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HPE this week announced updates to its private cloud, storage, and data-protection portfolio aimed at enterprise customers who are reevaluating their VMware strategies and looking to ready their infrastructure to handle AI workloads. The updates are delivered through HPE GreenLake and focus on simplifying management across virtual machines, Kubernetes, and AI workloads while also expanding edge-r…

Traffic patterns are shifting, agent deployments are multiplying, and cloud environments keep expanding. The point tools enterprises use to manage each layer are not keeping pace. Versa Networks is addressing those challenges with three coordinated updates to its VersaONE Universal SASE Platform. The first is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capability that brings cloud risk visibility …

Red Hat on Tuesday opened its Ansible Automation Platform to AI agents while adding new controls intended to keep them under tight control. The company made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Ansible generally available, allowing any AI tool to access the platform, and it introduced a new automation orchestrator, in technology preview, that routes actions through human-approved, determin…

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

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…

Understanding that enterprise migrations can be structurally complicated, costly, and constrained in certain environments, many software and cloud providers offer extended maintenance, support, and security updates. Oftentimes, though, they come with caveats and firm end dates. Red Hat is looking to shake up this paradigm with its announcement at Red Hat Summit of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RH…

Red Hat is attempting to reposition sovereignty from a compliance issue for European companies to a global strategic priority for enterprises, including US firms, who want more control over their enterprise stacks . Today, Red Hat announced new sovereign and private cloud capabilities that expand sovereignty to include vendor independence, AI control, and operational autonomy. These new capabilit…

Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by Sasha Levin , a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and co-maintainer of the long-term sup…

U.S. tech employment regained momentum in April, with job postings reaching a three-year high and tech hiring swinging back into positive territory, according to new data from CompTIA. Employers across all industries posted 271,483 new technology job listings during the month of April. In all, there were more than 575,000 active job postings for tech positions nationwide, according to CompTIA’s a…

HPE has rolled out a new enterprise memory server built for complex business workloads, compute-heavy systems, and emerging agentic AI workloads. The HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3250 is powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors. It’s available with a minimum of four and up to 16 sockets and supports up to 64TB of DDR5 memory. The 3250 is built on the HPE Superdome Flex architecture, which includes a hig…

The PCI-SIG consortium announced PCIe 7.0 nearly four years ago and no products supporting it have come to market yet, but the standards body is going forward with the first draft of the PCIe 8.0 standard. If all goes according to plan, the final PCIe 8.0 specification will be released in 2028. Each new revision of the PCIe spec features a doubling of performance over the prior generation, and 8.…

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…

Dubai-founded OTT Cybersecurity LLC also unveils the Agent Trust Protocol (ATP), the first open cryptographic standard for AI agent identity, scope, and action verification — slated for IETF submission. OTT Cybersecurity LLC, the company behind Lyrie.ai, today announced two milestones that together position the company as foundational infrastructure for the agentic AI era: acceptance into Anthrop…

Sonia Fernández-Vidal has spent her career making the strange world of quantum physics feel tangible: first in the laboratory, then on the page, and now in the gallery. A doctor in Quantum Optics and Information from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, she has conducted research at some of the world’s most presigious institutions, including CERN in Switzerland and Los Alamos National Laborator…

An OpenAI-led consortium of tech giants including AMD , Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and Nvidia have unveiled a new networking protocol designed to address network congestion, a problem that has always existed but has been exacerbated by the massive amounts of data required for AI processing. The new protocol, called Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), is for training models on 100,000+ GPUs by d…