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Equinix to cut 3% of staff amidst the greatest demand for data center infrastructure ever

Network World

The news comes amidst reports that the company also plans to close its infrastructure as a service (IaaS) division Metal in 2026, and in the wake of the appointment of new CEO Adaire Fox-Martin and a shakeup in its C-suite that saw the departures of CIO Milind Wagle and CISO Michael Montoya.

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Is SD-WAN sill relevant in today’s technology landscape?

Network World

Gartner predicts that 70% of enterprises will have implemented SD-WANs by 2026, up from around 45% in 2021. To accommodate increased traffic, more edges, and dispersed users, modern SD-WAN solutions need to have top-of-the-line performance, resiliency, scalability, and autonomous architecture options.

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AI, automation spur efforts to upskill network pros

Network World

The demand for AI skills is projected to persistently grow as these technologies become more central to network engineering and architectural roles. A deep understanding of cloud platforms and services is essential, and this includes knowledge of cloud architecture, deployment models, and management tools.

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AMD updates Instinct data center GPU line

Network World

The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. 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.

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Lightmatter launches photonic chips to eliminate GPU idle time in AI data centers

Network World

The L200, coming in 2026, will be available in 32 Tbps and 64Tbps versions. Lightmatters approach could flatten this architecture. Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results.

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12 AI predictions for 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers must comply by the start of 2026, meaning theyll have a little over a year to put systems in place to track the provenance of their training data. Agents can be more loosely coupled than services, making these architectures more flexible, resilient and smart. Now, it will evolve again, says Malhotra.

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Nvidia teases next-generation Rubin platform, shares physical AI vision

Network World

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang disclosed the company’s next-generation AI-accelerating GPU platform, set for release in 2026, during his keynote address at Computex as the massive tradeshow wrapped up earlier this month. Next year, we’ll see Blackwell Ultra with its performance boost for AI architecture.