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Residential proxy services route internet traffic through consumer devices to make connections appear to originate from real home IP addresses. Security researchers have tracked their use by threat actors for credential stuffing, ad fraud, and denial-of-service operations. What has been less understood is how widely those services have already penetrated enterprise networks, often without IT or s…

While hyperscalers and neo-cloud providers may get the lion’s share of attention for providing AI infrastructure, many enterprises are taking a build-it-themselves approach to meet their specific AI requirements. The success of such projects is crucial to achieving business objectives, yet companies face significant challenges as they try to scale pilots to production. Organizations must keep up …

OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio in an arrangement that could include financial backing from Nvidia. The campus could cost at least $500 billion to build at current prices for chips, power, and construction, The Information reported , citing people familiar with the discussions. OpenAI would control the computing equipment …

Lotus Microsystems has introduced vStrata, a new power-delivery architecture aimed at Improving data center power efficiency, a pressing concern even in a non- AI environment . At the heart of the platform is the company’s proprietary Power Interposer Technology (PIT), a silicon-based interposer architecture that enables power conversion and delivery closer to the processor package. The PIT uses …

Arista Networks has taken the wraps off its 7060XE7 Series , a new portfolio of 1.6T networking platforms designed to provide the foundation for rack-scale AI infrastructure. The 7060XE7 family features fixed switch platforms and configurable rack-scale systems, targeting racks for vertical and horizontal AI workflows. All will run Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), which includes low-la…

Zscaler announced what it calls the first complete zero trust platform for agentic AI, aimed at securing how AI agents access data and talk to one another. “Traditional security was never designed for millions of autonomous agents that act and reach sensitive data at machine speed,” said Jay Chaudhry , Zscaler’s chairman and CEO, in the Tuesday announcement . The company will be extending its Zsc…

The majority of enterprises now either run or plan to run AI workloads in private clouds, according to a survey of 1,800 senior IT decision makers conducted by Radius Tech on behalf of Broadcom. Only 41% of enterprises are now using public clouds for inference workloads, down from 56% last year. Meanwhile, the use of private clouds for AI inference has risen slightly, from 55% to 56%. “The key ta…

Cisco warns customers of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, an enterprise network management system that has been targeted by hackers multiple times in the past. Located in the command-line interface, the flaw allows authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root and take over the entire system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, is ra…

Enterprise network operations teams are struggling to keep pace with the demands placed on them, and the challenge is growing as enterprises prepare their networks and observability tools for AI workloads. Roughly 31% of IT professionals surveyed for an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) benchmarking study said their organization’s network operations strategy is completely successful, a figur…

Amazon has started deploying a completely new routing architecture in AWS data centers which it says will deliver higher throughput from fewer physical switches while slashing electricity consumption. The company claims the architecture, dubbed Resilient Network Graphs (RNG) by the AWS Networking Lab researchers who developed it, offers a more efficient alternative to the traditional ‘fat tree’ t…

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…

When several database clusters started failing simultaneously, Cisco IT had all the data it needed to diagnose the problem. The signals were there. Engineers saw them. The issue was that those signals were landing in separate systems that did not talk to each other, and the team had no way to correlate them in real time. What followed was three hours of war-room calls across three separate bridge…

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessi…

AMD has added three new chips to its Versal Prime series lineup, which is designed for space-constrained applications. AMD began shipping the first production units of the Versal Prime Gen2 Series last year. Two devices have entered full production, and a third is currently sampling. These new devices are designed to provide an optimized footprint and processing subsystem compared to the earlier …

CompTIA has launched AutoOps+ , a new certification and training program that the organization says will validate the automation, scripting, infrastructure management, and DevOps skills required in today’s IT operations environments. The vendor-neutral certification is targeted at IT professionals responsible for automating workflows , managing infrastructure, and supporting software delivery pip…