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When Broadcom announced a series of updates to VMware on Wednesday, it quietly added a sentence that extended support and availability options for users in most European countries, attributes not available to the rest of the planet. In a line absent from the document shared earlier with news media, the Broadcom post said that, for customers in countries in the European Economic Area, which is ess…

Growing use of autonomous AI agents could drive a four-fold increase in data center CPU core requirements. CPUs have been declared all but irrelevant in the era of artificial intelligence, but they are receiving a new lease on life thanks to agentic AI creating a new source of demand. According to semiconductor research firm TrendForce , the growing computational requirements of autonomous AI age…

Announcements from IBM and Quantinuum plus a recent acquisition by Intel show that the race to develop a quantum computer has shifted from focusing just on the qubits to integrating these computers with classical systems and software development platforms. To start with, IBM, AMD, and the DOE-funded Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are collaborating on a new research platfo…

Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability that attackers exploited to compromise 996 GS1900 network switches across 48 countries, exposing device configurations, network information and hashed root credentials. The attack began around August 17, according to cybersecurity firm GreyNoise, but researchers initially blamed a different vulnerability that Zyxel had already addressed. The newly identi…

The kinks in the software supply chain are once again being exposed, with attackers now targeting OpsShield’s update process. This week, threat actors used compromised credentials to push malicious updates out to cPGuard customers. They then accessed data stored on the vendor’s servers and in its billing portal accounts, and made copies of at least three of OpsShield’s cloud servers. The company …

Arista Networks continued to grow earnings with AI and enterprise networking leading the charge in its third quarter financial call with Wall Street analysts this week. First off, the company’s CEO and chairperson Jayshree Ullal said that the third quarter hit $3.66 billion or 58.5%, the largest year-over-year revenue growth in the history of being a public company. Just five years ago, Arista re…

Broadcom this week announced it is expanding its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) product portfolio with new AI infrastructure, security, and disaster recovery capabilities. The company also introduced a virtualization product designed for customers with small IT environments. Broadcom is positioning VCF as a private cloud platform for running traditional virtual machines, containers, and AI workloa…

Barracuda, which offers a wide variety of cybersecurity devices, has been bitten by a bug itself. The company has disclosed two critical and high-severity vulnerabilities that, if chained together, could allow threat actors to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to devices. They consist of a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-116606 (rated a …

The median vulnerability on enterprise network appliances stays unpatched for more than a year, Microsoft’s own telemetry shows, even as the most damaging software flaws are being weaponized within days of disclosure. Microsoft Security Research reported the findings Monday in an analysis of roughly 383,000 CVEs disclosed from 1999 through September 2026. It shows that the median time to patch a …

Just a couple of weeks after a cyberattack on French supermarket refrigeration systems resulted in spoiled food, and even some fires, retailers in Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia were hit with nearly-identical attacks on Monday. The mid-October attack prompted an advisory from the French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) recommending that organizations disconnect any refri…

IBM is going to use AI to help and hasten mainframe customers looking to modernize seriously complex Big Iron operations. Understanding how the entire IBM Z environment is interconnected has become increasingly important as many mainframe teams still rely on manual analysis, fragmented tooling, and institutional knowledge to understand dependencies and evaluate risk across teams, creating a manua…

In 2021, Gartner expected a promising future for Network as a Service (NaaS). At the time, adoption accounted for less than 1% of enterprises, and Gartner expected that number to rise to 15% by 2024. Instead, in Gartner’s latest hype cycle for networking , NaaS is still at 1% to 5% market penetration. That’s short of Gartner’s earlier expectations. In fact, Gartner places NaaS deep in the “trough…

Spending for AI buildout has reached shocking scale, though much of the spending comes from hyperscalers and neocloud providers. Enterprises are, however, still in the mix, with networking being one of the core elements of spend. Networking vendors are still seeing growth. Dell’Oro Group reports that worldwide enterprise networkin g revenue grew 15% year over year in the first half of 2026 . In a…

A high-severity flaw in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) is under active exploitation to crash vulnerable devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and rated 8.6 in severity, is due to logic errors when secondary authentication is configured on a tunnel group, Cisco said in its a…

In another sign that the AI bubble is potentially ready to burst, both Gartner and Elon Musk have predicted a significant consolidation of the neocloud business and revenues to fall very short of expectations in general. Gartner says more than $3.5 trillion in artificial intelligence infrastructure spending could be exposed to asset impairments by the end of 2030 if providers continue investing a…