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2025 global network outage report and internet health check
1 July 2025 @ 4:00 pm
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,
Dutch court forces Broadcom to support VMware migration after 85% price hike backlash
1 July 2025 @ 2:49 pm
VMware and parent company Broadcom must continue to provide support to the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management (Rijkswaterstaat) while the agency migrates away from VMware products over the next two years, a Dutch court has ordered.
Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) faced an 85% cost increase under Broadcom’s new subscription licensing model, with annual expenses jumping from €2.1 million ($2.4 million) to nearly €4 million ($4.6 million) — a cost increase the agency deemed unsustainable.
The agency has been a long-term VMware customer, having invested millions in perpetual licenses over many years for products including vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vCenter Server, Aria A
Understanding CASB’s role across the network edge
1 July 2025 @ 2:25 pm
A cloud access security broker (CASB) is a security solution that sits between cloud consumers and cloud service providers and enforces security policies. A CASB is an umbrella term for a suite of functionality, including malware detection, data loss prevention (DLP), authentication, credential mapping, and shadow IT control, all bundled together by a vendor to secure cloud access, and offered as either a cloud-hosted service or an on-premise software package or hardware appliance. It acts as an intermediary, managing a range of security policies and interjecting them along the way as users access cloud-based resources.
The phrase was coined by Gartner, which
Data center capacity continues to shift to hyperscalers
1 July 2025 @ 1:39 pm
On-premises data centers are both growing and shrinking. How is this possible? They’re growing as the volume of enterprise GPU servers increases. The shrinkage refers to share of the market: Hyperscalers are growing much faster than on-premises data centers, which is leading to a reduction in on-prem’s share of total data center capacity.
The latest research from Synergy Research Group shows that hyperscalers now account for 44% of worldwide data-center capacity, and non-hyperscale colocation capacity accounts for another 22% of capacity. (Relate
OpenAI tests Google TPUs amid rising inference cost concerns
1 July 2025 @ 11:55 am
OpenAI has begun testing Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), a move that — though not signaling an imminent switch — has raised eyebrows among industry analysts concerned about the escalating costs of AI inference and its effects.
A spokesperson for OpenAI told Reuters that OpenAI’s AI lab is in early testing with some of Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) but added that the company has no plans to deploy them at scale right now.
The tests come as OpenAI continues to scale its models and services
Download the ‘AI-ready data centers’ spotlight report
1 July 2025 @ 10:00 am
Download the July 2025 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors of CIO, Computerworld, CSO, InfoWorld, and Network World.
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Oracle inks $30 billion cloud deal, continuing its strong push into AI infrastructure
1 July 2025 @ 1:21 am
Oracle is continuing its strategic push into the AI infrastructure market as it seeks to compete with major cloud providers.
The company said Monday that it has signed a cloud services agreement that will add $30 billion annually to its revenue beginning in fiscal year 2028, which begins June 1, 2027. The customer has yet to be named, but the commitment could ultimately comprise a quarter to a third of Oracle’s revenues in FY2028, based on its most recent fiscal year revenue of $57.4 billion.
“This is a mega win for Oracle and further propels them towards evening the
Datacenter industry calls for investment after EU issues water consumption warning
30 June 2025 @ 5:52 pm
European Union warnings that datacenters urgently need to curb their water consumption have prompted the Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) trade association to for argue a new approach to infrastructure investment.
The warnings arrived in early June with the publication by the European Commission of a set of policy proposals designed to improve the often-inconsistent way that water is managed, or mismanaged, across the bloc.
At a time when drought has become routine across parts of Europe, the EU Water Resilience Strategy identified a range of problems, pri
Timeline of HPE’s $14 billion bid for Juniper
29 June 2025 @ 6:10 pm
AI is a key factor in one of the tech industry’s most significant M&A developments: HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. The $14 billion deal would shake up the industry, and regulatory watchdogs in the U.S. and worldwide have raised antitrust concerns. Meanwhile, enterprise customers are worried about product discontinuations and roadmap disruptions.
We’ve tracked the deal since it was first announced in January 2024. In January 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice moved to block the deal, citing harm to competition. Most recently, the companies
HPE-Juniper deal clears DOJ hurdle, but settlement requires divestitures
29 June 2025 @ 5:58 pm
Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks can move forward now that the companies have agreed to settle the lawsuit with the U.S. Department of Justice.
Filed with the United States District Court for the Northern District of California late on June 27, the agreement still needs the approval of a judge. The settlement also requires a unified HPE-Juniper to license the source code for Juniper’s Mist AI Ops software and to divest HPE’s Instant On wireless networking business.
In January, the
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