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It used to take a large team of engineers years to build a new networking startup. AI changes that game entirely. Barrett Lyon has founded (and sold) multiple networking vendors over the last two decades, including Prolexic ( acquired by Akamai ), defense.net (acquired by F5 Networks), and netography (acquired by Vectra AI). Now he has turned his attention to AI with a new startup launching this …

Bob, IBM’s agentic software development platform is now available to run on premises and in private clouds, sovereign clouds, and air-gapped environments to give users more control over their data. IBM is hoping to lure companies operating in heavily regulated environments or managing sensitive source code and regulated data. In such environments, running AI operations means that they are under s…

Hyperscalers are rushing to build more data centers to run AI workloads — but will the AI industry ever generate enough revenue to pay for that infrastructure? Researchers at Bain and Company have looked into this and concluded that productivity gains from existing AI services are not enough to justify the money being pumped in: AI companies and the hyperscalers that power them will need to creat…

Following its record-setting third quarter , HPE said it expects cumulative AI network orders for fiscal 2026 to top $3 billion, exceeding its previous forecasts. The company also raised its fiscal 2027 networking revenue target, projecting growth percentages in the high teens to low 20s. Specific to data center networking, HPE is estimating revenue to grow at roughly 50% CAGR through fiscal 2029…

CoreWeave has made a series of announcements starting with Nvidia’s new Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale AI platform available in its cloud. At its CoreWeave’s Fully Connected conference in San Francisco, the company announced Cognition, the developer of the Devin AI software-engineering agent, is the first customer for a Vera Rubin cluster. Cognition brought up the Vera Rubin cluster in early Septemb…

Nvidia has led the industry through much of the AI revolution, building the most important computing platform of this era. Yet no one has considered Nvidia a security company. That perception should shift after this week’s launch of the Nvidia Open Agent Safety Platform , a full-stack approach to governing AI agents that pairs its Nvidia OpenShell runtime with a new hardware-based watchdog called…

The global memory shortage that has driven up the cost of servers, storage and PCs through 2026 will get worse in 2027 and 2028, according to memory maker Micron Technology. “We expect memory and storage supply-demand conditions to be much tighter in calendar 2027 and 2028 than they were in 2026,” CEO Sanjay Mehrotra said in prepared remarks for the company’s fiscal fourth-quarter earnings call. …

Cisco’s SD-WAN management software has been letting some attackers walk through an authentication check without having to prove who they are. The company says it has now fixed the flaw that was allowing it. The affected platform, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager , is used to configure and operate software-defined network deployments. Cisco said in an advisory that improper handling of URI encoding i…

LiquidStack , a Trane Technologies business, has introduced a new configurable coolant distribution unit (CDU) platform designed to help data center operators deploy and scale liquid cooling as AI accelerator performance and rack densities continue to increase. The company unveiled the LiquidStack CDU 2.X at Yotta 2026 in Ireland. The architecture-agnostic platform is designed to support multiple…

Apple is reportedly exploring a return to the enterprise server market with an AI-focused system built around its own silicon and potentially connected using Nvidia technology. In mid-September, The Information reported that Apple is considering servers based on future M8-series processors, with a potential launch around 2029. The project remains preliminary and could change or be canceled. The p…

AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform. AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus , which reaches general availability on Sept. 30. According to…

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has agreed to buy World Labs, a developer of AI “world models” that incorporate knowledge of the physical world, to extend the AI ecosystem around its hardware to encompass areas such as robotics, simulation and physical AI. Historically, AMD was seen as the cheaper alternative to Intel in the CPU market, but according to Gartner Director Analyst Shrish Pant , that po…

Ask a software developer where they test code, and they’ll describe a staging environment, version control, and an automated regression suite. Ask a network engineer the same question, and the honest answer, more often than not, is “in production.” This was standard practice when I was running networks more than 20 years ago, and it’s still the case. For decades, the industry has accepted making …

Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway users should take their systems offline and patch them immediately, they were told over the weekend, as news emerged of two critical unauthenticated remote code execution zero-day vulnerabilities in the products under active attack. “ Monday will be too late ,” watchtower CEO Benjamin Harris wrote in a LinkedIn post on Sunday. Citrix subsequently confirm…

The decisions that determine whether a global capability center (GCC) succeeds or stalls are rarely the ones that get boardroom attention. With the number of GCCs in India growing by nearly a third since 2021 – more than 500 of the Forbes Global 2000 operate in the country – the choices that underpin a successful launch are treated as operational detail and left too late in the process. Consider …