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Data-center giant Equinix has expanded its bare-metal services to offer CPU, GPU, and AI processors on its Equinix Metal service offering. The service now includes AMD’s Milan generation of Epyc processors, Ampere’s Arm-based Altra, and Intel’s Ice Lake generation of Xeon processors. In November, Nvidia and Equinix announced an expanded collaboration to bring Nvidia’s LaunchPad AI platform, which includes instant, short-term access to AI infrastructure, to nine Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers globally….

Australia’s national security has been a major topic of conversation in recent months with the AUKUS alliance, which is a trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, and a commitment for a new submarine fleet. Cisco is a technology partner to Australia’s closest allies and has a strong focus on ensuring that Australia’s Defence Force personnel and assets are protected from a network and security perspective. A research collaboration between…

2021 was a stage win To say it’s been a crazy year is an understatement. Between the off-again/on-again pandemic, including home office, return to office and now hybrid work, and the global supply chain impacting virtually every industry, we have been tested in many ways we never expected nor imagined in both our personal and business lives. Add to this an ever-evolving list of new customer requirements fueled by digital transformation goals embraced by every…

With contributing writers: John Joyce and Peter Kisich Cisco Intersight Kubernetes Service Advances Multi-cluster Observability with Service Mesh Manager The release of Intersight Kubernetes Service (IKS) was just the first step to enable our customers in their digital transformation and cloud native initiatives.  We have now added a way for customers to easily scale, manage, and observe microservices across on-premises and cloud multi-cluster architectures with Cisco Service Mesh Manager (SMM).  SMM is now available from…

Refocusing IT’s role on business-enabling projects  I caught up with a friend recently who wanted to discuss his career.  He is now a senior IT manager and likes his company.  Nice culture, great compensation, and competitive benefits. But he was also quick to point out that something was missing.  He doesn’t feel challenged in his current role and he’s absolutely bored.  His skills, experience, and knowledge are barely being tapped, so naturally he’s looking around for other opportunities.  It’s not uncommon in IT organizations for…

IBM and Samsung Electronics have designed what the tech giants call an unconventionally designed semiconductor that promises to reduce energy consumption by 85% over existing chips. The design would enable a ton of new applications including energy-efficient cryptomining and data encryption but also cell phone batteries that could hold a charge for over a week instead of days without being recharged, companies stated. The new semiconductor could also find its way into new internet of…

IBM and Samsung Electronics have designed what the tech giants call an unconventionally designed semiconductor that promises to reduce energy consumption by 85% over existing chips. The design would enable a ton of new applications including energy-efficient cryptomining and data encryption but also cell phone batteries that could hold a charge for over a week instead of days without being recharged, companies stated. The new semiconductor could also find its way into new internet of…

IBM and Samsung Electronics have designed what the tech giants call an unconventionally designed semiconductor that promises to reduce energy consumption by 85% over existing chips. The design would enable a ton of new applications including energy-efficient cryptomining and data encryption but also cell phone batteries that could hold a charge for over a week instead of days without being recharged, companies stated. The new semiconductor could also find its way into new internet of…

A vision for sustainable innovation A short while ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Derek Mak, who founded the company, 99Bridges in 2019.  He had a clear and ambitious mission: to use technology to power the transition to a circular economy. Derek’s long-term vision calls for innovation in recycling, reusing, refilling, repurposing, reducing and renewing – all with an eye toward changing long-ingrained consumer habits that are highly detrimental to the environment. “The goal…

When people who truly care about students collaborate to share ideas and innovate, we find extraordinary things can happen, even during extraordinary times. As difficult as the Pandemic has been, it has shown us what is possible when we turn disruption into opportunity. From rapid shifts to distance and hybrid learning, to a transforming job market and skills landscape. And from a growing digital divide to resource constraints, financing challenges, and mounting security threats –…