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No support or updates for Windows 11 on machines not meeting minimum hardware requirements, says Microsoft

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has offered a miniscule concession to users determined to install Windows 11 on PCs that dont meet its minimum hardware requirements: you will be able to do it, but on your own head be it should things go wrong.

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Oracle offers price-performance boost with Exadata X11M update

Network World

Exadata is Oracles hardware and software platform for running Oracle Database workloads on premises or in hybrid- and multi-cloud environments. The previous version, X10M, was released in June 2023, just as demand for generative AI was taking off, and some of the changes in the latest version address the needs of that market.

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Fortinet eases firewall management with hardware-as-a-service package

Network World

Fortinet is unveiling a hardware-as-a-service offering that promises to ease the stress of keeping up with the latest firewall technology. The new FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS) offering lets customers choose the hardware they want the FortiGate next-generation firewalls to run on, and Fortinet will configure and manage the devices.

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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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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

Network World

A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. Instead, storage hardware and software is left to Nvidia’s certified server partners, such as Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, and NetApp. The one thing that the reference architecture does not cover is storage, since Nvidia does not supply storage.

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Seven important trends in the server sphere

Network World

There are numerous overall trends, experts say, including: AI everything: AI mania is everywhere and without high power hardware to run it, its just vapor. All the major players Nvidia, Supermicro, Google, Asus, Dell, Intel, HPE as well as smaller vendors are offering purpose-built AI hardware, according to a recent Network World article.

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Nvidia’s Run:ai acquisition waved through by EU

Network World

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. Nvidia will face no objections to its plan to acquire Israeli AI orchestration software vendor Run:ai Labs in Europe, after the European Commission gave the deal its approval Friday.

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