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More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s list of partners reads like a technology who’s who list – including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and it spans key vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and…

Riverbed this week introduced a broad set of AI-driven enhancements to its Aternity digital employee experience (DEX) platform aimed at helping enterprise IT teams move beyond reactive troubleshooting to automating more IT operations workflows. The Aternity Experience Platform now includes autonomous operations, observability , and AI governance capabilities aimed at helping IT teams identify and…

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. The networking giant continues to focus on integrating AI into its security offerings, with announcements around Cisco Secure AI…

Enterprises aren’t just moving applications to the cloud. They’re moving the network itself. An increasing number of organizations are shutting down data centers and migrating networking infrastructure directly into the cloud. BGP sessions, virtual firewalls, transit gateways, and VPN terminations are following the compute. The challenge for many organizations is having proper observability acros…

Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools? Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment. Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O, and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missin…

Artificial intelligence is reshaping cybersecurity operations , workforce development, and enterprise risk management, according to separate research reports from Hack The Box and ISC2 , which found that organizations are embracing AI security tools while they are also preparing for new AI-enabled threats. Hack The Box’s Cybersecurity Workforce Intelligence Report found that AI penetration testin…

Eighty-five percent of organizations have experienced at least one wireless security incident in the last 12 months, while 58% have suffered financial losses, with half of them tallying $1 million or more annually. More than a third report escalating wireless threats over the past two years, and the top reported driver of those threats is, of course, AI-generated or automated attacks. These stats…

It takes a brave company to go up against Nvidia in any market, let alone graphics performance. Intel tried and failed repeatedly, and AMD is barely hanging on. But Bolt Graphic s thinks it has something in its Zeus GPU. Founded in 2020, Bolt Graphics’ Zeus GPU has just taped out – meaning design and development are done and it’s on to manufacturing — on TSMC’s 12nm process and is targeting a 202…

AI engineering, cybersecurity, governance, data architecture, and distributed systems skills are now commanding the highest cash pay premiums in IT, according to new research from Foote Partners, which reports that employers are placing “increasing value on certifications that validate strategic capability and enterprise-level thinking.” Employers are paying premium bonuses equal to 20% to 24% of…

Google Cloud and Blackstone have unveiled a new joint venture aimed at building a large-scale standalone cloud platform powered by Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), marking one of the company’s clearest moves yet to expand its AI infrastructure beyond the traditional boundaries of Google Cloud. The new company will offer “efficient data center capacity, operations, networking, and Google C…

If you’ve sat through any vendor pitch in the last year, you’ve heard the promise. AI will detect the anomaly, correlate the signals, identify the root cause, maybe even remediate it. The autonomous network operations center is just around the corner. I’ve spent close to a decade building anomaly detection and telemetry systems at scale, and I think that promise is partly true, partly aspirationa…

Network engineers tell me that their teams are chronically understaffed. This is partially a labor market issue, given that 52% of IT organizations recently told Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) that they’re struggling to hire networking pros. But it’s also a business decision. Over-hiring in the wake of the pandemic led to a wave of layoffs, and now IT executives are gun-shy about repeatin…

Cisco has disclosed a max-severity authentication bypass vulnerability affecting its Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Catalyst SD-WAN Manager platforms, warning that the flaw has already been found to be exploited in the wild. The disclosure follows an earlier authentication bypass vulnerability that Cisco patched in February. In the latest advisory, the company said the new flaw was identified whi…

The complexity of modern networks and data centers has made it impossible to rely solely on manual oversight. Hybrid cloud architectures, SD-WAN overlays, and multi-vendor environments have created configuration sprawl that teams cannot track by hand. At the same time, GPU clusters have pushed data center power loads well beyond what traditional facility planning handles. Average rack density was…

Data center outages are becoming less frequent overall, but resiliency gains are slowing as data center operators face mounting pressure from AI workloads, aging power infrastructure, and external dependencies, according to Uptime Institute’s newly released 2026 Annual Outage Analysis report . The report marks the fifth consecutive year that outage frequency on a per-site basis has declined, cont…