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The basic promise from network-as-a-service ( NaaS ) providers is to make networking easier. It’s a need that is becoming increasingly relevant as modern networks pivot to AI and network engineers are a tough job to fill . While all NaaS vendors provide a service, San Francisco-based startup Meter is looking to differentiate with purpose-built hardware, a custom operating system, and a vision for…

Amazon Web Services has developed a new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transponder to significantly boost its long-distance, high-capacity, data center networking capabilities. DWDM technology lets many optical channels, or wavelengths, multiplex over the same fiber backbone, increasing bandwidth immensely. AWS’ massive network infrastructure will take advantage of the increased fi…

A massive outage at content delivery network Cloudflare, which took down services including ChatGPT, Canva and parts of AWS, was traced to a routine change in database permissions linked to Cloudflare’s Bot Management system, which inadvertently knocked offline a significant portion of the web. The November 18 outage , which lasted approximately six hours, has once again highlighted how ordinary …

Recently, Cisco held the Asia-Pacific version of its Cisco Live user event. While this event is typically used to announce new Cisco products, the news payload this year included an interesting customer use case. The Singapore Sports Hub will soon get a major connectivity boost with a new high-density Wi-Fi 7 network. The complex in Kallang, which is home to some of Singapore’s biggest sporting a…

When Microsoft, Anthropic and Nvidia announced their latest partnership arrangement on Tuesday, analysts said that what appeared to give flexibility to IT buyers might instead complicate their choices. “This partnership will make [Anthropic’s] Claude the only frontier model available on all three of the world’s most prominent cloud services. Azure customers will gain expanded choice in models and…

Dell Technologies has filled out its enterprise AI infrastructure products with key upgrades to servers, storage, and software offerings. First, announced at the Supercomputing 25 conference, the company introduced two new switches , the Dell PowerSwitch Z9964F-ON and Dell PowerSwitch Z9964FL-ON. The company says that these switches deliver 102.4 Tb/s of switching capacity, which means they can m…

The realm of network observability is changing quickly in the modern generative AI era as vendors embrace and integrate increasingly sophisticated intelligence. Network observability provider Kentik, which got its start back in 2014 as CloudHelix before being rebranded in 2015, has always been focused on helping networking professionals do their jobs, which can often include lots of repetitive ta…

Many companies — including IBM itself — demonstrated uses of quantum computers that went beyond what was possible with purely classical approaches this year. But none of these were clear, undisputable demonstrations of quantum superiority, reproducible, and applicable to more than just one cherry-picked use case. “The problem is that there aren’t standardized benchmarks for quantum computing yet,…

Microsoft is betting big on agentic AI to simplify and automate cloud operations by introducing an agentic mode to Azure Copilot that could surface insights and provide recommendations, but not take any actions. While the hyperscaler is pitching the upgraded Copilot as a tool that simplifies cloud operations at scale by taking actions on its own, as opposed to traditional management tools that wo…

The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations. ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how providers 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 the…

Problems at content delivery network Cloudflare are causing problems for online services and websites around the world, leaving them with just the kind of outage that Cloudflare’s services are intended to protect from. “Cloudflare is experiencing an internal service degradation. Some services may be intermittently impacted. We are focused on restoring service. We will update as we are able to rem…

Enterprises running VMware’s vSAN storage platform may have spent significantly more on hardware than necessary. The company has acknowledged that its long-standing sizing recommendations were based on synthetic testing that did not reflect real-world conditions. VMware revealed that analysis of telemetry data from thousands of production vSAN clusters showed that “vSAN clusters use much less RAM…

Azure has blocked its largest DDoS attack to date, a 15.72 Tbps strike linked to the Aisuru IoT botnet that also surged to nearly 3.64 billion packets per second and targeted a single cloud endpoint in Australia, Microsoft said. “The attack involved extremely high-rate UDP floods targeting a specific public IP address, launched from over 500,000 source IPs across various regions,” the company wro…

Bragging rights are a staple in the Silicon Valley, and perhaps no one does it better than Nvidia. But its latest claim to fame is impressive . At this week’s Supercomputing 25 conference in St. Louis, Nvidia announced that more than 80 new science-oriented systems powered by its platform have been deployed around the globe in the last year, at a combined total of 4,500 exaFLOPs of AI performance…

At this week’s Supercomputing Conference, SC25 conference in St. Louis, Missouri Nvidia highlighted how it expects to accelerate computing to quantum processors in the future. Nvidia only in October introduced NVQLink interconnect to let lets GPUs and quantum chips to each other. The package is built on the NVLink interconnect for direct CPU-to-GPU communications. Nvidia might be getting ahead of…