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All of the major AI providers want you to use, and ideally stay within, their super apps, and now Microsoft is looking to capture that attention, too. During an earnings call this week, CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the tech giant is building a Copilot ‘super app’ that will be rolled out this quarter. The new platform will bring together various Copilot tools, including chat, Cowork, long-runn…

Some 80% of New Zealand’s wine is grown and produced in the Marlborough region, making Port Nelson a critical trading gateway for the island nation. The busy port also ships forestry products, dairy, and seafood. In 2025, during a time of global trading challenges and domestic economic difficulties, 3.2m tons of goods were moved through the port, with wine as one of the best performers. “We’ve ju…

Corporate data centers continue to lose workload share to colocation and cloud providers. Meanwhile, data center operators face mounting challenges tied to AI adoption , including increasingly difficult capacity planning, persistent staffing shortages, and more expensive outages. Third-party data center facilities and services—including colocation, cloud, hosting, and SaaS providers—account for 4…

Most IT operators understand that critical infrastructure should be isolated in crisis situations, but many don’t know how to do it in a way that maximizes security and minimizes disruption. Now, several global agencies are offering a step-by-step action plan, CI Fortify . Released by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and several Five Eyes security agencies across the…

Dell and Nutanix have teamed to offer customers more enterprise storage choices in Nutanix private cloud environments. Dell’s PowerStore enterprise all-flash storage system now supports Nutanix Cloud Platform 7.6, with validated deployment and managed through Dell Private Cloud, the vendors announced. “This collaboration makes PowerStore the second Dell storage platform to integrate with Nutanix,…

AI-based attacks that rely on deepfake impersonation and AI-enabled malware are getting faster and cheaper to launch, which has driven the cost of finding and fixing enterprise data breaches to a record high. AI-enabled breaches cost an average of $6 million, which is roughly $1 million more than the global breach average of $4.99 million, according to IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The…

In technology, the pendulum rarely stays at one extreme for long. When Secure Access Service Edge ( SASE ) entered the enterprise networking lexicon a few years ago, the industry quickly pivoted to it. The prevailing consensus held that traditional on-premises security hardware was headed for extinction. Industry watchers envisioned a world where even corporate headquarters and massive branch off…

IT teams responsible for data centers, colocation facilities, and test labs face a persistent challenge when it comes to providing affordable, timely maintenance and troubleshooting for their organizations’ IT infrastructure. Facilities aren’t often staffed around the clock, and sending someone on-site to address every hardware failure or issue is slow and expensive, especially for colocation cus…

The largest US power grid operator has proposed curtailing electricity supply to certain new large power users, including AI data centers, during grid emergencies beginning in June 2027, as surging demand threatens to outpace available generation capacity. The proposal targets facilities that will fail to secure sufficient independent or contracted power supplies. PJM Interconnection will develop…

The ‘no man’s land’ beneath the OS on enterprise servers is becoming the malicious actors’ next target. Attackers are gaining a foothold into broader data center environments by exploiting Baseboard Management Controllers (BMCs) that are largely unprotected, still running decades-old protocols and susceptible to a vulnerability published 13 years ago, according to data center security company Lav…

Arista has patched a VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) security hole that has been actively leveraged in the wild, one that the vendor says “may allow a remote attacker to access privileged internal functionality and impact the VCO host.” The Arista security advisory added that the hole “may compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the orchestrator and data managed by the orchest…

Fortinet has expanded its firewall family with new high-speed boxes that, when combined with the vendor’s FortiSASE Outpost software, extend cloud-based SASE (secure access service edge) capabilities and policy enforcement to on-premises environments. The new midrange FortiGate 1200G series supports 10G, 25G, and 100G connectivity options and delivers 397 Gbps firewall throughput. It’s aimed at s…

Distributed denial of service ( DDoS ) attacks are changing shape. Attackers now use AI throughout the attack lifecycle, from reconnaissance to exploitation to hardening compromised devices against takeover by rival botnet operators. The result is larger, more coordinated botnets capable of direct, stateful attacks rather than the reflection and amplification techniques that dominated a few years…

A recent market outlook from energy intelligence firm Currence estimates that between 30% and 50% of the large-scale data center capacity expected to come online in 2026 will likely be delayed, due to mounting power constraints, construction bottlenecks and increasingly unreliable project timelines. The report, which tracks 777 announced AI factories and large data cente rs exceeding 50 megawatts…

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…