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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…

French supercomputer company Bull is under new ownership. IT outsourcer Atos sold Bull to the French government this week for a mere €404 million (around $460 million) after acquiring the company for €620 million (then $860 million) in May 2014. The government was acting to protect national security interests: Bull’s supercomputers are used by the French national nuclear weapons research laborato…

The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of data (91.7 GB compressed), including personal names, ema…

Cisco has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its out-of-band management solution, present in many of its servers and appliances. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain admin access to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which gives administrators remote control over servers even when the main OS is shut down. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-200…

A newly launched service from Kyndryl is designed to help businesses automate and control agentic workflows across the enterprise. The Agentic Service Management package combines a maturity model, structured assessments, implementation blueprints, and a phased roadmap aligned to emerging standards, including ISO 42001 , in a single service delivered by the Kyndryl Consult division. With the servi…

Memory prices are plunging and stocks in memory companies are collapsing following news from Google Research of a breakthrough that will greatly reduce the amount of memory needed for AI processing. AI is notorious not only for processing requirements but high memory requirements as well. Vast amounts of memory are needed to process things like large language models and perform inferencing, which…

The Trump-dominated FCC is under the delusion that it can magically restore US-made Wi-Fi manufacturing by blocking all foreign-made consumer routers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned essentially all new model consumer Wi-Fi routers built outside the US when there are no—none, nada—US router OEMs. In case you haven’t noticed, the US gave up manufacturing tech goods ages ago beca…

Iranian drones have targeted Amazon’s largest Middle East datacenter in Bahrain for the second time in a month in part of what appears to be a planned strategy to disrupt the region’s digital economy. According to press reports, the ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain) AWS site, operated by telecom company Batelco, was hit by the latest drone attack on April 1. Bahrain’s interior minister confirmed to the FT tha…

Google just moved up its timeline for quantum computers to 2029 because of improvements in quantum computer hardware, quantum error correction, and algorithms. In 2019, Google estimated it would take 20 million qubits to break RSA encryption. By May of 2025, Google revised those estimates down to 1 million. This February, researchers at Australia’s Iceberg Quantum said in a pre-print report that …

IBM and Arm have announced a plan to develop hardware that can run both IBM and Arm-based workloads, to let Arm software run on IBM mainframes. The two companies plan to work on three things: building virtualization tools so Arm software can run on IBM platforms; making sure Arm applications meet the security and data residency rules that regulated industries must follow; and creating common tech…

Findings of a new study conducted by a group of academics from around the globe have revealed that land surface temperature (LST) increases by 2°C (3.6°F) on average after the start of operations of an AI data center, an effect detectable up to an estimated 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) away. The study , The data heat island effect: quantifying the impact of AI data centers in a warming world , was c…

Developers can spend days using fuzzing tools to find security weaknesses in code. Alternatively, they can simply ask an LLM to do the job for them in seconds. The catch: LLMs are evolving so rapidly that this convenience might come with hidden dangers. The latest example is from researcher Hung Nguyen from AI red teaming company Calif, who, with simple prompts to Anthropic’s Claude Code, was abl…

OpenStack has been running production cloud infrastructure for 15 years, and its 33rd release keeps that record going. The OpenStack community today released OpenStack 2026.1, code-named Gazpacho, delivering improvements across compute, bare metal, networking and storage focused on operator experience and workload mobility. Gazpacho is the first release since OpenStack 2025.2 Flamingo , which cen…

Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from test beds to enterprise deployment and AI service providers are popping up daily. As organizations race to embed AI into workflows—everything from market analysis and reporting to automation and digital agents—a new concept has entered the enterprise IT vocabulary: tokenomics. While the term originated in the cryptocurrency world, tokenomics now refe…

IT leaders are setting their operations strategies for 2026 with an eye toward agility, flexibility, and tangible business results. Download the January 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World and learn about the trends and technologies that will drive the IT agenda in the year ahead.