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Extreme Networks is working on expanding its AI capabilities with new technology for its overarching cloud network management system to help customers quickly obtain detailed responses to queries about network anomalies, configurations and documentation to help them proactively troubleshoot and address network issues. At the vendor’s Extreme Connect customer enclave this week it demonstrated Extr…

Cradlepoint this week launched its 5G-based secure access service edge (SASE) platform that integrates cellular SD-WAN and security features such as zero-trust and remote browser isolation (RBI) capabilities. Cradlepoint NetCloud SASE addresses the need to protect and secure dynamic environments, such as shifting locations, roaming vehicles, multiplying Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and emplo…

IBM today said it would buy multi-cloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. Once the deal closes, expected by the end of 2024, IBM is projected to further integrate Hashicorp automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation and consulting businesses. IBM uses Hashicorp technology in many of its cloud offerings already. HashiCorp’s products in…

Nvidia is acquiring Run:ai, an Israeli software firm best known for creating an efficient containerization layer between AI hardware and workloads. Run:ai’s Kubernetes-based software layer provides complex scheduling and performance optimization technology, which can give customers better control over resource allocation in their AI computing infrastructure, according to Nvidia. “Customer AI depl…

The word apropos means “fitting and to the point”. As a command on a Linux system, its role is to identify commands that relate to the particular terms that you are asking about – such as files, lists, disks, dates users, accounts, file systems, and a huge pile of other things. What the apropos command does with the terms you add as arguments is pull the description lines from the top of the rela…

Accelsius, a relative newcomer in the liquid cooling market , has launched its NeuCool two-pump, direct-to-chip liquid cooling technology, which is designed to be deployed without having to do a massive retrofit of your data center. Liquid cooling is a growing technology to address rising heat density in data centers – which traditional fans simply can’t handle anymore. Liquid cooling offers 3,00…

One Nvidia strategy that has paid off is getting its CUDA GPU programming language taught in universities. After less than 20 years, there are more than 700 universities worldwide teaching CUDA to computer science students, introducing them to the Nvidia hardware architecture. Its latest move is very similar. The company is working with Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering to build a dedicated A…

We’ve always viewed Wi-Fi more broadly than just a way to wirelessly connect users to the IT infrastructure. Sure, we do that terrifically well, as 18 consecutive times as a leader in the Gartner Wired and Wireless Magic Quadrant attest, but even as early as the first Wi-Fi product back in the early 2000s, we defined our mission as secure connectivity and introduced the industry’s first (and to t…

HPE Aruba has rolled out new Wi-Fi 7 access points (AP) that are aimed at bolstering the capacity of wireless networks while eliminating the need for managing complicated IoT overlay networks. The new 700 series Wi-Fi 7 access points feature dual BLE 5.4 or 802.15.4/Zigbee radios and dual USB interfaces, and they support the 2.4, 5, and 6 GHz spectrum. The access points also contain enough memory…

Reducing cyber risk is an increasingly important initiative for organizations today. Due to the fact that a single cyber breach can be financially fatal as well as disastrous for countless stakeholders, improving cybersecurity has become a board-level concern and drawn increased attention from regulatory bodies around the globe . As a result, organizations everywhere have poured massive amounts o…

Long-term projections for job growth in the tech workforce are positive, according to CompTIA, which estimates that over the next 10 years, tech occupation employment will increase at about twice the rate of overall employment in the U.S. Some occupations will see more growth than others, says CompTIA, the nonprofit association for the IT industry and workforce. For instance, roles for data scien…

The European trade organization, Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE), has strongly criticized Broadcom’s response to concerns regarding the licensing changes it has imposed on the market. Earlier this month, Broadcom CEO Hock Tan announced changes to VMware’s licensing conditions following questions from EU antitrust regulators and some trade groups about the tech giant’s ac…

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…

Almost all enterprises get their network services from a big telco, but we’re starting to see a kind of network populism developing, generating things like “altnets” and “neutral hosts.” Might these new players offer things that could break the big-telco hold on enterprise services, and might they create both savings and headaches for enterprise? Yes, and yes. An “altnet” is usually an independen…

GPU-based cloud services provider Vultr has launched a pair of new services designed to keep data within national borders to protect data sovereignty and maintain compliance. “To address the growing need for countries to control their own data, and to reduce their reliance on a small number of large global tech companies, Vultr will now deploy sovereign clouds on demand for national governments a…