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JUNE 4, 2024

Computex 2024 is taking place in Taiwan this week, which means lots of hardware news as the OEM and parts suppliers of the world gather to show off their latest wares. 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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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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DECEMBER 20, 2024

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. Nvidia will face no objections to its plan to acquire Israeli AI orchestration software vendor Run:ai Labs in Europe, after the European Commission gave the deal its approval Friday.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Cisco Wireless 9178 Series supports Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), which lets customers automate network configuration and management based on user identity, device type, and application needs. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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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

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. Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. The Supermicro JBOF replaces the traditional storage CPU and memory subsystem with the BlueField-3 DPU and runs the storage application on the DPU’s 16 Arm cores.

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MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. However, switching to HCI is a capital expense decision.

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APRIL 10, 2018

IBM is widening its mainframe range with some narrower models – ZR1 and Rockhopper II – that are skinny enough to fit in a standard 19-inch rack, which will answer criticisms of potential customers that the hulking z14 introduced in July 2017 too big to fit in their data centers (see photo above). Check out REVIEW: VMware’s vSAN 6.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

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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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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MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIOs deployment profile is currently 70% on premises and about 30% via bare-metal service providers, with a particularly strong following among cloud service providers that host applications for their customers. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources.

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CIO Business Intelligence

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. However, this is often not true.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For enterprises, owning backup software often requires significant upfront investment in both software and hardware, and with it the demand of ongoing maintenance from an in-house IT team. BaaS solutions are subscription-based, typically charged on a pay-as-you-go basis according to the amount of data backed up.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

AWS, Microsoft, and Google are going nuclear to build and operate mega data centers better equipped to meet the increasingly hefty demands of generative AI. Earlier this year, AWS paid $650 million to purchase Talen Energy’s Cumulus Data Assets, a 960-megawatt nuclear-powered data center on site at Talen’s Susquehanna, Penn.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. Based on the network and user access policies, the user will then be able to connect with the specific applications and services that they are authorized to access. “We

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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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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

update, the technology is gaining a series of improvements including: enhanced observability features, application container improvements, and expanded network interface management functions. While retail was the initial target, today the technology has applicable use cases in any industry vertical imaginable. With the new L3AF 2.1.0

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

This means that they have developed an application that shows an advantage over a classical approach though not necessarily one that is fully rolled out and commercially viable at scale. Two functions remove the need to understand quantum circuits, focusing on optimization and chemistry applications.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. To read this article in full, please click here

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JUNE 6, 2023

The world has woken up to the power of generative AI and a whole ecosystem of applications and tools are quickly coming to life. All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Enterprise infrastructure that supports data center, cloud and edge networks could someday be dominated by one of its tiniest components--the smartNIC or data processing unit (DPU). NaaS is the future but it's got challenges.

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OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. How do you make the right choice for whatever application that you have?” You have both your customer data and then you have what I’ll call the operational data on the mainframe,” she says. “I

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

All of the new servers include support for the latest version of HPEs Integrated Lights Out (iLO) management technology, which lets customers diagnose and resolve server issues, configure and manage access, and perform a variety of other automated tasks aimed at improving efficiency, HPE stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

For decades, businesses have relied on MPLS and SD-WAN to connect branch offices and remote workers to critical applications. That worked when everything lived in the corporate data center. Paying a premium to backhaul traffic to a central data center made sense when that was where all applications lived.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. What are the benefits of SASE?

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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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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These ensure that organizations match the right workloads and applications with the right cloud. We also offer flexible month-to-month bridge licensing options for existing hardware, giving customers time to make informed long-term decisions for their business. At 11:11 Systems, we go exceptionally deep on compliance,” says Giardina.

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AUGUST 29, 2024

NGINX Plus is F5’s application security suite that includes a software load balancer, content cache, web server, API gateway, and microservices proxy designed to protect distributed web and mobile applications. F5 NGINX Plus works as a reverse proxy, offering traffic management and protection for AI model servers,” Anand wrote.

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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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