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Networking

Cisco extends AgenticOps model across networking, security, observability products

At the Cisco Live EMEA event going on in Amsterdam this week, Cisco unveiled a range of updates across its networking and security portfolio that are aimed at helping customers tap agentic AI technologies to more effectively run their enterprise infrastructure. “Agentic AI orchestrates workflows, moves data, communicates with other agents, and makes decisions autonomously. This represents a fundamental shift…

SSHStalker botnet brute-forces its way onto 7,000 Linux machines

A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, got into its staging server and believe at least 7,000 servers had been compromised by the end of January, half of them in the US. The botnet’s weapons include exploits for unpatched Linux vulnerabilities going…

Cost is driving enterprises to rethink virtualization, but most aren’t ready yet

Enterprises are rethinking their virtualization strategies in the wake of Broadcom’s changes to VMware licensing, but most are not yet ready to make needed changes. That’s according to a new survey by HPE, which found that two-thirds of enterprises are planning material changes to their virtualization strategy within the next two years as they assess virtualization alternatives. There’s been plenty…

AI

How Cisco’s platform mindset is meeting the AI era

Cisco is no longer trying to be just a software, hardware, or silicon company. It’s now positioning itself as a systems or platform company that delivers the critical infrastructure needed for the AI era. This week, Cisco held its annual Cisco Live EMEA event and announced its fiscal second-quarter earnings. During the Amsterdam keynote, Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief…

Intel says Google engineers spotted Xeon vulnerabilities

Intel said it was able to identify five vulnerabilities in the one of the most important confidential computing elements of its Xeon CPUs with help from Google’s cloud security team. The work was part of a five-month joint security review between Intel’s INT31 team (Intel’s offensive security research) and Google’s Cloud Security team. The partnership identified five vulnerabilities and 35…

Networking

Cisco highlights memory costs, Silicon One growth in Q2 recap

AI is driving new revenue for Cisco, while campus networking and other components added to a successful quarter for the vendor. CEO Chuck Robbins told analysts on a conference call that overall networking revenue increased 21% year-over-year to nearly $8 billion in company’s fiscal second quarter. Other highlights from the Q2 recap include the rising cost of system memory, AI…

Networking

Security Observability Improvements in Cisco Secure Firewall 10.0

Improvements in Secure Firewall 10.0 provide better observability and detection for threats and security monitoring overall.

Cybersecurity

IT bonuses reward network, security skills that can’t be automated

The market for networking and security skills is shifting as AI implementations move from experimental to operational and enterprise organizations deploy more sophisticated IT architectures. So, which skills are commanding the highest premiums? And which skills are no longer in great demand? Foote Partners’ latest IT Skills and Certifications Pay Index shows a clear pattern: Premium pay is moving away…

Technology

Starcloud prepares to launch AWS Outpost into space

Hot on the heels of Starlink’s plan for a million data centers in space, Starcloud’s next launch will put hardware from AWS in orbit. “Starcloud will be the first to launch the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outpost hardware to space on our second satellite launching in October,” Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston wrote in a LinkedIn post. Outpost is AWS’s on-premises…

AI

Data center capex to hit $1.7 trillion by 2030 due to AI boom

A multi-year expansion cycle will drive worldwide data center capex to the $1.7 trillion mark by 2030, driven by hyperscalers as well as neo cloud service providers and sovereign AI initiatives, a new report from Dell’Oro Group indicates. All three segments are entering a new phase of infrastructure expansion; key among them are Amazon, Google, Meta and Meta, which at…