Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. 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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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Customers can choose either of two approaches: Azure Stack HCI hardware-as-a-service, in which the hardware and software are pre-installed. Or, an enterprise can buy validated nodes and assume the responsibility for acquiring, sizing and deploying the underlying hardware. In addition, all storage is pooled.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Over the last few years, hardware vendors have been pivoting their revenue strategies from a perpetual model to subscription. The subscription model is undeniably here to stay. However, vendors often struggle to make this change effectively, and understandably so.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. Nvidia will face no objections to its plan to acquire Israeli AI orchestration software vendor Run:ai Labs in Europe, after the European Commission gave the deal its approval Friday.

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Network World

OCTOBER 10, 2024

fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. Astera Labs has not announced plans to build their own physical chassis or rack-level hardware for the Scorpio switch. Scorpio PCIe 6.0

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It reduces hotspots and thermal cycling (temperature fluctuations), which could cause wear on hardware components over time. The improved thermal environment could lead to fewer hardware failures, such as fan failure rates, extending the lifespan of equipment.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unified subscription model eases licensing The new Cisco Networking Subscription is designed to streamline the purchasing and use of Cisco software, hardware, services, and platforms. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

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.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

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.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For enterprises, owning backup software often requires significant upfront investment in both software and hardware, and with it the demand of ongoing maintenance from an in-house IT team. You have the keys to the Ferrari, but owning, driving, and maintaining it are all in leagues of their own.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

This week, network hardware and testing vendor Keysight Technologies announced an expansion of its Vision series network packet brokers with the debut of new AI Insight Broker features. To be clear, the expansion is not new hardware, but rather a new capability for thesoftware stack that runs on the companys Vision packet brokers.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

in robotics is looking to shake up the AI chip industry with an innovative approach that promises to deliver hardware that is 100 times faster, 10 times cheaper, and 20 times more energy efficient than the Nvidia GPUs that dominate the market today. founded AI hardware company who are pursuing a path thats radical enough to offer such a leap.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 22, 2025

(Photo via bitform.at) Glue announced a $2 million pre-seed round led by industrial giant Fortive that will help the new Seattle startup bolster its software platform designed to automate the hardware testing process. Glue uses AI to translate complex hardware design specifications into test automation scripts.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Organizations should establish strict procurement policies to mitigate the risks posed by counterfeit hardware in their IT infrastructure. Higher product quality and longevity make hardware repurposing a lucrative market, sometimes mixing unauthorized resales within official channels.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Unlike traditional hardware-based solutions that force organizations to compromise between security and speed, Zscalers cloud-native approach allows organizations to fully inspect traffic at scale with its Single Scan, Multi-Action enginea unique feature that processes traffic once to apply multiple security controls simultaneously.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

While its still possible to run applications on bare metal, that approach doesnt fully optimize hardware utilization. With virtualization, one physical piece of hardware can be abstracted or virtualized to enable more workloads to run. Optimize resource utilization by running VMs and containers on the same underlying hardware.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In addition to making sure customer networks, software and services are working as advertised, a key part of CX is to grow customer retention and bolster hardware and software sales. Ciscos CX group provides customer product lifecycle management services and aims to ensure that customers get what they want out of their technology purchases.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

Wi-Fi access point hardware typically undergoes refresh cycles spanning five to seven years, Venkiteswaran said. More than higher bandwidth, security features, roaming, AI, low power energy settings and other elements are bigger drivers for updating hardware. Companies will deploy Wi-Fi 7 as other APs age out, he said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For example they support a managed private 5G package that uses Intel hardware to integrate private 5G into their preexisting LAN/WAN/cloud infrastructures. Cisco and NTT have partnered in the past to bring private 5G services to market.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its a containerized Kubernetes service that can be deployed on its own or integrated with existing F5 software, hardware, or services, the company stated.The gateway supports popular AI models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama as well as generic HTTP upstream LLMs and small language model (SLM) services.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. In some cases, that may be a better alternative than moving mission-critical data to other hardware, which may not be as secure or resilient, she adds.

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Information Week

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Dirty datacenters, dusty hardware, and cleaning crews unplugging things to connect their vacuums can turn mundane housekeeping issues into a brewing sandstorm of vulnerabilities.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

AMD could very well build a great full-stack AI proposition with a play across hardware, LLM, and broader ecosystem layers, giving it a key differentiator among other major silicon vendors, said Suseel Menon, practice director at Everest Group.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Microsoft and Atom Computings announce 24 working logical qubits Then, since 12 logical qubits werent enough, in November Microsoft followed up with a joint announcement with a different quantum hardware company, Atom Computing.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Among the existing capabilities was the ability to run platform services on 1 CPU core, when the hardware support is available, as well as defining power profiles within the system.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

It is targeted at engineering, modeling & simulation and AI with the promise of up to 50% cost savings over previous generation hardware for GPU-intensive workloads. SR650 V4: Comes in a 2U design with increased GPU capacity for up to 2x computation performance in a compact form factor.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The group wants to improve compatibility between different hardware and software platforms, simplify software development, and identify “new architectural requirements and functions.” Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To balance speed, performance and scalability, AI servers incorporate specialized hardware, performing parallel compute across multiple GPUs or using other purpose-built AI hardware such as tensor processing units (TPUs), field programmable gate array (FPGA) circuits and application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC).

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Network World

AUGUST 28, 2024

The hardware company and the Japanese university’s Center for Quantum Information and Quantum Biology have co-developed a quantum circuit generator that features two new technologies: one that improves phase angle accuracy during phase rotation, and another that automatically generates efficient qubit operation procedures.

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Information Week

JUNE 20, 2024

A daunting new era of wildfires and an aging energy grid require that we combine technologies, including hardware, data tools and AI models, to extinguish the threat.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

Chinas largest tech giants such as Baidu and Tencent have been working on their own large language models (LLMs) for some time now, andthe unexpected debutof DeepSeek , despite numerous hardware sanctions, surprised even the most powerful AI companies from the West. [

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Haiby explained that L3AFsAPI-driven approach simplifies the deployment and scaling of network monitoring and control eBPF programs.The 100% software-based approach of eBPF and L3AF eliminates the need for dedicated costly networking hardware devices that tend to become performance bottlenecks, he said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Recent purported comments about Nvidia GPU hardware utilization and service life expressed by an ‘unnamed source’ were inaccurate, do not represent how we utilize Nvidia’s technology, and do not represent our experience. I heat my little lab with one RTX 4090 – not a joke.”

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