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5 Smart Hardware Moves CIOs Are Making During Tariff Uncertainty

Information Week

As tariffs rise and trade policies shift, CIOs must rethink how they manage IT hardware. Strategic leaders maximize existing assets, extend lifespans, and make smarter, data-driven purchasing decisions to navigate volatility and maintain momentum.

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AMD rolls out first Ultra Ethernet-compliant NIC

Network World

Pollara is based on customizable hardware that supports using a fully programmable Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) transport and hardware-based congestion control. AMD’s Pensando Pollara 400GbE NICs are designed for massive scale-out environments containing thousands of AI processors.

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Meter secures $170 million to scale NaaS stack from the ground up

Network World

Everybody that’s large in networking does hardware differently than how we would do it, does software differently than how we would do it, does delivery differently than how we would do it, does pricing differently than how we would do it,” Varanasi explained to Network World. The company also plans a major hardware refresh for fall 2025. “We

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Cisco backs quantum networking startup Qunnect

Network World

Cisco Investments joins round leader Airbus Ventures and venture capital fund Quantonation in backing Qunnect, a network hardware company that has designs on building quantum communication systems using existing telecom fiber. Cisco is part of a $10 million extended financing round for quantum computing startup Qunnect.

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The AI Race Isn’t Just About Tech Superiority – It's the Supply Chain, Stupid!

Behind every AI breakthrough lies a battle for resources: data centers, compute hardware, power, and telecom infrastructure. The race to dominate AI is no longer about who has the smartest algorithms — it's about who can build and scale faster. And right now, even tech giants are hitting a wall.

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Nvidia eyes China rebound with stripped-down AI chip tailored to export limits

Network World

While hardware and software inconsistencies may complicate unified AI deployments, these variants enable legal market access, cost optimization, and hybrid architecture flexibility across regions. Of course, this is a challenge when the letter of the law seems to change on a week-to-week basis.

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Palo Alto Networks firewalls have UEFI flaws, Secure Boot bypasses

Network World

Increasingly built on commodity hardware , specialty devices share the same UEFI vulnerabilities as general-purpose PCs and laptops, inheriting similarly slow firmware patching cycles. Instead, what we found under the hood was commodity hardware, vulnerable software and firmware, and missing security features.

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