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Spotlight: Making the most of multicloud

For IT leaders navigating multicloud environments, success depends on strategic alignment across business units, robust governance frameworks, and proactive security postures. While multicloud offers agility and vendor flexibility, it also introduces challenges in visibility, compliance, and developer productivity. In this special report, you’ll learn how to take advantage of the benefits of using multiple clouds, avoid common pitfalls, and ensure that multicloud is worth the investment.

By Network World Staff

Dec 9, 20251 min

Cloud ComputingEnterprise Buyer’s GuidesMulticloud

Inside Google’s multi-architecture revolution: Axion Arm joins x86 in production clusters

By Taryn Plumb

Oct 22, 20256 mins

CPUs and ProcessorsComputer ComponentsGoogle Cloud Platform

Why cloud and AI projects take longer and how to fix the holdups

By Tom Nolle

Oct 21, 20259 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud Computing

Oracle's big bet for AI: Zettascale10

By Taryn Plumb

Oct 15, 20256 mins

Artificial IntelligenceHigh-Performance ComputingSupercomputers

Network and cloud implications of agentic AI

By Tom Nolle

Sep 15, 20258 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingNetworking

Running the numbers on VMware Cloud Foundation: How one midsize enterprise is making it work

By Maria Korolov

Sep 2, 20259 mins

Cloud ComputingPrivate CloudVirtualization

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How can Arm gain enterprise acceptance?

Arm was founded as a company 35 years ago. It rules mobility and is gaining client share, but the enterprise seems out of reach.

By Andy Patrizio

Dec 8, 20259 mins

CPUs and ProcessorsCloud Computing

HPE CEO Neri highlights first fruits of Juniper takeover

By Esther Macías

Dec 4, 20258 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingIndustry

With AI Factories, AWS aims to help enterprises scale AI while respecting data sovereignty

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 4, 20253 mins

Amazon Web ServicesAmazon re:InventLaws and Regulations

Four things AWS needs to fix at re:Invent this week

By Anirban Ghoshal

Dec 1, 20254 mins

AnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceCloud Computing

AWS adds a DNS resiliency feature to make its US East region resilient to outages

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 27, 20254 mins

Cloud ArchitectureCloud ComputingDNS

Cobalt 200: Microsoft’s next-gen Arm CPU targets lower TCO for cloud workloads

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 20, 20253 mins

CPUs and ProcessorsCloud ArchitectureCloud Computing

Microsoft bets on agentic AI for cloud ops, but analysts doubt the pitch

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 18, 20255 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingCloud Management

StarlingX 11.0 addresses edge security, IPv4 exhaustion for massive deployments

By Sean Michael Kerner

Nov 14, 20255 mins

Cloud ComputingEdge ComputingNetwork Security

Broadcom introduces standards-based fabric, Cisco integration with VCF

By Denise Dubie

Nov 12, 20254 mins

Cloud ComputingNetworkingPrivate Cloud

Articles

Cloud-based GPU savings are real – for the nimble

Cast AI report says managing cloud GPU resources requires operational and geographic agility.

By Andy Patrizio

Nov 12, 2025 3 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCPUs and ProcessorsCloud Architecture

AWS launches ‘Capabilities by Region’ to simplify planning for cloud deployments

The tool could help enterprises gain future visibility into planned expansion of services across cloud regions, helping avoid costly replanning and deployment.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 7, 2025 3 mins

Amazon Web ServicesCloud ComputingIaaS

Google Cloud aims for more cost-effective Arm computing with Axion N4A

Twice the price-performance of comparable modern x86 VMs is Google’s claim for its new N4A instances, now available in preview.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 6, 2025 3 mins

CPUs and ProcessorsCloud Computing

Google’s cheaper, faster TPUs are here, while users of other AI processors face a supply crunch

Businesses already writing for TensorFlow, or building from scratch, stand to benefit most, while enterprises with legacy code written for Nvidia’s CUDA may find moving costly.

By Anirban Ghoshal

Nov 6, 2025 3 mins

CPUs and ProcessorsCloud Computing

What businesses should consider while adopting multiple cloud technologies

Adopting the multi-cloud comes with its challenges. Here’s how IZO™ Multi Cloud Connect solves them.

By Tata Communications

Jun 26, 2025 5 mins

Multicloud

Top network and data center events 2025 & 2026

Network World's guide to data center, I&O, and network conferences around the world.

By Denise Dubie

Nov 6, 2025 4 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterNetwork Security

Perplexity’s open-source tool to run trillion-parameter models without costly upgrades

TransferEngine enables GPU-to-GPU communication across AWS and Nvidia hardware, allowing trillion-parameter models to run on older systems.

By Gyana Swain

Nov 6, 2025 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingGenerative AI

AWS Fastnet cable will expand 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.

By Nidhi Singal

Nov 5, 2025 5 mins

Cloud ComputingNetworking

OpenAI spends even more money it doesn’t have

Commitment to invest $38 billion to run its workloads on AWS follows last week’s promise to buy $250 billion of Azure services.

By Paul Barker

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingGenerative AI

AWS opens giant data center for AI training

To be used to train and run the AI model Claude.

By Mikael Markander

Oct 30, 2025 2 mins

Amazon Web ServicesArtificial IntelligenceIaaS

Oracle’s cloud strategy an increasingly risky bet

It could be a concern for enterprise CIOs as well as for creditors due to ‘profound change in the company’s capital posture.’

By Paul Barker

Oct 29, 2025 6 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingData Center

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.

By John E. Dunn

Oct 29, 2025 5 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterVirtualization

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.

By Maxwell Cooter

Oct 29, 2025 4 mins

Cloud ComputingKubernetes and ContainersServer Virtualization