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AMD promises faster and more efficient networking, eventually

This time last year, AMD had no networking products. Today, it has three, thanks to two separate acquisitions. It's a shift that's strengthening the company’s position against competitors like Intel and Nvidia by providing a full suite of silicon, including for the enterprise.To fill out its portfolio and stay competitive, AMD had to build up its offerings of workload accelerators and its networking technologies. It's a very active market, with Nvidia (BlueField), Intel (FPGA-based smartNICs), Marvell Technology (Octeon), and Broadcom (Stingray) all competing for the smartNIC market. AMD risked being left behind.To read this article in full, please click here

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IT spending to grow, as companies use tech to battle expected recession

Gartner says software and services will drive growth, while data center spending will also increase, though more modestly.

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IBM sales jump shows the mainframe is not dead, with hybrid cloud alive and well

At a time when most enterprises are planning cloud deployments and many are reportedly sharpening their mainframe exit strategy, IBM is seeing double-digit growth in its big iron business for the quarter ended September.The company, which declared its third quarter results on Wednesday, reported a 98% jump in revenue for its z line of mainframe computer in terms of constant currency (that is, eliminating the effect of currency fluctuations).  IBM, which buckets mainframes under its infrastructure line of business, released the z16 mainframe in April before beginning to sell it in the second quarter.To read this article in full, please click here

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IBM sales jump shows the mainframe is not dead, with hybrid cloud alive and well

At a time when most enterprises are planning cloud deployments and many are reportedly sharpening their mainframe exit strategy, IBM is seeing double-digit growth in its big iron business for the quarter ended September.The company, which declared its third quarter results on Wednesday, reported a 98% jump in revenue for its z line of mainframe computer in terms of constant currency (that is, eliminating the effect of currency fluctuations).  IBM, which buckets mainframes under its infrastructure line of business, released the z16 mainframe in April before beginning to sell it in the second quarter.To read this article in full, please click here

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The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms

If there is one thing that is consistently true about HPC clusters for the past thirty years and for AI training systems for the past decade, it is as workloads grow, the network becomes increasingly important – and perhaps as important as packing as much flops in a node as physically and thermally makes sense. …

The Iron That Will Drive AI At Meta Platforms was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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Startup says its chips handle HPC workloads better than GPUs

A semiconductor startup is targeting the high-performance computing (HPC), claiming that in some instances, GPUs aren’t the best fit for the task.The chip is known for now as Thunderbird but will get a formal name when it launches in Q1 of 2023, according to Doug Norton, vice president of business development at InspireSemi. Thunderbird is mounted on a PCI Express card that plugs into a server, just as GPU accelerators from Nvidia and AMD do.The Thunderbird chip contains 2,560 RISC-V cores, and there are two chips per card. GPUs also come with thousands of cores but CPUs have less than 100, except for the Ampere Altra Max, with 128 cores.To read this article in full, please click here

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Startup says its chips handle HPC workloads better than GPUs

A semiconductor startup is targeting the high-performance computing (HPC), claiming that in some instances, GPUs aren’t the best fit for the task.The chip is known for now as Thunderbird but will get a formal name when it launches in Q1 of 2023, according to Doug Norton, vice president of business development at InspireSemi. Thunderbird is mounted on a PCI Express card that plugs into a server, just as GPU accelerators from Nvidia and AMD do.The Thunderbird chip contains 2,560 RISC-V cores, and there are two chips per card. GPUs also come with thousands of cores but CPUs have less than 100, except for the Ampere Altra Max, with 128 cores.To read this article in full, please click here

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IPv6 Buzz 112: What’s New With IPv6 At The IETF?

In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom speak with XiPeng Xiao, the new chair of the IETF v6ops working group. We discuss the lastest work in IPv6 at the IETF, whether the IETF should have a role in promoting v6 in the enterprise, and more.

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IPv6 Buzz 112: What’s New With IPv6 At The IETF?

In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, Ed, Scott, and Tom speak with XiPeng Xiao, the new chair of the IETF v6ops working group. We discuss the lastest work in IPv6 at the IETF, whether the IETF should have a role in promoting v6 in the enterprise, and more.

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Hedge 151: Cecilia Testart and the Value of the RPKI

If you advertise routes through a provider to the global Internet, you might be wondering if you should go through the trouble of registering in the RPKI and advertising ROAs. What is the tradeoff for the work involved in what seems like a complex process? Cecelia Testart joins Jeremy White and Russ White to discuss recent work in measuring the value of the RPKI.

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It’s also worth reading Cecelia’s article on this topic.

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Cloudflare Workers and micro-frontends: made for one another

To help developers build better web applications we researched and devised a fragments architecture to build micro-frontends using Cloudflare Workers that is lightning fast, cost-effective to develop and operate, and scales to the needs of the largest enterprise teams without compromising release velocity or user experience.

Here we share a technical overview and a proof of concept of this architecture.

Why micro-frontends?

