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Last week’s HPE Discover event in Las Vegas marked the first time the annual user conference included the now-fully-absorbed Juniper Networks. Rami Rahim, former CEO of Juniper Networks and current EVP, president and general manager of HPE Networking, took to the main stage for a dedicated networking session after HPE CEO Antonio Neri’s morning keynote . Rahim emphasized the network’s importance …

China has reclaimed the top spot in the global supercomputing race. The debut of China’s LineShine on the 67th edition of the TOP500 rankings ends El Capitan’s run at the top the list and marks the first time a China-based system has led the rankings since Sunway TaihuLight in 2017 . Installed at the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen and built by Shenzhen Cloud Computing Center, LineShin…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation, Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Its GPUs have evolved from their gaming roots to power breakthroughs in scientific simulations, data analysis, and machine learning. Follow this page for the latest news, analysis, and features on Nvidia’s advancements and th…

Dell’s new high-end Nvidia-based server is a centerpiece for its integrated AI platform aimed at enterprise customers with major AI infrastructure plans. The Dell PowerEdge XE8812, with its core Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL4 architecture, scales up to 144 GPUs per rack and will be at the heart of the Dell AI Factory with Nvidia preconfigured package of server, storage, networking, and software infrastru…

Nvidia has formally launched the Vera Rubin platform, a combination CPU and GPU platform billed as a major step forward in the convergence of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) for scientific research. Announced at the ISC High Performance 2026 conference in Hamburg, the new platform combines Nvidia’s Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs, networking technologies, and software stack int…

The Bundesliga has long talked about turning “data into devotion,” and now it has an agentic AI companion in its official app that lets fans chat in natural language, access live stats and historical context, and view personalized video highlights—all without leaving the app. Bundesliga is the premier professional soccer league in Germany. It built its new AI companion, called Captain, on AWS and…

A massive credential-compromise campaign dubbed “Fortibleed” has been found to expose tens of thousands of Fortinet devices worldwide, with researchers warning of persistent attacker access to affected enterprise environments. The campaign was first flagged by security researcher Volodymyr Diachenko, who posted on LinkedIn about finding an attacker-controlled list of potentially working FortiGate…

While enterprise IT leaders have spent the past two years focusing AI infrastructure discussions on GPUs, cloud platforms, and data centers, new Cisco research suggests that enterprise networks may not be ready for the next phase of AI adoption. A Cisco and Foundry survey of 3,472 IT and networking leaders across 15 countries found AI is already changing traffic patterns across campus and branch …

HPE CTO Fidelma Russo took to the main stage at HPE Discover 2026 in Las Vegas to detail a set of product announcements focused on governing data, orchestrating infrastructure, and operating AI agents in production. Where CEO Antonio Neri’s day-one keynote covered the portfolio architecture across networking, compute, and storage, Russo’s session went deeper on the software and operations layer t…

Summertime power fluctuations and vacationing staff members can be a bad combination, especially for organizations operating large edge IT environments. Power loss, not hardware failure, is the leading cause of outages on distributed sites such as retail stores and gas stations, according to Mark Christie, Field CTO at StorMagic . These disruptions are often triggered by weather events, unstable …

Building an enterprise AI factory is a complex endeavor that few organizations can tackle alone. The solution requires infrastructure capable of managing massive compute workloads generated by AI training and inferencing, high-capacity/low-latency networking within data centers and to the edge, and security to mitigate the risks that AI introduces. Abhinav Joshi, leader of AI solutions and produc…

The latest release of qvac-fabric-llm.cpp, the inference engine of the QVAC Fabric LLM, features TurboQuant integration for resource management in long-running inference sessions. Tether adopts the technology as a path to better efficiency when running large language models on devices with limited compute resources. TurboQuant is Google’s response to the Key-Value (KV) Cache’s capacity expansion …

AMD has acquired memory optimization startup MEXT, bringing predictive memory optimization software into its AI infrastructure portfolio as enterprises look for ways to manage increasingly memory-intensive AI workloads without continually expanding expensive DRAM capacity. The technology uses AI to intelligently move frequently accessed data between flash storage and DRAM, enabling organizations …

HPE is all in on AI, according to the message coming from CEO Antonio Neri. AI agents are now running alongside end users in enterprise infrastructure, changing how workloads move across networks and what compute and storage must deliver. At HPE Discover 2026 in Las Vegas this week, Neri used the opening keynote to detail the company’s response across its full stack. Key announcements include: Ne…

HPE has rolled out a super-sized package of hardware and software aimed at helping enterprise customers build and manage large AI infrastructures from the data center to the edge. At its Discover event in Las Vegas this week, the vendor announced HPE Juniper Networking QFX switches aimed at inferencing and scale-up architectures. It also deepened integration of its Juniper Networking data center …