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More processor coverage on Network World: AMD news and insights | Nvidia news and insights Intel is hoping for a turnaround under its new CEO, Lip-BuTan. Intel’s Q1 2025 revenue was $12.7 billion, flat year-over-year. While revenue for its client computing group dropped 8%, the data center and AI segment showed an 8% increase, driven by Xeon volume. Intel is pushing its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators an…

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…

Poaching talent has become a default response to the data center staffing crunch, but new findings from Uptime Institute suggest the strategy is unsustainable. Nearly half of operators (46%) report difficulty finding qualified candidates, according to Uptime Intelligence , the institute’s research and analysis practice. In addition, 37% struggle to keep the staff they already have—despite escalat…

For 36 years, Arm Holdings made CPU designs and licensed them to anyone who wanted them, who then designed and made their own custom modifications. But that is changing. Arm has announced its expansion into production of silicon products for the first time in the company’s history. The company’s first product is the Arm AGI CPU, an Arm-designed CPU purpose built for AI data centers, with Meta as …

The need for high-throughput and energy-efficient optical infrastructure, driven by AI demands, was a recurring theme at this month’s Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference in Los Angeles. The so-called opticalization of the network, where fiber replaces copper and optical connectivity becomes imperative, is critical in the AI era, according to OFC 2026 participants and industry watchers. …

While all eyes were on Nvidia GTC last week, there was another event happening with implications for the evolution of AI. The Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) conference took place in Los Angeles and addressed the desperate hunt for more capacity. For years, the networking industry has operated on a comfortable four-year innovation cycle. But as generative AI transitions from a boardroom initia…

Datacenter battery backup units are selling out years in advance, and artificial intelligence is driving the shortage — at least according to Panasonic Energy, which disclosed this week that hyperscaler customers have already pre-committed to more than 80% of its planned output through fiscal year 2029. The disclosure came as the Japanese company outlined its plans to scale production to meet sur…

Managing Kubernetes infrastructure across multi-cloud environments has long produced YAML sprawl, configuration drift, and tribal knowledge that lives in individuals rather than systems. AI tools that generate infrastructure configurations faster than teams can review them have made that issue harder to contain. It’s a problem that the open-source Meshery technology was built to solve. Meshery v1…

Cisco’s widely deployed Catalyst 9300 Series enterprise switches have four security vulnerabilities, two of which could be chained to cause a denial-of-service outage, infrastructure security company Opswat has revealed. The two most operationally significant are CVE-2026-20114 and CVE-2026-20110 , which the researchers found could be chained to make possible a dangerous privilege escalation. Ops…

For four decades, air cooling was the data center’s unsung workhorse. Racks drew 2 to 3 kilowatts in the 1980s, rising to 5 to 8 as servers became denser through the 2000s. Better fans, airflow containment and hot/cold aisle architecture extended its run. It was cheap, familiar and sufficient. GPUs changed the equation. Nvidia’s A100, released in 2020, drew 400 watts per chip. The H100 pushed tha…

HPE is updating and expanding its hybrid mesh firewall family, adding features that are designed to strengthen protection against AI threats. New capabilities give customers visibility into AI application usage, restrict access to high-risk AI websites, and provide the ability to filter keywords and manage AI tool file uploads. The upgrades enable a unified security fabric across enterprise envir…

Network segmentation is a foundational security control, but operationalizing it across heterogeneous environments has remained a persistent challenge. Forescout Technologies, an early pioneer in the network access control (NAC) space, is taking aim at the segmentation challenge with a new release of its 4D platform. The additions introduce identity- and attribute-driven zone modeling for managed…

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…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has moved to ban imports of new foreign-made consumer routers over cybersecurity concerns, a move that, while focused on home networks, carries broader implications for enterprise risk, including exposure from remote work environments and increased scrutiny of network supply chains. “Malicious actors have exploited security gaps in foreign-made route…

As CISOs worry about AI agent sprawl, Palo Alto Networks has announced an update to its Prisma AIRS security platform and enterprise browser to include the ability to discover AI agents, models, and connections across the entire IT environment, to scan agents for vulnerabilities, and to allow admins to simulate red team tests for agents. Assuming the completion of Palo Alto Networks’ planned acqu…