What Will The Data Center of 2025 Look Like?
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 29, 2014
What will the data center look like in 2025? An Emerson survey suggests we''ll see smaller data centers, higher densities, and more use of renewable energy. Featured'
Gartner: GenAI spurs 9.3% increase in IT spending for 2025
Network World
OCTOBER 30, 2024
trillion by 2025. The Gartner forecast highlights server sales, which are expected to triple in the coming years as genAI pushes data center systems spending up by 15.5% Gartner reported that server sales will grow from more than $134 billion in 2023 to $332 billion by 2028, including an estimated more than $257 billion in 2025.
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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of May 3
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 3, 2014
The Week in Review: What the NSA''s water usage tells us, Judge says US can seek data in Microsoft''s Dublin site, what the data center of 2025 will look like.
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AMD updates Instinct data center GPU line
Network World
JUNE 4, 2024
CDNA 3 is based on the gaming graphics card RDNA architecture but is expressly designed for use in data center applications like generative AI and high-performance computing. The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. The MI350X will come with 288 GB of HBM3e, like the MI325X.
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81% of IT pros expect most data center and networking tasks will be automated by 2025
Tech Republic Data Center
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
As the cloud and artificial intelligence transform the enterprise, on-premise data centers predicted to be nonexistent in the next five years.
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Data center liquid cooling market heats up
Network World
JULY 25, 2024
“Historically, liquid cooling vendors touted increased efficiency and sustainability as factors behind the technology’s adoption,” said Lucas Beran, research director at Dell’Oro Group and author of the firm’s Data Center Liquid Cooling Advanced Research Report.
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Gartner: AI spurs 25% surge in data center systems spending
Network World
JULY 16, 2024
Generative AI is driving significant IT spending growth, according to Gartner’s most recent global forecast, with data center infrastructure seeing the biggest spike. growth in data center systems, largely due to AI services and GPU-based specialized services for AI workloads. The research firm is forecasting 25.3%
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Gartner projects major IT spending increases for 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 24, 2024
in 2025, one of the largest percentage increases in this century, and it’s only partially driven by AI. Gartner’s new 2025 IT spending projection , of $5.75 growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. trillion, Gartner projects.
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Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space
Network World
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space.
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Report: Lithium-Ion to Gain One-Third of Data Center UPS Market by 2025
Data Center Knowledge
JULY 21, 2017
Demand growth, driven largely by electric vehicles, expected to drive significant cost reduction for lithium-ion batteries Read More.
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Data centers in space
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.
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China seeks 30% growth in national compute capacity by 2025
Network World
JULY 8, 2024
China has released a plan that reveals the oriental power’s plans to grow its national compute capacity to 30% by 2025. Last year in August, the ministry revealed that the country had reached a national compute capacity of 197 exaFLOPS, up from 180 exaFLOPS in 2022. “In
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Data Center Regulation Trends to Watch in 2025
Information Week
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
Discover how upcoming regulations impact data center operators, from new compliance rules to key takeaways from the EU’s challenges with the Energy Efficiency Directive.
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Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M to put data centers in space
GeekWire
MARCH 11, 2024
“We started Lumen with the mission of launching a constellation of orbital data centers for in-space edge processing,” Oltean explained in an email. “Essentially, other satellites will send our constellation the raw data they collect.
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What to expect from AI in the enterprise in 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 9, 2024
Despite these limitations and concerns among CIOs over AI costs, real progress has been made this year and we can expect to see this grow further in 2025. Focus on data assets Building on the previous point, a companys data assets as well as its employees will become increasingly valuable in 2025.
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Buyer’s guide: Edge data centers
Network World
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]
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Fujitsu Upgrading Australian Data Centers Starting With Perth
Data Center Knowledge
MAY 12, 2015
Fujitsu is upgrading its seven Australian data centers, starting with one in Perth recently knocked out by a storm in February that will cost around $8 million. The data center upgrades are part of the company’s 2025 roadmap. Fujitsu said it will seek Uptime Institute Tier IV Certification for.
