• Resizing images on the Linux command line
    The convert command from the ImageMagick suite of tools provides ways to make all sorts of changes to image files. Among these is an option to change the resolution of images. The syntax is simple, and the command runs extremely quickly. It can also convert a image from one format... Read more
    Source: Networkworld
  • Weekly internet health check, US and worldwide
    The reliability of services delivered by ISPs, cloud providers and conferencing services (a.k.a. unified communications-as-a-service (UCaaS)) is an indication of how well served businesses are via the internet.ThousandEyes is monitoring how these providers are handling the performance challenges they face. It will provide Network World a roundup of interesting events... Read more
    Source: Networkworld
  • Intel revises its XPU strategy
    Intel has announced a shift in strategy that impacts its XPU and data-center product roadmap.XPU is an effort by Intel to combine multiple pieces of silicon into one package. The plan was to combine CPU, GPU, networking, FPGA, and AI accelerator and use software to choose the best processor for... Read more
    Source: Networkworld
  • Why it makes sense to converge the NOC and SOC
    It’s been 17 years and counting since Nemertes first wrote about the logic of integrating event response in the enterprise: bringing together the security operations center (SOC) and network operations center (NOC) at the organizational, operational, and technological levels. Needless to say, this has not happened at most organizations, although... Read more
    Source: Networkworld
  • After China's Micron ban, US lawmakers urge sanctions on chips from CXMT
    The US Commerce Department should put trade restrictions on Chinese memory chip maker Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT), say lawmakers on the US House of Representative’s Committee on China.The comments come in the wake of the Chinese government ban on the use of some Micron chips in certain sectors, citing concerns... Read more
    Source: Networkworld
  • Intel launches Agilex FPGA for smart networking
    Intel has launched a field-programmable gate array—Agilex 7 with R-Tile—that features PCIe 5.0 and CXL capabilities for processing networking workloads.The Agilex FPGA is primarily used in smartNICs that offload the processing of network traffic from the CPU, thus freeing up CPU capacity for other tasks. Intel sees Agilex playing a... Read more
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  • Microsoft integrates Nvidia’s AI Enterprise Suite with Azure Machine Learning
    Microsoft is integrating Nvidia’s AI Enterprise software suite with its Azure Machine Learning service to help enterprise developers build, deploy, and manage applications based on large language models, it said Tuesday.Developers and enterprises will have access to over 100 frameworks, pretrained large language models, and development tools as part of... Read more
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  • Nvidia joins with Dell to target on-prem generative AI
    Dell Technologies and Nvidia are jointly launching an initiative called Project Helix that will help enterprises to build and manage generative AI models on-premises, they said Tuesday.The companies will combine their hardware and software infrastructure in the project to support the complete generative AI lifecycle from infrastructure provisioning through modeling,... Read more
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  • Now on sale at Bed Bath & Beyond: One slightly used data center
    With Bed Bath & Beyond filing for bankruptcy last month, it’s liquidation-sale time. That doesn’t mean just  blankets and cookware; it also includes its data center in North Carolina. Not just its servers but the whole facility.The data center in Claremont, N.C., was built in 2013 with a total of... Read more
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  • BrandPost: The role of network access control in Zero Trust security
    By: Eve-Marie Lanza, Senior Security Solutions Marketing Manager, HPE Aruba Networking.An advertising campaign from the 1980s posited that peanut butter and chocolate were, “two great tastes that taste great together.” While confectionary tastes may vary, there’s no denying that some things just work better together. When it comes to IT... Read more
    Source: Networkworld