Tag: News

Residential proxy services route internet traffic through consumer devices to make connections appear to originate from real home IP addresses. Security researchers have tracked their use by threat actors for credential stuffing, ad fraud, and denial-of-service operations. What has been less understood is how widely those services have already penetrated enterprise networks, often without IT or security teams knowing. As it turns out, the risks posed by residential proxies to enterprise networks are widespread. Infoblox analyzed billions of DNS resolutions across its Threat Defense Cloud customer base and revealed just how a big a pro

OpenAI is reportedly in advanced talks to lease a proposed 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio in an arrangement that could include financial backing from Nvidia. The campus could cost at least $500 billion to build at current prices for chips, power, and construction, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the discussions. OpenAI would control the computing equipment under a 20-year lease and begin payments once the site starts operating, with the first phase expected in 2028. Nvidia is expect

Lotus Microsystems has introduced vStrata, a new power-delivery architecture aimed at Improving data center power efficiency, a pressing concern even in a non-AI environment. At the heart of the platform is the company’s proprietary Power Interposer Technology (PIT), a silicon-based interposer architecture that enables power conversion and delivery closer to the processor package. The PIT u

While hyperscalers and neo-cloud providers may get the lion’s share of attention for providing AI infrastructure, many enterprises are taking a build-it-themselves approach to meet their specific AI requirements. The success of such projects is crucial to achieving business objectives, yet companies face significant challenges as they try to scale pilots to production. Organizations must keep up with the dynamic, ever-changing demands that AI applications place on compute and network infrastructure, from the data center to the edge. That means architecting systems to grow as demand warrants and to avoid performance bottlenecks. The architecture must also account for AI-driven security

Arista Networks has taken the wraps off its 7060XE7 Series, a new portfolio of 1.6T networking platforms designed to provide the foundation for rack-scale AI infrastructure.  The 7060XE7 family features fixed switch platforms and configurable rack-scale systems, targeting racks for vertical and horizontal AI workflows. All will run Arista’s Extensible Operating System (EOS), which includes low-latency and intelligent packet buffering to manage the inte

Zscaler announced what it calls the first complete zero trust platform for agentic AI, aimed at securing how AI agents access data and talk to one another. “Traditional security was never designed for millions of autonomous agents that act and reach sensitive data at machine speed,” said Jay Chaudhry, Zscaler’s chairman and CEO, in the Tuesday announcement. The company will be extending its Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange platform to cover AI agents, including how they connect, how they access data, and how they run on devices. According to

The majority of enterprises now either run or plan to run AI workloads in private clouds, according to a survey of 1,800 senior IT decision makers conducted by Radius Tech on behalf of Broadcom. Only 41% of enterprises are now using public clouds for inference workloads, down from 56% last year. Meanwhile, the use of private clouds for AI inference has risen slightly, from 55% to 56%. “The key takeaway this year is that we’ve seen an AI tipping point, driving towards private cloud as the preferred platform for running these workloads,” says

ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on internet and cloud traffic performance. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, including our reports from 2025, 2024,

Cisco warns customers of an actively exploited high-severity vulnerability in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, an enterprise network management system that has been targeted by hackers multiple times in the past. Located in the command-line interface, the flaw allows authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to root and take over the entire system. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, is rated 7.8 (high) on the CVSS scale instead of critical because it requires local access and netadmin privileges to exploit. These privileges can be obtained via stolen credentials or by exploiting authentication bypass flaws, such as CVE-2026-20245 or CVE-2026-20127, which were fixed in May and Fe

Enterprise network operations teams are struggling to keep pace with the demands placed on them, and the challenge is growing as enterprises prepare their networks and observability tools for AI workloads. Roughly 31% of IT professionals surveyed for an Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) benchmarking study said their organization’s network operations strategy is completely successful, a figure that decreased from 42% two years ago. That is one of the findings of EMA’s Network Management