2025 global network outage report and internet health check
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...
View ArticleSome Palo Alto Networks firewalls are spontaneously rebooting
Palo Alto Networks has acknowledged that some of its next-generation firewalls running the PAN-OS operating system are suddenly rebooting. “There was an issue on certain older versions of PAN-OS where...
View ArticleArm secures Meta as first customer in chip push, challenging industry giants
In a landmark shift, Arm has secured Meta as the first major customer for its internally designed server CPUs, a move that signals its entry into direct chip sales and places it in direct competition...
View ArticleJuniper CEO: ‘I am disappointed and somewhat puzzled’ by DOJ merger rejection
Few would have predicted the U.S. Department of Justice would move to block HPE’s proposed acquisition of Juniper Networks. When it happened late last month, the two vendors and many industry watchers...
View ArticleNvidia forges healthcare partnerships to advance AI-driven genomics, drug...
Healthcare has the most significant upside, particularly in patient care, among all the industries applicable to AI. The healthcare industry creates massive amounts of data, but much of it lives in...
View ArticlePalo Alto Networks firewall bug being exploited by threat actors: Report
Admins with firewalls from Palo Alto Networks should make sure the devices are fully patched and the management interface blocked from open internet access after the discovery this week of a zero-day...
View ArticleNeudesic launches in Australia in a bid to speed up AI adoption for IT teams
Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained significant traction among business leaders keen to explore ways it can drive operational efficiencies and cost savings. But while top leadership is sold on its...
View ArticleNvidia: Latest news and insights
With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology, Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft...
View ArticleData center spending to top $1 trillion by 2029 as AI transforms infrastructure
Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 trillion by...
View ArticleWant to transform networking? Empower the missing users
As 2025 kicked off, I wrote a column about the network vendor landscape – specifically, which networking players will step up and put their efforts into finding new applications with solid business...
View ArticleNetwork jobs watch: Hiring, skills and certification trends
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...
View Article7 time-saving Linux commands
Some Linux commands can make your time on the command line easier and more productive. This post covers some commands that can come in very handy. 1. Using the tldr command to simplify man pages The...
View ArticleHackers gain root access to Palo Alto firewalls through chained bugs
A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS software, patched last week, is now being actively exploited by threat actors to gain root-level access to affected...
View ArticleMore used Seagate HDDs disguised as new: Fraudsters make it tough to spot the...
The controversy surrounding used Seagate hard drives has significantly widened, with fraudsters now targeting the company’s IronWolf and IronWolf Pro NAS drives alongside the previously affected Exos...
View ArticleAryaka adds AI-powered observability to SASE platform
SASE vendor Aryaka is looking to alleviate network alert fatigue with a little help from AI. Today Aryaka announced its Winter 2025 platform update, introducing its new AI Observe tool for advanced...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s quantum ambition: One million qubits in the palm of your hand
Microsoft announced a breakthrough in quantum computing today, unveiling a new kind of quantum processing unit, using a new type of material, to create what it says is a “radically different type of...
View ArticleFortinet speeds threat detection with improved FortiAnalyzer
Fortinet has reinforced its FortiAnalyzer security analytics and log management platform with capabilities that enhance enterprise threat detection and automate incident response. FortiAnalyzer...
View ArticleVMware by Broadcom: Product, service and support news
News of Broadcom’s plans to acquire VMware triggered concerns among customers, partners, and industry watchers, many of whom recalled Broadcom’s track record with prior high-profile acquisitions,...
View ArticleIreland says there will be no computation without generation
Ireland’s Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), the nation’s independent regulator of energy and water, is proposing strict new rules for data center operators, key among them being that new...
View ArticleVersa Networks launches sovereign SASE, challenging cloud-only security model
SASE since its inception has typically been deployed in a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, delivering network security services from the cloud. Some organizations, however, have strict security and...
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