One of the challenges of modern frontend web development is that applications are getting bigger and more complex. This is especially true for enterprise web applications supporting e-commerce, banking, insurance, travel, and other industries, where a unified user interface provides access to a large amount of functionality. In such projects it is common for many teams to collaborate to build a single web application. These monolithic web applications, usually built with JavaScript technologies like React, Angular, or Vue, span thousands, or even millions of lines of code.

When a monolithic JavaScript architecture is used with applications of this scale, the result is a slow and fragile user experience with low Lighthouse scores. Furthermore, collaborating development teams often struggle to maintain and evolve their parts of the application, as their fates are tied with fates of all the other Continue reading

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Data Visualization Solutions for Small Businesses

Data visualization is the process of representing data in graphical or pictorial format. It helps to communicate complex information in a clear and concise way, allowing people to better understand the structure and meaning of data. Small businesses need data visualization solutions to gain valuable insights from their data, identify trends and patterns, make informed decisions and optimize processes. 

The best data visualization software for small businesses can help to make sense of large amounts of data quickly and easily. These tools provide powerful visuals with interactive features and allow users to create custom dashboards that represent their data in an easy-to-understand format. Visuals created using these tools are also sharable, so multiple people can access the same information at the same time. 

Data Visualization Software

Canva

Canva is a great tool for small businesses. It offers an intuitive interface and a wide variety of templates that enable users to create custom visuals with just a few clicks. Canva’s drag-and-drop features make it easy to quickly build data visualizations, such as graphs, charts, tables, infographics and more. 

Tableau

Tableau is another popular data visualization tool. It enables users to create complex visuals with ease and provides an Continue reading

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New Webinar: Internet Routing Security

I’m always in a bit of a bind when I get an invitation to speak at a security conference (after all, I know just enough about security to make a fool of myself), but when the organizers of the DEEP Conference invited me to talk about Internet routing security I simply couldn’t resist – the topic is dear and near to my heart, and I planned to do a related webinar for a very long time.

Even better, that conference would have been my first on-site presentation since the COVID-19 craze started, and I love going to Dalmatia (where the conference is taking place). Alas, it was not meant to be – I came down with high fever just days before the conference and had to cancel the talk.

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New Webinar: Internet Routing Security

I’m always in a bit of a bind when I get an invitation to speak at a security conference (after all, I know just enough about security to make a fool of myself), but when the organizers of the DEEP Conference invited me to talk about Internet routing security I simply couldn’t resist – the topic is dear and near to my heart, and I planned to do a related webinar for a very long time.

Even better, that conference would have been my first on-site presentation since the COVID-19 craze started, and I love going to Dalmatia (where the conference is taking place). Alas, it was not meant to be – I came down with high fever just days before the conference and had to cancel the talk.

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IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project

Big Blue was one of the system designers that caught the accelerator bug early and declared rather emphatically that, over the long haul, all kinds of high performance computing would have some sort of acceleration. …

IBM’s AI Accelerator: This Had Better Not Be Just A Science Project was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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What is SD-WAN, and what does it mean for networking, security, cloud?

The most important change to wide-area networking over the past few years has been the widespread deployment of software-defined WAN technology, (SD-WAN), which changes how networking professionals optimize and secure WAN connectivity.What is SD-WAN? SD-WAN uses software to control the connectivity, management and services between data centers, remote offices and cloud resources. Like its technology brother software-defined networking (SDN), SD-WAN works by decoupling the control plane from the data plane.To read this article in full, please click here

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Automation: How to streamline a networkwide switch upgrade

Automation can make a big difference in repetitive networking tasks, and that’s just what we did to streamline an enterprise switch upgrade using scripts we created with Python and a set of open-source tools.The project reaped several benefits, three of which were eliminating much human error inherent in the manual process, faster deployment overall, and significant cost savings.Upgrading a large, switched network is always a challenge. The typical solution is to carefully document the old switch configurations and the wiring to the patch panel, then manually configure the new switches and replace the wiring. The endpoints must be carefully tracked so they are assigned to the appropriate VLAN and have the correct interface configuration.To read this article in full, please click here

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Service Mesh And Ingress In Kubernetes Lesson 7: Create An Ingress Controller In The Cloud – Video

This video walks through how to set up an NGINX ingress controller in AWS and Azure. Michael Levan brings his background in system administration, software development, and DevOps to this video series. He has Kubernetes experience as both a developer and infrastructure engineer. He’s also a consultant and Pluralsight author, and host of the “Kubernetes […]

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The Benefits Of Frustration

When you start a career you are inexperienced and somewhat immature, but also hungry for new experiences. Someone sees your potential and holds your hand, mentors you, and you appreciate it. But because you’re new, you think the final responsibility will be someone else’s. In short, you do not know what’s in store for you. […]

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Day Two Cloud 168: Get Kubernetes Observability With AppDynamics Cloud (Sponsored)

Today's Day Two Cloud podcast, sponsored by AppDynamics, explores how AppDynamics Cloud brings observability to your Kubernetes deployments by ingesting and visualizing all metrics, events, log and trace data from across your cloud and on-prem landscapes.