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

MARCH 5, 2025

Enterprise data storage skills are in demand, and that means storage certifications can be more valuable to organizations looking for people with those qualifications. No longer are storage skills a niche specialty, Smith says. Both vendor-specific and general storage certifications are valuable, Smith says.

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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

MARCH 19, 2025

IBM has broadened its support of Nvidia technology and added new features that are aimed at helping enterprises increase their AI production and storage capabilities. This type of interoperability is increasingly essential as organizations adopt agentic AI and other advanced applications that require AI model integration, IBM stated.

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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. Another piece of the puzzle is Nvidias Data Center Infrastructure-on-a-Chip (DOCA) architecture, a software framework designed to enable and accelerate workloads on BlueField DPUs.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

PEAK:AIO, maker of a dedicated AI storage infrastructure server software, has released a new version of its AI Data Server, with emphasis on performance, density, and sustainability. PEAK:AIO is a software defined storage platform designed running on Dell Technologies PowerEdge R7525 2U server with up to 24x NVMe drives.

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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. Efforts are already underway to focus on compliance, performance enhancements, storage, and management solutions.

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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

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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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

MARCH 18, 2025

The companies rolled out the Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, which brings together Cisco security and networking technology, Nvidia DPUs, and storage options from Pure Storage, Hitachi, Vantara, NetApp, and VAST Data. Hypershield uses AI to dynamically refine security policies based on application identity and behavior.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Backup software is a traditional approach to data protection, requiring businesses to purchase and manage their own backup solutions. This software is installed on-premises and is responsible for copying data from servers, databases, and other devices to a storage system to safeguard it against loss or corruption.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

To keep up, IT must be able to rapidly design and deliver application architectures that not only meet the business needs of the company but also meet data recovery and compliance mandates. It’s a tall order, because as technologies, business needs, and applications change, so must the environments where they are deployed.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. For example, Cisco and Nvidia just expanded their partnership to bolster AI in the data center. Its a brand-new skill set. Other companies are also getting in on the act.

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Network World

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.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware. VergeFabric is one of those integrated elements.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Security gets a boost with secret store container storage interface (CSI) One of the more challenging aspects of cloud-native Kubernetes deployments is managing secrets.Secret are passwords and access credentials for services, and they should not be exposed or hard coded into applications. In particular, OpenShift 4.18

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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. Digital Realty alone supports around 2.4

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

This includes everything from devices to data centers and cloud, as well as an open ecosystem of technology partners to create AI applications through a traditional purchase or as a subscription to Dell Apex, its collection of multi-cloud services. “AI AI is transforming business at an unprecedented rate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

This approach enhances the agility of cloud computing across private and public locations—and gives organizations greater control over their applications and data. Adopting the same software-defined storage across multiple locations creates a universal storage layer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. This is prompting the CIO shift to hybrid and multicloud. Nearly half indicated that implementing hybrid IT is a top priority for their CIO.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This includes acquisition of new software licenses and/or cloud expenses, hardware purchases (compute, storage), early termination costs related to the existing virtual environment, application testing/quality assurance and test equipment, the report reads.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

In fact, quantum computing will force organizations to delete the majority of personal data rather than risk exposure, the research firm says. Adversaries that can afford storage costs can vacuum up encrypted communications or data sets right now. Another potential blind spot is SaaS applications, she says.

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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 29, 2020

VMware is continuing its effort to remake the data center, cloud and edge to handle the distributed workloads and applications of the future. To read this article in full, please click here

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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DECEMBER 5, 2024

This enables use cases such as near real-time disaster recovery over photonics-based links in industries like banking and finance, vehicle-to-vehicle communication in an autonomous vehicle scenario, and real-time edge-to-data center connections for robotics applications in factories, or at remote sites in mining or oil and gas industries.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In addition to Dell Technologies’ compute, storage, client device, software, and service capabilities, NVIDIA’s advanced AI infrastructure and software suite can help organizations bolster their AI-powered use cases, with these powered by a high-speed networking fabric.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They are intently aware that they no longer have an IT staff that is large enough to manage an increasingly complex compute, networking, and storage environment that includes on-premises, private, and public clouds. These ensure that organizations match the right workloads and applications with the right cloud.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. Too frequently I&O says, “I got that application back online in 20 minutes”. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Rather, they expect you to get them back online.

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Eric D. Brown

DECEMBER 23, 2014

T he modern data center is a complex environment with many different systems and many different objectives. The data center exists to provide an organization with the networking, storage, processing and connectivity features needed to operate in the fast paced, data-driven world we live in today.

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