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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

Network World

Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. This release really focuses on workload consolidation and optimization, something that will resonate well with companies looking to lower operational costs while adopting generative AI, he said.

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Nvidia’s Run:ai acquisition waved through by EU

Network World

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. The acquisition, reportedly valuing Run:ai at $700 million , was announced in April. But Nvidia may not be out of the woods yet.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

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Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

Network World

Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. The company had its initial public offering on March 20 and has a series of product lines that help to support Ethernet, PCIe and CXL (Compute Express Link ) connectivity. Scorpio PCIe 6.0

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Supermicro unveils AI-optimized storage powered by Nvidia

Network World

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. BlueField-3 accelerates networking traffic through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over converged Ethernet), GPU direct storage and GPU initiated storage. “Our

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Seven important trends in the server sphere

Network World

There are numerous overall trends, experts say, including: AI everything: AI mania is everywhere and without high power hardware to run it, its just vapor. All the major players Nvidia, Supermicro, Google, Asus, Dell, Intel, HPE as well as smaller vendors are offering purpose-built AI hardware, according to a recent Network World article.

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Former Arista COO launches NextHop AI for customized networking infrastructure

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Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either. With NextHop, Sadana said his company will enable them to explore four to six different alternatives. Today, whats happening is the cloud companies have their own operating system, Sadana said.

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