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Three years after announcing its plans, merchant supplier Silicon Motion has begun shipping its 128TB Solid State Disks (SSD) Reference Design Kit (RDK) aimed at maximizing the performance and efficiency in AI tool workloads. Silicon Motion is best known as a designer of NAND flash drive controllers and the RDK is built on the MonTitan PCIe Gen 5 platform that utilizes the latest 2TB QLC NAND die. It features advanced firmware to maximize performance and efficiency in AI tool workloads. The MonTitan RDK is designed for enterprise data center use and Silicon Motion says its sequential read speeds exceed 14 GB/s, ranking among the fastest external SSDs, with random read performa

Linux admins who have enabled the unprivileged user namespace restriction in their recent Ubuntu environments should take action to close three new vulnerabilities that allow a threat actor to bypass the supposed protection. This warning comes after researchers at Qualys found three different ways this hardening feature can, under certain circumstances, be bypassed.  “It needs to be addressed quickly,” said Robert Beggs, CEO of Canadian incident response firm DigitalDefence, which has several Ubuntu-based applications in its portfolio, “because it facilitates o

In a significant development for digital infrastructure in India, Bharti Airtel has landed the 2Africa Pearls submarine cable, delivering 100 Terabits per second of international network capacity for the country. The submarine cable will connect to Airtel’s cable landing station (CLS) in Mumbai. This infrastructure addresses bandwidth constraints and communication challenges for enterprises seeking improved global connectivity. “Subsea cables are the invisible lifelines of the digital world of today,” said Sharat Sinha, CEO of Airtel Business. “Carrying o

Kyndryl and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership to help customers use generative AI to move data off the mainframe and into the cloud. Kyndryl will offer a new Mainframe Modernization with Gen AI Accelerator Program, which includes Google Cloud’s AI and Gemini large language models, Mainframe Connector package, and BigQuery analytics platform. Google’s Gemini LLMs are integr

A new player in the networking industry is tackling the unique challenges of AI infrastructure at hyperscale.  NextHop AI, founded by former Arista Networks Chief Operating Officer Anshul Sadana, announced this week that it has secured $110 million in funding to develop highly customized networking solutions specifically for the world’s largest cloud providers. Sadana spent 17 years at Arista and prior to that was at Cisco for eight years, so he’s no stranger to the networking world. While he remains bullish on Arista and its prospects, there are still other needs and other areas that existing networking vendors are not serving, in his opinion. “The AI wave is right in

Nvidia GTC 2025 has become a landmark event, solidifying the company’s position at the forefront of the AI technology. This year the major theme was agentic AI, which represents a shift from data generation to AI systems capable of autonomous reasoning and decision-making. This evolution was supported by Nvidia’s advancements in “physical AI,” highlighted through innovations like the Isaac GR00T N1, which Nvidia calls the “the world’s first open, fully customizable foundation model for generalized humanoid reasoning and skills.” Nvidia’s aim is to

Google Cloud has partnered with database and mainframe modernization software provider mLogica to help enterprises modernize their mainframe applications. The partnership will see Google Cloud combine its Dual Run service with mLogica’s LIBER*M automated code refactoring platform. While LIBER*M provides automated assessment, code analysis, dependency mapping, and code transformation capabilities for multiple languages, Dual Run enables the simultaneous operation of mainframe and cloud applications in parallel. This allows enterprises to compare and validate re

OpenAI is reportedly contemplating building its own data center as Microsoft backs off on its own infrastructure investments. OpenAI has privately discussed building and operating its first data center to house storage, which is essential for developing sophisticated AI models. Microsoft, on the other hand, has pulled back on its buildouts, canceling data center projects in the US and Europe. The tech giant is also reportedly not pursuing new business with OpenAI, in which it has invested $13 billion so far. The companies’ previously exclusive partners

Red Hat announced updates to Red Hat OpenShift AI and Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI), with a goal of addressing the high costs and technical complexity of scaling AI beyond pilot projects into full deployment. New capabilities include the ability to split AI inference across multiple GPUs and nodes, integration of InstructLab into OpenShift AI pipelines, and a new AI guardrails orchestration framework. In addition, Red Hat is offering new, free online training courses for its customers. IDC predicts that enterprises will spend $227 billion on AI this year, embedding AI capabilities into core business

At next month’s Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), many of the technologies that are driving current and future Ethernet development will be on full display by the Ethernet Alliance, which is set to unveil its tenth anniversary Ethernet roadmap.  Among the hot trends is, unsurprisingly, outfitting Ethernet for all things AI. “Right now we are trying to get all of the people and groups who want to build Ethernet for AI to collaborate and work together.