Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. He explained that the ASIC architecture is different between different vendors such as Cisco, Marvell and Nvidia.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. SD-WAN which stands for software-defined wide area network has been around for a decade, pitched to enterprises as a way to cut costs and improve WAN flexibility.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

For management, Nile AI software automates installation and other steady-state controls and includes management and observability capabilities that are tailored for customer installations. The app verifies each devices status and ensures the necessary software versions are running before provisioning and activation.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks. The architecture also integrates open data models and standard APIs, enriching powerful automation making Routed Optical Networking easier to operate than legacy networks,” Cisco stated.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. The HPE acquisition target is also offering a new validated design for enterprise AI clusters and has opened a lab to certify enterprise AI data center projects.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We are on the cusp of one of the most significant changes in the x86 architecture and ecosystem in decades – with a new level of customization, compatibility and scalability required to meet current and future customer demands,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in a statement.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The 7700R4 AI Distributed Etherlink Switch (DES) supports the largest AI clusters, offering massively parallel distributed scheduling and congestion-free traffic spraying based on the Jericho3-AI architecture. The 7060X6 AI Leaf switch features Broadcom Tomahawk 5 silicon with a capacity of 51.2

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. access offers visibility into who wants or has use of an AI application and then it controls access to protect and enforce data-loss prevention and mitigate potential threats.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ: “Secure, real-time message queuing, routing, and streaming for distributed systems, supporting microservices and event-driven architectures.” I would have to say yes.”

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

As part of this expansion, IBM is integrating its watsonx development platform with Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM) software, the companies announced at Nvidias GTC conference. With increased memory bandwidth (1.4x

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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.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The dual-port JBOF architecture is designed for active-active clustering, ensuring high availability for scale-up storage applications as well as scale-out storage such as object storage and parallel file systems.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Jointly designed by IBM Research and IBM Infrastructure, Spyre’s architecture is designed for more efficient AI computation. The Spyre Accelerator will contain 1TB of memory and 32 AI accelerator cores that will share a similar architecture to the AI accelerator integrated into the Telum II chip, according to IBM.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS). Improve lifecycle management by assessing devices and verifying that they all have the latest software.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Later, as an enterprise architect in consumer-packaged goods, I could no longer realistically contemplate a world where IT could execute mass application portfolio migrations from data centers to cloud and SaaS-based applications and survive the cost, risk and time-to-market implications.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

Instead of storing data mechanically on punched cards, they relied on an online dialog via keyboard and screen. SAP R/1 was designed as standard software that could be offered to other companies. This principle was so successful that R/3 almost completely replaced the R/2 software package.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Nvidia has announced a Zero Trust platform built around its BlueField data-processing units and Nvidia software. You cannot just rely on the firewall on the outside, you have to assume that any application or any user inside your data center is a bad actor,” said Manuvir Das, head of enterprise computing at Nvidia.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Altera – Intel’s standalone company focused on FPGA hardware – introduced an array of FPGA hardware, software, and services at its annual developer conference. It also announced new development kits and software support for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. They use Altera’s HyperFlex architecture found in other Altera products to provide a 1.9x

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. But over the past few decades, the overwhelming need for speed and productivity pushed architectural efficiency concerns to the background. Green Software Foundation was founded to help with these answers.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

She joined Zuora, a startup that provides billing and subscription management software, scaling it from $30M to $300M in revenue and taking it public in 2018. She joined Okta as CIO in 2020, and left Okta for her current role at F5 in January 2025, where she is tasked with building a data- and AI-first enterprise.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Migrating to the cloud without fully understanding workload requirements or optimizing database architectures can lead to overprovisioning and resource sprawl, he warns. To avoid unnecessary expenses, its important to design with a clear understanding of workload-specific needs and align them with the cloud providers architecture.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeeks advancements could lead to more accessible and affordable AI solutions, but they also require careful consideration of strategic, competitive, quality, and security factors, says Ritu Jyoti, group VP and GM, worldwide AI, automation, data, and analytics research with IDCs software market research and advisory practice.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Updates in its latest offering will help customers simplify operations by reducing management complexity , more easily managing dispersed locations with limited IT resources, automating software patching, and gaining visibility into application and traffic behaviors at the edge with integrated telemetry.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

As organizations grapple with exponential data growth and complex hybrid cloud environments, IT leaders and professionals who can effectively manage, optimize and secure data storage are indispensable, says Gina Smith, research director at IDC and lead for its IT Skills for Digital Business practice.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

For the first time, we can confidently say, the zero to one moment has happened, and now we can look at scaling roadmaps instead of science roadmaps, says Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at Infleqtion, which is focusing on the neutral atom approach to quantum computing. Theyre buying up under-utilized or distressed assets.

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