Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. Purkayastha emphasized the need for new standards and reference architectures to support the integration of GPUs into a wide range of devices, from phones to IoT. “We

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Error correction is vital for enterprise users of quantum computing, says Yoram Avidan, CTO of Citigroups Innovation Lab and global head of Citi Accelerator. Alice & Bob devise cat qubits Also in January, quantum computing startup Alice & Bob announced their new quantum error correction architecture.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She previously worked at Iron Mountain, where she was Executive Vice President and CTO. 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. > She has worked in media, communications, and networking industries.

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CTOvision

APRIL 6, 2015

Enabling PCAP at 10/40/100 Gbps speeds and beyond necessitates that the processing of captured packets be pushed to the point of ingest, leveraging hardware acceleration to maintain precise, lossless capture at these speeds. To download a white paper showing a complete reference architecture and solution description, click here.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2024

And if the Blackwell specs on paper hold up in reality, the new GPU gives Nvidia AI-focused performance that its competitors can’t match, says Alvin Nguyen, a senior analyst of enterprise architecture at Forrester Research. They basically have a comprehensive solution from the chip all the way to data centers at this point,” he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. Power efficiency gains of new hardware can also give data centers and other organizations a power surplus to run AI workloads, Hormuth argues.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2014

He was also the Chief Technology Officer at Goldman Sachs. Having CTO roots and experience founding and running a very successful firm seemed to have positioned Vern well for leadership at D-Wave. Concluding thoughts: Like any great CEO or seasoned CTO Vern knows that the technology is not what this is all about.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Two ERP deployments in seven years is not for the faint of heart,” admits Dave Shannon, CIO of the hardware distribution firm. The company wanted to leverage all the benefits the cloud could bring, get out of the business of managing hardware and software, and not have to deal with all the complexities around security, he says.

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TechSpot

MAY 18, 2023

Speaking to Tom's Hardware's deputy managing editor Paul Alcorn on the sidelines of the ITF World conference in Antwerp, Belgium, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster said that the change will introduce "high-performance cores mixed with power-efficient cores mixed with acceleration." According to the exec, the hybrid designs will be based on.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. Generic APIs typically reveal a single entry-point. “We

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

The NR1-S takes over the work normally done by the CPUs in the system, because the CPUs aren’t fast enough to handle all the data movement generated by the GPUs, said Iddo Kadim, CTO for NeuReality. There are a number of reasons why the CPU architecture basically becomes a bottleneck.” The NR1-S appliance is available now.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Tareq Amin, Rakuten Group’s Group Chief Technology Officer, Rakuten Group fleshed out some of the details around the new service at TM Forum’s Digital Transformation World Series. We are really good at building a robust scalable reference architecture for both more workloads, as well as complex workloads.".

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s among CIOs’ most persistent and underdiscussed challenges: embracing innovative technologies without losing sight of mounting — and potentially crippling — technical debt. Old hardware and software can be vulnerable to attacks , and CIOs can work with CISOs to target systems that need to be replaced, Beerman says.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Its modularity, programmability and general cloud-based architecture could make it a viable option for enterprises and hyperscalers to deploy as cloud networking grows. The Linux Foundation focuses on the software element of SONiC, while continuing to partner with the Open Compute Project for hardware developments and evolving specifications.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

That’s how he connected with Stoke’s other co-founder, chief technology officer Tom Feldman. The stunning success of Elon Musk and SpaceX sprang from that company’s ability to use most of its rocket hardware over and over again, dramatically lowering the cost of access to space.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 8, 2023

Businesses are looking for tech pros with highly specialized skills, as they embrace digital transformation and increasingly rely on technology for core business. Companies need qualified CTOs, CIOs, vice presidents, and directors who are focused on developing and overseeing the business’ overall technology strategy and goals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

“We’re working proactively to mitigate the future risks related to quantum computing that could impact the security of the billions of digital transactions we process globally,” says George Maddaloni, chief technology officer of operations at Mastercard, explaining the impetus for the project.

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Codenamed “WolfCreek,” DDNs next-generation hardware platform that will power products such as DDNs SFA (Storage Fusion Architecture) product line, packs upwards of 60GB/s of sustained bandwidth into just four rack units (RU)! Analysis Architecture Big Data CTO'

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CTOvision

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Use the latest standard servers whatever their architecture and operating systems – unleash their full capabilities. Investment protection of your software by allowing you to keep your hardware current. CTO accelerators Napatech YouTube' What it means to standardize on Napatech: Higher performance applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 27, 2023

Those working in IT management, including the roles of CIO, CTO, VP, and IT Director, hold high-level positions that oversee an entire company’s technology infrastructure. Meanwhile, the CTO focuses on technology research and development efforts, often working closely with the CIO to develop a strong IT strategy.

