Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In a blog post, Google announced an agreement with Kairos Power to source nuclear energy, aiming to bring the first SMR online by 2030, with more reactors planned by 2035. In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Data centers could consume upwards of 9% of US electricity generation by 2030, more than double the amount currently used, although the role AI contributing to the demand, a new study has found. While AI applications are estimated to use only 10%-20% of data center electricity today, that percentage is growing rapidly.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. The surge is attributed to the increased deployment of large-scale language models (LLMs) and complex algorithms that require massive data processing capabilities.

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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

A test involving hydrogen fuel cells that is currently taking place in Dublin, Ireland at an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center proves progress is occurring in this space, but it is certainly not a “super meaningful step forward,” according to an analyst with Dell’Oro Group.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Data center power constraints and burgeoning AI workloads have companies scrambling to find new sources of electricity. That’s why, in an effort to find new energy sources—and in the face of the push to make it clean energy—data center owners are turning to nuclear power. times the 2023 level. times the 2023 level.

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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% electricity generation annually by 2030. Thats half of the 25 W of traditional networking cables.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

Network as a service (NaaS) is a cloud service model thats designed to let enterprise IT professionals order network infrastructure components from a menu of options, have them configured to fit their business needs, and have the whole thing delivered, running and managed in a matter of hours instead of weeks. What is NaaS?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

1 Overview of major subsea cable projects in Africa With economic progress, Africa needs comprehensive connectivity to fulfil its potential, though the continent has seen an exponential increase in capacity and network infrastructure from its shores compared to those of Europe and the Middle East. Thats up from 820,000 km in 2017.

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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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Network World

JANUARY 29, 2025

Verizon is building its AI ecosystem by repurposing its existing infrastructure assets in its intelligent and programmable network, which consists of fiber, edge networking, and data center assets, along with its metro and long-haul fiber, ILEC and Fios footprint, its metro network build-out, lit and dark fiber services, and 5G network.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

With rich resources like a growing physical infrastructure and subsea cable network, Africa is uniquely positioned to emerge as a leader among todays developing economies. For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

According to the firm, our current era, that of noisy intermediate-scale quantum will last until 2030. Broad quantum advantage where quantum computers can be used to solve problems that traditional computers cant handle will last from approximately 2030 to 2040, according to the Boston Computing Group.

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Network World

AUGUST 26, 2024

A recommendation by a US Department of Energy (DoE) working group to create an AI test bed that will be mandated with finding ways to create data centers that are more energy efficient than they are today represents a good step forward, but much needs to be done, an analyst said today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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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. It will be the platform that drives a new generation of energy efficient data centers,” said Pette.

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Network World

AUGUST 7, 2024

The problem is that building a quantum-resistant infrastructure, your algorithms, network communication tools, databases, everything, is just a ton of work,” says Forrester analyst Andras Cser, the lead author of the report. Government agencies will have to stop purchasing technology that uses SHA-1 by 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Sustainability Leaders Video Series In this APAC Network video series hosted by Equinix, meet Asia-Pacific’s most inspiring people and companies leading the green revolution and charting a sustainable future for our planet. Depending on location and climate conditions, Equinix’s new data centers are designed to achieve under 1.20

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

for the third annual Quantum World Congress last week, and, even though we’re still years away from a practical quantum computer, the mood was upbeat, with significant new announcements in the areas of quantum computing, quantum networking, and investment. Like IBM’s Gambetta, Svore says she expects to reach quantum advantage before 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

From there, we can dynamically connect to industry-leading cloud and network providers around the world via software-defined interconnection, gaining maximum choice, flexibility, cost control, and performance advantages. Equinix is committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2030, currently at 96% coverage of renewables.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It’s an idea we’re proud to support, as it aligns with our own Data Center of the Future initiative. We believe investing in sustainable data center technologies isn’t just the right thing to do for the future of our planet; it can also be a key source of business value for our customers today.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

“The barriers confronting organizations in South Africa that want to achieve carbon neutral status by 2030 are significant. Specifically, partners would be required to commit that their data centers achieve zero carbon emissions by 2030, an effort that would require the use of 100% renewable energy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

S/4HANA On-Premise With SAP S/4HANA On-Premise, the customer manages the S/4HANA system, the HANA database, applications, data center, operating systems, middleware, and network on-premises. This transformation takes place in three steps: redesigning processes, technical migration, and building the intelligent enterprise.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 23, 2022

Lots of attention is being paid to how hybrid IT or multicloud fits into data-first business transformation, yet plenty of companies count colocation facilities as an important pillar of their IT landscape. According to Allied Market Research , the global data center colocation market is expected to surge from $46.08

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Smart cities in the age of AI harness AI’s ability to analyze vast data streams, enabling intelligent decision-making and efficient resource management. Raw data collected through IoT devices and networks serves as the foundation for urban intelligence. Then there are advanced connectivity solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the European Union, for instance, legislative efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 50% before 2030 are in an advanced stage. At the same time, the importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) policies has become a boardroom topic, with sustainability concerns leading the way in many geographies.

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Dataconomy

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

According to the AI Networks for AI Workloads report by Dell’Oro Group, spending on data center switches for AI back-end networks is expected to exceed $100 billion over the next five years, spanning from 2025 to 2029. Featured image credit: Dell’Oro

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Anand Oswal, Senior Vice President and GM at cyber security leader Palo Alto Networks While mobile technology has been around for decades, the current generation, 5G, is increasingly being recognized for the exciting new benefits it brings to enterprises, SMBs, and public sector organizations. 5G is designed to go places.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

Digital infrastructure, of course, includes communications network infrastructure — including 5G, Fifth-Generation Fixed Network (F5G), Internet Protocol version 6+ (IPv6+), the Internet of Things (IoT), and the Industrial Internet — alongside computing infrastructure, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), storage, computing, and data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 16, 2022

More than 1,000 engineers serve more than 130,000 customers worldwide with a global network that includes 7,500 deployed servers, more than 10,000 virtualized servers and more than 50 data centers. By 2030, the Group is also committed to seeing 20% of its own brand suppliers introducing restorative agricultural practices.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We know our customers need a trusted digital infrastructure partner to help them meet their sustainability goals, which is why we’ve made it a top priority to become a sustainability leader in the data center industry. In 2022, we were once again an industry leader in this regard.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A fleet of green data centers and a well-advanced plan to stop using fossil-fuel powered vehicles are among the key steps driving Intermax’s mission to be the most sustainable cloud services provider in the Netherlands. It aims to become carbon neutral in 2027 and carbon negative by 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Dimension Data is widely known for bold innovations and stalwart cloud solutions and services that enable enterprises to dramatically improve their businesses; now it is on mission to benefit the planet – and in the process, the communities it services and the economies it influences. Our approach, guided by the U.N.’s

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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Network World

AUGUST 28, 2024

This achievement sets the technology on a course to reach its projected early fault-tolerant phase, which is expected to arrive around 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 20, 2022

But he cautions that cloud solutions and services providers still have an obligation to do as much as they can to reduce the carbon footprint of the data centers and other facilities that make the transition to off-premises possible. It’s a move that’s not only good for people and the planet, but also business.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2023

By 2030 we aim to do the same for all our operations worldwide – a goal that is at the core of VMware’s Zero Carbon Committed initiative as well.” Being VMware Cloud Verified, and having earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction, it offers enterprises a complete portfolio of compute, storage, security and networking solutions.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why we have been optimizing our data centers and today they are more efficient compared to some years ago,” added. Huawei noted that more than 90% of a telecom operator’s carbon footprint for operations comes from the electricity used to power networks.

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