Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is continuing to grow both its mandate and project roster in 2025. As part of the roadmap, a pair of open-source networking projects were announced that will bring new AI capabilities. AI in networking : 74% see open source as foundational to AI success in networks.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The company is adding new components to Fortinet Advisor (FortiAI), its natural language, AI-based security assistant that promises to help customers better handle security operations and network management. FortiAnalyzer, which is the vendor’s security analytics and log management platform, also recently gained AI-based enhancements.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. So what exactly is AI networking, how does it work and what are its top use cases?

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks. Celona offers RF design, network deployment and operations support. Management of the package can be done through ALEs OmniVista management package.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) set its sights on world of AI networking this week. As AI usage grows, the core foundation that enables current and future potential is the power of the network. That’s a message that was echoed time and again during the ONUG AI Networking Summit , held in New York (and webcast).

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gluware today announced a series of upcoming features for its network automation platform, designed to streamline network management and reduce downtime across diverse network environments. The platform currently supports 56 operating systems across 22 vendors, making it a versatile solution for complex network ecosystems.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

New learning resources from CompTIA are aimed at helping entry-level IT professionals to accelerate their career path to networking and cybersecurity roles. The new courses, available now, will help professionals develop the prerequisite skills to train for higher-level certifications such as CompTIA Network+ and Security+.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

Over 50% of global data traffic uses Wi-Fi and it will continue to play a strategic role in the 6G era, says Tiago Rodrigues, president and CEO at the Wireless Broadband Alliance. Wi-Fi will also drive advancements in key areas such as AI-enabled network management, seamless identity management and access steering, he says.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

But there are a number of groundbreaking women who have been highly successful in networking, and were highlighting 20 of them (in alphabetical order). She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. integrates what Red Hat refers to as VM-friendly networking. The first of these enhancements is custom user-defined networks (UDN).

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

For network engineers and security leaders tasked with securing modern enterprise environments, the challenge of preventing lateral threat movement is critical. The emergence of IoT and OT devices, which are frequently deployed in factory and branch networks, has further complicated the issue.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business benefits that could enable a network transformation. What stands in the way? Benefits, a business case, return on investment.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 AI servers can be $100,000 to $200,000, especially when equipped with the latest Nvidia CPUs, Fung tells Network World.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

A new player in the networking industry is tackling the unique challenges of AI infrastructure at hyperscale. Sadana spent 17 years at Arista and prior to that was at Cisco for eight years, so hes no stranger to the networking world. We are here to build the most efficient AI networking solutions that are out there, Sadana said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Even as demand for data infrastructure surges to an all-time high, Equinix is planning to lay off 3% of its workforce, suggesting a growing skills mismatch in the industry. According to Goldman Sachs , data center demand in the US alone is projected to nearly triple by 2030, driving more than $1 trillion in investment.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware by Broadcom has unveiled a new networking architecture that it says will improve the performance and security of distributed artificial intelligence (AI) — using AI and machine learning (ML) to do so. The company said it has identified a need for more intelligent edge networking and computing. That’s where VeloRAIN will come in.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Also, as part of the partnership, Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services and machine learning (ML) capabilities into its data resilience platform, Veeam Data Cloud. This allows organizations to bring down costs and simplify data management. This partnership signals a shift in data resiliency and its importance.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. We have some customers that are going to deploy these when they do their next network refresh. The N9300 Smart Switch series is built on the vendors powerful 4.8T

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

Network packet broker ( NPB )technology has been deployed inside of networks for over a decade. Like just about everything else in the IT and networking stack in 2025, AI is now increasingly becoming a key feature. Keysight can now filter network traffic to detect the presence of AI-based applications.

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MARCH 19, 2025

The modern network security landscape is undergoing a rapid transformation, driven by the increasing complexity of business operations and the rise of new technologies. New advances like SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) are helping network professionals keep pace. eliminating man-in-the-middle attacks.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Palo Alto Networks is teaming with NTT Data to allow the global IT services company to offer an enterprise security service with continuous threat monitoring, detection and response capabilities. NTT Data offers a wide range of IT services, and its competitors include Accenture, Infosys, IBM and Tata.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Networking skills are evolving to keep pace with broader technology trends, and network pros need to proactively develop new competencies in areas such as AI and automation to stay relevant. From AI and network automation to cloud computing and security, the critical networking skills needed to excel in 2025 are shifting.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The five fastest-growing hubs for data center expansion include an interesting mix of urban areas that have one thing in common: lots of available power. Based on projected data-center capacity growth, Las Vegas/Reno is the No. We’re only at the start of the AI boom, so data center growth isn’t going to slow down anytime soon.

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to a report released this week by Bloom Energy, US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years. The report , based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.

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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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This latest version introduces substantial improvements to networking capabilities, security features and management tools. StarlingX got its start back in 2018 as a telecom and networking focused version of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform. The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. Support for Cisco ThousandEyes network performance and intelligence platform is built in.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. We’re really founded and continue to focus on solving connectivity bottlenecks within AI and cloud infrastructure,” Ahmad Danesh, associate vice president, product line management at Astera Labs, told Network World.

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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. And if you slow down AI, that will slow down the data centers.

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Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Arista Networks is adding new features to its campus networking portfolio to help enterprise customers more easily group and manage switches. SWAG is implemented in the Extensible Operating System (EOS), Arista’s flagship network operating system that runs across its switch and router portfolio.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape. Theres a perspective that well just throw a bunch of data at the AI, and itll solve all of our problems, he says.

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