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Dell Technology has introduced a raft of new products aimed at advancing customers’ data center modernization projects capable of supporting  a variety of workloads, from virtualization and database management to AI inferencing and high-performance computing (HPC). PowerEdge rack servers provide a reliable and future-ready solution for modern data centers. Dell argues that organizations are rethinking their IT strategies for the need to support both traditional and modern workloads and increased cyber threats. That strategy involves moving toward a disaggregated infrastructure that abstracts compute, storage and networking into shared resource pools to deliver improved scalability, e

Cybercriminals are adopting increasingly stealthy tactics for breaking into networks, while attacks targeting specific AI technologies are an emerging threat. Those are just a couple of the core findings in IBM X-Force’s newly released 2025 X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, which draws from incident response engagements, dark web and other threat intelligence sources to uncover attack trends and patterns. “Obfuscation is becoming an important tactic for threat actors, and PDF malware disguises malicious URLs by encrypting them, hiding them in compressed streams or using hexadecimal representations which can als

With little notice or fanfare, Broadcom is offering a free version of the VMware ESXi hypervisor for download. VMware vSphere Hypervisor version 8 can be downloaded from Broadcom’s support portal for free, but registration is required. For years, ESXi was free to use and popular with home users and IT enthusiasts alike, giving IT professionals a chance to try VMware before they bought it. That changed after VMware was acquired by Broadcom and it transitioned from perpetual licensing to a subscription model,

Cloud services provider CoreWeave has announced it is offering Nvidia’s GB200 NVL72 systems, otherwise known as “Grace Blackwell,” to customers looking to do intensive AI training. CoreWeave said its portfolio of cloud services are optimized for the GB200 NVL72, including CoreWeave’s Kubernetes Service, Slurm on Kubernetes (SUNK), Mission Control, and other services. CoreWeave’s Blackwell instances scale to up to 110,000 Blackwell GPUs with Nvidia Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking. The GB200 NVL72 system is a massive and powerful system with 36 Grace CPUs and 72 Blackwell GPUs wired together to appear to the system as a single, massive processor. It is used for advance

Kyndryl has taken the wraps off a suite of private cloud services designed for enterprise customers that want to rapidly deploy AI applications in production environments. Kyndryl’s AI Private Cloud service taps the vendor’s relationships with Nvidia and Dell to help enterprises plan, design and develop fully managed, operational AI systems. Kyndryl is incorporating Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software platform and NIM inference microservices in the Kyndryl Bridge integration platform, for example. The idea is to enable AIOps services to be optimized on 

Intel has spun off its programmable solutions group as a standalone FPGA company, selling a majority stake in the company to a private equity firm. Intel is taking a fairly hefty loss on this deal. It acquired Altera in 2015 for $16.7 billion but the deal with Silver Lake technology investments values Altera at $8.75 billion total, with Intel getting $4.4 billion for the sale. Silver Lake will own 51% of Altera, which Intel spun off as an independent company earl

This post examines eight somewhat unusual Linux commands that are worth knowing. But before we get into the specific commands, you can run the command below to see whether these eight commands are installed on your system. For each command, you’ll see the file system location for the command executable or a line that starts with “no command in (PATH)” where “PATH” will be a display of your search path – the places where the command looks for them. [shs@fedora ~]$ for cmd in yes shuf column pv tldr stat namei revdo which $cmddone The output should look like this if all the commands are installed:

Cato Networks recently unveiled new generative AI capabilities in its Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that the secure access service edge (SASE) provider says will let enterprise IT organizations detect, analyze, and gain insights into the use of genAI applications. Cato CASB is a native feature in the

The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services is critical for enterprise organizations. ThousandEyes, a Cisco company, monitors how providers are handling any performance challenges and provides Network World with a weekly roundup of events that impact service delivery. Read on to see the latest analysis, and stop back next week for another update on the performance of cloud providers and ISPs. Note: We have archived prior-year outage updates, including our 2024 report,

Enterprises have told me from the start that cloud-hosted generative AI based on large language models isn’t going to transform their business operation. They were very hopeful when the concept of AI agents came along, because it seemed to align with their own AI thinking. Now that this AI agent story has morphed into “agentic AI,” it seems to have taken on the same big-cloud-AI flavor that they already rejected. What do enterprises want from AI agents, why is “agentic” thinking wrong, and where is this all headed? Enterprises tend to think of AI as part of their applicati