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Findings of a new study conducted by a group of academics from around the globe have revealed that land surface temperature (LST) increases by 2°C (3.6°F) on average after the start of operations of an AI data center, an effect detectable up to an estimated 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away. The study , The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world , was c…

Developers can spend days using fuzzing tools to find security weaknesses in code. Alternatively, they can simply ask an LLM to do the job for them in seconds. The catch: LLMs are evolving so rapidly that this convenience might come with hidden dangers. The latest example is from researcher Hung Nguyen from AI red teaming company Calif, who, with simple prompts to Anthropic’s Claude Code, was abl…

OpenStack has been running production cloud infrastructure for 15 years, and its 33rd release keeps that record going. The OpenStack community today released OpenStack 2026.1, code-named Gazpacho, delivering improvements across compute, bare metal, networking and storage focused on operator experience and workload mobility. Gazpacho is the first release since OpenStack 2025.2 Flamingo , which cen…

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from test beds to enterprise deployment and AI service providers are popping up daily. As organizations race to embed AI into workflows—everything from market analysis and reporting to automation and digital agents—a new concept has entered the enterprise IT vocabulary: tokenomics. While the term originated in the cryptocurrency world, tokenomics now refe…

IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results. Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead.

The regulatory body which last year accused Microsoft of inflating its office software’s license prices when it was run on rival cloud platforms to make those platforms less appealing, said Tuesday it will conduct a further investigation into the company’s entire business software ecosystem. The probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ), scheduled to begin in May, follows an ear…

Nvidia is betting on heterogeneity as the next phase of enterprise AI. To provide customers more choice and flexibility, the chip giant has announced a new partnership with Marvell Technology that will connect the semiconductor company to the Nvidia AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystems. Nvidia is also investing $2 billion in Marvell, and the two companies will collaborate on next-gen 5G/6G networks t…

Cisco has extended its Enterprise Agreement (EA) software licensing and services program to include Nutanix and its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) package, the Nutanix Cloud Platform. The move is unique in that Cisco included third-party OEM technology in the EA , which typically involves only Cisco networking, software, security and other services, according to a blog post penned by Jeremy …

Cato Networks today introduced a modular adoption model for its secure access service edge (SASE) platform that lets enterprises deploy individual security and networking capabilities without committing to a full SASE rollout immediately, while still getting the unified architecture underneath. With the new modular model, organizations can start with any combination of four standalone modules—AI …

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services 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 internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, was facing a $250 million budget gap. Like many large organizations, the city suspected inefficiencies were hiding in plain sight — including in its legacy IT infrastructure. CTO Rob Lloyd and his team set out on a hypervisor migration project, partnering with Nutanix to consolidate thousands of legacy virtual machines , reduce server sprawl and…

Any network built through years of acquisitions will typically accumulate the structural debt of overlapping infrastructure, fragmented inventory, and no single view of what is running where. For Lumen Technologies , that debt compounded across four decades and dozens of acquisitions. Lumen is an enterprise network infrastructure company serving large enterprise, government and wholesale customer…

In a highly unusual move, Amazon has confirmed that it is waiving an entire month’s usage charges for customers using two Middle Eastern datacenters disrupted by Iranian drone attacks earlier this month. The attacks on March 1 damaged two Amazon datacenters in the region, ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain), something the company acknowledged the following day. “These str…

I used to think AI performance was mostly a GPU problem. Then I watched a “healthy” GPU fleet crawl. Not because we ran out of compute, but because we ran out of movement. Tokens waiting on data. GPUs waiting on batches. Services waiting on east-to-west traffic. Storage queues quietly turning into tail latency. Today, I do not even call this a storage problem. It is an information supply chain pr…

The current web is optimized for surveillance capitalism; this is positive compared to other ways our data can be used. Data from activities on native utility applications and communications on social messaging applications, both offline and online, are routed through centralized systems managed by admins who decide whether these actions proceed to completion at all and what happens to the data p…