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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

Interest in the open-source network operating system SONiC is rising as major networking vendors and start-ups look to offer resources to help enterprises give SONiC a try. The Linux-based NOS was created by Microsoft for its Azure data centers and then open-sourced by Microsoft in 2017. What is SONiC? Who created SONiC?

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5 reasons why 2025 will be the year of OpenTelemetry

Network World

Some open-source projects are spectacularly successful and become standard components of the IT infrastructure. OpenTelemetry, a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is building momentum and is on track to become another open-source success story. Take Linux or Kubernetes, for example.

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Next-gen Ethernet standards set to move forward in 2025

Network World

Much of that work occurred under the direction of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium , which is an open-source effort under the governance of the Linux Foundation. 1.6Tb Ethernet is being discussed in terms of the optics, the form factors and use cases, and we expect industry leaders to be trialing 1.6T

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Nvidia intros new guardrail microservices for agentic AI

CIO Business Intelligence

The new microservices aim to help enterprises improve accuracy, security, and control of agentic AI applications, addressing a key reservation IT leaders have about adopting the technology. It was trained on Nvidias open-source Aegis Content Safety Data Set, which includes 35,000 human-annotated data samples flagged for AI safety.

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Former Arista COO launches NextHop AI for customized networking infrastructure

Network World

A new player in the networking industry is tackling the unique challenges of AI infrastructure at hyperscale. You have to make AI clusters as efficient as possible for the world to use all the AI applications at the right cost structure, at the right economics, for this to be successful, Sadana said.

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Open source software: Ways for CISOs to quell the fear

CIO Business Intelligence

For many stakeholders, there is plenty to love about open source software. Developers tend to enjoy the ability to speed application development by borrowing open source code. CFOs like the fact that open source is often free or low in cost. The age-old question: How secure is open source software?

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The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise

CIO Business Intelligence

As per the recent IDC InfoBrief “The Significance of Open Source Software in the Digital-First Future Enterprise”, open source software (OSS) is an important driver of enterprise digital innovation and provides greater agility, performance and security compared to proprietary software.