Network World
JUNE 9, 2025
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first commercially available field-programmable gate array processor, otherwise known as the FPGA. The FPGA is a type of semiconductor that can be reconfigured by a customer or designer after manufacturing – something processors typically cannot do. It was invented by Ross Freeman, co-founder of Xilinx, along with Bernard Vonderschmitt and James Barnett.
Information Week
MAY 15, 2025
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CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 14, 2025
The world plunged headfirst into the AI revolution. Now many are admitting they werent quite ready. The 2024 Board of Directors Survey from Gartner , for example, found that 80% of non-executive directors believe their current board practices and structures are inadequate to effectively oversee AI. The 2024 Enterprise AI Readiness Radar report from Infosys , a digital services and consulting firm, found that only 2% of companies were fully prepared to implement AI at scale and that, despite the
Forrester IT
MAY 28, 2025
Although details are limited with more expected to come during an upcoming earnings call, we know that a leader in the SSE market will consume a leader in the MDR market with Zscaler announcing that it intends to acquire Red Canary.
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Tech Republic Security
JUNE 3, 2025
Another key factor is that ransomware has turned into a business model, Check Point researchers report.
Network World
JANUARY 14, 2025
2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Multiple standards and certification efforts made progress in 2024, helping networks to be more reliable and deliver more bandwidth.One of the most significant developments was the maturation of 800 Gigabit Ethernet (800GbE).
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Network World
APRIL 30, 2025
When it comes to storied sports teams, names like the Boston Red Sox and Montreal Canadiens come to mind. In college football, there is no more iconic a team than the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. From Knute Rockne to Joe Montana to Rudy, Notre Dame football has a history of excellence and success. Over the past several years, Notre Dame, like all organizations, has been rethinking customer experience.
Network World
MAY 26, 2025
Nvidia plans to launch a lower-cost AI chip for China in June, aiming to protect market share under the US export controls and signal a broader shift toward affordable, segmented products that could impact global enterprise AI spending. The new GPU, part of Nvidias Blackwell architecture, is expected to be priced between $6,500 and $8,000, significantly lower than the restricted H20 chip, which sold for $10,000 to $12,000, according to a Reuters report.
Network World
JUNE 11, 2025
SAN DIEGO – Cisco unwrapped a variety of advanced firewall and AI software enhancements aimed at further combining and simplifying its network and security technology across enterprise infrastructures. At its Cisco Live event , the vendor rolled out a new Hybrid Mesh Firewall portfolio, bolstered security support with partner Nvidia, and further tightened its own technology integration with its Splunk platform.
Network World
APRIL 7, 2025
Over the past year, vendor after vendor has reached the critical quantum-computing milestone where adding more qubits no longer adds a disproportionately higher amount of errors. For the first time, we can confidently say, the zero to one moment has happened, and now we can look at scaling roadmaps instead of science roadmaps, says Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at Infleqtion, which is focusing on the neutral atom approach to quantum computing.
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Network World
MARCH 26, 2025
At next months Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), many of the technologies that are driving current and future Ethernet development will be on full display by the Ethernet Alliance, which is set to unveil its tenth anniversary Ethernet roadmap. Among the hot trends is, unsurprisingly, outfitting Ethernet for all things AI. Right now we are trying to get all of the people and groups who want to build Ethernet for AI to collaborate and work together.
Network World
APRIL 7, 2025
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 15 quantum computing companies for its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative , to see if utility-scale quantum computers can be built by 2033. Selected companies include IBM, HPE, Quantinuum, IonQ, Xanadu, Rigetti, and others from North America, Europe, and Australia and covers multiple approaches to quantum computing, including trapped ions, superconducting qubits, photonics, and silicon spin qubits.
Network World
JANUARY 9, 2025
CompTIA recently upgraded its PenTest+ certification program to educate professionals on cybersecurity penetration testing with training for artificial intelligence (AI), scanning and analysis, and vulnerability management, among other things. PenTest+ certification training now includes access to a hackable website that provides live targets and vulnerabilities for cybersecurity professionals to identify and mitigate real-world threats, according to CompTIA.
Network World
JUNE 13, 2025
In mid-2023, a host of big name networking vendors including Cisco, Arista, HPE and Intel got together to form the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC ). The goal is to make Ethernet better for the needs of AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Now, nearly two years later, the UEC is delivering on its initial promise with the release of the first UEC 1.0 specification.
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This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.
Network World
JANUARY 8, 2025
The new version of Oracles Exadata platform, X11M, is now generally available, and promises improved performance on generative AI tasks such as retrieval augmented generation (RAG) for the same price as the old version. Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments.
Network World
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Cisco celebrated forty years of history in Amsterdam with the EMEA version of its flagship customer conference, Cisco Live! During the event, Cisco positioned itself as a unique partner for customers facing challenges from the changing nature of the workplace to the revolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in data centers and network infrastructure or the need for digital resilience, said Oliver Tuszik, Ciscos vice president for EMEA.
