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HP announced plans to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions by 2028 as part of what it described as an AI-driven transformation to save $1 billion, while warning that surging memory chip costs would squeeze margins in the second half of 2026.
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HP to slash up to 6,000 jobs as component costs and AI reshape operations
The company’s restructuring and memory cost warnings signal challenges ahead for enterprise buyers on pricing and service delivery.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:24 PM
HP announced plans to eliminate between 4,000 and 6,000 positions by 2028 as part of what it described as an AI-driven transformation to save $1 billion, while warning that surging memory chip costs would squeeze margins in the second half of 2026.
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Microsoft has lost two senior data center and AI infrastructure leaders at a time when the company is racing to expand capacity for its Copilot and Azure AI services, raising questions about its ability to meet surging demand for power-intensive AI workloads.
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Microsoft loses two senior AI infrastructure leaders as data center pressures mount
Their exits may strain Microsoft’s push to expand AI capacity as energy constraints and infrastructure bottlenecks increasingly dictate the pace of cloud growth.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Microsoft has lost two senior data center and AI infrastructure leaders at a time when the company is racing to expand capacity for its Copilot and Azure AI services, raising questions about its ability to meet surging demand for power-intensive AI workloads.
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“Networking is going through actually a bigger change than people realize, because of many factors..” Anil Varanasi, Meter co-founder and CEO, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4093...
Meter ups its NaaS portfolio with new hardware, autonomous operations
NaaS startup Meter unveiled new wireless access points, switches, firewalls, and cellular gateways, all of which run identical firmware.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“Networking is going through actually a bigger change than people realize, because of many factors..” Anil Varanasi, Meter co-founder and CEO, told @networkworld.bsky.social . www.networkworld.com/article/4093...
The US federal government is rolling back mandates intended to protect critical infrastructure following the widespread Salt Typhoon attacks.
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FCC reversal removes federal cyber safeguards targeting telecom weaknesses post-Salt Typhoon attacks
Security leaders call the rollback ‘shockingly incompetent,’ warning it removes critical controls implemented after one of the largest breaches in telecom history.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The US federal government is rolling back mandates intended to protect critical infrastructure following the widespread Salt Typhoon attacks.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Amazon Web Services has developed a new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transponder to significantly boost its long-distance, high-capacity, data center networking capabilities.
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AWS boosts its long-distance cloud connections with custom DWDM transponder
The new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) device increases bandwidth by 73% and reduces power consumption by 35%, according to AWS.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Amazon Web Services has developed a new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transponder to significantly boost its long-distance, high-capacity, data center networking capabilities.
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The world’s fourth exascale supercomputer has arrived, pitting Nvidia’s proprietary chip technologies against the x86 systems that have dominated supercomputing for decades. www.networkworld.com/article/4091...
Nvidia’s first exascale system is the 4th fastest supercomputer in the world
Germany’s JUPITER Booster marks Nvidia’s first 1-exaflop system on the TOP500 List, earning the fourth spot.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The world’s fourth exascale supercomputer has arrived, pitting Nvidia’s proprietary chip technologies against the x86 systems that have dominated supercomputing for decades. www.networkworld.com/article/4091...
Dell Technologies has filled out its enterprise AI infrastructure products with key upgrades to servers, storage, and software offerings.
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Dell targets enterprise AI with switches, servers, reinforced Nvidia partnership
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November 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Dell Technologies has filled out its enterprise AI infrastructure products with key upgrades to servers, storage, and software offerings.
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When Microsoft, Anthropic and Nvidia announced their latest partnership arrangement on Tuesday, analysts said that what appeared to give flexibility to IT buyers might instead complicate their choices.
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The latest Microsoft AI deal highlights tight links in AI supply chain
Microsoft’s partnership with Nvidia and Anthropic continues the incestuous couplings that may force changes in how IT makes AI choices.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When Microsoft, Anthropic and Nvidia announced their latest partnership arrangement on Tuesday, analysts said that what appeared to give flexibility to IT buyers might instead complicate their choices.
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A massive outage at content delivery network Cloudflare, which took down services including ChatGPT, Canva and parts of AWS, was traced to a routine change in database permissions. www.networkworld.com/article/4092...
How a bot management file push crippled Cloudflare’s global network
A simple database permission change triggered a global failure, highlighting how self-inflicted software errors now cause more disruptions than cyberattacks.
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November 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A massive outage at content delivery network Cloudflare, which took down services including ChatGPT, Canva and parts of AWS, was traced to a routine change in database permissions. www.networkworld.com/article/4092...
Problems at content delivery network Cloudflare are causing problems for online services and websites around the world, leaving them with just the kind of outage that Cloudflare’s services are intended to protect from.
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Cloudflare problems hit websites around the world
Problems with Cloudflare’s content delivery network followed hot on the heels of an incident with its third-party support portal provider.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Problems at content delivery network Cloudflare are causing problems for online services and websites around the world, leaving them with just the kind of outage that Cloudflare’s services are intended to protect from.
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Enterprises running VMware’s vSAN storage platform may have spent significantly more on hardware than necessary. The company has acknowledged that its long-standing sizing recommendations were based on synthetic testing that didn't reflect real-world conditions.
