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Hackers are using AI agents to outsmart old logins. It’s time to ditch passwords and move to phishing-proof credentials like passkeys.

Don’t miss the full story from #FoundryExpert Contributor, Srinivasa Ravi Teja Peri: spr.ly/633277PN19

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November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is building Fastnet, a new dedicated transatlantic subsea cable system linking the US and Ireland.

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AWS Fastnet cable expands cloud reach, but CIOs must read the fine print
Improved performance and redundancy come with deeper vendor entanglement. CIOs must benchmark architecture costs and enforce pricing clarity, analysts suggest.
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November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Nvidia is working with a cadre of industry expert at Booz Allen, Cisco, MITRE, ODC, Nokia and T-Mobile to bring an AI-native wireless stack for 6G networking to fruition.

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Nvidia moves to build AI-native 5G/6G wireless stack for future networks
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October 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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IBM has decided not to offer VMware and VMware Cloud Foundation to new cloud customers, paving the way for it to openly pitch Red Hat OpenShift as a virtualization option instead.

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IBM won’t sell VMware to new cloud customers
IBM’s decision — forced on it by Broadcom’s new partner program policies — opens up a new option for customers dissatisfied with VMware licensing changes: OpenShift.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Broadcom is still trying to strongarm VMware customers into accepting huge price increases and onerous licensing terms, says the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) in its latest report.

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Broadcom refuses to backtrack on huge VMware price increases, claims European cloud watchdog
US company ‘continues to tighten the screws on Europe’s cloud infrastructure sector’ and regulators need to act.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Networking technology took center stage at Nvidia’s GTC DC developers show in Washington, D.C. as a range of networking products were introduced for high-performance AI inference processing and more.

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Nvidia looks to power AI factory networks
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Cisco and Nvidia are ramping up their partnership, and the latest deliverables include the new Cisco N9100 series data center switch built on Nvidia’s Spectrum-X Ethernet switch silicon. www.networkworld.com/article/4080...
Cisco, Nvidia strengthen AI ties with new data center switch, reference architectures
Packages from Cisco and Nvidia target enterprise customers, neoclouds and sovereign cloud buildouts.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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July 18, 2025, marked a historic milestone for Japan's semiconductor industry. Rapidus, a company aiming to mass-produce cutting-edge semiconductors, announced that it had successfully prototyped a 2-nanometer (nm) generation GAA transistor.
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Japan’s semiconductor industry battles back
Japanese semiconductor manufacturer Rapidus has successfully prototyped a 2-nanometer generation GAA transistor, marking its first step as a nationally backed company. However, mass production will re...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Qualcomm has announced a new generation of accelerator cards and racks purpose-built to handle inference at scale. The new AI200 and AI250 feature near-memory computing, high memory capacity, and, it says, high per-dollar/per-watt and rack-scale performance. www.networkworld.com/article/4079...
Qualcomm goes all-in on inferencing with purpose-built cards and racks
Qualcomm’s AI200 and AI250 move beyond GPU-style training hardware to optimize for inference workloads, offering 10X higher memory bandwidth and reduced energy use.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Turns out Java can do serverless right — with GraalVM and Spring, cold starts are tamed and performance finally heats up.

See what #FoundryExpert Contributor Prasanna Kumar Ramachandran has to say: spr.ly/6332178dxR

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October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Wi-Fi is emerging as a strategic connectivity technology rather than just a backup alternative to wired networks, and that shift is driving enterprises to upgrade their Wi-Fi networks to keep up with an increasingly mobile workforce and rising bandwidth demands.
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Mobile demands spur enterprise Wi-Fi upgrades
IT teams are prioritizing AI-driven network management when choosing Wi-Fi vendors, looking for features such as automated troubleshooting, anomaly detection, and guided remediation.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Data center hosting and compute services specialists at Patmos Hosting set up and deployed a new AI data center in just 90 days. All they needed was a former printing press in the heart of Kansas City.

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How to set up an AI data center in 90 days
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October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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The Service AI Agent from Extreme can handle a variety of tasks, including network planning, configuration, and root-cause analysis.
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Extreme brings AI agent to Platform ONE for swift network diagnostics, troubleshooting
The Service AI Agent from Extreme can handle a variety of tasks, including network planning, configuration, and root-cause analysis.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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While x86 has been dominant for decades, a new migration project at Google represents a significant shift to more mixed architectures.

