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High-Bandwidth Memory (HBM) delivers impressive performance gains
Chip-level breakthrough boosts supercomputers and artificial intelligence (AI) applications
Broadcom targets enterprise infrastructure with $61B VMware acquisition
The chipmaker’s acquisition of VMware is the latest in a lengthy string of high-ticket deals, as Broadcom moves to focus on its software portfolio.
Nvidia introduces Spectrum-4 platform for AI, HPC over Ethernet
Based on a new ASIC, DPU, smartNIC, and SDK, Nvidia ups the speed and efficiency of its switching platform.
Gartner: By 2025 half of enterprise IT spending will be for cloud
Gartner study finds application and infrastructure software, business process services and system infrastructure will increasingly shift to the cloud.
Supply chain woes forcing more workloads to the cloud
Chip shortages are driving enterprises to shift applications to the cloud, avoid ad-hoc hardware purchases, and work to improve their equipment forecasting capabilities.
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Gartner: Diversity, equity and inclusion is key to better I&O teams
Infrastructure and operations technology needs to be less brittle and more agile, and DEI can help.
Gartner: Key infrastructure and operations trends to dominate 2022
Hyperautomation, just-in-time infrastructure, and composable technologies are among the key trends infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals can expect to see in the coming months, according to Gartner.
Kyndryl has spun off from IBM as a $19B managed service firm
Kyndryl starts off big but faces challenges in a fragmented, competitive services market.
How to right-size edge storage
Enterprises need to consider capacity, power and connectivity when choosing storage options for edge computing deployments.
5G base stations could be powered by lasers
PowerLight Technologies has teamed up with Ericsson to power up a 5G base station using a laser system rather than a wired electrical connection, which could lead to faster 5G deployments.
A dive into Kyndryl, IBM’s managed-services spin-off
The managed-infrastructure-services unit of IBM's Global Technology Services faces stiff competition when it goes solo as Kyndryl later this year.
Facebook outage was a series of unfortunate events
A badly written command, a buggy audit tool, a DNS system that hobbled efforts to restore the network, and tight data-center security all contributed to Facebook’s seven-hour Dumpster fire.
Juniper targets data-center networks with flexible 400G switch
Juniper has announced QFX5700, a flexible switch that can be upgraded to support 400GbE networks and includes tight integration with the company’s Apstra intent-based networking (IBN) software.
The new internet speed record twice as fast as the old one
Researchers in Japan hit long-haul data-transmission rates of 319Tbps.