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Enterprises may have over-bought vSAN hardware for years based on VMware’s flawed guidance
VMware’s shift to real-world telemetry data reveals a significant gap between recommended and actual resource usage.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Enterprises running VMware’s vSAN storage platform may have spent significantly more on hardware than necessary. The company has acknowledged that its long-standing sizing recommendations were based on synthetic testing that didn't reflect real-world conditions.
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Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks have extended their partnership to offer customers a framework for implementing zero-trust security inside the data center.
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Arista, Palo Alto bolster AI data center security
Unified solution leverages Arista’s AI networking fabric and Palo Alto's next generation firewalls for zero-trust security in the data center.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Arista Networks and Palo Alto Networks have extended their partnership to offer customers a framework for implementing zero-trust security inside the data center.
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Hackers are using AI agents to outsmart old logins. It’s time to ditch passwords and move to phishing-proof credentials like passkeys.
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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hackers are using AI agents to outsmart old logins. It’s time to ditch passwords and move to phishing-proof credentials like passkeys.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building Fastnet, a new dedicated transatlantic subsea cable system linking the US and Ireland.
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AWS Fastnet cable expands cloud reach, but CIOs must read the fine print
Improved performance and redundancy come with deeper vendor entanglement. CIOs must benchmark architecture costs and enforce pricing clarity, analysts suggest.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building Fastnet, a new dedicated transatlantic subsea cable system linking the US and Ireland.
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Nvidia is working with a cadre of industry expert at Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC, Nokia and T-Mobile to bring an AI-native wireless stack for 6G networking to fruition.
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Nvidia moves to build AI-native 5G/6G wireless stack for future networks
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October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Nvidia is working with a cadre of industry expert at Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC, Nokia and T-Mobile to bring an AI-native wireless stack for 6G networking to fruition.
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IBM has decided not to offer VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation to new cloud customers, paving the way for it to openly pitch Red Hat OpenShift as a virtualization option instead.
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IBM won’t sell VMware to new cloud customers
IBM’s decision — forced on it by Broadcom’s new partner program policies — opens up a new option for customers dissatisfied with VMware licensing changes: OpenShift.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
IBM has decided not to offer VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation to new cloud customers, paving the way for it to openly pitch Red Hat OpenShift as a virtualization option instead.
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Broadcom is still trying to strongarm VMware customers into accepting huge price increases and onerous licensing terms, says the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) in its latest report.
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Broadcom refuses to backtrack on huge VMware price increases, claims European cloud watchdog
US company ‘continues to tighten the screws on Europe’s cloud infrastructure sector’ and regulators need to act.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Broadcom is still trying to strongarm VMware customers into accepting huge price increases and onerous licensing terms, says the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) in its latest report.
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Networking technology took center stage at Nvidia’s GTC DC developers show in Washington, D.C. as a range of networking products were introduced for high-performance AI inference processing and more.
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Nvidia looks to power AI factory networks
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Networking technology took center stage at Nvidia’s GTC DC developers show in Washington, D.C. as a range of networking products were introduced for high-performance AI inference processing and more.
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Cisco and Nvidia are ramping up their partnership, and the latest deliverables include the new Cisco N9100 series data center switch built on Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon. www.networkworld.com/article/4080...
Cisco, Nvidia strengthen AI ties with new data center switch, reference architectures
Packages from Cisco and Nvidia target enterprise customers, neoclouds and sovereign cloud buildouts.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Cisco and Nvidia are ramping up their partnership, and the latest deliverables include the new Cisco N9100 series data center switch built on Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon. www.networkworld.com/article/4080...
July 18, 2025, marked a historic milestone for Japan's semiconductor industry. Rapidus, a company aiming to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors, announced that it had successfully prototyped a 2-nanometer (nm) generation GAA transistor.
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Japan’s semiconductor industry battles back
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Rapidus has successfully prototyped a 2-nanometer generation GAA transistor, marking its first step as a nationally backed company. However, mass production will re...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
July 18, 2025, marked a historic milestone for Japan's semiconductor industry. Rapidus, a company aiming to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors, announced that it had successfully prototyped a 2-nanometer (nm) generation GAA transistor.
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Qualcomm has announced a new generation of accelerator cards and racks purpose-built to handle inference at scale. The new AI200 and AI250 feature near-memory computing, high memory capacity, and, it says, high per-dollar/per-watt and rack-scale performance. www.networkworld.com/article/4079...
Qualcomm goes all-in on inferencing with purpose-built cards and racks
Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 move beyond GPU-style training hardware to optimize for inference workloads, offering 10X higher memory bandwidth and reduced energy use.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Qualcomm has announced a new generation of accelerator cards and racks purpose-built to handle inference at scale. The new AI200 and AI250 feature near-memory computing, high memory capacity, and, it says, high per-dollar/per-watt and rack-scale performance. www.networkworld.com/article/4079...
Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up.
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Wi-Fi is emerging as a strategic connectivity technology rather than just a backup alternative to wired networks, and that shift is driving enterprises to upgrade their Wi-Fi networks to keep up with an increasingly mobile workforce and rising bandwidth demands.
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Mobile demands spur enterprise Wi-Fi upgrades
IT teams are prioritizing AI-driven network management when choosing Wi-Fi vendors, looking for features such as automated troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and guided remediation.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Wi-Fi is emerging as a strategic connectivity technology rather than just a backup alternative to wired networks, and that shift is driving enterprises to upgrade their Wi-Fi networks to keep up with an increasingly mobile workforce and rising bandwidth demands.
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