Cloud Computing | Network World

2026 network outage report and internet health check

Cisco's ThousandEyes division tracks global internet and cloud traffic and provides Network World with weekly updates on the performance of ISPs, cloud service providers, and UCaaS providers.

By Denise Dubie

Jun 16, 202660 mins

Cloud ComputingNetwork MonitoringNetworking

Cloud strategies have become more complicated than ever

By Esther Shein

Jun 16, 202613 mins

Artificial IntelligenceHybrid CloudPrivate Cloud

Amazon claims its data centers are 7x more water-efficient than the industry average

By Taryn Plumb

Jun 11, 20267 mins

Amazon Web ServicesData Center AutomationIaaS

AI inference moving to private clouds, Broadcom says

By Maria Korolov

Jun 9, 20264 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingPrivate Cloud

New data center routing design cuts AWS networking energy costs by 40%, Amazon claims

By John E. Dunn

Jun 5, 20265 mins

Amazon Web ServicesData Center DesignIaaS

Articles

Selector targets the network visibility gap in multi-cloud infrastructure

New capabilities built into Selector's NetOps platform allow it to correlate network data across branches, colocation facilities, on-premises data centers, and public cloud infrastructure.

By Sean Michael Kerner

May 20, 2026 4 mins

Cloud ComputingCloud ManagementNetwork Management Software

Top network and data center events of 2026

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

By Denise Dubie

May 20, 2026 5 mins

Artificial IntelligenceCloud ComputingData Center

HPE revamps private cloud stack for enterprises rethinking VMware

New HPE GreenLake updates unify VM, Kubernetes, and AI management with expanded storage and recovery tools as enterprises look for hybrid cloud alternatives.

By Denise Dubie

May 12, 2026 5 mins

Enterprise StorageHybrid CloudVirtualization

Versa takes aim at fragmented enterprise security

Versa Networks adds cloud security posture management to SASE platform as enterprises struggle to correlate risk.

By Sean Michael Kerner

May 12, 2026 6 mins

Network SecuritySASEWAN

An “Unstoppable Web” is a reality that Tether is orchestrating

By tether

Mar 30, 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingNetworking

Red Hat: Sovereignty is more than just compliance

At its Summit this week, Red Hat is framing sovereignty as vendor independence, control over AI, and operational autonomy.

By Maria Korolov

May 12, 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingPrivate Cloud

AWS hit by US-East-1 outage after data center thermal event

A cooling system failure caused servers to overheat and power down, with impairments to EC2 and EBS services underscoring global dependency on the core region.

By Gyana Swain

May 11, 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterData Center Management

Lumen advances cloud networking vision with $475M Alkira buy

Lumen’s existing NaaS provides connectivity between on-premises environments and cloud providers, or north-south traffic. Alkira addresses east-west traffic, which moves between clouds and between data centers.

By Sean Michael Kerner

May 6, 2026 4 mins

Cloud ComputingManaged Cloud ServicesNetworking

Broadcom bets big on VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1

Upgrade described as an attempt to move private cloud platform up the stack and become a ‘governed control surface for production AI.’

By Paul Barker

May 5, 2026 8 mins

Artificial IntelligencePrivate CloudVirtualization

Memory shortage and cost surge push enterprises toward the cloud

With on-prem deployments becoming costlier and slower to scale, cloud is emerging as the faster alternative.

By Nidhi Singal

May 4, 2026 5 mins

Cloud ComputingData Center

Deconstructing the data center: A massive (and massively liberating) project

As far as unheralded IT undertakings go, decommissioning a data center still sits atop most CIOs’ list. Yet the complex work involved — down to returning a building to its original state — remains the most organizationally redefining.

By Esther Shein

Apr 30, 2026 14 mins

Cloud ComputingData CenterData Center Management

Meta's compute grab continues with agreement to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores

The company is assembling a multi-architecture stack spanning AWS, Nvidia, AMD, Arm, and its own silicon. In the agentic era, no single chip wins, so it’s betting on all of them.

By Taryn Plumb

Apr 24, 2026 6 mins

Amazon Web ServicesCPUs and ProcessorsIaaS