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Finding the best way to get from Point A to Point B is easy if you’re drawing a straight line on a piece of paper, but when Point A is your computer and Point B is a website halfway around the world, things get a bit trickier. In the latter case, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, is used to find the best path by weighing the latest network conditions…

Red Hat went all-in on generative AI at its annual summit last week, offering a wide range of tools for operational and development teams to help them build and deploy generative AI systems. That includes tools for creating and managing a model garden, training and fine-tuning models, building applications, and deploying generative AI at scale in a hybrid architecture. Red Hat did not release its…

Jessica Rosenworcel wants ISPs to tell her how they’re securing BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) , a critical system for routing internet traffic. The chairwoman of the US Federal Communications Commission has proposed that the FCC require large broadband service providers to submit confidential reports on their plans to manage security risks associated with their use of BGP. The proposal aims to pr…

Rumor has it: By 2025, over 175 zettabytes will be pushed to the cloud. With scattered sensitive data across multiple cloud platforms and hundreds of services, the increase of shadow data – unmanaged data residing outside the security team’s control – has imploded, leading to a new era of security challenges in the cloud. Major challenges in securing sensitive data in the cloud: Cloud complexity:…

Cisco and Nutanix have significantly expanded their alliance with new management capabilities, AI components and networking extensions for their integrated hyperconverged infrastructure ( HCI ) package aimed at easing edge, data center, and cloud operations. Last year, Cisco killed its Hyperflex platform and essentially turned over that business to Nutanix with the idea that the vendors would wor…

The makers of the Raspberry Pi have filed documents with the London Stock Exchange saying that the tiny hobbyist computers will soon be sold by a publicly traded company, Raspberry Pi Limited. The filing, published May 15 , said that the Pi has developed a “strong track record of revenue growth and profitability,” having pulled in $266 million in revenue over the course of 2023. Its products are …

IBM and Palo Alto Networks announced a wide-reaching partnership to mix and match security technology between the vendors. The marriage includes the sale of Big Blue’s QRadar security intelligence platform to Palo Alto. IBM and Palo Alto aim to help streamline and transform security operations, stop threats at scale, and accelerate incident remediation for their customers with the complete AI-pow…

ZutaCore has launched a liquid cooling system called HyperCool that can handle the forthcoming Nvidia GB200 Grace Blackwell superchip without modifications to the data center or the rack – a common requirement of liquid cooling. Grace Blackwell is a gigantic chip with 400 billion transistors and five components: two Blackwell GPUs, a Grace CPU, and two I/O chips. Its power draw is believed to be …

Network and infrastructure roles continue to shift as enterprises adopt technologies such as AI-driven network operations , multicloud networking, zero trust network access ( ZTNA ), and SD-WAN . Here’s a recap of some of the latest industry research, hiring statistics, and certification trends that impact today’s network professionals, infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders, and data center…

Juniper Networks continues to expand its AI technology in an effort to ease network management tasks and simplify customers’ network operations. The enhancements are intended to reinforce the vendor’s AI-Native Networking Platform, announced earlier this year , which brings Juniper’s wired, wireless data center, campus and branch networking products under one common management offering. The platf…

Nvidia is building a $20 million supercomputer with MITRE, a federally funded, not-for-profit research organization that has been a technological clearinghouse for the government since the 1950s. The move comes in support of President Biden’s 2023 executive order on encouraging advances in AI. The U.S. government will use an Nvidia DGX SuperPOD to provide researchers and developers access to much…

The CEO of AWS, Adam Selipsky, has stepped down from his role as of May 14, ending what Amazon president and CEO Andy Jassy described as a successful three-year tenure and passing the torch to “the next generation of leadership,” according to an official blog post on the matter. Selipsky was hired as a VP at Amazon in 2005, and spent 11 years as the boss of AWS sales and marketing before a stint …

Google unveiled a new chip, Trillium, for training and running foundation large language models such as Gemma and Gemini at its annual I/O conference on Tuesday. Trillium is the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and is 67% more energy efficient and nearly five times as fast as its predecessor, TPU v5, according to the company. Google plans to use Trillium in its AI Hypercom…

Kyndryl is targeting new AI, mainframe modernization and security services in the coming months as it looks to build out its Bridge infrastructure integration platform. Bridge is one of Kyndral’s major services offerings, which include consulting, hybrid cloud, security, and applications services. Bridge integrates management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and ML to analyze t…

Zipping files allows you to save a compressed version of a file that might serve as a backup of the original. It also allows you to group a collection of related files into a similarly reduced size file for safekeeping. Zipping a single file If we want to zip a single file, you could use a command like the second of the two commands shown below. The file to be zipped (tips.html) is shown in the f…