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Cisco continues to fill out its portfolio of quantum network technology , this week adding a core control mechanism for distributed quantum networks. Cisco’s prototype Quantum Network Controller is designed to coordinate all components of a quantum network—including quantum computers, quantum memories, and quantum switches—and make them usable on one network, without an application having to unde…

Google is overhauling its cloud modernization portfolio by bringing its existing migration and modernization tools along with new agentic migration tools and a new Modernization Hub under a new Google Cloud Modernize umbrella to accelerate infrastructure and application transformation at enterprises. The new agentic tools include an EKS-to-GKE Migration Agent, designed to help enterprises move Ku…

Security teams face a time problem, and AI is making it worse. Attackers use AI to find flaws and write exploits faster than any human-staffed security operations center can respond, while most defensive tools still collect telemetry, ship it somewhere, normalize it, and only then analyze it. Each step adds delay, and in security, delay is exposure. GTT Communications believes the answer is to st…

Australian micro data center specialist Zella DC has introduced a modular data center platform designed to bring more computing capacity into locations where conventional racks and purpose-built facilities are difficult to deploy. Called Zella Stack, the new system uses a stackable architecture that lets customers begin with a relatively small amount of infrastructure and add capacity as computin…

AWS is applying AI to the challenge of evaluating and improving cloud environments with a public preview of a new agentic service aimed at automating the discovery and optimization of architectural issues. Despite its name, AWS makes no claims for the architectural qualities of its Well-Architected Agent, the name of which refers to a long line of frameworks and tools for cloud architecture manag…

IBM’s mainframe has come a long way from the time when it operated as a specialized networking island. Today, IBM Z is designed to be a high-performance participant in the wider enterprise network, using standard Ethernet and IP while adding sophisticated technologies for low-latency and high-throughput communications. IBM’s current mainframe networking strategy prioritizes support for convention…

Chinese memory-chip manufacturer ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has begun mass production of its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform, marking another step in the company’s effort to stand alongside the big three memory makers and help ease the enormous supply shortage. CXMT made the announcement at the 2026 World Manufacturing Convention in Hefei, Anhui Province, China, where it also d…

The concept of probabilistic automation can be off-putting, even divisive. Consider self-driving cars. They’re part of the progression of vehicle automation that includes parallel parking assist, driver assistance and hands-free driving. However, when it comes to self-driving cars, getting on board requires a huge leap of faith that many people aren’t willing to take. Probabilistic automation is …

It used to take a large team of engineers years to build a new networking startup. AI changes that game entirely. Barrett Lyon has founded (and sold) multiple networking vendors over the last two decades, including Prolexic ( acquired by Akamai ), defense.net (acquired by F5 Networks), and netography (acquired by Vectra AI). Now he has turned his attention to AI with a new startup launching this …

Bob, IBM’s agentic software development platform is now available to run on premises and in private clouds, sovereign clouds, and air-gapped environments to give users more control over their data. IBM is hoping to lure companies operating in heavily regulated environments or managing sensitive source code and regulated data. In such environments, running AI operations means that they are under s…

Hyperscalers are rushing to build more data centers to run AI workloads — but will the AI industry ever generate enough revenue to pay for that infrastructure? Researchers at Bain and Company have looked into this and concluded that productivity gains from existing AI services are not enough to justify the money being pumped in: AI companies and the hyperscalers that power them will need to creat…

Following its record-setting third quarter , HPE said it expects cumulative AI network orders for fiscal 2026 to top $3 billion, exceeding its previous forecasts. The company also raised its fiscal 2027 networking revenue target, projecting growth percentages in the high teens to low 20s. Specific to data center networking, HPE is estimating revenue to grow at roughly 50% CAGR through fiscal 2029…

CoreWeave has made a series of announcements starting with Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform available in its cloud. At its CoreWeave’s Fully Connected conference in San Francisco, the company announced Cognition, the developer of the Devin AI software-engineering agent, is the first customer for a Vera Rubin cluster. Cognition brought up the Vera Rubin cluster in early Septemb…

Nvidia has led the industry through much of the AI revolution, building the most important computing platform of this era. Yet no one has considered Nvidia a security company. That perception should shift after this week’s launch of the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform , a full-stack approach to governing AI agents that pairs its Nvidia OpenShell runtime with a new hardware-based watchdog called…

The global memory shortage that has driven up the cost of servers, storage and PCs through 2026 will get worse in 2027 and 2028, according to memory maker Micron Technology. “We expect memory and storage supply-demand conditions to be much tighter in calendar 2027 and 2028 than they were in 2026,” CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in prepared remarks for the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call. …