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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise targets IoT, industrial networks with private 5G package

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks. The ALE Private 5G service includes technology from across ALEs platforms, including ruggedized OmniSwitch hardware, OmniSwitch LAN, and OmniAccess Stellar WLAN software for local and wide area connectivity.

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Network convergence will drive enterprise 6G wireless strategies

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Enabling such seamless integration would require new standards governed by different bodies, hardware advances, and changes to network infrastructure all of which happen over long time scales. However, this isnt something that enterprises can accomplish on their own, he adds. Or perhaps, the other way around.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

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Its enterprise-grade. For enterprises navigating this uncertainly, the challenge isnt just finding a replacement for VMware. It would take a midsize enterprise at least two years to untangle much of its dependency upon VMware, and it could take a large enterprise up to four years. IDC analyst Stephen Elliot concurs.

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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

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Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The previous version, X10M, was released in June 2023, just as demand for generative AI was taking off, and some of the changes in the latest version address the needs of that market.

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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

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The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations.

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Palo Alto Networks firewalls have UEFI flaws, Secure Boot bypasses

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Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles. Instead, what we found under the hood was commodity hardware, vulnerable software and firmware, and missing security features.

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Sustainability, grid demands, AI workloads will challenge data center growth in 2025

Network World

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow.