Databricks' KARL solves the problem that breaks most enterprise RAG. The key lies with some advanced techniques for Reinforcement Learning (RL). venturebeat.com/data/databri...

ServiceNow is serious about automation. Apparently the key isn't about being smarter, it's about having the right roles, permissions and use cases. "Don't chase butterflies. Focus on gritty, unsexy, operational use cases..." venturebeat.com/orchestratio...

New support for Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly, and F5 targets ransomware and misconfiguration recovery for network control plane components that most enterprises do not manage with infrastructure-as-code. www.networkworld.com/article/4137...

Just cause Anthropic's Claude can understand COBOL doesn't mean it can actually modernize and maintain it. AI is great, but it doesn't solve everything... venturebeat.com/technology/i...

Getting Claude Code to write the code is the 'easy' part. It's everything around it to make the application ready for enterprise deployment that makes the difference. It's a lesson that Treasure Data has learned with best practices that could help your enterprise venturebeat.com/orchestratio...

As AI workloads shift from centralized training to distributed inference, the network faces new demands. “All the talk we’re seeing about AI and the infrastructure related to AI is mostly the tip of the iceberg.." @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4135...

LoRaWAN adoption is accelerating in smart buildings and facility management “We are building the fourth pillar of the wireless communication industry,” Alper YEGIN, CEO of the LoRa Alliance, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4134...

venturebeat.com/data/the-las... A golden record was originally part of master data management systems, as the trusted record for a given data entry or entity (for example a user's address. Elements of that same concept are now coming to the agentic AI with an approach called - golden pipelines.

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Spirent Luma uses a multi-agent architecture and deterministic rule sets to automate root cause analysis in multi-technology network environments. www.networkworld.com/article/4134... @networkworld.bsky.social

www.datacenterknowledge.com/energy-power... Had a tonne of fun digging into the promises and the challenge of SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) for data centers. The tech is coming ..but it'll have to jump over and through some hurdles first.

venturebeat.com/data/surreal... It's 'Surreal' It's now possible to bake agent memory into a database that handle graph, SQL and vector data - here's how.

Edge cloud provider posts strongest quarterly growth in three years as AI-driven traffic patterns create new revenue streams . “If you’ve used AI tools, I think you would appreciate that they often check a lot more websites, for instance, than you might.." www.networkworld.com/article/4132...

venturebeat.com/infrastructu... How 4 inference providers cut AI costs 10x using NVIDIA Blackwell and open source models Production deployment data from Baseten, Deep Infra Inc. Fireworks AI and Together AI shows significant cost improvements

I've had the good fortune to connect with Bernadette Nixon across multiple stops in her impressive career. She's now the CEO of NetBrain Technologies Inc. and like any good CEO she started by talking to customers to really understand what they need. www.networkworld.com/article/4130...

venturebeat.com/data/observa... There's another contender in the race to replace (some)RAG. It's called -observational memory - it's open-source and it's already being used by some big companies many of us use every day.

As infrastructure automation demand surges, NetBox Labs is delivering an AI agent that enables natural language interaction with infrastructure data and the ability to automate complex operational procedures. www.networkworld.com/article/4130...

www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... In a world of uncertainty - i got a bunch of analysts to chime on what they think CIOs should be doing.

The latest Linux kernel release closes out the 6.x era - and it's a gift to cloud admins zdnet.com/article/late... via @zdnet.bsky.social & @sjvn.bsky.social Having run of fingers and toes, Linus Torvalds adds that the next version of #Linux will be 7.0.

Ruckus is expanding its ICX portfolio with switches designed to streamline management of audio and video content over Ethernet networks. www.networkworld.com/article/4128... @networkworld.bsky.social

venturebeat.com/data/databri... Had a marvellous conversation with Reynold Xin the co-founder of Databricks about the evolution of databases in the cloud - culminating in the new Lakebase service that goes GA today.

venturebeat.com/infrastructu... What a treat to chat with React pioneer Tom Occhino about the evolution of vibe coding and Vercel's new v0 launch today. As it turns out generating code isn't really the hard part for an enterprise - it's all the stuff around it.

The new Forward AI capability builds on the vendor's digital twin and is designed to allow network teams to ask complex questions, understand network behavior, validate outcomes and safely automate workflows. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4125...

venturebeat.com/data/the-tru... One of the largest CDO surveys yet exposes AI's data trust paradox: Why 76% can't govern what their teams already use "The gap now is just, can you trust the data to set an agent loose on it?" Graeme Thompson, CIO at Informatica, told me.

www.techtarget.com/whatis/34-Cy... Security in 2026 isn't all bad ....is it? My annual look at some of the 'fun' stats in the cybersecurity world.

