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Deep learning is a cornerstone technology in modern AI. Startup Aria Networks is now applying that same layered intelligence approach to the network with its Deep Networking platform. Aria Networks was founded in January 2025 by Mansour Karam, who previously founded intent-based networking vendor Apstra, which Juniper Networks acquired in 2020. Aria has been developing a path-centric approach bui…

More processor coverage on Network World: AMD news and insights | Nvidia news and insights Intel is hoping for a turnaround under its new CEO, Lip-BuTan. Intel’s Q1 2025 revenue was $12.7 billion, flat year-over-year. While revenue for its client computing group dropped 8%, the data center and AI segment showed an 8% increase, driven by Xeon volume. Intel is pushing its Gaudi 3 AI accelerators an…

Ready to travel to gain hands-on experience with new networking and infrastructure tools? Tech conferences – in person and virtual – give attendees a chance to access product demos, network with peers, earn continuing education credits, and catch a celebrity keynote or live entertainment. Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O, and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missin…

New York, NY: Minimus, a provider of hardened container images and secure container images designed to reduce CVE risk, today announced the appointment of Yael Nardi as Chief Business Officer (CBO). In this newly created role, Nardi will lead the company’s next phase of operations, overseeing top-of-funnel growth strategy, strategic operations, and future corporate development. As the market land…

As it struggles to keep up in the AI chip race, Intel is forging a partnership that could, literally, have galactic proportions. The semiconductor giant is joining Elon Musk’s ambitious Terafab project, billed as the largest-ever chip manufacturing facility, one that will power space travel and advanced robotics. Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI announced the joint $25 billion venture in March, with plans …

The UALink Consortium, an industry body developing an open source alternative to Nvidia’s NVLink interconnect standard for AI workloads, has just published version 2.0 of the UALink specification. With this release , UALink introduces the UALink 200G Data Link and Physical Layers (DL/PL) Specification 2.0, which separates the DL/PL Specification from the original UALink Common Specification, thus…

Cisco is joining Anthropic’s Project Glasswing initiative, which will offer Anthropic’s unreleased Claude Mythos Preview software to a coalition of vendors to help define how AI resources will be protected from cyber threats. Project Glasswing brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and P…

More processor coverage on Network World: Intel news and insights | AMD news and insights With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s list of partners reads like a technology who’s who list – including AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and it spans key vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and…

Why are enterprises shifting to sovereign clouds? Gartner defines sovereign cloud as the “provision of cloud services within a jurisdiction meeting data residency requirements and operational autonomy.” According to the firm, this locally hosted infrastructure is intended to ensure that data, infrastructure, and operations are “free from control” and protected from the “influence and access” of e…

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, includ…

Nvidia’s recent acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the Slurm workload manager, is raising concerns among AI industry executives and supercomputing specialists who fear the chip giant could use its new position to favour its own hardware over competing chips, whether through code prioritization or roadmap decisions. The concern, as industry sources frame it, is straightforward: Nvidia now …

Without a secure, more scalable Wi-Fi backbone, organizations can’t deliver on the opportunities afforded by AI and other technologies, warns Cisco. The vendor just published its inaugural State of Wireless 2026 report, which surveyed more than 6,000 global wireless professionals. IT teams in charge of wireless networks are under pressure to rapidly evolve the infrastructure, driven by issues inc…

Data center capital expenditures grew by 57% last year to $726 billion, according to Dell’Oro Group, marking the fastest growth the research firm has recorded since it began tracking the statistics in 2014. And 2026 is looking to be similar, with an estimated growth rate of more than 50%, meaning that data center capex will cross the $1 trillion mark this year. Just a year ago, the research firm …

For some time there’s been a growing rebellion by residents to proposed data center construction projects, but by and large these have been driven by citizens. Maine, however, has become the 1st state to press pause on new data center construction. The Wall Street Journal reports the proposed law would pause new projects of 20 megawatts or more until November 2027 while the state studies the effe…

Despite years of planning, enterprise AI adoption in networking isn’t advancing. New research from IDC shows that while expectations remain high, progress has stalled, and network leaders are facing growing pressure from several directions. The 2026 IDC AI in Networking Special Report found that organizations expecting to move from early and selective AI use for business and IT initiatives to mor…