CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 25, 2025

Accenture reports that the top three sources of technical debt are enterprise applications, AI, and enterprise architecture. Build up: Databases that have grown in size, complexity, and usage build up the need to rearchitect the model and architecture to support that growth over time.

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Network World

JANUARY 22, 2025

The open-source Wireshark network protocol analyzer has been a standard tool for networking professionals for decades. This approach mirrors how Wireshark uses libpcap for network packet capture, creating a familiar architectural pattern for networking professionals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2024

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. It’s an open secret that even proprietary software contains open source components these days, and major vendors are, to varying extents, supporting or participating in open source projects.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

NetBox Labs is the lead commercial sponsor behind the widely deployed open source NetBox technology, which is used for modeling and documenting networks. The tool employs an agent-based approach with a zero-trust architecture, making it particularly suitable for organizations with segmented networks and strict security requirements.

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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. 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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Forrester IT

MARCH 4, 2021

Coming on the heels of its acquisition of Alfresco, which we blogged about here, just months ago, Hyland will soon be the home for the two most widely deployed open source […]. The deal is expected to close in April or May.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 21, 2023

The open source world has seen high-profile projects with unusual terms. They call themselves “open source” and “free for research and commercial use.” Whether a project is open source does matter. It could be not-quite-closed source masquerading as truly open - it could be ajar source.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Over the last several years, NetBox has established itself as a widely used open-source tool for understanding and modeling networks. The Assurance solution leverages NetBox Labs agent-based discovery architecture, which differentiates it from traditional monolithic network discovery tools. NS1 was subsequently acquired by IBM.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

There was a surge in demand for the H20 following the arrival of Chinese startup DeepSeeks ultra low-cost, open-source AI model in January. It blocked the sale of Nvidias A100 and H100 chips, leading the company to develop the less powerful A800 and H800 chips for the market; they were also subsequently banned.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 12, 2017

I had an epiphany today about a major reason open source is disrupting enterprise software. In the open source model, the code is, well.open source. Cool, talented open source developers don't generally want to work for big, stoggie software vendors. It is not simply just a cost play.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The Open Infrastructure Foundation is out with the release of StarlingX 10.0, a significant update to the open-source distributed cloud platform designed for IoT, 5G, O-RAN and edge computing applications. OPA is an open-sourcepolicy engine used in Kubernetes deployments to define and write policy for containers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. The open-source Kubernetes platform automates container deployment, scaling, and management, but it’s a complex environment.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 16, 2025

Jenga builder: Enterprise architects piece together both reusable and replaceable components and solutions enabling responsive (adaptable, resilient) architectures that accelerate time-to-market without disrupting other components or the architecture overall (e.g. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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Network World

APRIL 14, 2025

AGNTCY plans to define specifications and reference implementations for an architecture built on open-source code that tackles the requirements for sourcing, creating, scaling, and optimizing agentic workflows.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

405B workload compared to the companys H200 NVL8, which is based on the Hopper architecture. In the latest round of benchmarks, the three year old architecture still managed to achieve a 60% performance boost over last year on the Llama 2 70B workload. That isnt to say that Hopper is lagging. In this case, its agentic AI.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

“The DCS511 switch is powered by Broadcom TH4 silicon and offers balanced features for spine use cases in hyperscale and enterprise data center architectures,” Gaurav Sharma, principal product manager at Edgecore, told Network World. Sharma added that hyperscale architecture is typically based on Layer-3 features and BGP.

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Data Center Load Balancer Open Source Data 482

Network World

JANUARY 30, 2025

But like Linux, Kubernetes, SONiC and other open-source technologies, the Internet of Agents will feature open-source community development, Pandey said. Pandey said Outshift is working with some partners for the Internet of Agents already, but declined to name them.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

VMware Tanzu RabbitMQ: “Secure, real-time message queuing, routing, and streaming for distributed systems, supporting microservices and event-driven architectures.” VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” Not at all.”

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Vmware Disaster Recovery Data Backup 370

Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Open-source powerhouse Red Hat jumped into the generative AI space three months ago, announcing a new AI-focused vision for its Linux operating system at its annual summit. RHEL AI also comes with Instruct Lab, an open-source project that helps enterprises fine tune and customize these Granite models, or other open-source AI models.

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Linux Open Source Training Enterprise 482

Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

By making the Responsible AI toolkit open source, we are fostering a collaborative ecosystem to tackle the complex challenges of AI bias, opacity, and security, says Balakrishna D. Not only are we providing these tools but also blueprints step-by-step implementation guides and reference architectures, says Puri.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. The results of this company’s enterprise architecture journey are detailed in IDC PeerScape: Practices for Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (September 2024).

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Information Week

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Open source, cloud-based architecture helped the fintech company cut costs and address developer talent demands.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

NetBox Labs is the primary commercial sponsor behind the widely used open-source NetBox technology , which is often used for modeling, documenting, and architecting networks. Assurance is a commercial product that requires either the enterprise or cloud platform to work, and it is not available via NetBoxs open-source version.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For example, the open-source AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek seems to have shown that an LLM can produce very high-quality results at a very low cost with some clever architectural changes to how the models work. His projections account for recent advances in AI and data center efficiency, he says.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

There are many different ways of doing virtualization in the cloud, and among the most common approaches is to use the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration system. The open-source KubeVirt project is a technology that does exactly what the two parts of the name imply. What is KubeVirt?

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

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. The open-source KubeVirt project wraps each VM in a lightweight container. However, switching to HCI is a capital expense decision.

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Virtualization Strategy Enterprise Enterprise 430

Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. The open-source eBFP technology enables users to run code safely in the Linux kernel. At the eBPF Summit on Sept. At the eBPF Summit on Sept.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

At the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit in San Diego, IBM announced it would open-source key technologies in its Power processor. The Armonk, N.Y.-based

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

You pull an open-source large language model (LLM) to train on your corporate data so that the marketing team can build better assets, and the customer service team can provide customer-facing chatbots. Planned innovations: Disaggregated storage architecture. Imagine that you’re a data engineer.

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Engineering Data Storage Training 290

Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Google plans to use Trillium in its AI Hypercomputer, a supercomputing architecture designed for cutting edge AI-related workloads, and will make the chips available to enterprises by the end of the year. MXUs are part of the TPU chip architecture. Trillium TPUs achieve an impressive 4.7X

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

The paper captures design considerations for enterprise technologists that flow from the engineering work both Cloudera and Intel have been putting into both open source technologies and hardware design. To sign up for the webinar see: [link]. Download the paper here: Cloudera-Intel Partnership.

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Big Data CTO Intel Architecture 280

CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 17, 2025

This change affects the entire IT architectural stack and impacts everything youre currently doing from business transformation to digital transformation and more. To future-proof your IT stack, youll also want to consider the role open source will play within the stack, as well as emerging technologies such as quantum computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Which are not longer an architectural fit? However, it is possible to run the database and application on an open source operating system and commodity hardware. This is the process I use: Build an inventory of existing systems: Scan, survey, search for, and document what is in your technology portfolio. Which are obsolete?

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