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The regulatory body which last year accused Microsoft of inflating its office software’s license prices when it was run on rival cloud platforms to make those platforms less appealing, said Tuesday it will conduct a further investigation into the company’s entire business software ecosystem. The probe by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority ( CMA ), scheduled to begin in May, follows an ear…

Nvidia is betting on heterogeneity as the next phase of enterprise AI. To provide customers more choice and flexibility, the chip giant has announced a new partnership with Marvell Technology that will connect the semiconductor company to the Nvidia AI factory and AI-RAN ecosystems. Nvidia is also investing $2 billion in Marvell, and the two companies will collaborate on next-gen 5G/6G networks t…

Cisco has extended its Enterprise Agreement (EA) software licensing and services program to include Nutanix and its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) package, the Nutanix Cloud Platform. The move is unique in that Cisco included third-party OEM technology in the EA , which typically involves only Cisco networking, software, security and other services, according to a blog post penned by Jeremy …

Cato Networks today introduced a modular adoption model for its secure access service edge (SASE) platform that lets enterprises deploy individual security and networking capabilities without committing to a full SASE rollout immediately, while still getting the unified architecture underneath. With the new modular model, organizations can start with any combination of four standalone modules—AI …

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…

Seattle, the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, was facing a $250 million budget gap. Like many large organizations, the city suspected inefficiencies were hiding in plain sight — including in its legacy IT infrastructure. CTO Rob Lloyd and his team set out on a hypervisor migration project, partnering with Nutanix to consolidate thousands of legacy virtual machines , reduce server sprawl and…

Any network built through years of acquisitions will typically accumulate the structural debt of overlapping infrastructure, fragmented inventory, and no single view of what is running where. For Lumen Technologies , that debt compounded across four decades and dozens of acquisitions. Lumen is an enterprise network infrastructure company serving large enterprise, government and wholesale customer…

In a highly unusual move, Amazon has confirmed that it is waiving an entire month’s usage charges for customers using two Middle Eastern datacenters disrupted by Iranian drone attacks earlier this month. The attacks on March 1 damaged two Amazon datacenters in the region, ME-CENTRAL-1 (United Arab Emirates) and ME-SOUTH-1 (Bahrain), something the company acknowledged the following day. “These str…

I used to think AI performance was mostly a GPU problem. Then I watched a “healthy” GPU fleet crawl. Not because we ran out of compute, but because we ran out of movement. Tokens waiting on data. GPUs waiting on batches. Services waiting on east-to-west traffic. Storage queues quietly turning into tail latency. Today, I do not even call this a storage problem. It is an information supply chain pr…

The current web is optimized for surveillance capitalism; this is positive compared to other ways our data can be used. Data from activities on native utility applications and communications on social messaging applications, both offline and online, are routed through centralized systems managed by admins who decide whether these actions proceed to completion at all and what happens to the data p…

The European Commission is continuing to investigate the theft of data from its cloud infrastructure earlier this week. On Thursday, the Commission revealed there had been an attack on its Europa.eu platform, offering few details, then, on Friday, security news site Bleeping Computer reported that the attack had involved the compromise of an account or accounts on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The n…

An age-old problem for enterprise IT managers has always been data sprawl . However, in the era of AI, where data is needed from every potential source available, scale in data sprawl become unmanageabl e. Existing architectures weren’t designed for distributing processing, which is part and parcel of AI training. Data center provider Equinix says it has the solution: The Distributed AI Hub power…

During a wave of privatization in the 1980s and 90s, there was a separation of postal services and telecoms throughout Europe as governments looked to tap into the liberalization of telecoms markets by breaking up their national PTTs — government agencies with a monopoly on operating postal, telephone, and telegraph services. Now, for one country at least, it’s back to square one: Poste Italiane …

To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. Abstraction interface (SAI) An abstraction interface (SAI) is an API designed to allow network software (such as an operating system) to control the hardware of a network switch . Traditionally, if you bought a switch from a specific vendor, you had t…

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…