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Nvidia has extended its collaborations with a handful of security vendors in an effort to improve real-time threat detection and response across operational technology (OT) environments and industrial control systems (ICS). “Many of these systems were originally designed for reliability and longevity, not for today’s threat techniques,” wrote Itay Ozery , director of product marketing for network…

Pure Storage has changed its name to Everpure and bought data classification company 1touch, the company announced on Monday. It’s moving to become not just a storage company but also a data management company that aims to help its enterprise customers make data usable for AI. The vendor now known as Everpure is a significant player in the enterprise storage market and has racked up acknowledgeme…

If you’re considering a Wi-Fi 7 upgrade , now’s the time because prices are unusually low, according to the latest research from Dell’Oro Group. A number of factors contributed to establish initial Wi-Fi 7 pricing far lower than normal for a new technology, says Siân Morgan , research director at Dell’Oro Group and lead author of the company’s latest quarterly Wireless LAN 5-Year Forecast Report …

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced early this year that the new Vera Rubin processor, which is twice as powerful as the previous Grace Blackwell chip, doesn’t require its cooling water to be at a very cold temperature. In fact, the Vera Rubin can be cooled with water that’s 45 degrees Celsius, which is 113 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s hotter than the recommended settings for a hot tub. And it’s one …

Cisco and AT&T have expanded their partnership to offer IoT and private network services via a dedicated 5G backbone that supports ultra-low latency, high speeds, security, and simplified management. Specifically, Cisco will integrate its Mobility Services Platform, IoT Control Center, and Converged Core products with AT&T’s 5G Standalone service. The AT&T service, like other standalone offerings…

AI’s insatiable demand for chips has already had an effect on the IT market, and it could be about to get worse: Nvidia has entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with Meta to fill the social network’s new AI data centers with its cutting-edge processors. Nvidia will supply Meta with millions of its Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, and Meta will integrate Nvidia Spectrum-X Ethernet switches int…

As AI usage continues to scale, there is a distinct type of application traffic that is having an impact on networking. Training isn’t the issue, it’s inference. Training runs in centralized clusters on predictable schedules. Inference is distributed, latency-sensitive and subject to real-time constraints around power availability, data sovereignty, and cost. The network fabric that is routing th…

At its recent Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital previewed two technologies in development to increase HDD throughput : high bandwidth drive technology (HBDT) and dual pivot technology (DPT). HBDT enables simultaneous reading and writing from multiple heads on multiple tracks, delivering up twice the bandwidth of conventional HDDs without power penalties. DPT adds a second set of independ…

Connecting battery-powered sensors across large areas has been a persistent challenge for enterprise and industrial IoT deployments. Wi-Fi lacks the range and consumes too much power for long-life sensor applications. Cellular covers the distance but introduces licensing costs and coverage gaps in dense indoor environments. Bluetooth is limited to short range. None of those technologies were desi…

Enterprises struggling with the cost and complexity of long-term data archival could soon have a new option: a piece of glass. New research published on Wednesday suggests that a borosilicate glass plate 120mm square and just 2mm thick can store 4.8TB of data across 301 layers with accelerated aging tests, indicating that the data would remain intact for at least 10,000 years. “Glass is a permane…

Arista Networks is extending its telemetry capabilities in response to AI-driven demand for more comprehensive network management and greater visibility across complex environments. The networking company shared early details about advanced telemetry technology that’s in the works to help its AI and cloud customers improve their monitoring and diagnostic capabilities. Telemetry already is at the …

Network testing has grown more complex as environments increasingly combine cellular, network slicing and cloud-native architectures. Lab and validation teams now work across multi-vendor, multi-domain stacks, and when failures occur, resolving them can require several domain experts working in parallel. It’s a challenge that Spirent Communications—which was acquired by Keysight Technologies in O…

Modular data center vendor ECL has announced ECL FlexGrid, a power-agnostic platform designed to support everything from training clusters to inferencing at the edge. By supporting data centers that use a variety of power sources, FlexGrid enables operators to deploy their compute gear anywhere, including close to users and data sources, even where grid power and hydrogen are not readily availabl…

While the predicted mass exodus from VMware hasn’t materialized, many enterprises are actively reducing their VMware footprint, a new survey shows. Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware prompted forecasts that enterprises would rethink their virtualization strategies amid fears that VMware license costs would triple. So far, though, only 14% of enterprises questioned have so far seen prices doubl…

As AI infiltrates more and more business operations, enterprise IT teams are under pressure to ensure their systems, applications, and networks are resilient enough to absorb the impact. At the same time, cloud service providers and companies supporting the global Internet infrastructure—on which enterprises heavily rely—need to make sure they can handle the AI-fueled surge in demand. If either o…