Why is the DOJ investigating Nvidia?
After a stock sell-off following its quarterly earnings report, Nvidia’s pain was aggravated last week by news that the Department of Justice is escalating its investigation into the company for...
View ArticleDon’t miss Insider Threat Awareness Month
The month of September is a good time to highlight the risks posed by insider threats, according to a program first launched in 2019. A group of federal agencies and tech industry organizations...
View ArticleRiverbed: AI adoption hindered by data quality, readiness concerns
Artificial intelligence, including generative AI, continues to elicit excitement about its potential across industries, but according to recent survey results, the reality doesn’t exactly live up to...
View ArticleAWS cloud to rain another £8 billion in the UK for local cloud infrastructure
As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 billion) over the next five years in UK data centers. This appears to put AWS at roughly the same...
View ArticleOracle to offer 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs via its cloud
Oracle has started taking pre-orders for 131,072 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs in the cloud via its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Supercluster to aid large language model (LLM) training and other use...
View ArticleWhy eBPF is critical and how it’s getting better
The open-source eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) technology has become one of the most critical foundational elements of networking with Linux over the last decade. Soon that same power will...
View ArticleAI-assisted cybersecurity: 3 key components you can’t ignore
Over the last year, we saw the explosive use of OpenAI’s ChatGPT accompanied by layman’s fears of the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) revolution and forecasted disruptions to markets. Without a...
View ArticleStarting zero trust without spending a dime
Changing infrastructure is generally the first draw for any enterprise zero trust initiative, separating resources on the network that traditionally had carte blanche access to anything it could ping....
View ArticleData centers are now critical national infrastructure, says UK government
The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense...
View ArticleNew brain-on-a-chip platform to deliver 460x efficiency boost for AI tasks
The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has announced a breakthrough in artificial intelligence hardware by developing a brain-inspired neuromorphic computing platform. Capable of storing and...
View Article3% IT budget increases fueled by AI, security, networking
IT budgets are seeing modest increases, according to recent survey data, with businesses looking to invest their IT dollars in artificial intelligence, data analytics, networking and more. Avasant...
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Bash command cheat sheet
Developing scripts in bash (short for Bourne-Again SHell) can be a time-saving activity. Once your scripts are written and tested, you can depend on them to do a lot of work with little or no effort....
View ArticleIDC: AI workloads driving high-speed Ethernet switch adoption
The high-end Ethernet switch market is getting a boost from cloud providers and enterprises that are preparing their data centers for AI workloads. Meanwhile, high-end router sales are slowing,...
View ArticleIBM, Microsoft and Boeing mark advances in quantum computing
The world’s top quantum researchers, investors, and government officials gathered in D.C. for the third annual Quantum World Congress last week, and, even though we’re still years away from a...
View ArticleTracking user logins on Linux
This post examines a number of commands that can help you view and understand user logins and the time users spend on your Linux servers. The who command The who command is a basic command that will...
View ArticleCisco: Latest news and insights
Cisco is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking, and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Its most recent mega-acquisition is its $28 billion purchase of Splunk, a bold move...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds advises open-source developers to pursue meaningful projects,...
At the Open Source Summit (OSS) Europe event in Vienna, Austria, on Sept. 16, the always colorful Linus Torvalds took the stage in a fireside chat to detail his views on the latest open source and...
View ArticleHow cybersecurity red teams can boost backup protections
Cybersecurity red teams are known for taking a more adversarial approach to security by pretending to be an enemy that’s attacking an organization’s IT systems. Let’s look at the tactics, strategies,...
View ArticleGartner: Network automation to increase threefold by 2026
By 2026, 30% of enterprises will automate more than half of their network activities, according to Gartner. By comparison, less than 10% of enterprises were automating more than half of their network...
View ArticleIntel strikes foundry deal with AWS
In a very big win for its foundry business, Intel announced it has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with AWS to co-develop an “AI fabric chip” using Intel’s 18A chip fabrication process....
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