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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CIO Business Intelligence

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

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.

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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

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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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 20, 2014

The Green Grid has finally reached consensus on a metric more than five years in the making: Data Center Energy Productivity, or DCeP, is computed as useful work produced divided by total energy consumed by the data center. DCeP allows each user to define useful work as applicable to the user’s.

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Network World

JANUARY 2, 2025

Graviton instances cost up to 20% less and use up to 60% less energy than comparable EC2 instances on x86, and they are up to 40% more cost-effective than x86. But the challenge of getting Arm into enterprise data centers lies in all the legacy code. So, its more of a trend as opposed to a one-off, he said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 8, 2024

As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Goldman Sachs estimates that data center power demand will grow 160% by 2030 — up from 1% to 2% of overall worldwide usage to 3% to 4%. watt-hours, compared to 0.3 watt-hours.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In terms of security, the APs feature advanced threat detection capabilities, and they can secure every connection with AI-native device profiling, threat prevention, and advanced wireless security and data encryption, Huang stated. The APs come with built-in Bluetooth Low Energy, ultra-wideband, and GPS capabilities.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 19, 2024

Data centers are hot, in more ways than one. In fact, according to the International Energy Agency, by 2026 the AI industry is expected to have grown exponentially to consume at least ten times its electricity demand in 2023. I’ve seen numbers up to 40% of the total power consumption of a data center going to cooling.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 26, 2025

Researchers at the University of Waterloo's Cheriton School of Computer Science, led by Professor Martin Karsten and including Peter Cai, identified inefficiencies in network traffic processing for communications-heavy server applications. Read Entire Article

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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 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

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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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

AI-driven insights are part of the platform, designed to help customers better automate workload controls as well as help organizations improve energy efficiency by forecasting power usage and enabling enterprises to set thresholds to control costs and carbon emissions on a worldwide level, Satterthwaite said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

A new AI-based assistant will aid in RPG application modernization and development. Notably, the chip will send data directly from one compute engine to the next, leading to an efficient use of energy,” wrote Bargav Balakrishnan, vice president, product management, IBM Power, in a blog about the roadmap.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Nvidia has partnered with hardware infrastructure vendor Vertiv to provide liquid cooling designs for future data centers designed to be AI factories. AI factories are specified data centers emphasizing AI applications as opposed to traditional line of business applications like databases and ERP.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Thats also a sign of how hungry AWS thinks the market is for access to data centers, processors, networking gear, and other hardware for AI and generative AI workloads, according to the CEO. And AWS isnt the only cloud service provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers.

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Dataconomy

DECEMBER 24, 2024

But a crucial part of the tech world is often overlooked, despite its equally dynamic growth: the data center industry. What data center trends and buzzwords should you be aware of in 2025? How have data centers evolved over the past few decades? 2020s Modern hyperscale data centers consume >100 MW.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.

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Network World

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. Cooling tactics, chip designs aim for energy efficiency Another infrastructure priority at AWS is to continuously improve the energy efficiency of its data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Photonics addresses a variety of issues and concerns: first, because photonics uses less energy than electronics, it can reduce the amount of power needed to do the same amount of work. This is vitally important because there are legitimate concerns that AI will outpace the capacity of the power grid. How does it work?

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Network World

OCTOBER 2, 2024

IBM unveiled its first IBM Quantum Data Center outside the United States – and its second ever – in Ehningen, Germany. A celebratory ceremony was attended by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, high-ranking European government officials, and global companies based in Europe, The data center includes two systems based on IBM Quantum Eagle.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

As large enterprise and hyperscaler networks process increasingly greater AI workloads and other applications that require high-bandwidth performance, the demand for optical connectivity technologies is growing as well. Efforts to develop more energy efficient technologies for optical networks and interfaces are also in the works.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Its especially attractive as an alternative to MPLS, promising to do for wide-area backbones what the cloud did for compute, storage, and application development. As with other as-a-service offerings, the idea behind BBaaS is to simplify the process of providing secure, high-performance connectivity across geographic regions.

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Data Center Knowledge

DECEMBER 31, 2013

The case for implementing fuel cells in data center applications has risen in recent years - showcasing the desire to use green energy, as well as reduce reliance on expensive ''just in case'' power equipment. Green Data Centers ClearEdge Power fuel cell'

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

One in five (21%) organizations surveyed are currently using multiple, separate management systems when managing their campus, branch, WAN, data center, and multicloud domains, according to the report, while 39% are leveraging a platform architecture across some networking domains.

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Network World

JULY 12, 2024

Most enterprise data centers have gotten by just fine by air cooling their CPUs and servers, but AI is forcing IT to consider new cooling types, including liquid cooling. Today, 22% of data centers are using liquid cooling, according to IDC numbers.

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Data Center Knowledge

AUGUST 11, 2014

Selecting the right generator for a data centers needs requires an understanding of several considerations, writes Jason Dick of MTU Onsite Energy. So how do you make sense of it all? Industry Perspectives'

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

AI networking AI networking refers to the application of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to network management and optimization. It involves using AI algorithms and machine learning techniques to analyze network data, identify patterns and make intelligent decisions to improve network performance, security and efficiency.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

“Cisco Routed Optical Networking has been deployed by more than 200 customers in 400G metro and data center interconnect (DCI) applications,” Bill Gartner, senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s optical systems and optics group, wrote in a blog about the enhancements to Routed Optical Networking.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 25, 2022

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. This is due to issues like data gravity, latency, application dependency, and regulatory compliance.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Cisco, HPE, Dell and others are looking to use Nvidia’s new AI microservice application-development blueprints to help enterprises streamline the deployment of generative AI applications. More applications are expected in the future. Developers can gain a head start on creating their own applications using NIM Agent Blueprints.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

The energy, oil, and gas sector uses these solutions for developing real-time wind and solar maps for energy optimization and improved photovoltaic efficiency. Perspective on data center energy and water use. An HPC data center intensity is even higher. Taking the USA as a benchmark, it takes about 7.6

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The innovation is seen as a potential game-changer for AI hardware, offering energy efficiency, speed, and performance improvements that could unlock new possibilities for deploying AI at scale. In contrast, IISc’s analog computing platform promises to dramatically cut both the time and energy required for such tasks.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2020

Power Innovations built a 250-kilowatt fuel cell system to help Microsoft explore the potential of using a hydrogen fuel cells for backup power generation at data centers. Microsoft conducted the proof-of-concept at a data center near Salt Lake City, Utah. Power Innovations Photo).

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