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The RAM price crisis is pushing hardware manufacturers to pursue deals with Chinese companies, against the wishes of the US government. Apple is one of those reportedly exploring such deals. “Apple is in negotiations to purchase chips from Chinese semiconductor makers ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. (CMTI) and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. (YMTC) to help reduce the impact of a global memory s…

Cisco this week shared more details about its new Live Protect package and how it will help Nexus-based data center operators safeguard valuable resources. Announced and demoed at the recent Cisco Live event, Cisco Live Protect for Nexus infrastructure replaces disruptive, traditional patching cycles with real-time shields that mitigate vulnerabilities instantly, according to Shankar Varanasy, pr…

Hyperscalers continue to invest astronomical amounts in data infrastructure for AI workloads, even as they concede that the massive projects may not pan out as planned. Oracle, for instance, detailed in its latest 10-K report to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) all of the ways that these investments could be adversely impacted, potentially making the projects more expensive and ext…

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…

Enterprise AI adoption is outpacing workforce readiness , according to new research from Kyndryl that found only 23% of leaders believe their organizations are prepared to support AI at scale . The report discovered that 57% of organizations have broadly deployed AI or embedded it into core business processes, while 77% have scaled generative AI across multiple functions. According to Kyndryl’s 2…

Netgear today announced Insight 10.0 , the latest version of its cloud-based network management platform, which adds new AI-powered capabilities designed to help small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) and managed service providers (MSPs) simplify network management, improve visibility, and reduce manual tasks. The company says the release represents a significant step toward AI-powered network oper…

Cisco’s work with the USGA at the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club was a live testbed for what AI-ready networking and security look like in the wild — not in a lab, not in a climate-controlled data center, but across 18 holes of constantly changing terrain, crowds, and threats. It’s also a blueprint that network engineers in other industries can borrow as they grapple with the conver…

The Department of War has recognized the national security threat posed by quantum computers and has put some teeth behind the federal government’s push for quantum-proof encryption. It announced plans for a centralized oversight structure for post-quantum encryption, scanning vulnerable systems, coordinating migration roadmaps, and developing post-quantum cryptography for defense needs. The depa…

Broadcom’s claims that it can support European cloud service providers building competitive sovereign solutions are exaggerated, according to the Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers Europe (CISPE). The US company is promoting its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) software as the enabling technology for the European Union’s Sovereign Cloud, but Broadcom is not the solution to Europe’s technology so…

The quantum computing industry has a supply-chain problem: The companies that could make the specialized lasers, cryogenics, and photonics it depends on don’t have enough of a market yet to invest in creating these products. An executive order signed Monday aims to fix that, directing the government to strengthen domestic component manufacturing and partner with the private sector to fill the gap…

Microsoft’s controversial claim that its Majorana chip program will make possible a scalable quantum computer by 2029 has been thrown into new doubt by a scientific paper that questions whether the company has correctly interpreted its own experimental evidence. According to a peer-reviewed paper by Dr. Henry Legg from the University of St Andrews, published this week in Nature , Microsoft’s Topo…

IBM is showing off a fingernail-size silicon chip that promises to deliver more power, more efficiently, in future computing, communications, and infrastructure deployments. The sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip features a transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node, IBM says. It packs nearly 100 billion transistors, which is almost twice the density of IBM’s 2 nm chip unveiled in 2021. A s…

The acquisition of VMware by Broadcom has caused many enterprise IT leaders to reexamine their infrastructure strategies. For organizations running vSphere 8, the October 2027 end-of-support deadline is rapidly becoming a planning priority. What may appear to be a routine upgrade is driving bigger discussions about cost, flexibility, cloud strategy, and long-term infrastructure direction. Many or…

Qualcomm on Wednesday said that it will spend $3.9 billion to purchase AI-native software platform developer Modular Inc., a move that Qualcomm says will allow it to level the playing field on data centers by creating “a silicon-agnostic compute layer.” The stock-based acquisition “further enables Qualcomm Technologies to deliver a silicon-agnostic compute layer across devices, edge, and data cen…

IBM, its RedHat subsidiary, and Palo Alto Networks are teaming up to help enterprises identify vulnerabilities in open-source software and deploy safeguards against threats, particularly those generated by AI . The joint effort will rely on Palo Alto’s network-based virtual patching technology, which is found in its Prisma security software , and IBM/Red Hat’s Project Lightwell, a software remedi…