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The SONiC network operating system (NOS) was first open-sourced in 2017, and in recent years it has become a mainstay of networking vendors. But there are barriers to deployment in multi-vendor hardware environments. While open-source code is available, actual SONiC operating system distributions — including all the tools needed to run, install and maintain the system — come in the form of vendor…

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…

The US will allow Nvidia’s H200 AI chips to be exported to China with a 25 percent fee, a policy shift that could redirect global demand toward one of the world’s largest AI markets and intensify competition for already limited GPU inventories. The move raises fresh questions about whether enterprise buyers planning 2026 infrastructure upgrades should brace for higher prices or longer lead times …

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 its Client Computing Group (CCG) revenue dropped 8%, the Data Center and AI (DCAI) segment showed an 8% increase, driven by Xeon volume. Intel is pushing its Gaudi 3 AI accele…

At insurance company Aflac, AI agents are used to analyze, simulate, and enforce rule changes to security policies in real time. In the past, rule creation and change reviews took hours and required manual validation by multiple analysts, says DJ Goldsworthy , the company’s global security technology officer. “Now, agentic workflows automatically interpret business requests,” he says. The agents …

After exploring its options, Intel has cancelled plans to divest itself of its Network and Edge Group, commonly referred to as NEX. CEO Lip-Bu Tan has been on a mission to divest Intel of all non-core technologies, and the NEX business was the largest group scheduled for divestiture. But after a few months of shopping it around , either Intel couldn’t get the deal it wanted or changed its mind, i…

Micron Technology, the third largest memory maker in the world, is shutting down its Crucial consumer business worldwide by the end of February 2026. The company is reallocating its output and investments to enterprise-grade DRAM and SSD products to meet the exploding demand from the AI sector. Micron will continue shipping Crucial-branded consumer products until the end of its fiscal second quar…

The Arm micro-architecture has enjoyed fabulous gains over the past few decades as its range expanded from embedded systems and mobile devices to cloud service providers deploying instances powered by their own brands of Arm-based chips. But enterprise use and acceptance haven’t materialized. The Arm architecture was developed in 1985 by a team at Acorn Computers, a developer of microcomputers in…

Chinese state-sponsored threat actors are backdooring VMware vCenter and VMware ESXi servers with a malware program written in Go, allowing them to maintain long-term persistence in victim networks. According to a joint report by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), National Security Agency (NSA), and Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre) organizations from …

IBM announced a cloud-based service that is expected to help enterprises decrease the risk of DNS outages and protect corporate assets across multicloud environments. The service, called IBM Cloud Sync , offers continuous, bidirectional synchronization and policy translation between IBM’s NS1 Connect package and the cloud provider’s DNS servers. NS1 Connect’s DNS services can make dynamic decisio…

For the last five years, Andrew Wheeler has been in charge of HPE Labs, which is focused on driving innovative technologies from R&D to commercialization. The senior vice president and director of HPE Labs was in Barcelona this week, where HPE Discover 2025 took place. Wheeler sat down with Esther Macías, chief editor of Computerworld Spain, to talk about the projects being developed under his wi…

Cloudflare’s network suffered a brief but widespread outage Friday, after an update to its Web Application Firewall to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components went wrong. At 9:09 a.m. UTC, the company reported that it was investigating issues with the Cloudflare Dashboard and related APIs, warning that customers might see requests fail or errors displayed. Just 10 minutes later, it ha…

IT training and certification provider CompTIA this week released an updated version of its AI Essentials learning program designed to help employees develop AI skills for workplace use with tools such as ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini. Recent CompTIA research found that about one-third (34%) of companies require AI skills training for their employees, and the same study revealed that most companie…

AI is a key factor in one of the tech industry’s most significant M&A developments: HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. The $14 billion deal would shake up the industry, and regulatory watchdogs in the U.S. and worldwide have raised antitrust concerns. Meanwhile, enterprise customers are worried about product discontinuations and roadmap disruptions. We’ve tracked the deal since it wa…