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Chinese state-sponsored threat actors are backdooring VMware vCenter and VMware ESXi servers with a malware program written in Go, allowing them to maintain long-term persistence in victim networks. According to a joint report by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) organizations from …

IBM announced a cloud-based service that is expected to help enterprises decrease the risk of DNS outages and protect corporate assets across multicloud environments. The service, called IBM Cloud Sync , offers continuous, bidirectional synchronization and policy translation between IBM’s NS1 Connect package and the cloud provider’s DNS servers. NS1 Connect’s DNS services can make dynamic decisio…

For the last five years, Andrew Wheeler has been in charge of HPE Labs, which is focused on driving innovative technologies from R&D to commercialization. The senior vice president and director of HPE Labs was in Barcelona this week, where HPE Discover 2025 took place. Wheeler sat down with Esther Macías, chief editor of Computerworld Spain, to talk about the projects being developed under his wi…

Cloudflare’s network suffered a brief but widespread outage Friday, after an update to its Web Application Firewall to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components went wrong. At 9:09 a.m. UTC, the company reported that it was investigating issues with the Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, warning that customers might see requests fail or errors displayed. Just 10 minutes later, it ha…

IT training and certification provider CompTIA this week released an updated version of its AI Essentials learning program designed to help employees develop AI skills for workplace use with tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini. Recent CompTIA research found that about one-third (34%) of companies require AI skills training for their employees, and the same study revealed that most companie…

AI is a key factor in one of the tech industry’s most significant M&A developments: HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. The $14 billion deal would shake up the industry, and regulatory watchdogs in the U.S. and worldwide have raised antitrust concerns. Meanwhile, enterprise customers are worried about product discontinuations and roadmap disruptions. We’ve tracked the deal since it wa…

A decade after HPE embarked on its solo journey following the separation of the former HP into two companies, CEO Antonio Neri took the stage at its major annual European event, held December 3-4 in Barcelona. Neri shared HPE’s roadmap, which is centered on three technological pillars: networking, cloud and artificial intelligence. “I am very proud of what we have accomplished together over the p…

Enterprises wanting to process sensitive data with AI face a dilemma: Pay more for on-premises AI infrastructure, or battle with data sovereignty and compliance barriers in the cloud. Now AWS is weighing in with another option: a fully managed, on-premises AI infrastructure offering it calls AI Factories. Much like its existing AWS Outposts offering for classical compute workloads, AI Factories d…

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…

At its Discover Barcelona 2025 customer event, HPE unveiled a wide range of networking gear and software to help enterprise customers move efficiently into the AI networking era. The rollout includes new switches and routers as well as deepened partnerships with AMD and Nvidia. In addition, HPE demonstrated how it plans to integrate the AI technology it acquired from Juniper in the deal finalized…

LogicMonitor announced it has completed its acquisition of Catchpoint for more than $250 million, combining hybrid observability and internet performance monitoring capabilities to address the increasing complexity of AI infrastructure and distributed workloads. LogicMonitor said its acquisition of Catchpoint would directly address enterprises struggling with distributed compute environments and …

The proliferation of artificial intelligence workloads is creating concern about the ability of data center networks to keep up with demand. One part of the solution is co-packaged optics (CPO), which involves incorporating optical technology more deeply into data center network switches. CPO promises not only to support the higher speeds that AI workloads demand but also to reduce power consumpt…

The biannual release of the Top500 list of supercomputers worldwide is populated with supercomputers at research institutions , not private industry and is a source of bragging rights for the vendors who make a strong showing. Quite a bit changed in the 31 years since the list was created. Back in 1994, the list was dominated by Thinking Machines supercomputers, made famous in the movie “Jurassic…

Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in chip design software maker Synopsys on Monday, placing the GPU giant in the unusual position of holding substantial equity in a company that serves on the board of an industry consortium developing technology that competes with Nvidia’s own interconnect technology. Synopsys sits on the board of the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium , an industr…

WebAssembly (commonly also known simply as Wasm) began as a browser technology for running high-performance applications in web environments. The basic promise was to enable web developers to write application code once, in any language, and then have it run in any environment with the best possible performance. Wasm is an open standard with multiple implementations and supporting vendors. Among …