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AMD is working on an accelerated processing unit that will outperform its current top APU that powers the world’s first exascale supercomputer. At its recent analyst day, the company introduced a new high-end accelerator, the Instinct MI300, an APU that combines Zen 4 CPUs, the latest generation of GPU technology, plus AMD’s Infinity Cache and Infinity architecture in one package. It will deliver eight times the AI performance of AMD’s current high-end ACU, the MI250,…

Cisco Launches AppDynamics Cloud to Enable the Delivery of Exceptional Digital Experiences Think about our lives over the last two years—more and more of what we do is online. We use more digital services than ever before, and hybrid work means more interaction with SaaS tools and web interfaces. We have very high expectations of these digital experiences. We want things to just work—personalized, reliable and consistent. If there’s a problem, we blame it on…

Cisco is set to offer the first fruits of its technology that promises to let enterprises proactively avoid network problems and increase application performance. At its Cisco Live event this week the company took the wraps off ThousandEyes WAN Insights service that will let Cisco SD-WAN customers get network forecasts and SD-WAN policy recommendations for elevating application performance and user experience across enterprise sites. “Today’s hybrid work environments are incredibly complex, made up of highly…

Cisco is taking a big step toward cloud-management of both its Catalyst campus and Nexus data-center equipment. At the Cisco Live customer event this week, the company rolled out two cloud-based management services that provide more options for enterprises to support hybrid workforces. Catalyst management in the cloud The first service, Cloud Management for Cisco Catalyst, lets customers manage and troubleshoot Catalyst 9000 switching and wireless campus and branch devices from the company’s cloud-based Meraki…

As we accelerate into an era of hybrid work—defined by a distributed workforce and decentralized infrastructure—we are all navigating our individual journeys to the cloud. Many business-critical applications are already moving from on-premises data centers to hybrid Data Center and Cloud to Cloud Native to provide scalability, rapid development, and a distributed architecture for high availability. However, considering global security and privacy prerequisites, on-premises workloads will continue to be critical. In fact, more than half…

In preparation for writing this blog, I took a quick trip down memory lane to 2013, the year Cisco introduced the Nexus 9500 series to the Nexus 9000 family of data center switches. These were groundbreaking products at the time, establishing industry-leading performance, scalability, and programmability benchmarks. The Nexus 9500 series introduced several state-of-the-art system innovations including the industry’s first backplane-free modular switch to provide investment protection, efficient power, and cooling. The Nexus 9508, as…

“Your voice is breaking up.” How many times have we all heard or said that these past two years?  Probably second only to “You’re on mute.” The world has truly changed during the pandemic, and digital transformation has accelerated for most companies. We are now supporting employees in offices as well as homes, collaborating with each other using applications that are hosted in the cloud and outside IT environments, while continuing to help the business…

Today’s dynamic environment requires seamless connections for more people, devices, and things than ever before. Networks, both in the core campus and on the edge, need to support new ways of working, enabling workforces to use any device, from anywhere. With rapid shifts toward automation, new architectures for hybrid work, and evolving hybrid cloud environments, we know you, our customers, are looking for easier, more agile ways to operate. As organizations around the world are…

Hello from Cisco Live 2022 in Las Vegas. Normally, “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” — but not this time! Today, we are excited to announce Nexus Cloud, agility of cloud, power of Nexus. Nexus Cloud will be the easiest way to deploy, manage and operate Cloud Networking. In the past, our customers controlled everything within the 4 walls of their data center. With the rise of the public cloud, co-lo, SaaS, things got…

France-based IT company Atos has announced plans to restructure in the wake of the sudden resignation of its CEO, Rodolphe Belmer. The plan to split its operations and sell assets saw the company’s shares fall by more than 25% Tuesday. The potential separation will see Atos split up into two publicly listed entities: SpinCo will include company’s Evidian subsidiary, bringing together Atos’ big data and security (BDS) business units, and overseen by Philippe Oliva; TFCo…