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Inside Google’s multi-architecture revolution: Axion Arm joins x86 in production clusters
By running production workloads simultaneously on x86 and Arm, Google is signaling a new era of hardware neutrality and accelerating Arm’s growing role in hyperscale cloud environments.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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In response to a major outage on Monday, AWS has added an automated incident-generating capability within its CloudWatch service for reporting use cases.

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Post outage, AWS adds automated incident reporting to its CloudWatch service
While the report generation feature will help enterprises accelerate post-mortem of an incident, it is far from enough to avoid similar outages in the future, analysts say.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Storage capacity has emerged as the next major constraint for AI data centers. Hard-drive lead times are ballooning to more than a year, and enterprise flash storage is also expected to see shortages and price increases, experts say.

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Storage constraints add to AI data center bottleneck
Hard-drive lead times have gone from a few weeks to more than a year due to AI demands, and enterprise flash storage prices are expected to rise with surging demand.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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While AI certainly has the potential to change enterprise operations for the better, it also can present a few “insidious” challenges for IT leaders, according to analysts at the Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo going on this week in Orlando, Fla.

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AI’s dark side shows in Gartner's top predictions for IT orgs
A decline in critical thinking skills, AI-related safety failures, and fragmentation of the AI landscape are among the challenges IT leaders will face in 2026 and beyond, Gartner predicts.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Japan’s semiconductor industry held more than half of the global market, ushering in a golden age known as “Hinomaru Semiconductor.” But by 2024, not one Japanese company ranked in the top 10. Here's what happened. www.networkworld.com/article/4074...
The lost 30 years: The decline of Japan's semiconductor industry
Japan once dominated the global semiconductor market. But policy shifts, rigid corporate culture, and the wave of global competition precipitated a 30-year decline. Here’s a look at what happened and ...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Monday got off to a bad start for Amazon Web Services users served by the company’s US-EAST-1 region, when a DNS problem rendered the DynamoDB API unreliable, with consequences for many AWS services and customers.

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AWS DNS error hits DynamoDB, causing problems for multiple services and customers
DynamoDB error rates in the US-EAST-1 region soared shortly after midnight Pacific Time, rippling through other AWS services and affecting many customers.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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A core part of the Wi-Fi 8 architecture is an approach known as Ultra High Reliability. The innovation addresses AI application requirements that demand symmetric bandwidth, consistent sub-5-millisecond latency and reliable uplink performance.

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Wi-Fi 8 is coming and it's going to make AI a lot faster
Wi-Fi 8 prioritizes consistent performance under challenging conditions and introduces dynamic spectrum management and hardware-accelerated telemetry designed for AI workloads at the network edge.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Infineon’s Power & Sensor Systems division is teaming up with Nvidia to upgrade the outdated power architecture of AI data centers and replace them with a centralized high-voltage DC power setup.

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Nvidia, Infineon partner for AI data center power overhaul
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October 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Chip designer Arm Holdings plc has announced it is joining the Open Compute Project to help address rising energy demands from AI-oriented data centers.

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Arm joins Open Compute Project to build next-generation AI data center silicon
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October 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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This week, Oracle announced what it calls the largest AI supercomputer in the cloud, OCI Zettascale10. The multi-gigawatt architecture links hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to deliver “unprecedented” performance.

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Oracle's big bet for AI: Zettascale10
Oracle’s Zettascale10 supercomputer connects 800,000 Nvidia GPUs for massive-context training and inference.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Tired of chasing ghost outages? This team turned messy network logs into AI-powered insights that spot problems before users even notice.

Read the full piece from #FoundryExpert Contributor, Swaitlana Agnihotri here: spr.ly/63322AQMHk

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October 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Cisco has unwrapped a high-end, 51.2 Tbps router and chip that it says will go a long way toward supporting the distributed AI workloads of today and in the future.

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Cisco seriously amps-up Silicon One chip, router for AI data center connectivity
The Cisco 8223 router is based on the 51.2Tb Silicon One P200 programmable chip.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM