Meta has announced a $6 billion, multi-year fiber supply agreement with Corning, highlighting how AI infrastructure constraints are shifting beyond compute and into the physical network. www.networkworld.com/article/4123...

The tried and true enterprise WAN market is undergoing a shift and consolidating around a new architecture class. www.networkworld.com/article/4120...

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...

spr.ly/63321CfuqH If AI were a bubble, Big Tech wouldn’t be expanding compute at this scale. Yash Mehta reveals what these investments mean for bandwidth, latency and inference driven network demand. #FoundryExpert #NetworkInfrastructure #AIReadiness

spr.ly/63329CFnfD Your RADIUS is fine. Your certificates are not. Swaitlana Agnihotri shows how one forgotten root CA was enough to break trust and stop network access cold. #FoundryExpert #NetworkEngineering #SecureAccess

Dell Technology has updated its PowerStore unified file and block storage array with increased capacity, stronger digital resilience, and simpler file management and promises to reduce total cost of ownership by 15%. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...

Google says transmission grid connection delays of up to 12 years have become the biggest obstacle to powering its data centers, highlighting an infrastructure crisis that threatens to constrain cloud capacity expansion as AI workloads surge. www.networkworld.com/article/4117....

OpenAI has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy computing capacity from AI chip startup Cerebras Systems, as the ChatGPT maker looks to secure enough infrastructure to keep pace with surging user demand. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...

IBM has launched Sovereign Core, a software stack that aims to offer enterprises and governments full operational control over sovereign cloud deployments without relying on hyperscaler-managed regions. www.cio.com/article/4117...

A day after the US government cleared the way for Nvidia to sell its H200 processors to Chinese companies on a case-by-case basis, a published report has revealed Chinese custom officers have been told not to let them into the country. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...

Check out my latest CSO piece, which looks at the setbacks created by Plankey's confirmation delay and the other key priorities left dangling in Congress. Many thanks to Jim Lewis of CSIS, Ari Schwartz of Venable, Megan Stifel of the IST, and others. 1/4 www.csoonline.com/article/4116...

The demand for AI infrastructure has already begun to impact Cisco’s earnings, and the vendor expects continued growth. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...

In its application to the Department of Energy, a Texas power developer proposes to redirect two retired reactors to a data center project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. www.networkworld.com/article/4116...

Meta has elevated AI infrastructure to a top-level strategic priority with the launch of Meta Compute, a new initiative that brings responsibility for building and operating data centers and networks under a single leadership structure. www.networkworld.com/article/4115...

As the networking stack shifts toward automation and the edge, we examine the key players and features driving enterprise Linux in 2026. www.networkworld.com/article/4114...

Lenovo Group Ltd. has introduced a range of new enterprise-level servers designed specifically for AI inference tasks. The servers are part of Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage lineup, a family of inferencing devices. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...

Veeam says that four vulnerabilities could allow a person with certain oversight roles for its flagship Backup & Replication suite to do serious damage to – but not destroy – a backup database. www.networkworld.com/article/4114...

Lenovo is pitching a faster path to enterprise AI infrastructure, pairing its liquid-cooled systems and networking with Nvidia platforms to deliver what it calls “AI cloud gigafactories” designed to reduce deployment timelines from months to weeks. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...

Arista is looking for additional growth in two network specific markets that hold tremendous promise but also some risks as it steers toward a head-on collision with Cisco. www.networkworld.com/article/4111...

The Top 500 list of supercomputers has come and gone again, and vendors have engaged in their usual round of self-congratulations and performance posting. All the talk of FLOPs can get a little confusing, so we’re going to try and cut through the marketing speak. www.networkworld.com/article/4112...

Google parent Alphabet is taking steps to enable speedier addition of capacity to feed AI’s increasing demands with its announcement of plans to buy data center and energy company Intersect. www.networkworld.com/article/4110...

AI-powered applications are driving enterprises to upgrade legacy compute, storage and network resources as well as consider private cloud options for AI and HPC, according to new research from World Wide Technology. www.networkworld.com/article/4106...

Nvidia has taken a strategic step deeper into the AI software stack with its acquisition of SchedMD, the developer of Slurm, a widely used open-source workload manager for high-performance computing and AI clusters. www.networkworld.com/article/4106...

Last week, the FinOps Foundation announced the release of the FOCUS 1.3 specification. The update aims to address three persistent technical challenges. www.networkworld.com/article/4105...

