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More than 120 companies have been identified as making or threatening to make an AI processor of some form, from edge and IoT-class devices to hyperscale data center accelerators. Collectively, these firms have attracted more than $13.5 billion in start-up funding with dozens raising $100 million or more in the past year alone. There is big money involved; in addition to the $13.5 billion in vent…

F5 today announced its intention to acquire for $180 million Dublin, Ireland-based CalypsoAI , a private company that delivers adaptive AI security capabilities that F5 says it will integrate into its F5 Application Delivery and Security Platform (ADSP). The CalypsoAI acquisition will let F5 offer technology to enterprise customers that will secure AI models, agents, and inference across differen…

The vision of Ambient AI in smart homes promises an intelligent system that understands and adapts to its occupants. Despite an abundance of smart devices offering varying capabilities, smart home ecosystems remain disjoint and fragmented. Each device has been carefully designed to serve a primary function in isolation, yet they rarely coalesce into a truly intelligent system. This article discus…

Google is rolling out a free data transfer service for enterprises in the EU and the UK as the deadline for key provisions of the EU Data Act targeting data interoperability to reduce vendor lock-in looms at the end of the week. The new offering, called Data Transfer Essentials, waives egress fees for multicloud transfers within the same company for a large set of Google services, and according t…

Azure customers who have been struggling with capacity problems in Microsoft’s US East region are set to receive a timely boost. To meet the growing demand from its customers, Microsoft has entered into a deal with Dutch provider Nebius which will enable Nebius to deliver dedicated capacity to Microsoft from its new data center in Vineland, New Jersey for the next five years. Microsoft said that …

With its legacy of innovation in GPU technology , Nvidia has become a dominant force in the AI market. Nvidia’s partners read like a technology who’s who list – e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Dell, HPE – and also crosses into vertical industries such as healthcare, finance, automotive, and manufacturing. From its gaming roots, Nvidia’s GPUs have evolved to power breakthroughs in scient…

Splunk, a Cisco company, unveiled at its .conf25 conference this week, agentic AI-powered security and observability capabilities designed to automate threat response, streamline IT operations, and manage complex environments. Cisco introduced Splunk Enterprise Security Premier and Splunk Enterprise Security Essentials, which the company says will unify security workflows across threat detection,…

Most mainframe customers are implementing generative AI on the mainframe , and they’re expecting their AI investments to drive significant cost savings and boost revenues, new research finds. Collectively, mainframe customers surveyed by Kyndryl are forecasting $12.7 billion in cost savings and $19.5 billion in increased revenues. Among the organizations polled, nearly 90% have implemented or pla…

Cadence has updated to its Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform library with the addition of digital twins for Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD with DGX GB200 systems. Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform is a design tool that lets data center administrators design and lay out a digital twin of their data center showing compute, networking, storage, electricity and backup, and cooling systems, before buil…

Nvidia’s Rubin CPX chip combines Vera CPUs, Rubin GPUs and is aimed at massive-context processing Nvidia has taken the wraps off a new purpose-built GPU along with a next-generation platform specifically targeted at massive-context processing as well as token software coding and generative video. The Rubin CPX chip is a combination of Nvidia’s next-generation Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs (the success…

News of Broadcom’s plans to acquire VMware triggered concerns among customers , partners, and industry watchers, many of whom recalled Broadcom’s track record with prior high-profile acquisitions, including network switching vendor Brocade, software firm CA Technologies, and Symantec’s enterprise security business. So far, the $60 billion Broadcom-VMware deal has led to some layoffs , VMware lice…

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…

VMware Explore 2025 kicked off on Aug. 25 in Las Vegas. VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 took center stage, with Broadcom sharing plans to make VCF an AI-native platform by including features such as GPU monitoring, model runtime and agent builder as part of the unified offering. New security enhancements for VMware vDefend and VMware Avi products were also launched. Leading up to the show, Broadcom h…

To many attendees at this year’s VMware Explore conference , turnout felt smaller, there were fewer sessions than last year, and there were markedly fewer vendors on the exhibit floor. And, for all that Broadcom talked about how many enterprises have licensed VMware Cloud Foundation, few of those customers showed up to talk about it. The single biggest customer announcement revolved around Walmar…

Cisco ( Nasdaq:CSCO ) is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco is focusing on strategic AI initiatives and partnerships across various regions to build and power AI data centers and ecosystems. This includes collaborations with major players like BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and Nvidia to drive in…