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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 …

When a global capability center (GCC) underdelivers, the diagnosis is usually people: wrong hires, wrong scope, not enough seniority. It’s rarely the honest answer. More often the center was wired like a branch office and asked to behave like a headquarters. The GCC has evolved from an offshore cost play to a strategic extension of HQ, owning engineering, product, and, increasingly, the AI build.…

Google announced its Project Suncatcher space-based data center plan last November. The goal is to take advantage of the unlimited sunlight of space and to minimize the impact of data centers here on Earth. Next week, the first satellite is going up on the SpaceX Transporter-18 mission, Google announced yesterday. The prototype satellite will test how Google’s AI chips—its Tensor Processing Units…

Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5090, its flagship graphics card for absolute top-end PC gaming, is now selling for more than $5,000 in some markets because some buyers are using them as alternatives to enterprise GPUs. The RTX 5090 originally launched in January 2025 with a $1,999 MSRP, but it’s now is selling for more than $5,000 as AI system builders suck up the limited supply. The Hong Kong news outlet …

The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast. Petal will have more than double the capacity of today’s fastest transoceanic cables. Last November, AWS laid plans for a 320 Tb…

Application inventories and network data typically live apart in enterprise IT. Application details sit in application performance management (APM) platforms and configuration management databases (CMDB). Network paths, cloud resources, and security controls sit in separate network tools, cloud consoles and microsegmentation systems. That fragmentation limits what operations teams, and increasing…

A flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator enables attackers to access the platform organizations use to manage their VeloCloud SD-WAN subscriptions and the edge devices it controls. Arista, which now owns the VeloCloud business, warned customers that a vulnerable configuration exists in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments that remote attackers may abuse to access “privileged internal functional…