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The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
The Energy & Sustainability Supplement
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Starcloud closes $250m Series A extension at $2.3bn valuation to scale AI on orbital data centers
ODC pioneer secures nearly half a billion dollars of investment to prove out space computing
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Cisco plans to bring SONiC foundation to customers beyond just hyperscalers
Blog post inadvertently reveals SONiC support for data center switches will extend to enterprises, neoclouds
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AMD debuts MI350 PCIe card to accelerate enterprise AI workloads
Chip giant extends accelerator peripheral lineup as it looks to meet bandwidth-booming workload demands
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Cisco unveils quantum switch to bridge incompatible systems
Prototype converts between encoding modalities with less than four percent fidelity loss
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Cisco alum joins Finchetto to drive optical switching for AI
Former Cisco VP and Saisei Networks founder backs British startup’s bid to shake up the switch market
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Next-gen switches & servers: Everything unveiled at Cisco Live EMEA 2026
Showcase in Amsterdam debuts 100Tbps network silicon, ultra-high bandwidth pluggable optics, and a unified control plane
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IBM partners with Cisco for development of distributed quantum network
Proof-of-concept expected to be delivered by 2030
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AI chip company Groq raises $750m at $6.9bn valuation
Round was led by investment firm Disruptive
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Cisco joins Humain's Saudi AI push, extends partnership with UAE's G42
As Humain partners with tech's biggest players
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Cisco unveils prototype quantum network entanglement chip
Company has also opened quantum lab in Santa Monica, California
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Cisco signs 100MW PPA with X-Elio in Texas
Company to offtake from two solar farms due live in 2027
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Cisco plans thousands more layoffs this year
Following 4,000 cuts in February
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Groq closes $640m funding round; hires Meta and former HP and Intel execs
Latest round values company at $2.8bn
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Florida man pleads guilty to selling more than $100m of counterfeit Cisco gear
Onur Aksoy founded 19 companies to sell faulty or poor-quality networking devices
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US government blacklists China's largest server maker Inspur, used by Cisco, IBM, Intel, Nvidia
Company is also a cloud provider in China
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Cisco details SaltStack flaws that led to multiple hacks
Six servers were left vulnerable by a flawed software package
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Cisco Live: AppDynamics update, Kubernetes app platform, and a 6U Edge data center
Cisco improves app monitoring and deployment, and puts HyperFlex blades in Schneider's 6U wall-mounted box
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Cisco to acquire Acacia Communications for $2.6 billion
The deal is expected to close halfway through 2020
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Cisco releases patches for two critical vulnerabilities in its Data Center Network Manager
The two flaws, which registered at 9.8 out of 10 on Cisco's Common Vulnerability Scoring System, have now been patched
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Intel, Google and others join forces for CXL interconnect
CXL is designed to create a high-speed, low latency interconnect between the CPU and workload accelerators
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Cisco to acquire hyperconvergence start-up Springpath for $320m
As it attempts to reinvent itself as a software company
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Synergy: Dell EMC, Cisco, HPE top cloud infrastructure market
Total cloud revenue passed $70 billion mark in Q4, says study
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Cisco to acquire container start up ContainerX
The company is set to develop “a comprehensive cloud-native stack” for app containers
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Cisco updates storage networking portfolio
Enables 40 Gigabit connectivity for IP storage traffic
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Cisco: total data center traffic will triple by 2019
Public cloud will rule the market, SaaS will emerge as the dominant cloud service
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White-box servers experience a surge in popularity
Research suggests a shift away from traditional infrastructure
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HP claims the top spot in cloud infrastructure equipment sales
Consistent growth by HP drops Cisco to second place
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Cisco gives up on Invicta all-flash storage arrays
The $415 million acquisition of Whiptail fails to deliver