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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. SONiC is seen as a significant alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems. What is SONiC?

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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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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

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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Red Hat delivers AI-optimized Linux platform

Network World

Open-source powerhouse Red Hat jumped into the generative AI space three months ago, announcing a new AI-focused vision for its Linux operating system at its annual summit. That includes immediate support for Nvidia hardware. Support for AMD and Intel hardware is expected to arrive in the next few weeks.

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IBM wins UK lawsuit against LzLabs for mainframe intellectual property theft

Network World

The aim of the SDM is to migrate existing applications which have been written to run on a mainframe and enable such programs to be run on the x86 runtime environment without recompilation, the judgement reads.

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Edgecore unveils high-performance 400G spine switch for data centers

Network World

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Terabits per second.