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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

Network World

Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards. A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. Instead, storage hardware and software is left to Nvidia’s certified server partners, such as Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, and NetApp.

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Tariff war throws building of data centers into disarray

Network World

Servers and hardware, including semiconductors, memory, network components, cabling, construction materials are going to see prices rise overnight once the tariffs go into effect, Bickley said. Just about every major cost center for the buildout of a data center will be severely impacted by the new tariffs.

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Cisco IoT wireless access points hit by severe command injection flaw

Network World

Cisco’s Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) hardware has been hit with a hard-to-ignore flaw that could allow attackers to hijack the access points’ web interface using a crafted HTTP request. That’s significant, because as recently as July, CISA warned about the dangers of precisely this type of flaw. “OS

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

In the case, which IBM filed in England and was decided by the London Technology & Construction Court (TCC), IBM alleged that LzLabs UK subsidiary Winsopia acquired an IBM mainframe and then illegally reverse-engineered the Big Iron software to build LzLabs core Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package.

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What is NaaS? Providers, delivery models, and benefits explained

Network World

Jay Gill, senior director of products and solutions, Pluribus Networks: Any virtualized network construct that is abstracted from underlying network infrastructure and provided by one entity to another, even within a single company, could be considered NaaS. Managed service: Subscription-based hardware plus a managed service to operate it.

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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus

CIO Business Intelligence

But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say. The 2023 CBRE report found that 83% of the data center capacity under construction at the time was presold. Many hardware users are prioritizing replacement.

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Beyond AI: Building toward artificial consciousness – Part I

CIO Business Intelligence

However, this undertaking requires unprecedented hardware and software capabilities, and while systems are under construction, the enterprise has a long way to go to understand the demands—and even longer before it can deploy them. The hardware requirements include massive amounts of compute, control, and storage.

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