Network World
MAY 14, 2025
HPE acquired Morpheus Data in August of last year in a bid to bolster multicloud management.Nine months later, that acquisition has spawned new capabilities as part of the integrated HPE Morpheus software portfolio, aimed at alleviating the challenges of managing hybrid environments. Enterprises are under tremendous pressure from all sides with cloud sprawl, technical debt and astronomical virtualization costs all hindering their ability to invest in and adopt AI, said Cheri Williams, senior vic
Network World
JUNE 6, 2025
It’s been a busy few weeks for GPU and AI company Nvidia. In mid-May, the company held the Taipei edition of its GTC user event and then followed that up with CEO Jensen Huang keynoting COMPUTEX 2025. In late May, the company reported better-than-expected results, announcing that its fiscal first-quarter revenue rose 12% from the prior quarter to $44.1 billion— which is a 69% jump compared to the year-earlier quarter.
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There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.
Network World
MARCH 6, 2025
Veeam recently announced a multi-faceted expansion of its partnership with Microsoft. The first facet is that Microsoft is making an equity investment in Veeam. Although no terms of the financial arrangement were given, this does follow a $2 billion round in late 2024 in which Veeam was valued at $15 billion. There have been rumors swirling regarding the Kirkland, Wash.
Network World
MAY 26, 2025
Enterprise cloud spending is spiraling out of control, with over half of organizations estimating that more than 40% of their cloud budget is wasted on preventable mistakes and inefficient processes. And the accelerating growth in AI adoption isnt helping. Cloud networking is often an overlooked area, and the growing demands of AI-driven data movement are compounding the challenge.
Network World
JANUARY 21, 2025
Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow. Uptime Institute details the major challenges and opportunities the data center industry will encounter this year in its report, Five Data Centers Predictions for 2025.
Network World
APRIL 2, 2025
The AI chip shortage could become even more dire as Chinese customers are purportedly looking to hoard Nvidia chips ahead of a proposed US sales ban. According to inside sources, Chinese companies including ByteDance, Alibaba Group, and Tencent Holdings have ordered at least $16 billion worth of Nvidias H20 server chips for running AI workloads in just the first three months of this year, The Information reported Wednesday.
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Network World
JUNE 10, 2025
IBM ( NYSE:IBM ) has announced what it claims to be a significant breakthrough in quantum computing architecture today, solving the scientific obstacles to error correction. The company said that it is now on the path to building the world’s first scalable, error-corrected quantum computer by 2029. “We’ve cracked the code to quantum error correction,” said Jay Gambetta , vice president at IBM Quantum, at a press conference on Monday.
Network World
JUNE 12, 2025
SAN DIEGO–A wide range of new AI-based software and technology from Cisco is designed to manage, secure and automate network operations as well as to cement Cisco’s place at the center of customers’ AI infrastructure plans. Cisco rolled out the new wares at its Cisco Live event, where it also unveiled new Nexus data center management software, campus Smart Switches , branch routers and a raft of security updates.
Network World
JUNE 6, 2025
Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware continues to prove itself a worthy purchase, even as the semiconductor giant has faced harsh criticism, and lost some customers, due to significant price increases. The company this week announced its Q2 2025 results, revealing revenue growth of 20% year- over-year (YoY), to $15 billion. Net income, meanwhile, ramped up 124% YoY to $4.95 billion.
Network World
APRIL 3, 2025
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. This is obviously a fluid situation. The stated goal of the [US] administration is to bring more development into the US, said Forrester Senior Analyst Alvin Nguyen.
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Network World
JANUARY 14, 2025
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has signed a contract exceeding $1 billion to provide AI servers for X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to Bloomberg. The deal represents a critical endorsement of HPEs technology as the company reportedly edged out leading competitors Dell and Supermicro. While the finer details remain confidential, the agreement underscores HPEs growing clout in the rapidly expanding AI server market.
Network World
APRIL 2, 2025
The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is continuing to grow both its mandate and project roster in 2025. At the Open Networking & Edge Summit in London, which is co-located with the Kubecon conference, LF Networking detailed an ambitious strategic roadmap that emphasizes the convergence of open source, artificial intelligence, and cloud-native technologies as the foundation for next-generation networking infrastructure.
Network World
MAY 19, 2025
Average power densitiesthe energy consumption of servers in data center rackshave more than doubled over the past two years, from 8 kilowatts to 17 kilowatts per rack. And theyre expected to rise to as much as 30 kilowatts by 2027 as AI workloads increase. Thats just the average. Individual racks can go much higher. Servers used to train AI models can consume more than 80 kilowatts per rack, and Nvidias latest GB200 chip, combined with its servers, can require densities of up to 120 kilowatts, a
Network World
JANUARY 6, 2025
Enterprises have been slow to adopt NaaS for a number of reasons, including lack of clarity on exactly what NaaS is , lack of a solid business case that NaaS saves money over the long term, and questions around security, visibility, control, and data privacy. ABI Research predicts that by 2030 more than 90% of enterprises will consume at least 25% of their network services via NaaS.
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