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When it comes to its future in quantum computing, Microsoft will be focusing on Denmark—the home country of Niels Bohr , a pioneer of quantum mechanics. To this end, the company is expanding its laboratory in Lyngby to build its largest quantum site. The ambitious goal is to revolutionize the development of universally applicable, fault-tolerant quantum computers . At the same time, the new facil…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise said its next generation Cray supercomputing platform will offer a choice of processors from Nvidia and AMD, even though the chips aren’t available yet and the system is likely not going to be available until 2027. HPE announced the Cray Supercomputing GX5000 ahead of the upcoming Supercomputing 25 conference, taking place in St. Louis Nov.16-21. The GX5000 succeeds the…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | Nvidia news and insights AMD continues to make gains in processor and data center markets thanks largely to its EPYC processors, which has chipped away at Intel’s long-standing dominance. According to AMD’s Q1 2025 results, revenue increased 36% over the same quarter in 2024 to $7.4 billion. More specifically, its data center seg…

The open-source StarlingX cloud infrastructure project is out with its second major update of 2025, bringing with it new edge security and usability improvements. StarlingX is part of the Open Infrastructure Foundation, which this year became part of the Linux Foundation . The StarlingX 11.0 release builds on the 10.0 update that came out in February. StarlingX is an open-source cloud infrastruct…

Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks have extended their partnership to offer customers a framework for implementing zero-trust security inside the data center. The new framework is intended to offer customers a way to blend networking control and management activities with security policies to allow integrated automation and consistent enforcement across the enterprise. In the past, Arista and…

AMD recently held its first financial analyst’s day, where CEO Lisa Su AMD said the vendor now sees a total addressable AI market could be over $1 trillion by 2030, doubling last year’s stated target of $500 billion by 2028. Su on this week told analysts the company is seeing insatiable AI demand, and added that revenue growth could climb to 35% per year over the next three to five years because …

Extreme Networks this week previewed an AI marketplace where it plans to offer a curated catalog of AI tools, agents and applications. Called Extreme Exchange, it’s designed to give enterprise customers a way to discover, deploy, and create AI agents, microapps, and workflows in minutes rather than developing such components on their own, the vendor says. “AI is transforming enterprise productivi…

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…

Cisco’s annual reseller conclave, Partner Summit , is arguably its second-most-important event, behind only its customer-centric Cisco Live show. In fiscal year 2025, $55 billion of Cisco’s bookings went through its channel, which equates to about 90% of its revenue. And there have been some big – make that seismic – changes at Cisco in recent years, including its acquisition of Splunk and pivot …

Cisco executives struck an upbeat tone as the vendor reported its first-quarter earnings, citing widespread demand for networking technologies as customers “move quickly to unlock the potential of AI.” The positivity stems from the $14.9 billion total revenue Cisco posted for the quarter, which is up 8% compared to a year ago. Product revenue climbed 10%, driven by demand for AI infrastructure an…

In all the hype about AI it can be easy to forget that we’re witnessing another revolution in computing: the beginning of the quantum era. Quantum computers are expected to tackle problems completely out of reach of today’s machines, bringing about new developments in chemistry, biology and physics. They’ll also be able to tackle problems of interest to the average enterprise, such as logistics, …

Early enterprise testing of online AI services generated results that were disappointing to say the least, which is likely why Gartner says generative AI is in the dreaded “trough of disillusionment.” Most enterprises found the popular chatbot technology wasted more employee time playing with it than it saved in actual applications. Only about 8% of enterprises found the first-level tools could r…

Broadcom has announced standards-based network updates to help customers build and extend modern private clouds, as well as a Cisco partnership designed to simplify operations and improve interoperability in those environments. Broadcom is expanding its open hardware certification program to increase participation and streamlining its certification process to help customers adopt next-generation …

Cloud-based GPU computing has dropped in price over the past year, and real savings can be had if customers can be agile about how to use the compute power. Cast AI , developer of an application performance automation platform, issued a report that is a deep dive into the evolving economics of cloud-based compute powered by Nvidia’s A100 and H100 GPUs, analyzing real-world pricing and availabilit…

Artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure spending is continuing to skyrocket, which is having a dramatic impact on networking equipment. The stakes are enormous. Data center spending is projected to hit $1.1 trillion by 2029 , up from $430 billion in 2024, with networking representing a critical bottleneck. On the networking hardware side, data centers are rapidly being transformed into specia…