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 Extreme AI Expert which it described as a Generative AI-based offering that will let customers ask natural language questions about network issues such as “show me all network anomalies” and it will gene ..read more

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 employees connecting from diverse and distributed locations, according to Cradlepoint. The company says 5G technologies enable businesses to become more dynamic, which requires agile technologies that sup ..read more

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 include the widely deployed Terraform package which lets customers automatically provision infrastructure network, virtual or other components across multiple cloud providers and on-premises envi ..read more

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 deployments are becoming increasingly complex,” Nvidia said in its blog post announcing the acquisition. “Managing and orchestrating generative AI, recommender systems, search engines and other workloads ..read more

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 related man pages that include them. For example, if you were to ask about “updatedb”, you would see something like this: # apropos updatedb updatedb.conf (5) - a configuration file for updatedb(8) u ..read more

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 3,000 times the heat absorption of air, but to roll it out in a data center requires either a massive retrofit, or building a whole new facility from scratch to handle things like piping and special equip ..read more

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 AI supercomputer called AI Makerspace that’s designed to provide undergraduate students with access to hardware that would normally only be available to graduate students and researchers. AI Makerspac ..read more

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 this day the only) Layer 7 application firewall to run on an access point. This idea that the access point (AP) can do more than just route traffic is a core part of our product p ..read more

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 and compute capacity to run containers, according to Larry Lunetta, vice president of portfolio and communities marketing at HPE Aruba Networking.  “This general-purpose processing capability m ..read more

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 of time and money into security technologies that are supposed to protect them from cybercriminals’ malicious ends. Specifically, the go-to tools that are deployed in an effort to enhance security are ..read more