Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Space supply in major data center markets increased by 34% year-over-year to 6,922.6 There is a considerable pricing disparity between newly built data centers and legacy facilities, reflecting the premium placed on modern, energy-efficient infrastructure. MW capacity being built at the end of 2023.

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

HPE claims that this approach effectively reduces the required data center floor space by 50% and reduces the cooling power necessary per server blade by 37%. “As Data centers warm up to liquid cooling : AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing are creating cooling challenges for data center owners and operators.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior. The research showed that 74.4%

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MARCH 11, 2025

Usability in application design has historically meant delivering an intuitive interface design that makes it easy for targeted users to navigate and work effectively with a system. Our data center was offline and damaged. The first definition is what CIOs and application developers historically have attuned to.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. and a Network World columnist. “The and a Network World columnist. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rising costs, AI concerns and staffing challenges are among the top issues facing data center leaders in 2024, according to Uptime Institute’s latest survey data. Data center teams are working to balance higher rack power density and future capacity needs with capital investments and staffing limitations.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity.

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. In addition, Nokia is developing quantum-safe technology for both IP and optical networks to ensure secure data transmission between data centers. “We

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards.

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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

MARCH 6, 2025

Considerable amounts of data are collected on the edge. Edge servers do the job of culling the useless data and sending only the necessary data back to data centers for processing. Liquid cooling gains ground: Liquid cooling is inching its way in from the fringes into the mainstream of data center infrastructure.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

A bid by Google Ireland to build a third data center at Grange Castle Business Park in south Dublin has been rejected by local politicians, in part due to what was described as “the lack of significant on-site renewable energy” to power the proposed facility.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0

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Network World

MARCH 26, 2025

These efforts are expected to be completed in the second half of 2026 so AI applications will have some near-term solutions to leverage. It wasnt solely an application, network, component, or interconnect problem, stated DAmbrosia, who is a distinguished engineer with the Datacom Standards Research team at Futurewei Technologies, a U.S.

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Network World

MARCH 31, 2025

The MonTitan RDK is designed for enterprise data center use and Silicon Motion says its sequential read speeds exceed 14 GB/s, ranking among the fastest external SSDs, with random read performance of over 3.3 data center specifications. million IOPS, a respectable throughput rate. The 128TB SSD RDK also supports NVMe 2.0

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regardless of where they are on their AI journey, organizations need to be preparing existing data centers and cloud strategies for changing requirements, and have a plan for how to adopt AI, with agility and resilience, as strategies evolve,” said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Nokia is offering customers an alternative way to set up data center networks by expanding its data center fabric package to support the open-source Software for Open Networking in the Cloud ( SONiC ). Nokias SR Linux NOS supports a wide range of network protocols and features as well as third-party applications.

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Network World

AUGUST 5, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on the use case. So choose carefully!

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Herweck, who had been in the role for 18 months, was replaced by the head of the company’s energy management business, Olivier Blum, to drive Schneider Electric’s next strategic phase, which includes scaling its energy management and data center operations. Analysts, however, showed surprise over this move by the French firm. “The

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The goal of the middleware, which was released today to customers globally, is to improve resource allocation and memory management across various platforms and applications that use AI, according to a press release. All of these will be eventually passed on to data center operators’ customers and end users,” the researchers noted. “All

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Network World

JULY 9, 2024

The change in the UK government following the general election on July 4 is also leading to a change in the country’s planning policies for data center construction. The new Labour government is reconsidering two urban planning decisions that had put the brakes on data center investments. a year to reach $10.13

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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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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. An AI hyperscale data center can consume as much as 100 MW of power.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

At the other end of the speed spectrum, the Ethernet Alliance also produced the first Single Pair Ethernet plugfest to advance seamless interoperability for products and services designed for 10BASE-T1L applications. That is a standard based on the IEEE 802.3cg specification that was finalized in 2019.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

also supports HPEs Data Fabric architecture which aims supply a unified and consistent data layer that allows data access across premises data centers, public clouds, and edge environments with the idea of bringing together a single, logical view of data, regardless of where it resides, according to HPE.

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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.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

By abstracting the underlay data plane from the management and control plane, SD-WAN enables organizations to send traffic directly from various locations to cloud-based resources without having to first route it through a centralized enterprise data center.

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MARCH 17, 2025

(Read our related feature: Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty ) However, if youre looking strictly for a replacement on-prem virtualization platform, the analyst firm Data Center Intelligence Group ( DCIG ) has identified five top alternatives to VMwares vSphere platform.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It found that, while Nvidia likely holds a dominant position in the global market for discrete GPUs used in data centers, it has no incentive to limit the compatibility of its GPUs with orchestration software produced by rivals of Run:ai. The Commission began its investigation in mid-November.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage. Morpheus is a GPU-accelerated data processing framework optimized for cybersecurity, using deep learning and machine learning models to detect and mitigate cyber threats in real time.

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JUNE 24, 2024

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? Evaluating data center design and legacy infrastructure. The art of the data center retrofit. Digital Realty alone supports around 2.4

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. The previous capacity of the DE-CIX network was 100G, which means that data centers running at 400G need to split the signal. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

The AI infrastructure challenge for networking at hyper scale The demands of AI are changing the way data centers and particularly hyperscale data centers need to operate. The AI wave is right in front of us, and it is causing a massive disruption, including at the infrastructure level, Sadana told Network World.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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