As networks grow more complex, visibility gaps become operational risks. Host Keith Shaw and Selector Systems Engineer Aravind Prabhakar demonstrate AI-powered network observability. Watch the DEMO: spr.ly/63322BEINew #DEMO #AIOps
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Hot take: "Routine" is one of the most dangerous words in network operations. Vishnu Gatla explores why firewall updates, DNS changes, and failovers can trigger outages far beyond the component being changed. Read more: spr.ly/63329BEpsg3 #FoundryExpert #Infrastructure
How much time do you really have after a patch drops? Gyana Swain reports on active exploitation of a Cisco Unified CM flaw. Read here: spr.ly/63329BDgGAS PoC code was available. Now attackers are using it. Is your patching cycle fast enough? #NetworkWorldNews #Infosec
Watch how a full branch comes online in under two minutes: spr.ly/63325B8seWU Host Keith Shaw and Cisco’s Arpitha Shetty show how AgenticOps is reshaping branch deployments. See how AI can configure infrastructure in minutes. #DEMO #Networking
Data centers drawing 20MW or more could be blocked in Maine through 2027. Gyana Swain breaks down the proposed moratorium and what it signals for the AI infrastructure land grab happening across the US. Full story: spr.ly/63326B64jxu #NetworkWorldNews #AIInfrastructure
Maine to put brakes on big data centers as AI expansion collides with power limits
The proposed statewide moratorium would pause new approvals through 2027, challenging hyperscalers and enterprises betting on rapid infrastructure buildouts.
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The race for AI infrastructure is tightening, and capacity is becoming scarce. Taryn Plumb explains why AWS customers are scrambling to secure compute now. Read the full story: spr.ly/63329B6N5RW #NetworkWorldNews #AI
AI demand is so high, AWS customers are trying to buy out its entire capacity
AWS is betting that its Trainium chips can reshape the economics of training and inference, even as it retains a strong partnership with semiconductor giant Nvidia.
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The shift is happening now. Steve Oppenheim explains why rising AI density is pushing data centers past the limits of traditional cooling. What comes next is a fundamental infrastructure reset. Read more: spr.ly/63326B6pWgi #FoundryExpert #LiquidCooling #Cloud
Control, not location, defines the modern data center. Varun Raj outlines the shift from fixed infrastructure to dynamic orchestration. Full story: spr.ly/63324B6EnCq #FoundryExpert #DCIM #CloudNetworking
Data‑center complexity is outpacing AI. Timothy Coleman argues that semantic digital twins give ops teams the unified model they’re missing. Here’s how they sharpen prediction and control: spr.ly/63320h4gBu #FoundryExpert #InfraAutomation #NetOps
Zeus Kerravala explains why Cisco’s new AI Tech certification could redefine what it means to be a network engineer in an AI driven world. Get the full analysis: spr.ly/63328htY1A #NetworkWorldNews #NetOps #AIinNetworking
The thermal, electrical, and density demands of AI are rewriting data‑center engineering. Moshe Tanach breaks down what ops teams must change first. Get the full briefing: spr.ly/63325hojoH #FoundryExpert #NetworkInfrastructure #AIPerformance
As AI workloads shift from centralized training to distributed inference, the network faces new demands. “All the talk we’re seeing about AI and the infrastructure related to AI is mostly the tip of the iceberg.." @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4135...
Arrcus targets AI inference bottleneck with policy-aware network fabric
As AI workloads shift from centralized training to distributed inference, the network faces new demands around latency requirements, data sovereignty boundaries, model preferences, and power constrain...
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Some 15 tech luminaries from companies including Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft and Intel took to the stage at Cisco’s second annual AI Summit and talked about how AI technology will change the industry moving forward. www.networkworld.com/article/4127...
Takeaways from Cisco's AI Summit
Tech leaders from Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft, and Intel examine the many ways AI will change the industry.
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. www.networkworld.com/article/4127...
Azure outage disrupts VMs and identity services for over 10 hours
A misconfiguration in Microsoft-managed storage accounts triggered cascading failures across virtual machine operations, managed identities, and developer workflows.
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System outages plagued organizations of all sizes in 2025, with major incidents exposing vulnerabilities across network infrastructure and the IT dependencies that define today’s distributed environments. www.networkworld.com/article/4124...
Top 11 network outages and application failures of 2025
ThousandEyes released its list of the 11 most notable Internet outages and application issues of 2025, along with recommendations to help network teams improve resilience.
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As network automation evolves beyond scripts to a more sophisticated approach to network operations, a new skill set and role are emerging across enterprise environments: NetDevOps. www.networkworld.com/article/4123...
Network engineers take on NetDevOps roles to advance stalled automation efforts
As network automation matures, a new breed of hybrid professionals with network engineering and software development skills is emerging. But for enterprises, landing these IT pros isn’t about finding ...
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Cisco next month will deliver a core piece of its security management framework that is aimed at helping customers more effectively create and manage protection policies. www.networkworld.com/article/4124...
