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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The key zero trust principle of least-privileged access says a user should be given access only to a specific IT resource the user is authorized to access, at the moment that user needs it, and nothing more. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Which are not longer an architectural fit? For example, a legacy, expensive, and difficult-to-support system runs on proprietary hardware that runs a proprietary operating system, database, and application. However, it is possible to run the database and application on an open source operating system and commodity hardware.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Suboptimal integration strategies are partly to blame, and on top of this, companies often don’t have security architecture that can handle both people and AI agents working on IT systems. By framing technical debt in these terms, you’re more likely to get the support and resources needed to address this critical challenge.

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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

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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Peter Rutten, research VP, performance intensive computing, and worldwide infrastructure research at IDC, says the key takeaway from the DeepSeek results is the current approach to AI training that AI can only improve with bigger, more, and faster architecture is not justified.

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Network World

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The second is IP address conservation, because in a large, widely distributed global organization with a lot of branch locations, IP addresses can be a scarce resource,” Venkiteswaran said. In the 1990s, this was done with proprietary cabling hardware and closed stackable ring or chain topologies.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Alice & Bob devise cat qubits Also in January, quantum computing startup Alice & Bob announced their new quantum error correction architecture. The system is part of IBMs vision for quantum-centric supercomputing, combining quantum and classical resources. The improvements come from both hardware and software advances.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025? in cost savings.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

“This feature is useful for distributed applications or scenarios where AI inference needs to be performed on powerful servers while the client device has limited resources.” Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

With the 9300 Smart Switches, we are bringing security technologies into a fabric, so customers can [have] protection baked into their architecture from the network interface card to the switch, Wollenweber said.We Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior.

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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

MARCH 17, 2025

Those resources are probably better spent re-architecting applications to remove the need for virtual machines (VMs). Since HCI products are the closest equivalents to the VMware stack, they can be deployed with less effort than other solutions in terms of workload re-architecture and staff retraining.

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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. Integration with other systems was difficult and it required a lot of specialized resources to make changes, such as business processes and validation during order entry and replenishment to branch offices, he says.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

AI servers are advanced computing systems designed to handle complex, resource-intensive AI workloads. 5 things you need to know about AI servers Specialized hardware is essential : AI servers require hardware to handle the intense computational demands of AI workloads.

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And theyre very resource-intensiveAI is poised to grow power demand. AI is a transformative technology that requires a lot of power, dense computing, and fast networks, says Robert Beveridge, professor and technical manager at Carnegie Mellon Universitys AI Engineering Center. Why pursue certifications?

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

It can take money and personnel to fix encryption, and not all providers will have the resources or the interest in making it a priority. Quantum qubits are taking over traditional architectures for protein folding and mapping, he says. On the plus side, theres more than just customer demand forcing them to step up.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2025

Core challenges for sovereign AI Resource constraints Developing and maintaining sovereign AI systems requires significant investments in infrastructure, including hardware (e.g., Many countries face challenges in acquiring or developing the necessary resources, particularly hardware and energy to support AI capabilities.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

AI is bringing new operational efficiencies and generating important business insights, so it is imperative that the ecosystem helps our customers create network architectures tailored for AI workloads. For instance, the learning course will teach them GPU optimization as well as building for high-performance generative AI network fabrics.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

It was pretty easy to do segmentation when you had a three-tiered architecture, and every tier of the architecture ran on a dedicated piece of hardware. Because if you’re thinking about protecting lateral movement, you have to contain the lateral movement by segmenting the attacker from making too many hops,” Patel said. “It

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Network World

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Sovereign SASE goes a step further, with Versas SASE software running on customer-owned hardware and environments. The solution is based on the Versa Operating System (VOS), which is a single-stack architecture that integrates networking and security functions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 1, 2025

AI services require high resources like CPU/GPU and memory and hence cloud providers like Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud provide many AI services including features for genAI. Model training costs: Monitor expenses related to computational resources during model development.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

It then covers AI network architectures, AI data considerations (including privacy and sovereignty), compliance (sustainability and power management), and hardware resources. It begins with three courses on AI basics and a series on AI infrastructure requirements, Merat explained in the blog.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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. Industry 4.0

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. The IISc team’s neuromorphic platform is designed to address some of the biggest challenges facing AI hardware today: energy consumption and computational inefficiency.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

ARM64 is a commonly used silicon architecture for smaller network devices and appliances. Customers are having a difficult time finding talent that is technical enough, and so the more automation can be done, the more, the more they can do with the resources they have and with the knowledge that they have in house,” Astorino said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Without access to the expertise and insights you need to manage fast-evolving hardware and software infrastructure as efficiently as possible, it can be an uphill battle to keep the lights on – even before you embark on new initiatives. And hardware cannot simply be replaced with software-driven infrastructure or hardware as a service.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 14, 2022

The challenge for many organizations is to scale real-time resources in a manner that reduces costs while increasing revenue. Match your server components to your use case: For the software supporting your database to achieve the best real-time performance at scale, you need the right server hardware as well.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

To meet that challenge, many are turning to edge computing architectures. Putting hardware, software, and network technology at the edge, where data originates, can speed responsiveness, enable compute-hungry AI processing, and greatly improve both employee and customer experience. Edge architectures vary widely. Casey’s, a U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 6, 2024

Tech debt can take many forms — old applications, bloated code, and aging hardware among them — and while the issue often takes a back seat to innovation and new technology, it is on the minds of a lot of CIOs. Some organizations may also have the veteran IT workers needed to deal with legacy hardware and code, adds Madan.

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MAY 23, 2022

These services offer ease of access, as well as infrastructure experts who can ensure 24/7/365 uptime with secure on-demand resource delivery in a convenient OpEx-based model. Cloud Architecture, IT Leadership About Keith Shaw: Keith is a freelance digital journalist who has written about technology topics for more than 20 years.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

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. In other words, adding DPUs is like de-bottlenecking at data centers, providing more fire power and performance with the same CPU architecture.” .

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Although data centers themselves are getting greener , the newer datacenters utilize more powerful hardware which may outperform older hardware significantly while taking up more power resources. This may come as a surprise to datacenter veterans who are touching newer datacenter hardware for the first time.

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

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. Its modularity, programmability and general cloud-based architecture could make it a viable option for enterprises and hyperscalers to deploy as cloud networking grows.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. Why should they buy this architecture instead of just buying servers? Establishing hardware-level APIs. What Intel’s proposing with Intel RSA doesn’t require disaggregated hardware (i.e.,

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