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CTOvision

MAY 28, 2014

In addition, you have to know, and continually update, your asset inventory – both hardware and software. The Cybersecurity Solutions Group (CSG) Engineering & Architecture team is currently performing the integration of the proposed DHS continuous monitoring solution in the CSG eLab.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Claus Torp Jensen , formerly CTO and Head of Architecture at CVS Health and Aetna, agreed that ransomware is a top concern. “At Second, implementing a zero trust architecture mandates verification for every access request, drastically minimizing the attack surface. LTO-9 can store 18TB of uncompressed data (45TB 2.5:1

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CTOvision

JANUARY 16, 2014

NFV replaces proprietary fixed-function appliances with virtualized software functions running on commodity hardware. Cloud and virtualization provide scalable pay-as-you-go services built on common and low-cost hardware and leverage a large ecosystem of software and development tools. CTO innovation NFV SDN'

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TM Forum

JANUARY 27, 2022

As Orange Group’s CTO and Senior Vice President Orange Innovation Networks he is responsible for steering the evolution of the operator’s networks, including their software transformation. “When we talk about cloudification we think of it as a way to optimize capex on the hardware infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This rapid adoption, while driving innovation, has also led to overloaded IT architectures that are fast and automated but often fragile and complex. As Robert Blumofe, chief technology officer at Akamai Technologies, told The Wall Street Journal recently, “The goal is not to solve the business problem.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 30, 2022

As the technology matures, many companies are replacing older CPUs with newer chip architectures, such as GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). For instance, GPUs are more energy-efficient than CPUs because their memory architecture specializes in supporting high-speed data streaming for intensive applications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2022

As the technology matures, many companies are replacing older CPUs with newer chip architectures, such as GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). For instance, GPUs are more energy-efficient than CPUs because their memory architecture specializes in supporting high-speed data streaming for intensive applications.

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CTOvision

APRIL 9, 2015

You can download a white paper showing how this can be accomplished, complete with reference architecture, here. All of this is accomplished within the hardware of the accelerator at line rate. Running Apache Kafka at Scale (engineering.linkedin.com). Improvements to Kafka integration of Spark Streaming (databricks.com).

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Oracle is collocating its Oracle database hardware (including Oracle Exadata) and software in Microsoft Azure data centers, giving customers direct access to Oracle database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via Azure.

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CTOvision

AUGUST 16, 2013

Anthony spelled out how much money can be saved in hardware, software and people by modernization. Lloyd underscored the importance of improving IT architecture to support today’s challenges and discussed a vision for data center networking. Big Data Cloud Computing Communications CTO DoD and IC Events Infrastructure'

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 1, 2023

They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop and maintain in house, unless your company happens to be a technology provider. Why buy real estate and hardware and pay extra salaries only to save a small amount? asks Sample, rhetorically. “Do million in 2017).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

Configurability in cloud-first strategies is key as organizations don’t have to worry about hardware control, allowing for more focus on getting new services up and running faster,” he says. Nichol (@PeterBNichol) , chief technology officer at OROCA Innovations. Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Applications

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 31, 2023

In this interview, Nallappan has much to share on dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates. In our hardware business, the COO runs the supply chain. I do control the costs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2023

A pragmatic and structured architectural approach when moving to the cloud is critical,” says William Peldzus, senior director and Center of Excellence head with enterprise consulting firm Capgemini Americas. Poor planning Enterprises risk running into trouble if they lack a detailed cloud strategy. “A

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

By far the fastest approach is to lift and shift the whole environment, says Matthew Hon, CTO for public sector at technology services company Fujitsu Americas, as rewriting applications for the cloud could take more than two years to complete. Shifting to the cloud also means building highly resilient applications, Campbell says.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 22, 2014

“Demand for our in-memory database technology has been tremendous,” said Frenkiel, co-founder and CEO, MemSQL. Customers are drawn to our solution because it delivers extremely fast performance on commodity hardware and has the ability to store and query multiple data formats in a single database. Big Data CTO DoD and IC'

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GeekWire

JUNE 25, 2021

Amazon Web Services’ VP of Solution Architecture and Training & Certification Rudy Valdez has departed, according to a report by The Information. Another longtime Amazon exec, Dorothy Li , took a job at Seattle startup Convoy as its new CTO. Read the story. Tim Collins (left) and Sharad Sundaresan. Gopuff Photos).

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