 6+ E-core CPU family, codenamed “Clearwater Forest,” with a focus on power and performance efficiency.| Network World
A private version of DNS for use in internal infrastructure is enabling modern applications, DevOps, edge computing, and the shift to IPv6.| Network World
Majorana 1 is the first quantum processor with a topological core, designed to scale to a million qubits on a single chip.| Network World
Two systems are better than one, say vendors. But what about vendor lock-in?| Network World
SD-WAN and analytics can help optimize performance of cloud-based applications, IDC says.| Network World
SD-WANs can help enterprises to manage increasingly complex and diverse network infrastructures at a lower cost, but there are pitfalls to avoid.| Network World
Attackers have already exploited the SNMP vulnerability to execute remote code or deny service.| 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
As VMware users convene in Las Vegas for VMware Explore 2025, Broadcom is touting VMware Cloud Foundation's arsenal of features.| Network World
IT giant targets telco hardware makers with deployable pure 5G networks and Wi-Fi integration.| Network World
H3C’s Magic BE18000 is the first Wi-Fi 7 access point offered for retail sale.| Network World
It’s a big breakthrough in wireless connectivity, but don’t let MU-MIMO’s limitations catch you off guard. Here are 10 ways to get up to speed on MU-MIMO Wi-Fi.| Network World
This how-to shows how to use free Ansible software to automate configuration of Cisco routers and links to other Ansible modules that apply to other vendors' gear and support other functionality| Network World
Architectures for software-defined data centers can address the need for flexibility and agility, but implementing them is difficult and calls for coordinating a host of complex features including containers, security, provisioning, scaling and migration to hybrid cloud.| Network World
VMware is a company on the move: its planned $1.26 billion acquisition of Nicira not only brings it into the software-defined network (SDN) market, but should also broaden VMware’s support for open standards and even open source.| Network World
Microsoft today announced a technical preview of Azure Stack – a product meant to be an on-premises equivalent to the company's IaaS public cloud. Why is this a big deal? Because Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform don’t have anything like it.| Network World
Software-defined networking and network function virtualization are two important, but sometimes confusing, trends in the networking industry.| Network World
A few years ago VMware and OpenStack were foes. Oh, how times have changed. This week VMware is out with the 2.5 release of its VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO). The virtualization giant continues to make it easier to run the open source cloud management tools on top of VMware virtualized infrastructure.| Network World
At its core, OpenStack is an operating system that builds public or private clouds. But OpenStack is a platform, it's not just one piece of software that's downloaded and installed to "voila!" build a cloud.| Network World
Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) will take advantage of the 6GHz spectrum recently allocated to unlicensed wireless technology.| Network World
New wireless spectrum recently dedicated to Wi-Fi allows for more channels and higher density deployments.| Network World
Li-Fi could turn LED light bulbs into network access points| Network World
Wi-Fi 7 certification is officially underway, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced.| Network World
VMware Workspace One upgrades are highlighted by a new containerized Workspace ONE SaaS microservices architecture.| Network World
In the age of AI, high-speed optical networking is more important than ever. Co-packaged optics removes the need for pluggable optics, simplifying network design while increasing resiliency.| Network World
Nvidia’s network infrastructure stack will be available through servers from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.| Network World
State media publishes scathing ‘How can I trust you?’ commentary as Beijing escalates pressure over alleged vulnerabilities.| Network World
This comes as US-China tensions ease, with China loosening rare earth exports and the US restoring chip design software access.| Network World
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) combines compute, storage, and network virtualization into a single platform, on a subscription basis. This is a departure from the past, when customers were able to buy individual pieces of the product under perpetual licenses instead of subscriptions. The new approach is often considered to be a better fit for VMware's largest customers, at the expense of smaller clients. But one midsize enterprise says it's making it work and saving money while doing it.| Network World
The new 7nm-class chip, reportedly in testing, signals a shift to domestic fabrication and aims to rival Nvidia’s China-compliant GPUs while maintaining CUDA compatibility.| 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’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
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
New algorithms will fine-tune the performance of Nvidia Spectrum-X systems used to connect GPUs across multiple servers and even between data centers.| 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
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
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
