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2026 is predicted to be the year that AI moves from pilot to production, becoming measurably useful across the enterprise. But while many businesses are ready, the underlying infrastructure doesn’t seem to be, particularly when it comes to next-stage inferencing. Nvidia says it has overcome these limitations, achieving what it calls a “milestone” in accelerated computing. The chip company today u…

HPE and Nvidia have boosted their partnership, adding a new server blade, GPU support, enhancements to HPE’s turnkey private AI package, and services targeting enterprise customers with growing AI workloads. A considerable portion of the HPE-related news coming from Nvidia’s GTC event is aimed at the high end of the AI workload spectrum and targets service providers and neocloud operators. For ex…

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 partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and also crosses into vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and manufac…

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…

Cato Networks this week launched two additions to its secure access service edge ( SASE ) platform that the company says will address security challenges enterprises are facing now: protecting the AI tools end users rely on, while also using AI to defend against sophisticated threats. Cato Neural Edge deploys Nvidia GPUs across the 85+ points of presence (PoPs) of Cato’s global private backbone t…

The global shortage of semiconductor wafers will not ease before the end of the decade, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said, delivering one of the most definitive long-range forecasts yet from the executive of the world’s leading supplier of high-bandwidth memory chips. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of Nvidia’s GTC Conference in San Jose, California, Chey said the industry faces a wafer …

Nvidia has selected Intel’s Xeon 6 processors as the host CPUs for its Nvidia DGX Rubin NVL8 systems. The DGX Rubin NVL8 is part of Nvidia’s next flagship AI system portfolio, designed to help companies accelerate agentic AI adoption. The DGX Rubin NVL8 systems are designed for large-scale AI workloads, combining eight Rubin GPUs with high-bandwidth memory and interconnects to support high-throug…

Nvidia introduced its Vera Rubin platform, which combines compute, networking, and data processing into rack-scale deployments for large AI data centers, underscoring a shift in hyperscale environments toward more tightly integrated infrastructure. The company said the platform integrates its Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 switch, ConnectX-9 SuperNIC, BlueField-4 DPU, and Spectrum-6 Ethernet switc…

Hyperscaler data center projects are plagued by a host of issues: delayed time-to-market, capacity constraints, and supply chain issues. However, secure edge infrastructure provider Available Infrastructure aims to offer a different experience: A “nationwide fleet of cybersecure, private neocloud edge data centers.” Through a new $5 billion initiative, Project Qestrel, the company has an ambitiou…

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 and Nvidia continue to develop integrated packages aimed at helping enterprises and larger customers build the infrastructure needed to deploy and secure AI at scale. As Nvidia’s GTC event kicks off this week, the two vendors announced the expansion of their jointly developed Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, which melds Cisco security and networking technology, Nvidia DPUs and AI Enterprise s…

The war with Iran has added a new dimension to data center security: aerial attack . AWS data centers in Dubai and Bahrain were the victims of drone attacks by Iran earlier this month. The chances of a drone attack on an AWS facility or any other for that matter inside the United States is extremely low, but as those initial attack shows, nothing is outside of the realm of possibilities. So do da…

Two of the companies most synonymous with the AI revolution, Nvidia and Palantir Technologies, have linked arms to create an AI reference architecture operating system. The new Palantir AI OS Reference Architecture (AIOS-RA) is designed to support end-to-end processes from hardware acquisition to application deployment. It will serve as a blueprint for private and public entities to design, deplo…

Quantum Elements, a Los Angeles startup, has demonstrated a new technique for suppressing errors in logical qubits that shows the highest fidelity of entangled, logical qubits on a superconducting quantum computer ever achieved. The company says it developed and validated the approach using its own AI-powered quantum digital twin platform, which simulates not just how a quantum circuit is suppose…

Tired of paying high-sky electric bills to power your server racks? Tired of paying even more to cool them down? Tired of vibrations and high temperatures messing up your superconducting quantum computers? Tired of your unreliable connections? Get ready for data centers… in SPAAAAAAAACE. It’s easy to imagine the pitch for space-based data centers. But clearly there are obstacles to overcome, star…