Category: Enterprise, DC networking and Storage

GPUs, Slurm, and Kubernetes: The Building Blocks of Modern HPC and AI Infrastructure

Every large-scale AI system — the model that answers your question, the recommendation engine on your favorite app, the vision model in a self-driving car — was trained and is served on infrastructure built from three foundational pieces: GPUs that do the actual computation, a scheduler that decides who gets to use them and when,

Securing the Stack: A Practical Guide to AI and LLM Security

Enterprises are moving large language models from pilot projects into production faster than most security programs can adapt. The result is a new attack surface that doesn’t map cleanly onto traditional application security, network security, or data security playbooks — it borrows from all three and adds failure modes none of them anticipated. This post

From Certification to Production: What the Aviatrix ACE Teaches About Multicloud Transit

Around 5 years ago I have completed the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) – Multicloud Network Associate when it was talk of the town. It’s tempting to file certifications like this under “resume line item” and move on. But this one is worth writing about, because the material addresses a failure pattern that shows up repeatedly

Azure Has Lost the Plot: When Feature Marketing Replaces the Promise of Easy Cloud

Cloud was supposed to remove friction. Provision compute in minutes, route packets without owning a single router, let infrastructure teams move at the speed of the business instead of the speed of a six-week change-board cycle. That was the pitch. A decade in, Azure increasingly delivers the opposite: a platform so layered with named services,

Choosing the Right NAC Platform for Your Enterprise: A Data-Driven Evaluation

Network Access Control is no longer a checkbox. As GCC enterprises accelerate digital transformation, IT/OT convergence, and smart-building deployments, the risks of unmanaged, unclassified devices on your network have never been greater. UAE regulatory mandates — NCA, CBUAE, NESA — now require organizations to demonstrate continuous visibility, automated compliance enforcement, and rapid incident containment across

Choosing the Right Networking Solution  is Essential for AI Success

In today’s AI-driven world, digital connectivity has become fundamental to how organizations operate. The environment has shifted from data-centric to network-centric, where networks serve as the neurons of AI operations — facilitating communication, data transfer, and resource sharing across devices and systems. As AI applications grow in complexity and scale, the demand for efficient, high-performance

Arista Network Advantage: Lower TCO with Power-Efficient Platforms

The data centers contribute 4-5% of the world’s total electricity usage.  This signifies the role it plays in GHG emissions and the worrying climate changes.  It is important that organizations consider energy-efficient systems for their critical IT requirement to meet their business objectives. And the same time reduces their carbon footprint and gets the benefit