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AWS plans major European expansion with €7.8 billion investment in sovereign data center
TechSpot
MAY 20, 2024
The cloud computing giant said its upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud will launch its first data center region in Brandenburg, Germany, by the end of 2025 for all customers. However, this won't be just another AWS availability zone. Read Entire Article
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Juniper advances AI networking software with congestion control, load balancing
Network World
JULY 17, 2024
Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. The HPE acquisition target is also offering a new validated design for enterprise AI clusters and has opened a lab to certify enterprise AI data center projects.
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Lumen Orbit, a Seattle-area startup that wants to put data centers in space, raises $11M
GeekWire
DECEMBER 11, 2024
based Lumen Orbit , a startup founded earlier this year, raised $11 million to fuel plans to put data centers in space that power technology and AI services back down on Earth. Lumen graduated from Y Combinator’s summer cohort this year and plans to launch a full-scale prototype in 2025. Lumen Orbit Photo) Bellevue, Wash.-based
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Arista financials offer glimpse of AI network development
Network World
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
billion from AI-based networking growth through 2025. Three of the customers are moving from trials to pilots this year, and we’re expecting those three to become 50 to 200,000 GPU clusters in 2025,” Ullal said. I expect as we go into 2025, we will see a better split between 400GB and 800GB, Ullal said. 30, an increase of 7.1%
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Intel: World Will Switch to “Scale” Data Centers by 2025
Data Center Knowledge
APRIL 22, 2016
Computing infrastructure is changing, and Intel is fighting to remain at the forefront of the change Read More.
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EU clears HPE’s $14 billion Juniper acquisition
Network World
AUGUST 1, 2024
In January, HPE said it buy Juniper Networks for $14 billion, effectively doubling HPE’s networking business by adding a significant, though somewhat overlapping, campus and data-center product lineup. It extended its AI platform with a package of features dubbed Operations for AI (Ops4AI).
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De-Risk Your Business by Moving to Colocation Data Centers – A Modern Cloud Experience
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 25, 2022
For good business reasons, more than up to 50% of applications and data remain on-premises in data centers, colocations, and edge locations, according to 451 Research. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance. Adopting the right partnership.
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Hurry-up offense: NFL builds terabit network in one week for Munich game
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
Three containers of IT equipment For the three-hour NFL spectacle in Munich, Patel, Amendolia and their teams had to build a complete network within a week, including a small data center, cyber defense capabilities, WLAN, private LTE, VoIP call manager, and fiber optic infrastructure – to name just a few components of the IT installation.
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Optical networking challenges gain attention as AI networking demands rise
Network World
JUNE 26, 2024
Apollo is believed to be the first large-scale deployment of optical circuit switching (OCS) for data center networking. Apollo has served as the backbone of all Google data center networks, having been in production for nearly a decade, supporting all data center use cases.
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MRDIMM: Why your next server will have a new kind of memory
Network World
DECEMBER 2, 2024
The next-gen memory is expected to ship in the first half of 2025. In the big picture, hyperscale data center operators will be most likely to adopt MRDIMM for their servers first. This is being driven by the data centers. Singhal believes that AMD and other server hardware vendors will adopt MRDIMM over time.
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3 takeaways from AMD’s ZT Systems grab
Network World
AUGUST 21, 2024
Privately-held ZT Systems, founded in 1994, works closely with chipmakers to design and deploy data center AI compute and storage infrastructure at scale for the largest global cloud companies. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2025.
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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud
Network World
OCTOBER 10, 2024
There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. Astera Labs is already shipping pre-production quantities of Scorpio chips to customers, with full production slated for 2025. Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6
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Broadcom tosses VMware users a bone, extends vSphere 7 support six months
Network World
JULY 25, 2024
VMware vSphere 7, which was launched in 2020, was scheduled to go out of support in April 2025 but will now be maintained until October 2025. Originally set as April 2, 2025, the End of General Support (EoGS) date has been extended by 6 months, now being moved to October 2, 2025.” This change is not unprecedented.
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IDC: AI workloads driving high-speed Ethernet switch adoption
Network World
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
The high-end Ethernet switch market is getting a boost from cloud providers and enterprises that are preparing their data centers for AI workloads. For example, the data center portion of the Ethernet switch market rose 8%” year over year, Butler said. year over year, but increased 15.0%
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Nvidia is building new Arm CPUs again: Nvidia Grace, for the data center
The Verge
APRIL 12, 2021
But now, the company’s getting back into CPUs in a big way with the new Nvidia Grace , an Arm-based processing chip specifically designed for AI data centers. Meet the NVIDIA Grace #CPU , leveraging the flexibility of @Arm ’s data center architecture and designed from the ground up to accelerate the largest HPC and AI workloads.
