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Micron Technology has unveiled a new lineup of high-performance SSDs designed to meet the growing demand of AI data centers. Built on Micron’s NAND9 architecture, the lineup includes the 9650 PCIe Gen6 data center SSD, alongside the high-capacity 6600 ION SSD and the 7600 Gen5 SSD for mainstream data center workloads. Targeting high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads, the Micron 9650 SSD can support up to 28 GBps sequential read and 14 GBps sequential write speeds, along with 5.5 million IOPS for random reads and 900,000 IOPS for random writes. Micron claims the SSD is FIPS 140-3 Level 2 and Trade Agreements Act (TAA) compliant, making it suitable for US government deployments. For

The global average cost of a breach declined for the first time in five years, dropping to $4.44 million, according to IBM’s new data breach report, but the average U.S. cost rose to a record $10.22 million. In addition, AI is becoming an easy, high value target, IBM warns. Thirteen percent of organizations reported breaches of AI models or applications, and of those compromised, 97% involved AI systems that lacked proper access controls. Despite the rising risk, 63% of breached organizations either don’t have an AI governance policy or are still developing a policy. Among those that do have AI governance policies in place, only 34% perform regular audits to detect unauthorized AI u

While 90% of IT professionals describe their organizations as resilient, fewer than half feel well-equipped to handle core challenges such as adopting AI, defending against cyber threats, or supporting distributed workforces. The results of SolarWinds’ 2025 IT Trends Report, Fragile to Agile: The State of Operational Resilience, which surveyed more than 600 IT leaders across nine countries, found a distinct gap between perception and preparedness. For instance, more than half (52%) reported feeling confident managing cyber threats. And 45% of those surveyed said they are con

Cloud storage provider Backblaze this week announced a series of new security enhancements for its B2 platform, including AI-powered anomaly detection and improved enterprise tools to help customers better control access and management of data. The enhancements complement Backblaze’s existing security capabilities, which include SOC 2 certified architecture and physical security, server-side encryption for data at rest, cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) support, cloud replication for data redundancy, and Object Lock for ransomware protection. The irregularity detection function, Anomaly Alerts, uses artificial intelligence to identify suspicious patterns of data activity

Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the case of Debian’s patch for a potentially crippling issue with the way Unix-like systems represent time. Debian 13 “Trixie,” scheduled for August 9, marks the Linux distribution’s mitigation of the Y2K38 bug, also known as the “Unix Epochalypse,” via a shift in the operating system to storing time in 64-bit variables for all but the oldest of supported hardware. The Unix Epochalypse is the whimsical name for what could become a big problem if vendors and users don’t update their systems. Like the Y2K bug be

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations, multicloud networking, zero trust network access (ZTNA), and SD-WAN. Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring s

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools have been used by IT professionals for over a decade to help define and deploy cloud infrastructure. The promise of IaC is that infrastructure can be declaratively defined in code, enabling an organization to deploy the same infrastructure again and again. In the modern cloud world, however, the complexity of different cloud providers’ services has made it difficult to define infrastructure in a way that’s portable across providers. It’s a challenge that new startup FluidCloud is aiming to solve. The company is launching out of stealth today with $8.1 million in seed funding led by Unusual Ventures. “We’re actually translating the

The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations. 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. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on the performance of cloud providers and ISPs. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, including our 2024 report,

Cisco is donating its AGNTCY initiative to the Linux Foundation, which will continue to advance the AI agent management platform as an open-source project. Outshift, which is Cisco’s research and development arm, launched AGNTCY to develop AI agent discovery, identity, messaging, and observability infrastructure. After the handover, Cisco, Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle, Red Hat and more than 65 other vendors will build a wide range of industry-standard protocols and frameworks to allow AI agents to discover one another, communicate, collaborate and be managed

China’s Huawei Technologies presented its CloudMatrix 384 AI computing system to the public for the first time last week, drawing significant attention at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai. Initially announced in April, CloudMatrix 384 has been closely watched by industry observers, with some analysts positioning it as Huawei’s answer to Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 – the US chipmaker’s most advanced AI computing solution currently available. The launch underscores Huawei’s ongoing efforts to compete at the high end of the AI hardware market amid tightening US export restrictions. Its emergence has also fueled debate over whether Hua