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What is an AI server? Why artificial intelligence needs specialized systems

Network World

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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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

While a firewall is simply hardware or software that identifies and blocks malicious traffic based on rules, a human firewall is a more versatile, real-time, and intelligent version that learns, identifies, and responds to security threats in a trained manner.

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Cisco touts ‘Internet of Agents’ for secure AI agent collaboration

Network World

Todays infrastructure was built for humans sharing content like websites, emails, and videos. Similarly, AI agents will specialize and collaborate across domains, from software development to drug discovery to embodied agentic robotic workflows, etc. Youre exchanging audio, video, texts, like science data, like protein folding data.

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F5 teams with Intel to boost AI delivery, security

Network World

NGINX Plus is F5’s application security suite that includes a software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy designed to protect distributed web and mobile applications. The package will offer customers protection, scalability, and performance for advanced AI inference development, the vendors said.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Solarflare, a global leader in networking solutions for modern data centers, is releasing an Open Compute Platform (OCP) software-defined, networking interface card, offering the industry’s most scalable, lowest latency networking solution to meet the dynamic needs of the enterprise environment. Hardware Based Security (ServerLock).

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Networking terms and definitions

Network World

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Enterprises can choose an appliance from a single vendor or install hardware-agnostic hyperconvergence software on white-box servers.

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Will the end of Windows 10 accelerate CIO interest in AI PCs?

CIO Business Intelligence

IDC also sees an onslaught of AI PCs over the long term , as NPUs are integrated into lower-tier hardware. Developer ecosystem in its infancy Aside from collaborating with silicon partners, Microsoft is working with independent software vendors to develop unique AI applications that exploit NPU acceleration.

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