Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

AWS and Microsoft could potentially face an investigation of their cloud businesses in Britain should the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) follow the recommendation of an independent inquiry group that reports into the UKs antitrust regulator. In its report, the inquiry group concluded that competition in the 9 billion (US$11.2

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

HPE Arubas CX 10000 high-end switch uses AMD DPUs, and other vendors such as Microsoft and IBM use the technology as well.) With the 9300 Smart Switches, we are bringing security technologies into a fabric, so customers can [have] protection baked into their architecture from the network interface card to the switch, Wollenweber said.We

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Using deep neural networks and Azure GPUs built with NVIDIA technology, startup Riskfuel is developing accelerated models based on AI to determine derivative valuation and risk sensitivity. Read more from NVIDIA and Microsoft [link]

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. Nokia EDA is an infrastructure automation platform that offers network provisioning, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting features.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A UK law firm on Tuesday filed what amounts to a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of using its market share to overcharge clients running Windows Server on AWS, Google, or Alibaba cloud offerings instead of on Microsoft Azure. Microsoft is one of the biggest companies in the world. Kimball asked.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Multiple business imperatives are driving CIOs to re-examine and re-invent their approach to network infrastructure, including the mission critical backbone that supports highly complex, bandwidth-intensive, multi-cloud environments. One emerging alternative: backbone-as-a-service (BBaaS) offerings.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. When coupled with our prior channel checks, it points to a potential oversupply position for Microsoft.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It also has eight front PCIe slots that allow for high speed network cards, necessary to feed the GPUs. “If If you don’t have a high-speed network connecting the GPU to GPU, then you don’t get maximum performance,” Varun Chhabra, senior vice president of ISG and telecom product marketing at Dell, said in a conference call briefing.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. Microsoft Azure Stack HCI For Microsoft shops, Azure Stack HCI is an option that leverages the Azure cloud and Microsofts Hyper-V hypervisor. Each VDC has its own compute, network, storage, management and VergeOS assigned to it.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

OpenTelemetry, or OTel, addresses a key pain point for network managers who must prevent network outages and maintain high levels of application performance across increasing complex and opaque multi-cloud environments. And, as more network managers become proficient working with OTel, it becomes a standard part of their toolkit.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most enterprises deploying AI technology have been turning to hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to provide all the necessary infrastructure. These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. Its a brand-new skill set.

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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. 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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

AI servers can be $100,000 to $200,000, especially when equipped with the latest Nvidia CPUs, Fung tells Network World. As a result, just four companies Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will account for nearly half of global data center capex this year, he says. Networking will be heavily impacted by AI.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Boeing is “taking on the challenge of entanglement swapping in space,” says Jay Lowell, chief engineer of disruptive computing, networks and sensors at Boeing. Achieving a global-scale quantum network requires substantial work,” says Lowell. Another use case is to network together small quantum computers into larger computing clusters.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. At the core of the platform is the firm’s cloud-based, natural-language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology.

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Network World

AUGUST 30, 2024

Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services. Through the integration with Azure, it can provide comprehensive visibility into the performance of applications running on Microsoft’s cloud platform. AppDynamics can run on AWS and SAP services as well as Azure.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

AIOps certifications to elevate your IT career : Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, and others are offering training and certifications that can help IT pros demonstrate expertise in using artificial intelligence for IT operations, or AIOps. Can NaaS mitigate network skills gaps?

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

for the third annual Quantum World Congress last week, and, even though we’re still years away from a practical quantum computer, the mood was upbeat, with significant new announcements in the areas of quantum computing, quantum networking, and investment. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

In addition, the homegrown Graviton processor powered more than 250,000 CPUs during Amazon Prime Day, showing its efficiency in handling demand, according to a presentation at the recent AWS: reInvent conference by Dave Brown, vice president of AWS compute & networking services.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Microsoft on Wednesday reported strong earnings, but the percentage increase in its intelligent cloud operating income has dropped off sharply. Drop caused by AI investments: Microsoft The large percentage drops are primarily due to the fact that Microsoft, like all of the major hyperscalers, invested massively in generative AI.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

This week’s Hlth Europe show in Amsterdam saw the European launch of the Microsoft-backed Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN) consortium that wants to meet this need. Hovering over all this, of course, is Microsoft as the technology partner, styling itself as its enabler rather than leader but still an important influence.

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Network World

AUGUST 1, 2024

Astrix Security is one of Network World’s 7 network security startups to watch for 2024. Okta, Cloudflare, Microsoft, and Dropbox Sign are just a few of the recent high-profile victims of attacks that involved compromised NHIs. Astrix argues that attackers have started to consider NHIs as prime targets.

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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

Automation technology has long been a part of ITs arsenal, as enterprises work to simplify increasingly complex networking and operational environments. EMA research finds that hybrid clouds are particularly problematic for network operations teams today. Automating these tasks will be critical for competitive advantage, Lobig said.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Cloudflare unwrapped a series of networking and security innovations during its birthday week event. Cloudflare commands a sizable share of internet traffic, and its network footprint spans the globe. The service utilizes Cloudflare’s Anycast network to provide scale and performance. “I The speed up is remarkable.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. On top of that, the AI-enabled data center will need liquid cooling, advanced networking infrastructure, and advanced infrastructure management software.

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Network World

AUGUST 1, 2024

Flush with cash from a recent $150 million funding round, Corelight is one of Network World’s 7 network security startups to watch for 2024. Its network detection and response platform aims to tackle NDR weak spots, including alert overload and tool sprawl. com , a site that discovers, analyzes, and ranks tech startups.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Microsoft has confirmed that it was laying off staffers from its Azure unit but did not provide an accurate number of employees affected. We will continue to prioritize and invest in strategic growth areas for our future and in support of our customers and partners,” a Microsoft spokesperson said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsofts AI strategy. IDC sees the move likely shifting many Microsoft offerings around in terms of internal structure.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

Among the capabilities this product provides are AI-powered alert isolation, on-call management, multi-source alert correlation, standardized runbooks, status pages, and Microsoft Teams and Slack integrations, according to SolarWinds. IT teams must be able to detect issues before they become major incidents.

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Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

Despite initiating a probe into Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, Microsoft has added the startups latest reasoning model R1, to its model catalog on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. The Microsoft blog noted that its customers would soon be able to use distilled flavors of the R1 model to run locally on their Copilot+ PCs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Users who expected to be able to use the resources of the Azure content delivery network (CDN) from Edgio until November 2025, as previously announced, had a not-so-festive gift this week the CDN is now shutting down on Jan. In a post on Github , Rich Lander, principal program manager,NET core at Microsoft, offered more detail.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The defining functions of a SASE platform are to provide security and network access. Netskope today announced updates to its SASE platform, Netskope One, that focus on improving network visibility, user experience management, and security capabilities. Without a good user experience, you’re going to have a challenge,” he said.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

There is one big quantum computing player thats missing from the list Microsoft. Thats because Microsoft, as well as another quantum computing company, PsiQuantum, were already in the program.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how providers are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Public cloud network outages: Globally, cloud provider network outages increased from 15 to 18 outages. In the U.S., In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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