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As they face increasing backlash over their resource consumption, major data center operators are scrambling to prove they’re not a drain on the environment, or, at least, not as much of one as their competition. Amazon has published some bold new claims to this end: The tech giant says it has achieved a 52% improvement in water efficiency over the last 5 years, and says its data centers are 7x m…

Marvell Technology says its newly unveiled Teralynx T100 is the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps switch silicon purpose-built for AI. The Teralynx T100 was architected for AI, with low power consumption and low latency at this bandwidth tier, to address critical bottlenecks in today’s large clusters. Data movement has become an important concern in modern AI data centers. In the past, a cluster of a f…

IBM and ServiceNow are teaming up for new services they say will help enterprise customers bring aging legacy environments into an AI-ready infrastructure. The collaboration will combine IBM’s AI, data, and automation capabilities and ServiceNow’s AI platform for a variety of offerings that will modernize aging systems, enable autonomous IT operations, and help organizations evolve existing syste…

The window between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation has been shrinking for years, and frontier AI models have accelerated that compression. To address that shift, F5 this week announced an expansion of its web application and API protection (WAAP) capabilities for its Application Delivery and Security Platform. The new features span three areas: AI-powered web application firewall …

Cisco is in the years-long process of shifting from a hardware-centric business focused on switches and routers toward a broader software and services strategy, aiming to position itself as a central player in cloud, security, and AI-driven networking. Cisco remains a dominant hardware vendor but has spent recent years investing heavily in software to build recurring revenue streams, said Jack Go…

Residential proxy services route internet traffic through consumer devices to make connections appear to originate from real home IP addresses. Security researchers have tracked their use by threat actors for credential stuffing, ad fraud, and denial-of-service operations. What has been less understood is how widely those services have already penetrated enterprise networks, often without IT or s…

While hyperscalers and neo-cloud providers may get the lion’s share of attention for providing AI infrastructure, many enterprises are taking a build-it-themselves approach to meet their specific AI requirements. The success of such projects is crucial to achieving business objectives, yet companies face significant challenges as they try to scale pilots to production. Organizations must keep up …

OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio in an arrangement that could include financial backing from Nvidia. The campus could cost at least $500 billion to build at current prices for chips, power, and construction, The Information reported , citing people familiar with the discussions. OpenAI would control the computing equipment …

Lotus Microsystems has introduced vStrata, a new power-delivery architecture aimed at Improving data center power efficiency, a pressing concern even in a non- AI environment . At the heart of the platform is the company’s proprietary Power Interposer Technology (PIT), a silicon-based interposer architecture that enables power conversion and delivery closer to the processor package. The PIT uses …

Arista Networks has taken the wraps off its 7060XE7 Series , a new portfolio of 1.6T networking platforms designed to provide the foundation for rack-scale AI infrastructure. The 7060XE7 family features fixed switch platforms and configurable rack-scale systems, targeting racks for vertical and horizontal AI workflows. All will run Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), which includes low-la…

Zscaler announced what it calls the first complete zero trust platform for agentic AI, aimed at securing how AI agents access data and talk to one another. “Traditional security was never designed for millions of autonomous agents that act and reach sensitive data at machine speed,” said Jay Chaudhry , Zscaler’s chairman and CEO, in the Tuesday announcement . The company will be extending its Zsc…

The majority of enterprises now either run or plan to run AI workloads in private clouds, according to a survey of 1,800 senior IT decision makers conducted by Radius Tech on behalf of Broadcom. Only 41% of enterprises are now using public clouds for inference workloads, down from 56% last year. Meanwhile, the use of private clouds for AI inference has risen slightly, from 55% to 56%. “The key ta…

Cisco warns customers of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, an enterprise network management system that has been targeted by hackers multiple times in the past. Located in the command-line interface, the flaw allows authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root and take over the entire system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, is ra…

Enterprise network operations teams are struggling to keep pace with the demands placed on them, and the challenge is growing as enterprises prepare their networks and observability tools for AI workloads. Roughly 31% of IT professionals surveyed for an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) benchmarking study said their organization’s network operations strategy is completely successful, a figur…

Amazon has started deploying a completely new routing architecture in AWS data centers which it says will deliver higher throughput from fewer physical switches while slashing electricity consumption. The company claims the architecture, dubbed Resilient Network Graphs (RNG) by the AWS Networking Lab researchers who developed it, offers a more efficient alternative to the traditional ‘fat tree’ t…