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Juniper offers AI pricing incentives, education programs
Network World
AUGUST 20, 2024
Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform is aimed at unifying its campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine. The deal is still on track to close in early 2025. Central to the platform are the firm’s cloud-based, natural language Mist AI and Marvis virtual network assistant (VNA) technology.
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HPE-Juniper merger faces antitrust inquiry in UK
Network World
JUNE 19, 2024
An inquiry into HPE’s $14 billion takeover of Juniper Networks by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a move that potentially could delay approval of the deal, will have little impact on data center managers, an analyst with Info-Tech Research Group said. Of course it would. Not at all.”
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IBM deal brings AMD Instinct accelerators to IBM Cloud
Network World
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
IBM Cloud with AMD Instinct MI300X accelerators are expected to be generally available in the first half of 2025. The Intel Gaudi 3 offering, which is expected to be available in early 2025, is aimed at helping IBM Cloud users to more cost effectively scale enterprise AI application development.
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High-bandwidth memory nearly sold out until 2026
Network World
MAY 16, 2024
South Korean memory manufacturer SK Hynix has announced that its supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) has been sold out for 2024 and for most of 2025. The news comes after similar comments were made in March by the CEO of Micron, who said that the company’s HBM production had been sold out through late 2025. Up to 18 months.
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Possibilities at the Edge: Putting Intelligence Where your Data is
CIO Business Intelligence
MAY 23, 2024
But, for businesses that want to stay ahead in the data race, centralizing everything inside massive cloud data centers is becoming limiting. This is because everything generating data outside of a data center and connected to the Internet is at the edge.
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Microsoft invests €3.2 billion in AI and the cloud in Germany
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. New data centres After doubling the capacity of its own data centers in Germany in 2023, Microsoft intends to double it again by the end of 2025. Microsoft will invest €3.2
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Report: AI expands the IT workforce as tech jobs return to offices
Network World
DECEMBER 4, 2024
average for the past five years, and there are 56% more tech job postings in 2024 than in 2019, according to the firm’s 2025 Tech Salary Guide. The Motion Recruitment report pulls data from multiple other sources such as Indeed and Pluralsight to determine trends in tech hiring and the job market. days per week to 3.4
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Che cosa possiamo aspettarci dall’AI nelle aziende per il 2025
CIO Business Intelligence
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Nonostante queste limitazioni e le preoccupazioni dei CIO sui costi dellAI, questanno sono stati compiuti progressi reali e possiamo aspettarci di vederli crescere ulteriormente nel 2025. Tuttavia, ci dipender dalla velocit di costruzione di nuovi data center pronti per lAI rispetto alla domanda.
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Cisco launches intelligent Wi-Fi 7 access points
Network World
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
With an active subscription, you can align renewal dates to your cost-center needs, add licenses without changing renewal dates, and upgrade entitlements midterm,” Huang stated. Wi-Fi 7 set to rise Wi-Fi 6E adoption is still growing, but industry watchers predict Wi-Fi 7 will eclipse previous generations in 2025.
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Six Ways to Improve Private Cloud Security
IT Toolbox
MARCH 21, 2017
While Oracle CEO Mark Hurd predicts that 80 percent of corporate data centers will disappear by 2025 , there still are plenty of private cloud deployments among businesses large and small. Securing these private cloud deployments is a pressing issue. That’s
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Intel strikes foundry deal with AWS
Network World
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The AWS announcement is good news for the company’s new fab in Ohio, which was supposed to open in 2025 but has been delayed due to market conditions. billion in its data center operations for AWS in central Ohio. As part of the deal, Amazon will invest $7.8
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Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for 2025
Dataconomy
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
These techniques allow developers to adapt LLMs without needing a data center full of GPUs, making customization of LLMs more accessible for smaller companies or individual developers. One of the key benefits of fine-tuning large language models is the ability to modify their style and tone to suit branding requirements 6.
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