Additions to Netscout's nGeniusONE observability platform extend deep packet inspection capabilities to Wi-Fi 7 and allow organizations to more accurately inventory their deployed SSL/TLS certificates. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4124...

venturebeat.com/data/airtabl... How do you go from workflow/no-code app building to 'superagent'? Howie Liu gave me the deep dive on what Airtable is doing and how it is building its multi-agent system.

www.networkworld.com/article/4123... Is AI impacting carrier networks? You better believe it is.Mplify Alliance (formerly known as the Metro Ethernet Forum) is taking direct aim at the challenge. @networkworld.bsky.social

www.techtarget.com/searchcio/fe... The surging price of silver is good news for those who have invested in it, but it also has significant effects on the enterprise.

www.datacenterknowledge.com/regulations/... As demand for AI infrastructure accelerates, data center operators are building larger and denser facilities that generate unprecedented heat loads, creating new challenges at the intersection of technology and regulation.

venturebeat.com/data/how-ope... I've been writing about PostgreSQL for 25 years and I honestly don't think I've ever heard of an organization using the database at the scale and the way that OpenAI does.

Drowning in #AI slop, #opensource cURL ends bug bounties: thenewstack.io/drowning-in-... via @thenewstack.io & @sjvn.bsky.social Daniel Stenberg, cURL's lead developer and founder, has had enough of AI-slop bug reports. Who can blame him?

The distributed cloud networking market is forecast to hit $21 billion by 2029 as enterprises abandon fragmented WAN architectures. www.networkworld.com/article/4120... @networkworld.bsky.social

www.datacenterknowledge.com/cybersecurit... Data center security is now on the agenda at the Security Industry Association (SIA). “You can’t copy and paste what you might do for other critical infrastructures and have it work for the data center ecosystem.."

It has been ...awhile...since I last wrote on NGINX(The pervasive open source web application server has continue to grow under F5 and (like every other tech) is embracing the AI future @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4118...

(via @ethernetalliance.bsky.social Alliance) Thanks to @techjournalist.bsky.social from #NetworkWorld for including me in this article on #Ethernet in 2026 One thing for sure, we don't have time to rest on our laurels :) www.networkworld.com/article/4113...

IBM warns AI spend fails without AI literacy www.thedeepview.com/articles/ibm... by @sjvn.bsky.social #AI literacy is far more than just knowing how to craft prompts; it requires learning across disciplines to master AI to benefit both businesses and society.

Former Akamai engineers are behind startup IO River, which is developing an edge platform that creates a virtualization layer across multiple CDN providers. www.networkworld.com/article/4116...

Sweden is over Trump's nonsense about Greenland and is sending in troops. SWEDEN, PEOPLE.

www.datacenterknowledge.com/colocation/p... "In 2026, colocation conversations will stop being about space, ping, or how many racks you need, and [become] more about, 'How many megawatts can you deliver, when, and at what price per kW?' " Baffoe told me. "If you can find power, they will come."

venturebeat.com/data/deepsee... Get ready for (yet another) type of AI memory - DeepSeek AI has come up with - conditional memory and no it's not the same as RAG agent/contextual memory.

So much hype this week about the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU. Only problem is - it's not going to be available, for month. What can/should enterprises do right now? As it turns out the existing Blackwell GPU are improving too venturebeat.com/infrastructu...

venturebeat.com/data/databri... The concept of a 'retriever' is not new in data science (some might even have called it a - solved problem). But with the emergence of Agentic AI requirements have changed. Was great to get the deep dive on Databricks new Instructed Retriever.

Although this project has been promising to go open source someday down the road, that isn't going to happen: How To Install Warp Terminal on AlmaLinux 10

Discover the state of Enterprise Linux for networking in 2026. Compare RHEL 10, SLES 16, and Ubuntu alongside NOS leaders like SONiC and Nvidia Cumulus. www.networkworld.com/article/4114...

While Wi-Fi 7 adoption is accelerating among enterprises, retail Wi-Fi 8 products could arrive as early as summer 2026. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4112...

venturebeat.com/data/six-dat... What do i think will happen to the data world in 2026? Here are my six predictions....

Mapping the core projects (SONiC, Cilium, DPDK) and foundations (LFN, CNCF) driving data center, 5G, and Kubernetes connectivity. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4107...

The headline feature in Kubernetes 1.35 is general availability for in-place pod resource adjustments...The capability fundamentally changes how administrators manage container resources in production clusters. @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4107...

RAG isn't working for agentic AI but a new open-source approach called Hindsight could be the solution - bringing more context and actual insight. "RAG is on life support, and agent memory is about to kill it entirely.." venturebeat.com/data/with-91...