Network World reports on the most significant news for infrastructure and operations professionals.
New 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors and Core Ultra mobile processor family are aimed at bringing AI to all compute devices.
The R&D center for developing next-gen ultraviolet lithography equipment will be ASML's first offshore facility of its kind and is aimed at semiconductor innovation.
Intel's Gaudi3 AI accelerator can be liquid- or air-cooled cooled thanks to a partnership with Vertiv
The companies are promising cloud-based AI services at a more affordable cost than the alternatives.
Fortinet Advisor is an AI-based assistant designed to help customers respond to threats more quickly.
Vietnam has been a growing tech manufacturing destination for the past few years, and Nvidia said it is open to a new manufacturing partner in Vietnam.
Executives at the chip manufacturer are still optimistic about the revenue potential of AI, as Nvidia and its partners say new GPUs have a lead time of up to 52 weeks.
Broadcom is refocusing VMWare on creating private and hybrid cloud environments for large enterprises and divesting its non-core assets.
IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a multicloud networking service that includes IT discovery, security, monitoring and traffic-engineering capabilities.
Budget constraints, security concerns, and lack of talent can hamstring infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals.
AMD enters the AI acceleration game with broad industry support. First shipping product is the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with AMD Instinct MI300X.
Expanded localization options in Netskope's NewEdge security private cloud can help enterprises meet data residency requirements and boost user experience.
Western Digital and rival Seagate are finding new ways to pack data onto disk platters, keeping them relevant in the age of solid-state drives (SSD).
With Cisco AI Assistant for Security, enterprises can use natural language to discover policies and get rule recommendations, identify misconfigured policies, and simplify complex workflows.
Nvidia’s AI-focused H20 GPUs bypass US restrictions on China’s silicon access, including limits on-chip performance and density.
New projects focus on areas including open source software to help connect edge services, and application interoperability.
A rush to build AI capacity using expensive coprocessors is jacking up the prices of servers, says research firm Omdia.
IBM also shared its 10-year quantum computing roadmap, which prioritizes improvements in gate operations and error-correction capabilities.
The closing of VMware’s $69 billion acquisition by Broadcom will lead to layoffs, with 1,267 VMware workers set to lose their jobs at the start of the new year.
Investment news follows a partnership between the vendors aimed at delivering an enterprise-grade SONiC offering for customers interested in the open-source network operating system.
Cloud expertise and security know-how remain critical in building today’s networks, and these skills pay top dollar, according to Skillsoft’s annual ranking of the most valuable IT certifications. Demand for talent continues to outweigh supply.
Kyndryl and AWS have expanded their partnership to help enterprise customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe modernization initiatives.
The companies are extending their AI partnership, and one key initiative is a supercomputer that will be integrated with AWS services and used by Nvidia’s own R&D teams.
Layoffs and executive departures are expected after an acquisition, but there's also concern about VMware customer retention.
Jensen Huang pointed out that Nvidia’s latest AI servers have 35,000 parts from all over the world, including Taiwan.
Lack of clarity on spectrum allocation coupled with high capital expenditure are leading to low uptake of 5G-enabled private networks in India.
At its annual Discover conference, HPE debuted a range of hybrid cloud offerings designed to allow enterprises to optimize generative AI model development and implementation.
Helping the startup build an independent system to create foundation models may help solidify Dell’s spot alongside cloud computing giants in the race to power AI.
TSMC is reported to be cutting production runs on its mature process nodes as a glut of older chips in the market is putting downward pricing pressure on DDR4.
Combining insights from Cisco ThousandEyes and AWS into a single view can dramatically reduce problem identification and resolution time, the vendors say.
At its ongoing re:Invent 2023 conference, the cloud service provider introduced several new and free updates that are expected to help enterprises optimize their AWS costs.
Low vacancies and the cost of AI have driven up colocation fees by 15%, DatacenterHawk reports.
Nvidia faces uncertainty and anticipates a negative long-term impact on its China business due to export controls, with an unclear magnitude of the effect.
Five days before the two companies’ merger agreement was due to expire, the deal has passed its final regulatory hurdle.
The Dutch manufacturer of ultraviolet and deep ultraviolet technology has said it will spend over $100 million a year to increase its production and development capacity.
Nvidia’s network infrastructure stack will be available through servers from Dell, HPE, and Lenovo.
The nature of their design makes CPUs run hotter than ever, and one AMD executive says heat density is unlikely to decrease with future chips.
The unexpected decision to abandon plans to hive off the cloud computing business led to a $20 billion decline in Alibaba Group’s market value on Friday, as its shares fell 10% in Hong Kong.
Cisco says a backlog of purchased, uninstalled gear is causing a slowdown in new orders and impacting its bottom line.
The new AI Readiness Index from Cisco points out serious challenges related to infrastructure capabilities, data governance and talent availability.
Nvidia’s generative AI-based foundry services on Microsoft Azure are already being used by several companies including SAP, Amdocs, and Getty Images.
New chips from Microsoft along with other custom chips from the likes of AWS, Google and Oracle, though limited in their impact initially, are expected to provide stiff competition for chipmakers such as Nvidia, AMD and Intel, analysts said.
Cisco has a variety of new partnerships and programs aimed at helping enterprises build AI-ready infrastructure.
Next generation Xeon and Gaudi are among the announcements.
Enterprises struggle to find IT pros with cloud architectural knowledge and the ability to monitor and troubleshoot cloud environments.
The new Nvidia HGX H200 has been designed to support the high performance computing workloads required to train generative AI models.
An early adopter of immersion cooling, LiquidStack now plans to offer a second form of hardware immersion.
For the fourth consecutive time, Frontier tops the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, while new and upgraded systems disrupt the semi-annual rankings.
The chipmaker could be trying to circumvent US restrictions that aim to prevent Chinese companies from stringing together lesser-powered GPUs to build compute capacity for AI-based workloads.
