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Commvault on Tuesday rolled out its answer to enterprise backup restoration nightmares. Called Recovery Studio, the vendor promised that the product would “orchestrate the recovery of applications, identities, configurations, infrastructure dependencies, and datasets together in an automated, runbook-driven workflow.” Analysts and consultants applauded the effort, agreeing that enterprises today …

To date, AI conversations have centered on GPUs, AI factories, and data centers. At Cisco Live APJC in Melbourne this week, Cisco shifted the focus to the campus, the branch, and the network that connects everything. The opening keynote set a realistic tone for where the industry is. Agents don’t behave like people, and networks built for people won’t hold up when thousands of agents work around …

Oracle has reportedly cancelled a five-year agreement to lease advanced artificial intelligence computing capacity to Chinese technology giant Tencent , following concerns raised by the Trump administration over the deal’s implications for U.S. technology export restrictions. The agreement was estimated to be worth $7 billion. It would have provided Tencent with access to approximately 100,000 ad…

Republicans weren’t the only group taking it on the chin in midterm elections. Data centers and their supporters got positively annihilated at elections across the country. These concerns are reflected in public opinion. The data center development opponents won and won big. A University of Massachusetts Amherst poll cited by Stateline found that just 11% of Americans supported building an AI dat…

AI models are becoming more performant, efficient, and sophisticated by the day; but this can be incredibly taxing for the infrastructure running them. Google Cloud is addressing these growing memory, security, and performance demands with two additions to its eighth-generation tensor processing unit (TPU) portfolio. TPU 8tx is optimized for secure and confidential inference, while TPU 8i Max is …

Residential proxies are often used by bad actors to hide the true source of internet traffic — and now one of them appears to have taken up residence in the White House. The Residential Proxy Observatory , set up by Layer3 Intel to monitor the threat of anonymized network activity, has identified proxy exit activity on one particular network, AS2650, which is registered to the executive office of…

OpenAI has responded to the data center culture war pitting communities against tech companies with a proposal to reduce its power demand during periods of grid strain. The company is also mindful of the bad publicity generated by talk of data centers and has renamed them “compute campuses” in an attempt to make them less scary. This is in line with the recent trend for renaming places like the G…

When Broadcom announced a series of updates to VMware on Wednesday, it quietly added a sentence that extended support and availability options for users in most European countries, attributes not available to the rest of the planet. In a line absent from the document shared earlier with news media, the Broadcom post said that, for customers in countries in the European Economic Area, which is ess…

Growing use of autonomous AI agents could drive a four-fold increase in data center CPU core requirements. CPUs have been declared all but irrelevant in the era of artificial intelligence, but they are receiving a new lease on life thanks to agentic AI creating a new source of demand. According to semiconductor research firm TrendForce , the growing computational requirements of autonomous AI age…

Announcements from IBM and Quantinuum plus a recent acquisition by Intel show that the race to develop a quantum computer has shifted from focusing just on the qubits to integrating these computers with classical systems and software development platforms. To start with, IBM, AMD, and the DOE-funded Quantum Science Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are collaborating on a new research platfo…

Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability that attackers exploited to compromise 996 GS1900 network switches across 48 countries, exposing device configurations, network information and hashed root credentials. The attack began around August 17, according to cybersecurity firm GreyNoise, but researchers initially blamed a different vulnerability that Zyxel had already addressed. The newly identi…

The kinks in the software supply chain are once again being exposed, with attackers now targeting OpsShield’s update process. This week, threat actors used compromised credentials to push malicious updates out to cPGuard customers. They then accessed data stored on the vendor’s servers and in its billing portal accounts, and made copies of at least three of OpsShield’s cloud servers. The company …

Arista Networks continued to grow earnings with AI and enterprise networking leading the charge in its third quarter financial call with Wall Street analysts this week. First off, the company’s CEO and chairperson Jayshree Ullal said that the third quarter hit $3.66 billion or 58.5%, the largest year-over-year revenue growth in the history of being a public company. Just five years ago, Arista re…

Broadcom this week announced it is expanding its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) product portfolio with new AI infrastructure, security, and disaster recovery capabilities. The company also introduced a virtualization product designed for customers with small IT environments. Broadcom is positioning VCF as a private cloud platform for running traditional virtual machines, containers, and AI workloa…

Barracuda, which offers a wide variety of cybersecurity devices, has been bitten by a bug itself. The company has disclosed two critical and high-severity vulnerabilities that, if chained together, could allow threat actors to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to devices. They consist of a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-116606 (rated a …