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Chinese tech giant Huawei is reportedly entering the DRAM manufacturing business in a bid to cash in on the insane profitability of memory sales. Three firms – Micron Technology, SK hynix, and Samsung Electronics — account for 95% of the DRAM on the market worldwide. The rest is small players, mostly in China. One of them, CXMT, is gearing to make a run for the market and try and take a little bi…

IBM has bolstered its Power server portfolio with a new edge S1112 server and announced IBM Power Autonomous Operations, an AI agent that helps customers monitor Power systems and autonomously resolve issues to keep operations running smoothly. Additional software upgrades are aimed at helping customers deploy and manage AI infrastructure components. “Each announcement addresses a different layer…

A faulty configuration update on Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) caused a multi-region disruption on Tuesday, disrupting inter-zone connectivity across three regions. The incident, which lasted for over ten hours, began at 5:00 PM UTC on July 14 and was resolved by 04:46 AM UTC on July 15. It affected VMware Engine stretched clusters in Sydney (australia-southeast1), Melbourne (australia-southe…

Fortinet has added AI visibility and control capabilities to its endpoint security package to help enterprises better govern AI usage, reduce data exposure, and simplify security operations. The vendor’s FortiEndpoint platform integrates antivirus, endpoint detection and response, VPN, zero trust network access, vulnerability management, and data protection. It feeds into Fortinet’s overall Secur…

Europe is sweltering. The summer of 2026 has seen historic heat waves that have taken a significant toll on infrastructure. In recent weeks, across the continent, problems have been reported in the power grid, telecommunications, and rail transportation. IT infrastructure has not been spared from the situation. “The heat affects equipment long before anyone notices a problem,” explains Ricardo Ro…

Artificial intelligence is changing how cybersecurity teams work, with security professionals spending more time validating AI-generated recommendations and deciding when to trust AI outputs, according to new research from ISC2 . The ISC2 survey of 856 cybersecurity professionals found that 65% spent more time deciding when to trust or act on AI-generated recommendations during the past year, whi…

Global security agencies say enterprises must clean up their act as Russian government-sponsored attackers exploit weaknesses in routers. According to a new multinational cybersecurity advisory , cyberattackers continue to exploit inadequately-protected and/or poorly-configured network devices via age-old tactics. Threat actors scan for weakened devices, typically routers, allowing them to “oppor…

AI-driven hyperscale data centers are creating a new generation of risks and challenges that extend well beyond power shortages and chip supply, according to a new report from Zurich North America. The unprecedented scale, speed and complexity of AI data center construction are exposing the industry to new threats previously unknown to the older generation of data centers, ranging from severe wea…

Early in my consulting career, I assumed maintenance windows reduced risk. After all, the purpose of planned maintenance is to improve reliability, apply fixes and prevent future outages. That assumption changed after I participated in what should have been a routine infrastructure change. Every pre-check passed. Device health looked normal. High-availability synchronization was complete. Monitor…

New research from Indeed Hiring Lab found that the number of U.S. job titles referencing AI has more than tripled since 2022, growing from 264 to 822 by the first quarter of 2026. The research division of the global job search platform also discovered that nearly two-thirds (63%) of those AI-related job titles in the U.S. now appear in roles outside traditional technology occupations, in fields s…

Apple has agreed to buy up to $30 billion-worth of additional chips and other wireless components from Broadcom over the next few years. The new agreement could lead to Broadcom making up to 15 billion more chips in the US, and enable it to modernize its manufacturing facilities in Fort Collins, Colorado, where it will produce radio frequency components including thin-film bulk acoustic resonator…

Quantum computers are still two to five years away from full-scale production, but early users like the Cleveland Clinic and Mitsubishi Chemical are already seeing benefits, particularly when quantum is used in conjunction with AI and high-performance computing. “We are starting to see real applications of it,” says Lara Jehi , chief research information officer at Cleveland Clinic, and one of th…

Info blox announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kentik , combining Infoblox’s authoritative DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM) data with Kentik’s network observability platform . Financial terms were not disclosed. Kentik was founded in 2014, originally as CloudHelix before rebranding the following year, and has raised more than $100 million in ventur…

SpaceX is best known for its outer space and rocket projects, while xAI has largely been focused on its flagship AI assistant, Grok. These are two very different paths, but now the two are one. This week, Elon Musk announced SpaceXAI , which brings xAI and SpaceX together as a company. The re-branding seems to indicate that the company plans to push even harder into AI and the critical infrastruc…

Power consumption worldwide for data centers is projected to grow to 565 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2026, up 26% from 447 TWh in 2025, with AI-oriented data centers taking up an increasing amount of the pie. Worldwide data center power demand is expected to rise 27% in 2026 and reach 133 gigawatts (GW), up from 105GW in 2025. It is projected to reach 291GW by 2030, which reflects the unprecedented s…