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As AI infiltrates more and more business operations, enterprise IT teams are under pressure to ensure their systems, applications, and networks are resilient enough to absorb the impact. At the same time, cloud service providers and companies supporting the global Internet infrastructure—on which enterprises heavily rely—need to make sure they can handle the AI-fueled surge in demand. If either o…

Palo Alto Networks has entered an agreement to buy agentic endpoint security vendor Koi . Financial details were not disclosed, but some news outlets have estimated the deal is valued at around $400 million. Members of Israel’s cyber warfare and intelligence group, Unit 8200 , founded Koi in 2024 to focus on building technology to protect what the company calls non-traditional, non-binary softwar…

IT training and certification provider CompTIA this week introduced CompTIA SecAI+ , a new professional certification focused on securing AI systems and applying AI tools within cybersecurity environments. CompTIA SecAI+ addresses the “urgent need for skilled professionals who can both defend against and leverage AI technologies ” in cybersecurity environments, according to CompTIA. “As AI expand…

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…

India’s Adani Group committed $100 billion on Tuesday to build a renewable-powered, hyperscale AI data center platform across the country by 2035, as Western markets struggle to expand capacity amid mounting power shortages and regulatory resistance. The investment targets a 5-gigawatt national data center platform combining renewable generation, transmission infrastructure, and high-density AI c…

Arista Networks dialed up a strong fourth quarter, fueled by AI and campus Ethernet networking, to close out last year. “2025 has been another defining year for Arista. With the momentum of generative AI and cloud and enterprise, we have achieved well beyond our goal, at 28.6% growth driving a record revenue of $9 billion,” said Jayshree Ullal , CEO and chairperson of Arista, during the vendor’s …

With a new Gartner report suggesting that AI problems will “shut down national critical infrastructure” in a major country by 2028, CIOs need to rethink industrial controls that are very quickly being turned over to autonomous agents. Gartner embraces the term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for these technologies, which it defines as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, contro…

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seems to be doubling down on its investigation of Microsoft and the tech giant’s potentially shady bundling and licensing practices. According to a Bloomberg report , the federal agency has been issuing civil investigative demands (CIDs) to companies that compete with Microsoft in the business software and cloud computing markets. CIDs are powerful, subpoena-…

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…

Nvidia has released analysis showing a 4X to 10X reduction in cost per token for AI inferencing by switching to open source models. The cost reductions were achieved by pairing Nvidia’s Blackwell GPU platform with open-source models from Baseten , DeepInfra , Fireworks AI , and Together AI . Their tests showed significant cost improvements across healthcare, gaming, agentic chat, and customer ser…

AI agents aren’t just hype, they’re actually having a material impact on content delivery network economics—at least for Fastly. Its fourth-quarter earnings call this week provided evidence of how AI agent behavior differs from traditional web traffic and how much revenue that difference generates. The edge cloud provider posted $172.6 million in revenue for Q4 2025, up 23% year over year. That m…

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…

The market for networking and security skills is shifting as AI implementations move from experimental to operational and enterprise organizations deploy more sophisticated IT architectures. So, which skills are commanding the highest premiums? And which skills are no longer in great demand? Foote Partners’ latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index shows a clear pattern: Premium pay is moving…

Hot on the heels of Starlink’s plan for a million data centers in space, Starcloud’s next launch will put hardware from AWS in orbit. “Starcloud will be the first to launch the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston wrote in a LinkedIn post. Outpost is AWS’s on-premises private cloud offering. Starcloud put …

A multi-year expansion cycle will drive worldwide data center capex to the $1.7 trillion mark by 2030, driven by hyperscalers as well as neo cloud service providers and sovereign AI initiatives, a new report from Dell’Oro Group indicates. All three segments are entering a new phase of infrastructure expansion; key among them are Amazon, Google, Meta and Meta, which at the start of this year had r…