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Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory? It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the inte…

A partnership between Broadcom and Meta could benefit other datacenter operators, as the networking company hones its expertise for supporting AI development. Meta is developing its own in-house AI chips for its exclusive use, and has extended an agreement with Broadcom to support that infrastructure, an agreement that will also provide Broadcom with the know-how to ramp up its expertise in AI ne…

Tax benefits for hyperscalers and other data center operators are costing local administrations billions of dollars. In the US, three states are already giving away more than $1 billion in potential tax revenue, while 14 are failing to declare how much data center subsidies are costing taxpayers, according to Good Jobs First. The campaign group said the failure to declare the tax subsidies goes a…

Equinix has introduced Fabric Intelligence, a service designed to automate and optimize network infrastructure as enterprises scale artificial intelligence workloads across multiple distributed locations. The new platform addresses a growing gap between AI applications, which depend on real-time connectivity across clouds, data centers, and edge locations, and legacy network architectures built a…

A new report from SolarWinds finds that artificial intelligence is reshaping IT roles, with 80% of professionals reporting a shift away from hands-on operations toward overseeing automated systems and workflows. IT practitioners are increasingly taking on orchestration responsibilities as organizations expand their use of AI-driven tools and automation , according to the 2026 SolarWinds IT Trends…

IBM announced two services designed to protect enterprise resources from security threats presented by AI and emerging frontier AI models. IBM Consulting will offer the services: a multi-agent AI protection offering and an enterprise AI threat-assessment tool. The goal is to help companies deal with “sprawling, complex IT estates that are hard to codify, creating ideal conditions for frontier mod…

In the space of one week, OpenAI has pulled out of two European Stargate data center deals, one in the UK and the second in Norway. Observers attribute the move to the company taking a more disciplined approach to its massive expenses, with OpenAI executives trying to make their books look better in a common move among companies preparing to go public with an imminent IPO. In Norway, OpenAI had b…

Maine is poised to become the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on large data center construction after lawmakers passed a bill to that effect. The bill needs to be signed by Governor Janet Mills before it can be enacted. If enacted, the law would bar state and local agencies from issuing permits or approvals for data centers drawing 20 megawatts or more of power until approximately…

Globalstar, a mobile satellite services (MSS) operator in which Apple has a 20% stake , on Tuesday announced a merger agreement with Amazon, which, pending regulatory approval, could soon bring direct to device services (D2D) services to Leo, the latter’s low Earth orbit satellite network. The deal, worth an estimated $11.6 billion, is an indication that the so-called new space race , designed to…

Cisco’s move to buy Galileo and reportedly Astrix Security is less about filling product gaps and more about rearchitecting how AI is governed, secured, and trusted across the enterprise stack. Taken together, these deals signal Cisco’s intent to lead the AI era the way it once led the internet—by making the underlying infrastructure observable, identity-aware, and inherently secure. From AI feat…

Two completely separate reports indicate data center construction is moving toward the center of the country and away from the coasts. The first report comes courtesy of Synergy Research Group , which found the center of gravity for planning and building data centers is shifting away from some of the traditional coastal locations and moving inland, with the availability and cost of power being a …

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services 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 internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

Despite widespread adoption of defensive measures, most IT professionals believe their DNS infrastructure is not secure enough. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently published DDI Directions 2026 , a market research report that explores enterprise strategies for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI). In that report, only 28% of DDI experts said they believe that their DNS infrastru…

Announcements from quantum computing companies continue to shorten the time before we reach Q-day. That’s the day when quantum computers get powerful enough to use for general business applications—or to break existing encryption standards. According to the latest Forrester projection , that is likely to happen by 2030. “The quantum computing industry crossed an inflection point in 2025,” Forrest…

We are now entering the era of fault-tolerant quantum computing. The computers are getting better. The qubits are getting faster and more reliable, and there are more of them. NIST published its list of quantum-safe encryption algorithms, and now enterprises are racing to upgrade their encryption before Q-day, the quantum apocalypse that will make the previous generation of encryption protocols o…