Cisco adds intelligent policy enforcement to mesh firewall family
Cisco's Mesh Policy Engine supports its own firewalls as well as third-party firewalls from vendors including Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, and Juniper.
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The limited approvals can ease immediate pressure on local hyperscalers but leave longer-term constraints in place, with implications for global enterprise AI infrastructure. www.networkworld.com/article/4124...
China clears Nvidia H200 sales to tech giants, reshaping AI data center plans
The limited approvals can ease immediate pressure on local hyperscalers but leave longer-term constraints in place, with implications for global enterprise AI infrastructure.
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Meta has announced a $6 billion, multi-year fiber supply agreement with Corning, highlighting how AI infrastructure constraints are shifting beyond compute and into the physical network. www.networkworld.com/article/4123...
Meta-Corning fiber deal signals a new bottleneck in AI infrastructure
AI infrastructure limits are shifting from compute to networking, as fiber capacity becomes critical to data center scale.
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The tried and true enterprise WAN market is undergoing a shift and consolidating around a new architecture class. www.networkworld.com/article/4120...
DCN becoming the new WAN for AI-era applications
The distributed cloud networking market is forecast to hit $21 billion by 2029 as enterprises abandon fragmented WAN architectures.
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It has been ...awhile...since I last wrote on NGINX(The pervasive open source web application server has continue to grow under F5 and (like every other tech) is embracing the AI future @networkworld.bsky.social www.networkworld.com/article/4118...
F5 tackles AI security with new platform extensions
F5's Guardrails blocks prompts that attempt jailbreaks or injection attacks, for example, while its AI Red Team automates vulnerability discovery in AI systems.
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spr.ly/63321CfuqH If AI were a bubble, Big Tech wouldn’t be expanding compute at this scale. Yash Mehta reveals what these investments mean for bandwidth, latency and inference driven network demand. #FoundryExpert #NetworkInfrastructure #AIReadiness
spr.ly/63329CFnfD Your RADIUS is fine. Your certificates are not. Swaitlana Agnihotri shows how one forgotten root CA was enough to break trust and stop network access cold. #FoundryExpert #NetworkEngineering #SecureAccess
Dell Technology has updated its PowerStore unified file and block storage array with increased capacity, stronger digital resilience, and simpler file management and promises to reduce total cost of ownership by 15%. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
Dell bolsters PowerStore array with capacity, security features
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Google says transmission grid connection delays of up to 12 years have become the biggest obstacle to powering its data centers, highlighting an infrastructure crisis that threatens to constrain cloud capacity expansion as AI workloads surge. www.networkworld.com/article/4117....
Google warns grid connection delays are now the biggest threat to data center expansion
With utilities quoting four‑to‑ten‑year wait times — and one offering a 12‑year study period — Google says grid constraints are becoming the defining limit on AI‑era data center growth.
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OpenAI has signed a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy computing capacity from AI chip startup Cerebras Systems, as the ChatGPT maker looks to secure enough infrastructure to keep pace with surging user demand. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
OpenAI turns to Cerebras in a mega deal to scale AI inference infrastructure
The multibillion-dollar deal shows how the growing importance of inference is changing the way AI data centers are designed and operated.
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IBM has launched Sovereign Core, a software stack that aims to offer enterprises and governments full operational control over sovereign cloud deployments without relying on hyperscaler-managed regions. www.cio.com/article/4117...
IBM pushes sovereign computing with a software stack that works across cloud platforms
By decoupling sovereignty from dedicated data center regions, IBM's Sovereign Core aims to help CIOs meet rising regulatory scrutiny, automate continuous compliance, and deploy sensitive AI workloads ...
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A day after the US government cleared the way for Nvidia to sell its H200 processors to Chinese companies on a case-by-case basis, a published report has revealed Chinese custom officers have been told not to let them into the country. www.networkworld.com/article/4117...
Nvidia H200 chips in China: US says yes, China says no
Just as the US approves exports to the country, Chinese customs officers have reportedly been told not to allow the chips into the country. What now?
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Check out my latest CSO piece, which looks at the setbacks created by Plankey's confirmation delay and the other key priorities left dangling in Congress. Many thanks to Jim Lewis of CSIS, Ari Schwartz of Venable, Megan Stifel of the IST, and others. 1/4 www.csoonline.com/article/4116...
US cybersecurity weakened by congressional delays despite Plankey renomination
Sean Plankey’s renomination as CISA director offers some relief, but stalled legislation on cyber threat information sharing and state and local grants continues to strain the nation’s ability to coun...
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The demand for AI infrastructure has already begun to impact Cisco’s earnings, and the vendor expects continued growth. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...
Cisco’s 2026 agenda prioritizes AI-ready infrastructure, connectivity
The enterprise remains a key target for Cisco, which is keen to deliver the technologies to enable AI transformation, digital resilience, and workforce transformation.
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