As AI evolves to planning, research, and reasoning with agentic AI, workflows are becoming increasingly complex. To deploy agentic AI applications efficiently, AI clouds need a software-defined, hardware-accelerated application delivery controller (ADC). That enables dynamic load balancing, robust security, cloud-native multi-tenancy, and rich observability. F5 BIG-IP ADC for Kubernetes…
]]>Securing the private 5G and applications at the edge comes with many challenges. Sophisticated AI– and ML-based attack campaigns require security to respond in real time. Palo Alto Networks’ security platform has been incorporating ML and AI technological breakthroughs over the years to ensure that real-time ML capabilities and AI-driven incident responses are autonomous.
]]>The incredible increase of traffic within data centers along with increased adoption of virtualization is placing strains on the traditional data centers. Customarily, virtual machines rely on software interfaces such as VirtIO to connect with the hypervisor. Although VirtIO is significantly more flexible compared to SR-IOV, it can use up to 50% more compute power in the host…
]]>Cyberattacks are gaining sophistication and are presenting an ever-growing challenge. This challenge is compounded by an increase in remote workforce connections driving growth in secure tunneled traffic at the edge and core, the expansion of traffic encryption mandates for the federal government and healthcare networks, and an increase in video traffic. In addition, an increase in mobile…
]]>Cloud computing is designed to be agile and resilient to deliver additional value for businesses. China Mobile (CMCC), one of China’s largest telecom operators and cloud services providers, offers precisely this with its Bigcloud public cloud offering. Bigcloud provides PaaS and SaaS services tailored to the needs of enterprise cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions for mission-critical…
]]>The acceleration of digital transformation within data centers and the associated application proliferation is exposing new attack surfaces to potential security threats. These new attacks typically bypass the well-established perimeter security controls such as traditional and web application firewalls, making detection and remediation of cybersecurity threats more challenging.
]]>The IT world is moving to cloud, and cloud is built on containers managed with Kubernetes. We believe the next logical step is to accelerate this infrastructure with data processing units (DPUs) for greater performance, efficiency, and security. Red Hat and NVIDIA are building an integrated cloud-ready infrastructure solution with the management and automation of Red Hat OpenShift combined…
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. Wireless carriers have been hyping the next-generation cellular technology of 5G for years but the reality of it is certain to start rolling out this year. Wireless networks are always evolving. but this is more than a cellular upgrade. 5G not only increases speeds but offers enhancements in latency. This vastly improves responsiveness…
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. Everyone is talking about data processing unit–based SmartNICs but without answering one simple question: What is a SmartNIC and what do they do? NIC stands for network interface card. Practically speaking, a NIC is a PCIe card that plugs into a server or storage box to enable connectivity to an Ethernet network.
]]>5G is unlike earlier generations of wireless networks. 5G offers many new capabilities such as lower latency, higher reliability and throughput, agile service deployment through cloud-native architectures, greater device density, and more. The adoption of 5G and its expanded capabilities drives the bandwidth requirements of mobile networks to 100Gbps and beyond. With 5G and the increasingly…
]]>As NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated in last year’s GTC, “the data center is the new unit of computing.” Traditional way of using the server as the unit of computing is fading away quickly. More and more applications are moving to data centers that are located at the edge, in different availability zones or in private enterprise clouds. Modern workloads such as AI/ML, edge computing…
]]>Telecommunication (telco) providers are undergoing a business transformation. They’re replacing the traditional network infrastructure that lacks agility, flexibility, and efficiency with commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) white box servers to assist in implementing 5G and modernizing data centers. 5G is the foundation for boosting network capacity and bandwidth but will overwhelm current network…
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. In part one, I said that the smart devices around us are changing our lives in remarkable ways. However, the infrastructure to support these smart innovations hasn’t fully evolved in terms of flexibility, performance, and efficiency. A software-defined world offers flexibility but at the cost of performance and efficiency.
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. Amazon recently announced that Alexa, the smart personal voice assistant is expanding from a small desktop gadget and getting into the fabric of our life. Anything and everything can get an Alexa boost, including your microwave, home security, car infotainment, and even your wall clock. Soon, smart devices are going to get even smarter.
]]>The Duchess of Windsor famously said that you can never be too rich or too thin. A similar observation is true when trying to match deep learning applications and compute resources: You can never have too much horsepower. Intractable problems in fields as diverse as finance, security, medical research, resource exploration, self-driving vehicles, and defense are being solved today by training…
]]>Public cloud and telecommunication service providers are moving in the direction of large hyperscale datacenters like Google and Amazon. They are looking for ways to increase efficiencies, flexibility, and agility, and so are turning towards disaggregation and server virtualization as critical tenets of their modernization efforts. However, in doing so, they are stumbling across several challenges.
]]>For the past decade and a half, an increasing number of businesses have moved their traditional IT applications from on-premises to public clouds. This first phase of the revolution, which you could call “enterprise cloud transformation,” has allowed enterprises to reap the benefits of the scale, expertise, and flexibility of the cloud. The second phase of this revolution, the “edge AI cloud…
]]>Over the last five years, compute and storage technology have achieved substantial performance increases. At the same time, they’ve been hampered by PCI Express Gen3 (PCIe Gen3) bandwidth limitations. AMD is the first X86 processor company to release support for the PCIe fourth generation bus (PCIe Gen4) with the AMD EPYC 7002 Series processor. This is the second-generation AMD EPYC processor…
]]>This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. At Red Hat Summit 2018, NVIDIA Mellanox announced an open network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) and cloud data center solution. The solution combined Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud software with in-box support of NVIDIA Mellanox NIC hardware. Our close collaboration and joint validation with Red Hat yielded a fully…
]]>NVIDIA Mellanox 5T for 5G technology provides a real-time and high-performance solution for building an efficient, time-synchronized CloudRAN infrastructure. Time synchronization and achieving high time accuracy for network traffic between O-RAN 7.2x compliant front-haul, mid-haul, and back-haul components in a cloud-native RAN (CloudRAN) environment has always been a challenge. Further…
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