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HPE has rolled out a super-sized package of hardware and software aimed at helping enterprise customers build and manage large AI infrastructures from the data center to the edge. At its Discover event in Las Vegas this week, the vendor announced HPE Juniper Networking QFX switches aimed at inferencing and scale-up architectures. It also deepened integration of its Juniper Networking data center switching and operations into its Mist AI engine and launched a unified, AI-native SASE platform.

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With years of cloud experience, IT leaders thought they finally had firm control of their cloud strategies. And then came AI. Of course, cloud issues today extend beyond artificial intelligence. Where to place cloud workloads for maximum efficiency is one. Questions about governance, sovereignty, the growing sophistication of cyberthreats, and escalating cost concerns are also conspiring to make the cloud ever more complicated. “It’s just grown into a complex mess,” observes cloud expert David Linthicum, emphasizing that cloud strategy today needs to address private cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, and sove

Cisco has released fixes for a vulnerability in its Catalyst SD-WAN Manager software after becoming aware of limited exploitation of the flaw, which could allow an authenticated attacker to create or overwrite files that may later be used to gain root privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026–

“The quantum era is no longer ahead of us, it has started,” said IBM CEO Arvind Krishna in statement tied to news that the company is committing $10 billion to advancing quantum computing and commercializing the technology. IBM will spend the money over the course of the next five years on research and development, capital expenses, partnerships, manufacturing, and mergers and acquisitions, according to its June 2 announcement and a related filing with the SEC. “A $10

NetBox was not originally designed to manage AI infrastructure. When the project was first released as an open source tool in 2016, the goal was straightforward: Give network teams a reliable record of what was on the network. The project spread well beyond that original scope. It is now embedded across more than 10,000 organizations, from enterprise networks to AI data centers running some of the most demanding infrastructure builds in the industry.  As the technology marks its 10-year anniversary, NetBox Labs is expanding the platform further

Cisco Live 2026 is in the books, and it was “prove it” time for a promise made 24 months ago. At Cisco Live 2024, Chief Product Officer Jeetu Patel promised that Cisco would be unrecognizable as a company—in a positive way—in two years. The innovation payload at the event suggests he has largely delivered on that pledge. Cisco is repositioning itself from a holding company of products and dashboards to a unified, AI-native infrastructure platform, with Cloud Control as the control plane, Cisco IQ as the CX brain, and Secure Networking as the glue binding it all together. The shift is not just about new

As they face increasing backlash over their resource consumption, major data center operators are scrambling to prove they’re not a drain on the environment, or, at least, not as much of one as their competition. Amazon has published some bold new claims to this end: The tech giant says it has achieved a 52% improvement in water efficiency over the last 5 years, and says its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average. This, the company says, is thanks to a mix of innovative methods, including free air and evaporative cooling, and increased temperature thresholds. The announcement underscores the importance of disclosure in the AI era, and si

Marvell Technology says its newly unveiled Teralynx T100 is the industry’s first 102.4 Tbps switch silicon purpose-built for AI. The Teralynx T100 was architected for AI, with low power consumption and low latency at this bandwidth tier, to address critical bottlenecks in today’s large clusters. Data movement has become an important concern in modern AI data centers. In the past, a cluster of a few servers could adequately handle back-office applications and databases. But with AI’s gigantic models, all sections of the data center need to move and receive data at high speeds. That requires a lot more power use than in the past. GPU- and XPU-based systems are ap

IBM and ServiceNow are teaming up for new services they say will help enterprise customers bring aging legacy environments into an AI-ready infrastructure.  The collaboration will combine IBM’s AI, data, and automation capabilities and ServiceNow’s AI platform for a variety of offerings that will modernize aging systems, enable autonomous IT operations, and help organizations evolve existing systems rather than replace them, the companies stated. ServiceNow says its AI-Platform offers a workflow layer that sits on top of an enterprise’s existing systems and helps automate work across them. Decades of deeply interco