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What is AI networking? How it automates your infrastructure (but faces challenges)

Network World

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. So what exactly is AI networking, how does it work and what are its top use cases?

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Wi-Fi 7 in 2025: Will this be the year?

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Wi-Fi Certified 7 was introduced in January 2024 and is seeing strong momentum, Maureen Gallagher, vice president of marketing at Wi-Fi Alliance, told Network World. All the major enterprise Wi-Fi networking vendors now have Wi-Fi 7 in their respective portfolios. Whether or not that actually occurred is a matter of perspective.

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AI driving a 165% rise in data center power demand by 2030

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That will likely be followed by a moderation starting in 2027, as more data centers come online and AI-driven demand growth slows, Schneider stated. By 2027, that number jumps to 84 GW, with AI growing to 27% of the overall market, cloud dropping to 50%, and traditional workloads falling to 23%, Schneider stated.

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

According to Gartner, companies should have started on their crypto agility police by the of 2024, start implementing it in 2024 and 2025, and have it in production by the end of 2027. But encryption keys are, relatively speaking, pretty short, making them a good fit for the first quantum networks. Super secure sharing of keys.

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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

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These will allow the data centers to use warmer temperatures for cooling than previous generations of IT hardware, and thus mitigate the power use with high efficiency economizing chillers with elevated water temperatures, he wrote. Going forward, Microsoft will replace evaporative systems with mechanical chip-level cooling, Solomon said.

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DARPA program aims to sift through quantum computing hype

Network World

The Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) aims to validate the progress of quantum computer hardware and determine if it’s possible to build an industrially useful quantum computer faster than current predictions – which forecast serious quantum adoption is well over 10 years away. billion in 2027 and grow to more than $8 billion by 2031.

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Startup Fractile tackles AI inference bottlenecks with new chip design

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in robotics is looking to shake up the AI chip industry with an innovative approach that promises to deliver hardware that is 100 times faster, 10 times cheaper, and 20 times more energy efficient than the Nvidia GPUs that dominate the market today. So far, the company has architected the hardware and modeled its behavior.

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