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Data center outages are becoming less frequent overall, but resiliency gains are slowing as data center operators face mounting pressure from AI workloads, aging power infrastructure, and external dependencies, according to Uptime Institute’s newly released 2026 Annual Outage Analysis report . The report marks the fifth consecutive year that outage frequency on a per-site basis has declined, cont…

Cisco Systems delivered a blowout Q3 FY2026 performance that surpassed even the most optimistic expectations, posting record revenue of $15.8 billion, up 12% year-over-year, with product revenue surging 17%. The networking giant’s momentum is accelerating across multiple fronts, driven by demand for AI infrastructure, campus modernization, and strategic silicon investments. Here are five key take…

Despite reporting positive financial news — including record third-quarter revenue of $15.8 billion, a 12% year-over-year increase — Cisco said it will eliminate almost 4,000 jobs. “We are making changes today that will result in the reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs, representing less than 5 percent of our total employee base. Most notifications will begin on May …

Even though many communities are in open revolt against massive data centers needed to power artificial intelligence, a startup is betting that homeowners will welcome miniature data centers in their backyards. The startup, an intelligent power management company called SPAN , has partnered with Nvidia and homebuilder PulteGroup to make use of spare electrical transmission capacity already availa…

It is no secret that there is a considerable shortage of storage devices, both traditional spinning media and SSDs. It’s always been hard to quantify beyond the “they are out of stock” complaints, but now some companies are getting tangible stats. Large-capacity hard drives, measuring 18TB or more, now cost up to three times more than their typical prices due to production capacities being entire…

Wi-Fi 8 is still a couple of years away from broad enterprise deployment, but the work underway in the IEEE and silicon ecosystems will shape wireless LAN design for the next decade. For network engineers, Wi-Fi 8 is more than “Wi-Fi 7, but faster.” It’s a reliability-driven release that begins to turn access points into an edge AI compute platform. From speed to reliability Wi-Fi was a major top…

Cisco has turned over an internally developed specification for agentic AI security evaluation to the GitHub open-source community. The Foundry Security Spec is meant to be used with GitHub’s spec-kit, which is an industry-wide set of development workflows that can be used with different AI agents. The idea is to help customers and the industry create a common framework for evaluating and governi…

HPE this week announced updates to its private cloud, storage, and data-protection portfolio aimed at enterprise customers who are reevaluating their VMware strategies and looking to ready their infrastructure to handle AI workloads. The updates are delivered through HPE GreenLake and focus on simplifying management across virtual machines, Kubernetes, and AI workloads while also expanding edge-r…

Traffic patterns are shifting, agent deployments are multiplying, and cloud environments keep expanding. The point tools enterprises use to manage each layer are not keeping pace. Versa Networks is addressing those challenges with three coordinated updates to its VersaONE Universal SASE Platform. The first is a Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) capability that brings cloud risk visibility …

Red Hat on Tuesday opened its Ansible Automation Platform to AI agents while adding new controls intended to keep them under tight control. The company made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Ansible generally available, allowing any AI tool to access the platform, and it introduced a new automation orchestrator, in technology preview, that routes actions through human-approved, determin…

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…

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…

Understanding that enterprise migrations can be structurally complicated, costly, and constrained in certain environments, many software and cloud providers offer extended maintenance, support, and security updates. Oftentimes, though, they come with caveats and firm end dates. Red Hat is looking to shake up this paradigm with its announcement at Red Hat Summit of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RH…

Red Hat is attempting to reposition sovereignty from a compliance issue for European companies to a global strategic priority for enterprises, including US firms, who want more control over their enterprise stacks . Today, Red Hat announced new sovereign and private cloud capabilities that expand sovereignty to include vendor independence, AI control, and operational autonomy. These new capabilit…

Linux server admins may get the ability to turn off a vulnerable function in the OS kernel until a patch for a zero-day vulnerability is ready, if a proposal from a kernel developer and maintainer is accepted by the open source community. The idea of a kill switch for privileged operators has been suggested by Sasha Levin , a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and co-maintainer of the long-term sup…