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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…

VMware and parent company Broadcom must continue to provide support to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) while the agency migrates away from VMware products over the next two years, a Dutch court has ordered. Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) faced an 85% cost increase under Broadcom’s new subscription licensing model, with annual expenses jumping from €2.1 million (…

On-premises data centers are both growing and shrinking. How is this possible? They’re growing as the volume of enterprise GPU servers increases. The shrinkage refers to share of the market: Hyperscalers are growing much faster than on-premises data centers, which is leading to a reduction in on-prem’s share of total data center capacity. The latest research from Synergy Research Group shows that…

OpenAI has begun testing Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), a move that — though not signaling an imminent switch — has raised eyebrows among industry analysts concerned about the escalating costs of AI inference and its effects. A spokesperson for OpenAI told Reuters that OpenAI’s AI lab is in early testing with some of Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) but added that the company has…

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A cloud access security broker (CASB) is a security solution that sits between cloud consumers and cloud service providers and enforces security policies. A CASB is an umbrella term for a suite of functionality, including malware detection, data loss prevention (DLP), authentication, credential mapping, and shadow IT control, all bundled together by a vendor to secure cloud access, and offered as…

Oracle is continuing its strategic push into the AI infrastructure market as it seeks to compete with major cloud providers. The company said Monday that it has signed a cloud services agreement that will add $30 billion annually to its revenue beginning in fiscal year 2028, which begins June 1, 2027. The customer has yet to be named, but the commitment could ultimately comprise a quarter to a th…

European Union warnings that datacenters urgently need to curb their water consumption have prompted the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade association to argue a new approach to infrastructure investment. The warnings arrived in early June with the publication by the European Commission of a set of policy proposals designed to improve the often-inconsistent way that …

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…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks can move forward now that the companies have agreed to settle the lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice. Filed with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California late on June 27, the agreement still needs the approval of a judge. The settlement also requires a unified HPE-Juniper to license t…

If you’re trying to secure data center space right now, here’s the reality: You’re probably out of luck for the next two years, and what little is available will cost you significantly more than you budgeted. In the first quarter of this year, the average cost of data center space globally was up 3.3% year-over-year to $217.30 per kilowatt per month, according to CBRE’s latest Global Data Center …

Chronosphere this week added an upgraded logging product to its observability platform to help enterprises gain greater control over their observability data and the costs associated with managing the volumes of data. Chronosphere Logs 2.0 lets enterprises correlate logs with metrics, events, and traces and offers analytics and recommendations to resolve issues faster, the company says. “Our anal…

As Cisco infuses its enterprise infrastructure products with AI , the technology is also infiltrating its internal platforms, directed by Cisco CIO Fletcher Previn . His focus is on developing and using AI tools that can change how Cisco and its employees do business. Cisco is immersed in AI, looking for ways to make life and work better for employees and customers, Previn told Network World . Ci…

A critical authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC SPx server management firmware is now being actively exploited by attackers, creating urgent pressure for enterprises still waiting for complete vendor patches across their infrastructure. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2024-54085 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Ju…

The Lenovo Group has introduced an array of data center systems, software, and services optimized for artificial intelligence workloads as a part of its Hybrid AI Advantage product line. At the heart of the announcements is a compute appliance called the ThinkSystem SR680a V4. Lenovo says it features nearly two dozen processors in an air-cooled chassis and can run inference workloads up to 11 tim…