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Control, not location, defines the modern data center.
Varun Raj outlines the shift from fixed infrastructure to dynamic orchestration.
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#FoundryExpert #DCIM #CloudNetworking
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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:
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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.
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The thermal, electrical, and density demands of AI are rewriting data‑center engineering. Moshe Tanach breaks down what ops teams must change first.
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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
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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...
Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
The tried and true enterprise WAN market is undergoing a shift and consolidating around a new architecture class. www.networkworld.com/article/4120...
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
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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
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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%.
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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....
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...
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...
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...
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
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The demand for AI infrastructure has already begun to impact Cisco’s earnings, and the vendor expects continued growth.
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In its application to the Department of Energy, a Texas power developer proposes to redirect two retired reactors to a data center project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Meta has elevated AI infrastructure to a top-level strategic priority with the launch of Meta Compute, a new initiative that brings responsibility for building and operating data centers and networks under a single leadership structure. www.networkworld.com/article/4115...
As the networking stack shifts toward automation and the edge, we examine the key players and features driving enterprise Linux in 2026. www.networkworld.com/article/4114...
Lenovo Group Ltd. has introduced a range of new enterprise-level servers designed specifically for AI inference tasks. The servers are part of Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage lineup, a family of inferencing devices. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...
Veeam says that four vulnerabilities could allow a person with certain oversight roles for its flagship Backup & Replication suite to do serious damage to – but not destroy – a backup database.
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Lenovo is pitching a faster path to enterprise AI infrastructure, pairing its liquid-cooled systems and networking with Nvidia platforms to deliver what it calls “AI cloud gigafactories” designed to reduce deployment timelines from months to weeks. www.networkworld.com/article/4113...