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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…

AWS customers based in the Middle East (ME) are struggling to recover services following drone attacks on the cloud company’s ME data centers on March 1. Two availability zones in the UAE and one in Bahrain were impacted. The company has been providing regular updates as it works to restore operations, but has advised customers with workloads running in the Middle East to take action now to migra…

AI can be a double-edged sword for industrial networking teams, creating both problems and benefits, according to Cisco’s newly released 2026 State of Industrial AI Report . For example, AI cybersecurity is both the biggest barrier and the top asset for industrial networking teams, according to the 1,000 industry professionals who were surveyed for the report. Among respondents, 40% cite cybersec…

AMD is helping telecom operators move from AI pilots to production deployments with the transition from traditional Radio Access Network (RAN) to open, virtualized architectures. At the Mobile World Conference 2026 show AMD is showing end-to-end technologies that can carry AI projects into production , from enterprise AI software to leadership CPUs, GPUs, networking technologies and adaptive comp…

Nvidia on Monday announced strategic partnerships with Lumentum Holdings and Coherent which it said are designed to accelerate the development of advanced optics technologies used in AI data center infrastructure. The agreements will see Nvidia invest $2 billion in each company to support their research and development and operations, and to build out or expand their US-based manufacturing capabi…

More processor coverage on Network World: AMD news and insights | Nvidia news and insights Intel is hoping for a turnaround under its new CEO, Lip-BuTan. Intel’s Q1 2025 revenue was $12.7 billion, flat year-over-year. While revenue for its client computing group dropped 8%, the data center and AI segment showed an 8% increase, driven by Xeon volume. Intel is pushing its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators an…

At the Mobile World Conference show in Barcelona, Intel showcased its most advanced processor yet, the Xeon 6+ processor, codenamed “Clearwater Forest.” Technically, it is one of Intel’s most complex chiplet designs , with a package that combines a total of 12 compute chiplets manufactured on a mix of Intel 18A node, Intel 7, and Intel 3 manufacturing processes. Clearwater Forest supports the exi…

Nvidia has partnered with a variety of global telecom providers for a commitment to build 6G on open and secure artificial intelligence-native platforms, bringing software-defined networking to telecommunications. Announced at the Mobile World Congress conference, the list of Nvidia partners is a who’s who of telecom — Booz Allen, BT Group, Cisco, Deutsche Telekom, Ericsson, MITRE, Nokia, OCUDU E…

What do enterprises wish for the most when it comes to networking? Ok, if you guessed “that is could be free” you’d be right, but they don’t really think that’s realistic. Their biggest feasible wish is more capacity . Networks push bits, and of 372 enterprises who offered comments on their 2026 wishes, 328 put more capacity at the top. It’s not all about AI either . This group thinks that, while…

Stateless AI, in which a model offers one-off answers without context from previous sessions, can be helpful in the short-term but lacking for more complex, multi-step scenarios. To overcome these limitations, OpenAI is introducing what it is calling, naturally, “stateful AI.” The company has announced that it will soon offer a stateful runtime environment in partnership with Amazon, built to sim…

Network admins with Juniper PTX series routers in their environments are being warned to patch immediately, because a newly-discovered critical vulnerability could lead to an unauthenticated threat actor running code with root privileges. T he hole is “especially dangerous, because these devices often sit in the middle of the network, not on the fringes,” said Piyush Sharma , CEO of Tuskira . “ I…

Data centers are increasingly causing problems and wearing out their welcome in many localities, for a variety of reasons. The two most commonly referred to issues are power consumption driving up everyone’s electric bill, and noise from the generators disrupting surrounding neighborhoods. But there is another reason to add to the list: water consumption. According to the International Energy Age…

Network resiliency is about more than just DNS redundancy and using multiple regions and providers. It also requires extending resiliency to network configuration. That’s the challenge that cloud infrastructure automation startup ControlMonkey is now taking on. ControlMonkey launched its Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery capability in 2025, targeting AWS, Azure and GCP infrastructure. Today t…

AI tools allow attackers to identify and exploit enterprise security weaknesses faster than ever, but most network invaders still rely on unpatched vulnerabilities, credential theft, and misconfigurations to wreak havoc on corporate resources, according to IBM. The vendor today released the 2026 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index , which analyzes data from incident response engagements, the dark w…