Network World First Look
August 15, 2024
Cisco to cut 7% of workforce, restructure product groups
Cisco is cutting 6,000 jobs and combining its networking, security and collaboration groups into one unit led by Jeetu Patel. Read more
Your attack surface is showing, Unit 42 warns enterprises
Palo Alto Networksâ Unit 42 security research group studied changes in enterprise attack surfaces and how those changes lead to increased vulnerabilities in network and IT infrastructure. Read more
Talent gap threatens US semiconductor industry
Shortage of skilled workers could affect the deployment of AI, which depends on chip innovation and semiconductor availability to thrive. Read more
Broadcom distrust drives sales for VMware competition
Concerns about the new direction VMware is taking are driving some enterprise customers to consider alternative platforms from vendors such as Scale Computing, Nutanix and Oxide Computer. Read more
Enterprise spending on cloud services keeps accelerating
Among cloud infrastructure providers, Oracle is finally breaking out, although Amazon, Microsoft and Google still maintain strong leads. Meanwhile, on-premises data center capacity remains stable. Read more
What enterprises say the CrowdStrike outage really teaches
After the CrowdStrike outage, some enterprises IT teams are rethinking their assumptions about how use of the cloud impacts application reliability. Read more
NIST finally settles on quantum-safe crypto standards
After years of review, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has chosen three encryption algorithms as the basis for its post-quantum security strategy: ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA. Read more
