Palantir and Nvidia's AI OS Reference Architecture simplifies AI data center setup, from hardware to apps, offering IT pros a blueprint for faster, cost-effective deployments amid rising AI demands.
Cisco and Nvidia's expanded Secure AI Factory integrates advanced networking, security, and AI hardware to enable scalable, protected AI deployments. This 2026 update helps IT teams combat rising threats while speeding up infrastructure rollout.
Large language models (LLMs) have become essential tools for organizations, with open weight models providing additional control and flexibility for customizing models to their specific use cases. Last year, OpenAI released its gpt-oss series, including standard and, shortly after, safeguard variants, focused on safety classification tasks. We decided to evaluate their raw security posture against […]
North-south traffic is becoming a gating factor for AI performance—moving data in and results out fast enough to keep GPUs highly utilized. See how a converged Ethernet fabric with traffic-aware load balancing and centralized operations can help your AI data center deliver predictable performance at scale.
Cisco is no longer trying to be just a software, hardware, or silicon company. It’s now positioning itself as a systems or platform company that delivers the critical infrastructure needed for the AI era. This week, Cisco held its annual Cisco Live EMEA event and announced its fiscal second-quarter earnings. During the Amsterdam keynote, Jeetu Patel, Cisco’s president and chief…
A multi-year expansion cycle will drive worldwide data center capex to the $1.7 trillion mark by 2030, driven by hyperscalers as well as neo cloud service providers and sovereign AI initiatives, a new report from Dell’Oro Group indicates. All three segments are entering a new phase of infrastructure expansion; key among them are Amazon, Google, Meta and Meta, which at…
Above Lake Zurich, in the hills of Rüschlikon, the next chapter in industrial history is currently being written. While the world discusses the latest advances in generative AI, Alessandro Curioni’s team at IBM Research – Zurich, IBM’s European research center, is already working on a fundamental transformation that goes far beyond mere software updates. When visiting the research center, one…
Arista Networks dialed up a strong fourth quarter, fueled by AI and campus Ethernet networking, to close out last year. “2025 has been another defining year for Arista. With the momentum of generative AI and cloud and enterprise, we have achieved well beyond our goal, at 28.6% growth driving a record revenue of $9 billion,” said Jayshree Ullal, CEO and…
AI agents aren’t just hype, they’re actually having a material impact on content delivery network economics—at least for Fastly. Its fourth-quarter earnings call this week provided evidence of how AI agent behavior differs from traditional web traffic and how much revenue that difference generates. The edge cloud provider posted $172.6 million in revenue for Q4 2025, up 23% year over…
With a new Gartner report suggesting that AI problems will “shut down national critical infrastructure” in a major country by 2028, CIOs need to rethink industrial controls that are very quickly being turned over to autonomous agents. Gartner embraces the term Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) for these technologies, which it defines as “engineered systems that orchestrate sensing, computation, control, networking…