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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

Amazon has started deploying a completely new routing architecture in AWS data centers which it says will deliver higher throughput from fewer physical switches while slashing electricity consumption. The company claims the architecture, dubbed Resilient Network Graphs (RNG) by the AWS Networking Lab researchers who developed it, offers a more efficient alternative to the traditional ‘fat tree’ topology that dominates data centers today. According to Amazon’s

Cisco (Nasdaq:CSCO) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking, and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco’s momentum is accelerating across multiple fronts, driven by demand for AI infrastructure, campus modernization, and strategic silicon investments. Here’s the latest Cisco news, research and analysis. Cisco sees quantum networking as the future of networking June 3, 2026: Einstein famously dismissed quantum phenomena such as particle entanglement, s

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

When several database clusters started failing simultaneously, Cisco IT had all the data it needed to diagnose the problem. The signals were there. Engineers saw them. The issue was that those signals were landing in separate systems that did not talk to each other, and the team had no way to correlate them in real time. What followed was three hours of war-room calls across three separate bridges. Engineers were on one call, debating ownership of the problem. Application owners were on another, waiting on the database to recover. Executives were on a third, trying to explain to business partners why users could not place orders. The root cause was eventually found, but the outage had a

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessing the Linux command line utilities that are considered essential in many CI/CD development environments on Windows requires a kludge that involves either opening an emulation such as Git Bash, or a virtualized

AMD has added three new chips to its Versal Prime series lineup, which is designed for space-constrained applications. AMD began shipping the first production units of the Versal Prime Gen2 Series last year. Two devices have entered full production, and a third is currently sampling. These new devices are designed to provide an optimized footprint and processing subsystem compared to the earlier models. Versal is AMD’s own platform, not x86 or FPGA. The Versal Prime Series Gen 2 devices combine high-performance embedded CPUs with programmable logic, video encode/decode IP, and support for DDR5 & LPDDR5X. These devices are built with scalability in mind, and target marke