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SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire DigitalBridge Group, a leading asset manager specializing in digital infrastructure investments such as data centers, cell towers, and fiber networks, in a deal valued at $4 billion. The acquisition underscores SoftBank’s aggressive strategy to dominate the next wave of AI infrastructure globally. SoftBank said the acquisition is part of its mission t…

It’s been a roller coaster of a year for Intel, marked by the arrival of a new chief, new Xeon processors, select product divestitures, and sizable layoffs. Under the leadership of CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took the helm in March, Intel delivered the first Xeon built on its next-generation 18A process node, navigated the divestiture of its FPGA business, and upped its efforts to restructure the company…

2025 was not just about faster GPUs. It was about the fundamental re-architecture of the enterprise data center from a storage/retrieval hub to a manufacturing plant for intelligence – or the AI factory. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang set the stage in May at Dell Technologies World 2025: “AI is here — this is unquestionably the single biggest platform shift… This is a once in a lifetime opportunity — in…

Google Cloud has signed a comprehensive cooperation agreement with cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks. As part of the agreement, some of Palo Alto Networks’ current services will be moved to Google’s cloud platform. But it is also about offering new AI services to customers, Reuters reports. According to Reuters, the agreement is estimated to be worth $10 billion for Google. More Palo Alto …

Google parent Alphabet is taking steps to enable speedier addition of capacity to feed AI’s increasing demands with its announcement of plans to buy data center and energy company Intersect. This, it said, will meet intensive demand, increase energy reliability, reduce power delays, and support development of alternative energy sources. “AI infrastructure across the board appears to be at capacit…

New data centers are being built around the world in connection with AI initiatives. According to a compilation by S&P Global, spending will reach a record $61 billion in 2025, with the US and Canada accounting for the vast majority. Europe, on the other hand, accounts for only a small fraction of spending on data center construction. “In Europe, the buildout of data centers is expected to grow a…

It’s the season for “looking ahead to next year” articles that tell some group or another what they should be doing or what some “expert” says they should do. Let’s take a different slant and focus on what one group— arguably the most important tech buyer group — actually says they’re going to do. I’ve collected 284 comments on tech priorities for 2026 from enterprises, and here are the top five.…

WatchGuard has issued an urgent patch alert for its Firebox firewall appliances after discovering a critical-rated vulnerability that is under exploit by threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2025-14733 , with a CVSS score of 9.3, the flaw is an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability affecting the iked process, a WatchGuard Fireware OS component responsible for the IKEv2 key exchange in IPSec VPNs. According …

Security researchers have flagged a coordinated credential-based campaign targeting VPN authentication endpoints from Cisco and Palo Alto Networks. Over just two days in mid-December, attackers launched large-scale automated login attempts against Cisco’s SSL VPN and Palo Alto Networks’ GlobalProtect services. A GreyNoise analysis noted that the campaign does not exploit software bugs, but instea…

A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report . The outage also disrupted Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming file ingestion, an…

A maximum severity remote code execution vulnerability in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) OneView network and systems management suite is “bad” and needs to be patched immediately, says a cybersecurity expert. “Vendors typically downplay the severity of a vulnerability,” says Curtis Dukes , executive VP for security best practices at the Center for Internet Security, “but HPE did not – it’s a 10…

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. Abstraction interface (SAI) An abstraction interface (SAI) is an API designed to allow network software (such as an operating system) to control the hardware of a network switch . Traditionally, if you bought a switch from a specific vendor, you had t…

Ransomware attacks in 2025 have caused business operations to cease for weeks and months at a time, resulting in massive financial losses in organizations around the globe in sectors such as retail, manufacturing, and healthcare. These major breaches go well beyond the purview of the security team alone. They demand boardroom attention and a fundamental rethinking of enterprise defense strategies…

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…

Cisco has warned that a China-linked hacking group is actively exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in its Secure Email appliances to gain persistent access, forcing affected organizations to consider disruptive rebuilds of critical security infrastructure while patches remain unavailable. Cisco Talos said the campaign has been active since at least late November , raising concerns for s…