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LogicMonitor announced it has completed its acquisition of Catchpoint for more than $250 million, combining hybrid observability and internet performance monitoring capabilities to address the increasing complexity of AI infrastructure and distributed workloads. LogicMonitor said its acquisition of Catchpoint would directly address enterprises struggling with distributed compute environments and …

The proliferation of artificial intelligence workloads is creating concern about the ability of data center networks to keep up with demand. One part of the solution is co-packaged optics (CPO), which involves incorporating optical technology more deeply into data center network switches. CPO promises not only to support the higher speeds that AI workloads demand but also to reduce power consumpt…

The biannual release of the Top500 list of supercomputers worldwide is populated with supercomputers at research institutions , not private industry and is a source of bragging rights for the vendors who make a strong showing. Quite a bit changed in the 31 years since the list was created. Back in 1994, the list was dominated by Thinking Machines supercomputers, made famous in the movie “Jurassic…

Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in chip design software maker Synopsys on Monday, placing the GPU giant in the unusual position of holding substantial equity in a company that serves on the board of an industry consortium developing technology that competes with Nvidia’s own interconnect technology. Synopsys sits on the board of the Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium , an industr…

WebAssembly (commonly also known simply as Wasm) began as a browser technology for running high-performance applications in web environments. The basic promise was to enable web developers to write application code once, in any language, and then have it run in any environment with the best possible performance. Wasm is an open standard with multiple implementations and supporting vendors. Among …

There are several lessons that IT executives can learn from the Thanksgiving outage that led to an hours long shutdown of the global financial system of CME Group , an organization that describes itself as the “world’s leading derivatives marketplace.” Bloomberg reported the following day that the problem had been in the cooling system at a data center complex 50 miles west of Chicago, operated b…

The mood among Amazon Web Services customers is shifting from curiosity to urgency as the company prepares to once again to “re:Invent” itself at its annual customer conference this week. After a year in which Microsoft and Google tightened their narratives around unified data, AI platforms and workflow-ready agents, AWS can no longer rely on its scale, breadth, or incremental roadmap to maintain…

Amazon Web Services is looking to simplify the ways in which organizations can support multicloud services across AWS and Google Cloud, finally joining a club that includes almost every other major cloud provider The two companies unveiled a preview version of a managed, private and secure, on-demand, solution for cross-cloud connectivity between their networks. The companies claim that this will…

Despite positive expectations of corporate AI, nearly 80% of companies say they’ve backtracked artificial intelligence initiatives due to performance issues, integration challenges, and skills gaps. New research from IT training and certification provider CompTIA reveals that the promise of AI is outpacing the reality of the experiences organizations are having with their AI implementations . Whi…

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced a new Domain Name Service (DNS) resiliency feature designed to improve reliability and reduce service disruptions in its US East region (Northern Virginia). In October, AWS’s US East region experienced widespread service disruption after a DNS failure caused the DynamoDB API to become unstable, affecting over 70 AWS services and impacting a large section o…

El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory maintained its spot as the world’s fastest supercomputer, and thanks to expansion, the 1.8-exaflop system extended its lead over the rest of the pack. El Capitan is once again followed by Frontier at No. 2 and Aurora at No. 3 on the latest TOP500 list. In fact, the 10 highest-ranked systems are unchanged from the June 2025 TOP500 list . In addi…

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…

HP announced plans to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions by 2028 as part of what it described as an AI-driven transformation to save $1 billion, while warning that surging memory chip costs would squeeze margins in the second half of 2026. The job cuts will affect teams focused on product development, internal operations, and customer support, CEO Enrique Lores said during the company’s …

Microsoft has lost two senior data center and AI infrastructure leaders at a time when the company is racing to expand capacity for its Copilot and Azure AI services, raising questions about its ability to meet surging demand for power-intensive AI workloads. The back-to-back departures come as Microsoft is investing heavily in new data center sites , power agreements, and custom hardware to keep…