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China banks on open source in AI cold war with US

CIO Business Intelligence

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

Network World

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 Wireshark 4.4 Wireshark 4.4

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What is SONiC and how can enterprises try the open-source NOS?

Network World

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?

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VMware picks up partners for open-source confidential computing development

Network World

RISC-V is a hardware standards organization that is designing low-power processors; the Keystone Enclave is an open source project for building customizable trusted execution environments (TEEs). To read this article in full, please click here

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IBM Bets On Open Source To Hyperaccelerate HCI And Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Forrester IT

Today, IBM announced its new IBM Spectrum Fusion product, first as a scale-out hardware product, but with a roadmap for a software defined storage (SDS) solution. This new product is billed as a storage solution, but it is much more. It is really a “glue-all” product poised to change the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market.

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Former Arista COO launches NextHop AI for customized networking infrastructure

Network World

Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either. While there are open-source networking stacks such as SONiC, at the hyperscaler layer, there is a need for an extreme level of customization. NextHop is also working at the software layer.

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We love ideas like this: Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking

CTOvision

Pearce argue that open-source hardware could be the ultimate key against cyber attacks that companies are trying hard to find on The Conversation : You must have heard about open-source software helping in fighting cyber attacks but imagine open-source hardware doing the same job for you in much better way.