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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

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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. In other words, it would be a complete compromise.

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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. Today, whats happening is the cloud companies have their own operating system, Sadana said. The key to success for hyperscalers is being highly optimized at every level of the stack.

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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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IBM z17 mainframe gains AI accelerator, massive workload support

Network World

So what that translated into, from an AI infrastructure perspective, was having the ability to have hardware acceleration that can deliver, in the single-digit millisecond response times, a very high throughput. preview and watson X code assistance In addition to the hardware, IBM previewed z/OS 3.2, IBM z/OS 3.2

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Cisco pumps up data center networking with AI, large workloads in mind

Network World

This is accomplished with a common operating system, P4 programmable forwarding code, and an SDK. Core to the Silicon One system is its support for enhanced Ethernet features, such as improved flow control, congestion awareness, and avoidance.

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IBM upgrades its Big Iron OS for better cloud, security, and AI support

Network World

The company released a new version of the mainframe operating system— z/OS V2.5 Chip shortage will hit hardware buyers for months to years. IBM continues to fine-tune its mainframe to keep it attractive to enterprise users interested in keeping the Big Iron in their cloud and AI-application development plans.

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