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Italy’s communications authority AGCOM has fined Cloudflare €14.2 million for refusing to block pirate sites via its public DNS service 1.1.1.1, in accordance with the country’s controversial Piracy Shield law, reports Ars Technica . The law, which was introduced in 2024, requires network operators and DNS services to block websites and IP addresses reported by copyright holders. Sometimes within…

The latest additions to HPE’s product portfolio are aimed at helping retailers , branch operators and edge customers to quickly set up and more easily manage remote operations. The new and enhanced products, which were announced at the National Retail Federation’s annual show, include: a new HPE Aruba Networking CX 6000 Switch; integration of the AI-based Marvis virtual network assistant with HPE…

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…

The global technology sector eliminated some 244,851 jobs in 2025, according to a report from RationalFX . The U.K.-based financial services company says the worldwide downsizing reflects how companies in 2025 restructured their operations to focus on efficiency, profitability, and AI-driven productivity. The RationalFX analysis, which examined layoffs reported by TrueUp, TechCrunch , and multipl…

Suppose you’re a CIO or senior application planner, and you need to understand whether you should dig into quantum computing as a future option. Enterprises themselves are divided on the issue, because frankly this whole quantum thing is spooky, and that’s according to no less than Albert Einstein. What Einstein didn’t like is that quantum physics is so totally different from what we see as real-…

As IT organizations mature their network automation strategies , it’s becoming clear that network intent data is an essential foundation. They need reliable documentation of network inventory, IP address space, topology and connectivity, policies, and more. This requirement often kicks off a network source of truth (NSoT) project, which involves network teams discovering, validating, and consolid…

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

The rapidly evolving IT landscape, driven by artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing, and rising security threats, presents unprecedented challenges in managing compute infrastructure. Traditional management tools struggle to provide the necessary scalability, visibility, and automation to keep up with business demand, leading to inefficiencies and increased business risk. Yet organizations …

Many Cisco routers were knocked offline on Thursday due to a sequencing change in DNS records issued, and subsequently pulled back, by Cloudflare. But analysts pointed to the incident as an awkward reminder of how fragile some enterprise network operations have become. “The deeper takeaway is how fragile some of the layers of the stack still are. DNS is often treated as a solved problem, but plen…

The latest flaw in Cisco Systems Identity Services Engine (ISE), which could expose sensitive information to an attacker, requires rotation of credentials as well as installation of a patch to correct, says an expert. Cisco ISE is a network access control platform that enforces access policy and manages endpoints. There have been more critical holes in Cisco products, acknowledged Paddy Harringto…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and also crosses into vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and manufac…

The open-source Linux operating system has emerged to be the foundation for cloud and networking across industries. Enterprise Linux distributions form the core of modern networking setups. They deliver reliable, secure platforms for data centers, cloud systems, edge devices and telecom networks. While there is a core open-source Linux kernel that is at the heart of the operating system, there ar…

Veeam says that four vulnerabilities could allow a person with certain oversight roles for its flagship Backup & Replication suite to do serious damage to – but not destroy – a backup database. The company has already issued a patch for the bugs, which, it says, should be applied immediately. The worst of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-59470, carries a criticality score of 9 and would allow a thre…

Lenovo Group Ltd. has introduced a range of new enterprise-level servers designed specifically for AI inference tasks. The servers are part of Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage lineup, a family of inferencing devices. Nvidia has captured the training space, where large language models (LLMs) are generated, but the inferencing space, where the LLMs are put to work doing things like answering questions …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) raised the prices of its GPU instances for machine learning by around 15 percent this weekend, without warning, reports The Register . The price increase applies in particular to EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML, where, for example, the cost of the p5e.48xlarge instance rose from $ 34.61 to $ 39.80 per hour. AWS had previously announced that their prices would be updated in Ja…