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More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s list of partners reads like a technology who’s who list – including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and it spans key vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and…

Why are enterprises shifting to sovereign clouds? Gartner defines sovereign cloud as the “provision of cloud services within a jurisdiction meeting data residency requirements and operational autonomy.” According to the firm, this locally hosted infrastructure is intended to ensure that data, infrastructure, and operations are “free from control” and protected from the “influence and access” of e…

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…

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is straightforward: Nvidia now …

Without a secure, more scalable Wi-Fi backbone, organizations can’t deliver on the opportunities afforded by AI and other technologies, warns Cisco. The vendor just published its inaugural State of Wireless 2026 report, which surveyed more than 6,000 global wireless professionals. IT teams in charge of wireless networks are under pressure to rapidly evolve the infrastructure, driven by issues inc…

Data center capital expenditures grew by 57% last year to $726 billion, according to Dell’Oro Group, marking the fastest growth the research firm has recorded since it began tracking the statistics in 2014. And 2026 is looking to be similar, with an estimated growth rate of more than 50%, meaning that data center capex will cross the $1 trillion mark this year. Just a year ago, the research firm …

For some time there’s been a growing rebellion by residents to proposed data center construction projects, but by and large these have been driven by citizens. Maine, however, has become the 1st state to press pause on new data center construction. The Wall Street Journal reports the proposed law would pause new projects of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027 while the state studies the effe…

Despite years of planning, enterprise AI adoption in networking isn’t advancing. New research from IDC shows that while expectations remain high, progress has stalled, and network leaders are facing growing pressure from several directions. The 2026 IDC AI in Networking Special Report found that organizations expecting to move from early and selective AI use for business and IT initiatives to mor…

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…

French supercomputer company Bull is under new ownership. IT outsourcer Atos sold Bull to the French government this week for a mere €404 million (around $460 million) after acquiring the company for €620 million (then $860 million) in May 2014. The government was acting to protect national security interests: Bull’s supercomputers are used by the French national nuclear weapons research laborato…

The European Union’s Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-EU, has traced last week’s theft of data from the Europa.eu platform to the recent supply chain attack on Aqua Security’s Trivy open-source vulnerability scanner. The attack on the AWS cloud infrastructure hosting the Europa.eu web hub on March 24 resulted in the theft of 350 GB of data (91.7 GB compressed), including personal names, ema…

Cisco has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its out-of-band management solution, present in many of its servers and appliances. The flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to gain admin access to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which gives administrators remote control over servers even when the main OS is shut down. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-200…

A newly launched service from Kyndryl is designed to help businesses automate and control agentic workflows across the enterprise. The Agentic Service Management package combines a maturity model, structured assessments, implementation blueprints, and a phased roadmap aligned to emerging standards, including ISO 42001 , in a single service delivered by the Kyndryl Consult division. With the servi…

Memory prices are plunging and stocks in memory companies are collapsing following news from Google Research of a breakthrough that will greatly reduce the amount of memory needed for AI processing. AI is notorious not only for processing requirements but high memory requirements as well. Vast amounts of memory are needed to process things like large language models and perform inferencing, which…

The Trump-dominated FCC is under the delusion that it can magically restore US-made Wi-Fi manufacturing by blocking all foreign-made consumer routers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) banned essentially all new model consumer Wi-Fi routers built outside the US when there are no—none, nada—US router OEMs. In case you haven’t noticed, the US gave up manufacturing tech goods ages ago beca…