CISPE, the association of Cloud Infrastructure Providers in Europe, is continuing its legal fight to unwind Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, citing the harm it is doing to VMware customers. www.networkworld.com/article/4105...

Network engineers have waited decades for freedom from vendor lock-in. P4 delivers it—custom protocols, real-time visibility, and smarter security without waiting years for feature requests. Learn why P4 is redefining infrastructure. spr.ly/63328CEqJp #FoundryExpert

Nvidia has released new open-source software that gives data center operators deeper visibility into the thermal and overall health of its AI GPUs, aiming to help enterprises manage heat and reliability challenges. www.networkworld.com/article/4104...

Some of the biggest M&A deals of 2025 were a long time coming — it took more than 18 months for HPE to finally close the Juniper Networks deal, for example. Some came with blockbuster price tags (like Palo Alto Networks’ $25 billion CyberArk buy). www.networkworld.com/article/4102...

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Arm has become standard issue in every smartphone and tablet on the market. It has also found some success in low-end notebooks, particularly Chromebooks. But outside of SmartNICs, the enterprise remains elusive. www.networkworld.com/article/4102...

Micron Technology, the third largest memory maker in the world, is shutting down its Crucial consumer business worldwide by the end of February 2026. www.networkworld.com/article/4102...

After exploring its options, Intel has cancelled plans to divest itself of its Network and Edge Group, commonly referred to as NEX. www.networkworld.com/article/4102...

IBM announced a cloud-based service that is expected to help enterprises decrease the risk of DNS outages and protect corporate assets across multicloud environments. www.networkworld.com/article/4101...

Cloudflare’s network suffered a brief but widespread outage Friday, after an update to its Web Application Firewall to mitigate a vulnerability in React Server Components went wrong. www.networkworld.com/article/4101...

HPE CEO Antonio Neri took the stage at the company's major annual European event, held December 3-4 in Barcelona. Neri shared HPE’s roadmap, which is centered on three technological pillars: networking, cloud and artificial intelligence. www.networkworld.com/article/4101...

“With this launch, we’re enabling customers to deploy dedicated AI infrastructure for AWS in their own data centers for exclusive use for them,” CEO Matt Garman said during his keynote speech at the AWS re:Invent customer conference. www.networkworld.com/article/4100...

At its Discover Barcelona 2025 customer event, HPE unveiled a wide range of networking gear and software to help enterprise customers move efficiently into the AI networking era. www.networkworld.com/article/4099...

The proliferation of AI workloads is creating concern about the ability of data center networks to keep up with demand. One part of the solution is co-packaged optics, which involves incorporating optical technology more deeply into data center network switches. www.networkworld.com/article/4098...

Akamai's acquisition of Fermyon could bring more users to Wasm, which is gaining momentum as the WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) specification nears standardization. www.networkworld.com/article/4099... @networkworld.bsky.social

Nvidia's $2B investment in chip design software maker Synopsys on Monday, puts in the unusual position of holding substantial equity in a company on the board of an industry consortium developing technology that competes with Nvidia’s interconnect technology. www.networkworld.com/article/4099...

Nearly 80% of companies say they’ve backtracked artificial intelligence initiatives due to performance issues, integration challenges, and skills gaps. www.networkworld.com/article/4096...

Amazon Web Services is looking to simplify the ways in which organizations can support multicloud services across AWS and Google Cloud, finally joining a club that includes almost every other major cloud provider www.networkworld.com/article/4098...

Managing multiple clouds isn’t just about choice — it’s about control. From governance gaps to security risks, multicloud can derail fast. This spotlight shows you how to avoid the pitfalls and make multicloud worth the investment. Read here: spr.ly/633247IRpq #Spotlight

HP announced plans to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions by 2028 as part of what it described as an AI-driven transformation to save $1 billion, while warning that surging memory chip costs would squeeze margins in the second half of 2026. www.networkworld.com/article/4096...

Microsoft has lost two senior data center and AI infrastructure leaders at a time when the company is racing to expand capacity for its Copilot and Azure AI services, raising questions about its ability to meet surging demand for power-intensive AI workloads. www.networkworld.com/article/4096...

“Networking is going through actually a bigger change than people realize, because of many factors..” Anil Varanasi, Meter co-founder and CEO, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4093...

The US federal government is rolling back mandates intended to protect critical infrastructure following the widespread Salt Typhoon attacks. www.networkworld.com/article/4094...