New MLCommons benchmarks to test AI infrastructure performance
Industry consortium MLCommons has released new versions of its MLPerf Inference benchmarks, offering a closer look at how current-generation data center and edge hardware performs under increasingly...
View ArticleNetworking terms and definitions
To find a brief definition of the networking term you are looking for user your browser’s “Find” feature then follow links to a fuller explanation. AI networking AI networking refers to the...
View ArticleNew Relic simplifies Kubernetes performance monitoring
New Relic this week announced a new capability in its Intelligent Observability Platform that the company says will enable engineering teams to deploy an eBPF-powered agent to automatically discover...
View ArticleMechanical Orchard taps gen AI for mainframe-to-cloud modernization
IBM is expected to drive AI deep into its next mainframe refresh, due this spring, in a move aimed at keeping and attracting Big Iron customers. Meanwhile, there’s no shortage of vendors vying for...
View ArticleServiceNow to acquire Logik.ai to boost CRM portfolio
ServiceNow is acquiring Logik.ai and its configure, price, quote (CPQ) solution to expand its customer relationship management (CRM) product portfolio and accelerate its momentum in sales and order...
View ArticleTariff war throws building of data centers into disarray
Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of...
View ArticleA look back at Microsoft’s IPO
On April 4, 2000, to celebrate Microsoft’s 25th anniversary, Network World’s Paul McNamara put together the post you’ll see below. The story hasn’t changed. — It’s Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft,...
View ArticleNvidia: Latest news and insights
Coverage of Nvidia GTC 2025 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,...
View ArticleNew Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan begins to lay out technology roadmap
He’s only been on the job for two weeks, but newly appointed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan gave a major speech at a partner conference this week where he said the ailing company needs to get its act together,...
View ArticleIvanti warns customers of new critical flaw exploited in the wild
Ivanti is warning customers that a critical vulnerability that impacts its VPN appliances and other products has already been exploited in the wild by a Chinese APT group. The flaw was originally...
View ArticleSurge in threat actors scanning Juniper, Cisco, and Palo Alto Networks devices
A surge in internet probes targeting devices from Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, and Palo Alto Networks should put their admins on alert, say security experts. A threat actor is probing the internet...
View Article9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future
Over the past year, vendor after vendor has reached the critical quantum-computing milestone where adding more qubits no longer adds a disproportionately higher amount of errors. “For the first time,...
View ArticleNetBox Labs embraces intersection of network management and AI
Over the last several years, NetBox has established itself as a widely used open-source tool for understanding and modeling networks. NetBox Labs, the lead commercial sponsor behind the open-source...
View ArticleDARPA backs multiple quantum paths in benchmarking initiative
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected 15 quantum computing companies for its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative, to see if utility-scale quantum computers can be built by 2033....
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AI commentary goes into full swing at Players Championship
As a golf fan, one of the events I look forward to is the Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass at the home of the PGA Tour in Ponte Vedra, Florida. The event has seen many magical moments such as Fred...
View ArticleChina’s rare earth export controls threaten enterprise IT hardware supply chains
China has announced immediate export controls on seven more rare earth elements critical to enterprise IT hardware manufacturing, firing a fresh salvo in the ongoing tech trade war. This move could...
View ArticleRiverbed bolsters AIOps platform with predictive and agentic AI
Riverbed this week unveiled updates to its AIOps and observability platform that the company says will transform how IT organizations manage complex distributed infrastructure and data more...
View Article2025 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 ArticleIBM z17 mainframe gains AI accelerator, massive workload support
The Big Iron evolution continues. IBM has rolled out the latest iteration of its mainframe, replete with AI technology designed to take data-intensive application support well into the future. At the...
View ArticleHPE Aruba grows network mgmt. deployment options
HPE Aruba this week made its cloud-based network management and orchestration platform available via new deployment options, offering customers virtual private cloud (VPC) and on-premises...
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