Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

Ciscos most significant activities of 2024 included further development of its AI networking offerings. Networking, AI and platformization goals Looking ahead, Cisco needs to refocus on enterprise networking and work to make the data center an all-inclusive home for AI applications, industry watchers say.

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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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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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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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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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Network World

JANUARY 7, 2025

AI applications and ML workloads account for nearly 20% of data center electricity consumption today, according to the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), and data centers are projected to represent up to 9.1% of total U.S. electricity generation annually by 2030. Tb in the coming years, said Kuo.

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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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Network World

JANUARY 9, 2025

The demand for AI is expanding at such an exponential rate that market research firm IDC expects that global spending on AI-supporting technologies will surpass $749 billion by 2028 and nearly 67% of the projected $227 billion AI spending in 2025 will come from enterprises embedding AI capabilities into their core business operations.

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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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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

Secure access service edge technologies will garner a lot of attention in 2025, according to a recent survey, but despite the many benefits SASE promises, network and security leaders face an equal number of challenges in successfully implementing the technology.

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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. Juniper, too, has been enhancing its AI capabilities recently.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Providers are making plans to effectively and sustainably move to higher speeds such as 400G Ethernet, 800G Ethernet and beyond, while at the same time they’re also trying to develop advanced technologies to support AI networks. Efforts to develop more energy efficient technologies for optical networks and interfaces are also in the works.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

Experienced CIOs know there is never a blank check for transformation and innovation investments, and they expect more pressure in 2025 to deliver business value from gen AI investments. As gen AI heads to Gartners trough of disillusionment , CIOs should consider how to realign their 2025 strategies and roadmaps.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

The adoption of hybrid cloud accelerated the development of new business models, experiences, and efficiencies across all industries. 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.

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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. Founded in 2017, Astera Labs is a semiconductor company that specializes in developing connectivity technologies for AI and cloud infrastructure. Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6 Wireshark 4.4

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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. It purchased AI lab Silo last July, picked up open source AI developer Nod.AI

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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. Smith also sees Germany in second place in Europe for the development of AI-based applications, an assessment he bases on code contributions on GitHub, Microsoft’s source code repository.

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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. Other product and company developments include: New features in Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform, dubbed Operations for AI (Ops4AI).

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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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Dataconomy

JANUARY 16, 2025

These vulnerabilities are identified as CVE-2025-21335 , CVE-2025-21333 , and CVE-2025-21334 , specifically targeting Hyper-V. Tyler Reguly, associate director of security research and development at Fortra, emphasized the need for administrators to reassess their security strategies in light of these vulnerabilities.

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Keeping them fed with data was becoming a challenge, said Ronak Singhal, senior fellow and developer of MRDIMM at Intel. “As As you’re growing the core count, it’s obviously critical to be able to feed those cores with data. The next-gen memory is expected to ship in the first half of 2025. Optane was driven by Intel.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In a very big win for its foundry business, Intel announced it has signed a multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deal with AWS to co-develop an “AI fabric chip” using Intel’s 18A chip fabrication process. 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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GeekWire

MAY 13, 2024

(Helion Photo) The rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving new demand for cloud computing infrastructure operated by tech giants including Amazon and Microsoft, which are investing billions of dollars each year into the construction of data centers that gobble massive amounts of energy. In the U.S.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The rise of streaming and enterprise cloud adoption have driven an explosive surge in computing demand, giving rise to data centers around the world. Now, a new wave of demand driven by data-hungry generative AI applications is arriving, and it’s bringing with it increasing environmental pressures.

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Network World

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gluware advances NetOps with AI copilot Key to Gluware’s new update is the introduction of AI copilots for both developers and network operators. The developer-focused AI copilot assists in writing code, generating JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) structures for configuration modeling and audits. It’s really simplifying the approach.”

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Big tech commitments are ‘promising,’ but may not be enough There are many statistics floating around about AI and data center energy use, further stoking fears across enterprises, regulatory bodies, and everywhere in between. However, we should be “dismayed” at the pace of these developments, he pointed out. watt-hours.

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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. Communities like Hugging Face forums and GitHub repositories offer valuable insights and practical guides.

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Network World

JULY 2, 2024

For Nokia to really make a difference in the optical networking area, they need the scale and a footprint in the data center,” Das said. Nokia plans to close the deal in the first half of 2025, subject to approval from Infinera shareholders and various regulators. And the enterprise absolutely needs both.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

The new processor, the IBM Telum II, has greater memory and cache capacity than the previous generation, and it integrates a new data processing unit (DPU) specialized for IO acceleration along with enhanced on-chip AI acceleration capabilities. Eickhoff, director, IBM Z processor development.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

According to a study by Grand View Research, the global HPC market is expected to reach $60 billion by 2025.¹. In healthcare and life sciences, they’re being used to accelerate drug discovery and develop more personalized healthcare. Perspective on data center energy and water use.

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Network World

AUGUST 9, 2024

Intel Innovation 2024 has been postponed until 2025,” the company said in an emailed statement to Network World. Fostering a developer ecosystem continues to be a priority for Intel. It remains to be seen if finances improve enough for the event’s resurrection sometime in 2025. until next year.

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GeekWire

JULY 10, 2024

They both pointed to higher energy use to power AI operations and data center construction as helping drive the ballooning climate impacts. The company is investing heavily in data center infrastructure to power its AI services. These demands are creeping up on Amazon as well.

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The Verge

JULY 26, 2021

The announcement includes the broad strokes of the next half-decade of Intel’s processor roadmap, new chip and packaging technologies, and a promise of an “annual cadence of innovation,” with the ultimate goal of seeing Intel retake its leadership in the processor space by 2025.

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Network World

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Verizon engineers will begin demonstrations of this solution in early 2025. Nvidia will bring its AI Enterprise software platform and its NIM microservices to the table to deliver real-time AI services on premises for enterprise customers. Nvidia is saying it will make the process as plug-and-play as possible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

As a country rapidly transforming into a digital economy hub, Thailand is taking the lead in cloud technology and the development of its digital infrastructure in the region. This is not the first collaboration with the Thai government; since 2018, Huawei has built three cloud data centers, and is the first and only cloud vendor to do so.

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TM Forum

OCTOBER 13, 2021

As network technology, operational technology and IT increasingly meet in the cloud, a new ecosystem is developing to provide multi-access edge computing (MEC) to enterprises. announcement promises a “portfolio of solutions consisting of hardware and software that extend our infrastructure to the edge and into your data centers.”

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