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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Device spending, which will be more than double the size of data center spending, will largely be driven by replacements for the laptops, mobile phones, tablets and other hardware purchased during the work-from-home, study-from-home, entertain-at-home era of 2020 and 2021, Lovelock says.

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Enterprises can choose an appliance from a single vendor or install hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software on white-box servers.

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Oak Ridge seeks next-level supercomputer to blow away Frontier

Network World

Like a cell phone or laptop, the hardware wears out or becomes obsolete.” Frontier , which was installed in 2021, is a whopper. Vendors are also expected to provide estimates of maintenance costs for both hardware and software, including the establishment, at a minimum, of a Center of Excellence.

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20 powerful women shaping the networking industry

Network World

When joining F5 , she reflected on her career and said, F5s evolution from hardware to software and SaaS mirrors my own professional journey and passion for transformation. > Her path has included stints at Align Technology, Nimble Storage, and Conga, where she was CIO from 2017-2021.She

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The 10 highest-paying industries for IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

Every business unit has a stake in the IT services, apps, networks, hardware, and software needed to meet business goals and objectives, and many of them are hiring their own technologists. Average salary: US$131,995 Increase since 2021: 0% 2. Average salary: US$129,118 Increase since 2021: +3.4%

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Harvesting the Benefits of Cloud-Native Hyperconvergence

CIO Business Intelligence

The logical progression from the virtualization of servers and storage in VSANs was hyperconvergence. By abstracting the three elements of storage, compute, and networking, data centers were promised limitless infrastructure control. Worries around vendor lock-in surround the black-box nature of HCI-in-a-box appliances, too.

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Updating an Apple Watch Series 3 is a nightmare in 2021

The Verge

Nearly four years later, in 2021, Apple is still selling the Series 3 as its entry-level Apple Watch model starting at $199, an $80 savings compared to the more recent Apple Watch SE. And being able to update your hardware’s software is important: the just-released watchOS 7.4.1, for example, patches a critical security flaw.

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