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).
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 19, 2025
The next evolution of AI has arrived, and its agentic. AI agents are powered by the same AI systems as chatbots, but can take independent action, collaborate to achieve bigger objectives, and take over entire business workflows. The technology is relatively new, but all the major players are already on board. In October, Microsoft announced that 100,000 organizations including Standard Bank, Thomson Reuters, Virgin Money, and Zurich Insurance are using Copilot Studio, double the number just mont
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Forrester IT
JANUARY 28, 2025
DeepSeeks open-source model, DeepThink (R1) by a little-known company in China sent shock waves across the technology world. It’s amazing. Yes, it does excel at benchmarks comparable to other state-of-the-art models. Yes, it’s partially open-source. Yes, the DeepSeek app explains its reasoning by default. But there are far-reaching implications to this important AI development.
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.
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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. 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
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.
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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. 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
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
JANUARY 16, 2025
Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added an AI-based tool aimed at helping enterprise customers provision and operatethe vendors Campus Network-as-a-Service deployments. Founded by former Cisco CEO John Chambers and Pankaj Patel, Ciscos former chief development officer, Niles subscription-based NaaS offering, Nile Access Service, lets customers set up and manage campus network operations without requiring them to purchase and maintain their own networking infrastructure.
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 trillion by 2029, up from $430 billion in 2024, according to DellOro Group. Much of this growth is due to AI. Enterprises are now spending about 35% of their data center CapEx budgets on accelerated servers optimized for AI, up from 15% in 2023, says DellOro analyst Baron Fung.
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Network World
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software, patched last week, is now being actively exploited by threat actors to gain root-level access to affected firewall systems. Tracked as CVE-2025-0108, the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker with network access to the PAN-OS management web interface to bypass authentication requirements.
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. According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. Thats because enterprises have been lagging behind on adopting on-premises infrastructure, the research firm says.
Network World
JANUARY 21, 2025
Integrating traffic management, policy enforcement, and role-based access control, Red Hat Connectivity Link is a new technology from IBMs Red Hat business unit thats aimed at simplifying how enterprises manage application connectivity across distributed cloud environments. The technology is based on the open-source Kuadrant project, which combines traffic routing, security controls, and policy management capabilities that organizations typically handle through separate tools.
Network World
MARCH 17, 2025
Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. Many clients have reported dissatisfaction with the new licenses, according to research firm Gartner, which notes that changes have forced companies to purchase bundled VMware software they dont intend to use.
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Network World
MARCH 4, 2025
Broadcom released emergency patches for its VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion products to fix three vulnerabilities that can lead to virtual machine escape and are actively being exploited by attackers. Products that include VMware ESXi, such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation, and VMware Telco Cloud Platform, are also impacted. VMware products, especially the ESXi enterprise hypervisor, are high-value targets and have been repeatedly attacked by cybercriminal and cyberespionage group
Network World
JANUARY 23, 2025
Researchers have discovered that next-generation firewalls from Palo Alto Networks contain years-old known vulnerabilities in their UEFI firmware a finding that provides yet more evidence of a broader issue with specialized devices today. Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles.
Network World
JANUARY 30, 2025
*Article has ben updated to include a joint response from HP and Juniper to the U.S. DOJ complaint* After months of speculation, the U.S. Justice Department today sued to block the $14 billion sale of Juniper Networks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise. The Justice Department said reduced competition in the wireless market is the biggest problem with the proposed buy.
Network World
JANUARY 26, 2025
AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology. For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. In addition, AI workloads have distinctive requirements that will influence SD-WAN connectivity choices. SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility.
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Network World
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today.
Network World
MARCH 6, 2025
Despite a mostly positive revenue report for the first quarter of its fiscal 2025, HPE executives detailed a number of challenges the company will face in the coming months, including layoffs, a court case over its proposed buy of Juniper Networks, and the U.S. governments tariff plan. Revenues were up $7.9 billion, or 16% year-over-year, CEO Antonio Neri told Wall Street analysts.
Network World
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
When 80,000 fans fill the University of Notre Dames iconic football stadium on Saturday afternoons in the fall to cheer on the Fighting Irish, theres no shortage of high-decibel screaming. And now, thanks to a major network expansion, theres no shortage of high-bandwidth streaming. Last fall, Notre Dame became the first college or university in the U.S. to turn on Wi-Fi 6E , the relatively new standard that takes advantage of the 6Ghz wireless spectrum to provide enhanced wireless coverage for o
Network World
JANUARY 15, 2025
Cisco has rolled out a service that promises to protect enterprise AI development projects with visibility, access control, threat defense, and other safeguards. The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Network World
JANUARY 23, 2025
Due to a partner disclosure, AMD has found itself in the unenviable position of having to confirm the existence of a major cybersecurity problem in its chip microcode before it could post a fix. But that headache is mild compared to those of their customers CISOs. Microcode often loads during startup and it can change chip capabilities. Security specialists are recommending that CISOs consider extreme protective measures, including network isolation, possible air gapping, and ideally blocking al
Network World
JANUARY 16, 2025
The traditional separation between Wi-Fi and cellular networks a cornerstone of enterprise wireless planning is facing fundamental challenges according to a new 6G vision statement released this week by the World Broadband Association, It is important that the 6G era brings together cellular, Wi-Fi, and non-terrestrial access in a more seamless fashion, to create a network of networks,' said Maria Cuevas Ramirez, network infrastructure research director at BT and a board director of the Wirele
Network World
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
Deepgram is the leading voice AI platform used by over 200,000 developers to build speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and full speech-to-speech (which enables individuals with speech disabilities to be clearly understood) tools. Its aimed at businesses and developers who need accurate and scalable transcriptions for applications like call centers, video captioning, voice assistants and more.
Network World
JANUARY 22, 2025
The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. In recent years, organizations have increasingly moved workloads to the cloud, where they have not had the same network visibility. Sysdig, the lead commercial sponsor behind Wireshark, wants to change that with the new Stratoshark tool.
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Network World
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day login authentication bypass in the PAN-OS operating system. The discovery of the vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) was made by researchers at Assetnote and, according to researchers at Greynoise, is already being exploited.
CIO Business Intelligence
JANUARY 8, 2025
Over the past few years, enterprises have strived to move as much as possible as quickly as possible to the public cloud to minimize CapEx and save money. Increasingly, however, CIOs are reviewing and rationalizing those investments. Are they truly enhancing productivity and reducing costs? In the rush to the public cloud, a lot of people didnt think about pricing, says Tracy Woo, principal analyst at Forrester.
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. I said there are two transformational applications that could drive the gains in IT spending everyone would like to see.
Network World
MARCH 6, 2025
The pace of change around server technology is advancing considerably, driven by hyperscalers but spilling over into the on-premises world as well. There are numerous overall trends, experts say, including: AI everything: AI mania is everywhere and without high power hardware to run it, its just vapor. But its more than just a buzzword, it is a very real and measurable trend.
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