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Broadcom isn’t playing nicely in the European market, according to a new report by the independent monitoring body European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO), which rates Broadcom’s status as “critical” in its most recent analysis of cloud competition in Europe. The company’s conduct has “deteriorated markedly” since October 2025 due to what ECCO calls “continued and escalating” unfair licensi…

Cisco released emergency patches for a critical vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway appliance that could allow attackers to take over the device by simply sending malicious crafted emails to users. The flaw was already being exploited in the wild when the fixes were released. Tracked as CVE-2026-76461, the vulnerability is described by Cisco as an SQL injection caused by insufficient valida…

Cisco is expanding Splunk’s AI capabilities to self-managed environments and adding observability tools designed to help enterprise IT teams monitor AI agents, control token costs, and troubleshoot problems across applications and networks. Announced at Splunk’s .conf26 this week, the updates include Cisco AI POD for Splunk, which brings Splunk AI capabilities to on-premises and air-gapped enviro…

Cisco and Splunk are using .conf26 to highlight how AI can transform observability, or “AI for observability.” The thesis is that the network, security operations, and AI infrastructure must become a single, correlated operational system, and Splunk can serve as the data and action layer tying them together. For network engineers, the main takeaway from the Sept. 14-17 event should be that Cisco …

Networks built for AI and HPC workloads have mostly focused on moving data faster between endpoints. That leaves compute idle while packets travel, a bottleneck vendors have tried to address mainly by adding bandwidth rather than changing what the fabric itself does. Cornelis Networks is taking a different approach. The company raised $205 million to fund its expansion into scale-up networking an…

News of Broadcom’s plans to acquire VMware triggered concerns among customers , partners, and industry watchers, and the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal—finalized in late 2023—ultimately led to some layoffs , VMware licensing changes, production rationalizations, shifts to the partner program, and multiple lawsuits . Broadcom has made moves to placate enterprises that are unhappy with its VMware…

Arm is expanding its push into AI data center infrastructure, introducing its most configurable Neoverse Compute Subsystem to date while highlighting growing industry adoption of its Arm AGI CPU for agentic AI workloads. The new Neoverse CSS N4 is designed to give customers a faster path from processor design to production silicon, while the Arm AGI CPU provides a production-ready processor aimed…

Processing IoT/OT data as close as possible to the source has been a longstanding goal for IT leaders. Recent technological advances are now making it possible to perform full-blown AI inferencing at the network edge , opening the door for game-changing applications that can respond autonomously to sensor data in real time. “The combined rapid growth of edge data and the imperative that businesse…

AI infrastructure has a resource problem that gets worse the more you try to solve it. Every generation of GPU accelerator draws more power and rejects more heat than the last — next-generation AI racks are projected to reach densities north of 300 kW , up from roughly 6 kW just a few years ago. The industry’s answer has been liquid cooling: direct-to-chip cold plates, rear-door heat exchangers, …

Broadcom is raising the stakes when it comes to preventing its VMware customers from moving to another platform. The company has stopped users from downloading its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK). While this may not look like significant news VDDK is, in fact, a vital part of tools used to migrate away from VMware. For example, it is used by Microsoft Azure Migrate, Red Hat’s Migration Toolki…

Nvidia will use Palantir’s Foundry software to analyze its global network of suppliers and partners for supply chain risks — and Palantir will incorporate Nvida’s Nemotron open AI model into its existing AI software stack. The deal will enhance both companies’ offerings, they said: Nvidia will use Palantir’s AI stack to optimize its complex supply chain ecosystem, helping teams identify potential…

Networks have always been driven by the need for more speed and bandwidth, and in the AI era, that drive is accelerating the path to 1.6 terabit network connectivity. Work on 1.6T began in 2020 and became a formal IEEE study group in 2021, before AI was the industry’s dominant discussion point. That work became the IEEE P802.3dj Task Force, which has been building out the specifications that are …

Network infrastructure owners often tell me that the biggest obstacle to network cyber resilience is the complexity of multi-vendor network environments. They aren’t just referring to the number of vendors in their environment, but also to the variety of device types (firewalls, routers, switches and access points), models and software versions. Well-resourced organizations with vendor-specific e…

Nvidia continues to commit major dollars to AI companies, this time investing $3.5 billion in chipmaker MediaTek in return for licensing Nvidia technology. Nvidia will purchase $3.5 billion of convertible bonds issued by chipmaker MediaTek, and in return MediaTek will adopt Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion technology , allowing customers to develop customized AI accelerators that can connect directly to Nv…

Networking gear manufacturer MikroTik has released patches for six vulnerabilities in its RouterOS firmware, two of which can be chained together to take over devices without authentication over SSH. The exploit chain, dubbed MikroTrick, is already being used by attackers in the wild. The vulnerabilities , found by researchers from the CERT Polska, are located in various firmware components, incl…