Sean Michael Kerner / aka @TechJournalist from the site that Tesla ran over and then got baked in the backdraft from a SpaceX rocket.
Never bet against Ethernet.
“Ethernet, a fantastic, general-purpose network designed to be as flexible as possible for as many different types of workloads as you can throw at it, was always assumed to be insufficient for the most demanding workloads because its flexibility worked against it,” J Metz told me. “The truth of the matter is that – as we found out in UEC – tuning Ethernet for specific workload requirements is hard. Hard, but not impossible.”
Big $$ for Meter - This isn't just some whitebox rebrand thing either. It's a net-new stack...from the ground up.
“Everybody that’s large in networking does hardware differently than how we would do it, does software differently than how we would do it,...,” Anil Varanasi told me. “So we ourselves as customers, wanted to build something that we would use, and we would be delighted to use.”
There is a big difference between research, small deployments and having thousands of enterprises use tech. That's something Hanlin Tang is now enjoying as part of Databricks. Was great chatting with him about the new Mosaic Agent Bricks tech and how Agent Learning from Human Feedback works.
The cloud financial management landscape is undergoing a fundamental shift as organizations grapple with increasingly complex technology stacks that extend beyond traditional public cloud infrastructure.
NETGEAR yeah that Netgear the same one you see in the store..is gearing up to take on the tough challenge of security for SMEs,
There's more to networking protocols than just Ethernet and Infiniband - Intel's Omni-Path lives on Cornelis Networks, which is out today with a new 400G option with some big numbers.
Don't die. Cockroach Labs debuts CockroachDB 25.2 proving that even in the AI era, it's hard to kill a cockroach (database)
Another PostgreSQL database vendor gets acquired. Why Snowflake's $250M acquisition of Crunchy Data matters to enterprises
It took me ..years..to learn how to write SQL back in the late 90s. For the last year or so, AI vendors have claimed text-to-SQL AI works, but i know it didn't and apparently so did Snowflake. They've got a new open-source text-to-SQL thing out today and it's amazing...oh and an open-source Inference server that will work as a plugin for the open source vLLM project and make everything faster too.
Without data agentic AI doesn't work. Salesforce will soon have more access and control of data thanks to its $8B acquisition of Informatica
->With insights from Noel Y. (Forrester), Kevin Petrie (BARC) and Hyoun Park (Amalgam Insights).
I spent a lot of time/effort in the late 90s building websites that no one could find, then along came RSS and life was (much) better. Microsoft's open-source NLWeb could be the same catalyst for the agentic AI web. You need to pay attention to this tech. It will be foundational - for all of us.
“NLWeb leverages the best practices and standards developed over the past decade on the open web and makes them available to LLMs.."
https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-battle-to-ai-enable-the-web-nlweb-and-what-enterprises-need-to-know/
SSL/TLS has been a topic near/dear to me for 30 years. I honestly didn't realize that it was being impacted by BGP's frailty but hey...
"What makes BGP hijacking so dangerous is that you don’t need to hijack the route for very long to succeed,” Dmitry Sharkov, principal architect at Sectigo and lead architect for Open MPIC, told me.
Discovery and configuration have always been network challenges, just ask Pavel Bykov - that's why he started IP Fabric a decade ago. The company's latest release continues to add features to solve networking professionals real-world issues.
Some really positive data news out of Microsoft Build today...as CosmosDB comes to Fabric and DiskANN goes open source
“We’re allowing everybody to be able to get the benefits of the vector store that we’re using internally..."
I've been covering (and using) PostgreSQL for the last 25 years and it just continues to not only be relevant, but an enabler for whatever the next generation of innovations are. This time it's agentic AI.
There's more to enterprise application than just code generation.
“Our main goal here is to accelerate all software engineering by 99%,” Anshul Ramachandran, head of product and strategy Windsurf told @venturebeat
I've been covering Hewlett Packard Enterprise for long enough to have seen ...multiple evolutions of its cloud platform (remember Helion?). The latest evolution is a ..metamorphosis.. of sorts focusing on things that really matter.
There are a lot of different ways to try and reduce AI hallucinations. This new approach from Vectara is something a bit different with a Hallucination Correction Model that uses 'guardian agents'
@josephdickson Amen. Which (I hope) is good news for most of us...
SonicWall continues to evolve from hardware-first firewall vendor to comprehensive cloud-native security services.