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Broadcom is raising the stakes when it comes to preventing its VMware customers from moving to another platform. The company has stopped users from downloading its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). While this may not look like significant news VDDK is, in fact, a vital part of tools used to migrate away from VMware. For example, it is used by Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat’s Migration Toolki…

Nvidia will use Palantir’s Foundry software to analyze its global network of suppliers and partners for supply chain risks — and Palantir will incorporate Nvida’s Nemotron open AI model into its existing AI software stack. The deal will enhance both companies’ offerings, they said: Nvidia will use Palantir’s AI stack to optimize its complex supply chain ecosystem, helping teams identify potential…

Networks have always been driven by the need for more speed and bandwidth, and in the AI era, that drive is accelerating the path to 1.6 terabit network connectivity. Work on 1.6T began in 2020 and became a formal IEEE study group in 2021, before AI was the industry’s dominant discussion point. That work became the IEEE P802.3dj Task Force, which has been building out the specifications that are …

Network infrastructure owners often tell me that the biggest obstacle to network cyber resilience is the complexity of multi-vendor network environments. They aren’t just referring to the number of vendors in their environment, but also to the variety of device types (firewalls, routers, switches and access points), models and software versions. Well-resourced organizations with vendor-specific e…

Nvidia continues to commit major dollars to AI companies, this time investing $3.5 billion in chipmaker MediaTek in return for licensing Nvidia technology. Nvidia will purchase $3.5 billion of convertible bonds issued by chipmaker MediaTek, and in return MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion technology , allowing customers to develop customized AI accelerators that can connect directly to Nv…

Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take over devices without authentication over SSH. The exploit chain, dubbed MikroTrick, is already being used by attackers in the wild. The vulnerabilities , found by researchers from the CERT Polska, are located in various firmware components, incl…

For decades, global time experts have mapped atomic clock time to the earth’s rotation, periodically adding a second (aka a leap second) as rotation slowed. But the planet’s rotation has now slightly sped up, which could mean that a negative adjustment will be required. The problem is that computer systems have not been programmed to do that. To avoid this issue, the General Conference on Weights…

Cisco is looking to get ahead of attackers with a new set of more than a half-dozen fixes, some of them critical, for its IOS XR Linux-based network operating system (OS). As part of its regular testing, Cisco’s software engineering team flagged “multiple internally-discovered vulnerabilities ,” the company said. These flaws could allow attackers to perform remote code execution (RCE) and gain ro…

Network automation provider BackBox is adding AI-powered analysis and recommendations to its network resilience platform with Kilter AI , an intelligence layer that lets enterprises apply AI across their network infrastructure while keeping humans in the loop, according to BackBox. BackBox has renamed its network resilience platform Kilter AI and introduced AI capabilities that work across the pl…

The combination of low operating costs, high capacity and offline protection makes tape storage particularly well suited to the massive storage requirements of AI workloads . Companies behind the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) storage standard say the industry shipped 160.3 exabytes of compressed tape capacity in 2025, making it the second-largest year on record despite a 9% decline from the 176.5 exabyt…

Nvidia has released a free tool that will enable users to build an AI inferencing cluster from disparate PCs on the same network, accessible from a single interface. Released as a beta, Nvidia Personal AI router (PAIR) connects devices running Windows, macOS or Linux to process AI inferencing workloads privately. While the system is aimed primarily at home users, it could find favour with enterpr…

Industry analysts love grid evaluations. They offer a convenient metric for enterprise procurement teams to evaluate technology vendors side by side. But when evaluation frameworks try to assess fundamentally different paradigms using the same outdated checklist, the results can range from inaccurate to completely absurd. An example of this is the latest Forrester Wave for Data Center Networking …

Demand for AI, networking, and servers drove HPE to a record quarter, the company reported during its third-quarter earnings call with financial analysts. “AI has become a multi-year growth driver, expanding demand across our HPE portfolio,” HPE CEO Antonio Neri said during the call. “We booked more orders than any prior quarter in our history, resulting in a record-breaking backlog for the compa…

Software-defined networking (SDN) and virtual networking have long been part of VMware’s portfolio, notably with the NSX technology that’s a foundational part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). In 2025, VCF 9.0 expanded the networking capabilities with a public-cloud-style virtual private cloud model on top of that NSX foundation. The model gives tenants and VPC admins a simpler consumption layer …

Dell Technologies is acknowledging that infrastructure and storage supply still can’t keep up with agentic AI’s insatiable appetite for resources. The company this week reported a “record” AI backlog, with $95 billion in orders waiting to be filled. This dovetails with quarterly earnings reflecting a more than 50% year-over-year increase in AI demand. On an earnings call, Dell COO Jeff Clarke ack…