Michael Cooney

HPE touts integrated Aruba-Juniper networking and AI technology as it arms for data center competition.

Cisco and IBM hope to build a quantum computing internet by the late 2030s.

Cisco's Resilient Infrastructure initiative aims to bolster network security by strengthening default device settings and removing insecure capabilities.

The new Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) device increases bandwidth by 73% and reduces power consumption by 35%, according to AWS.

Unified solution leverages Arista’s AI networking fabric and Palo Alto's next generation firewalls for zero-trust security in the data center.

Extreme envisions offering specialized, easy-to-deploy AI agents for analytics, sustainability and security.

AI, campus, router and security refreshes led to a strong quarter for Cisco.

Networking vendor Arista announced third-quarter revenue of $2.3 billion, which is up 4.7% over the second quarter of 2025 and an increase of 27.5% compared to the third quarter of 2024.

Cisco centralizes customer experience around AI

Cisco Unified Edge integrates networking, compute and storage for distributed AI workloads.

Packages from Cisco and Nvidia target enterprise customers, neoclouds and sovereign cloud buildouts.

Arista is bulking up its R4 series with speedier models and line cards to advance high-performance networks.

IBM’s technology services group is adding new support options for Cisco’s Secure Firewall platform and Hybrid Mesh Firewall.

The Service AI Agent from Extreme can handle a variety of tasks, including network planning, configuration, and root-cause analysis.

A decline in critical thinking skills, AI-related safety failures, and fragmentation of the AI landscape are among the challenges IT leaders will face in 2026 and beyond, Gartner predicts.

Enterprises need a dedicated AI leader as AI supercomputers, cybersecurity risks, and multi-agent systems will challenge IT teams.

IBM is incorporating Groq’s inference platform, GroqCloud, and its custom Language Processing Unit (LPU) hardware architecture into Big Blue’s watsonx Orchestrate, which helps customers build, deploy, and manage AI agents and workflows to automate business operations.

Meta shares Ethernet and optics advances at OCP Global Summit.

The Ethernet for Scale-Up Networking (ESUN) initiative includes AMD, Arista, ARM, Broadcom, Cisco, HPE Networking, Marvell, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia.

The Cisco 8223 router is based on the 51.2Tb Silicon One P200 programmable chip.