Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

The deal, which sees Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes in Ampere, strengthens SoftBanks position in the growing market for AI-optimized processors as major cloud providers increasingly look beyond traditional x86 architecture.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The upgrade will also allow the company to ensure that theres a sufficient safety margin when it comes to its capacity. Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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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

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 26, 2025

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. IDC survey data shows a strong preference among SD-WAN users or prospective users for single-vendor SASE architectures. AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In the past year, Aviz Networks has seen solid progress, with the company reporting a 400% increase in revenue compared to the previous year. The latest addition is the company’s network AI assistant, which aims to assist with operations and management.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

405B workload compared to the companys H200 NVL8, which is based on the Hopper architecture. In the latest round of benchmarks, the three year old architecture still managed to achieve a 60% performance boost over last year on the Llama 2 70B workload. That isnt to say that Hopper is lagging.

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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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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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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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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Purkayastha emphasized the need for new standards and reference architectures to support the integration of GPUs into a wide range of devices, from phones to IoT. “We Parantap Lahiri, vice president of network and data center engineering at eBay said that his organization is using AI today for a networking monitoring system.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

The base architectural design of Blackwell Ultra is similar to Nvidias Blackwell, but it provides incremental performance improvements with increased memory capacity and AI tweaks in the silicon, said Anshel Sag, vice president and principal analyst at Moor Insights and Strategy. The predecessor system, GB200 NVL72, had 13.5

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, helped develop the 7700 and recently said it would be deploying the Etherlink switch in its Disaggregated Scheduled Fabric (DSF), which features a multi-tier network that supports around 100,000 DPUs, according to reports. New AI clusters require new high-speed connections into the existing backbone.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

The new feature, Nile Nav is aimed at reducing the complexity of network provisioning to save money and time, according to the company. For management, Nile AI software automates installation and other steady-state controls and includes management and observability capabilities that are tailored for customer installations.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

We are on the cusp of one of the most significant changes in the x86 architecture and ecosystem in decades – with a new level of customization, compatibility and scalability required to meet current and future customer demands,” said Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger in a statement. Those are the companies most likely looking for some consistency.”

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. Thats why our architecture embeds security at every layer of the AI stack, Patel wrote in a blog post about the news. VAST Data Storage support.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We believe an AI-powered workforce is critical because AI has tremendouspotential but can deepen the digital divide if we dont act intentionally, making sure that no populations get left behind, wrote Par Merat, Vice President of Cisco Learning and Certifications, in a company blog announcing the news.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 21, 2025

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. Add high bandwidth costs and painful latency into the mix, and its no surprise companies started looking for a better option.

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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. Moving applications between data center, edge, and cloud environments is no simple task.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The dual-port JBOF architecture is designed for active-active clustering, ensuring high availability for scale-up storage applications as well as scale-out storage such as object storage and parallel file systems. “Our Companies are prioritizing investment in highly configured server clusters for AI, research firm Omdia reports.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Later, as an enterprise architect in consumer-packaged goods, I could no longer realistically contemplate a world where IT could execute mass application portfolio migrations from data centers to cloud and SaaS-based applications and survive the cost, risk and time-to-market implications.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Many clients have reported dissatisfaction with the new licenses, according to research firm Gartner, which notes that changes have forced companies to purchase bundled VMware software they dont intend to use. Equally, it is a focus of IT operational duties including workload provisioning, backup and disaster recovery.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

The research, released this week, analyzes the networking challenges, IT and business priorities, architectural maturity, and investment strategies of 2,052 IT professionals across 10 global industries. Network architectures are more sophisticated, more complex, and spread across more multi-clouds and multi-vendors than ever.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 2, 2025

SAP R/1 was designed as standard software that could be offered to other companies. In 2008, SAP developed the SAP HANA architecture in collaboration with the Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University with the goal of analyzing large amounts of data in real-time. In 1979, the successor product, SAP R/2 , was launched.

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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.

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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. And this is just a little bit of an extension of that.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

As part of this expansion, IBM is integrating its watsonx development platform with Nvidia Inference Microservices (NIM) software, the companies announced at Nvidias GTC conference. The IBM AI Integration service already supports a number of third-party systems, including Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow environments.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women. Several went out and started their own company. Only 10.4%

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. The HPE acquisition target is also offering a new validated design for enterprise AI clusters and has opened a lab to certify enterprise AI data center projects.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For all its advances, enterprise architecture remains a new world filled with tasks and responsibilities no one has completely figured out. Some companies have tried setting data retention policies to destroy everything as soon as regulations allow. No need to do anything but give the cloud company your credit card number.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

HPE and Juniper met with the DOJ several times to go over the purchase, but the companies had no inclination the DOJ would go the direction it didcertainly with regards to its focus on the wireless market, Rahim said. Cisco has servers (UCS), but they dont have a significant position in the enterprise data center market.

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Network World

MARCH 4, 2025

Netskope added regions including data centers in Calgary, Helsinki, Lisbon, and Prague as well as expanded existing NewEdge regions including data centers in Bogota, Jeddah, Osaka, and New York City. Its not enough to have all the right security tools or network services or even that theyve converged.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Jointly designed by IBM Research and IBM Infrastructure, Spyre’s architecture is designed for more efficient AI computation. The Spyre Accelerator will contain 1TB of memory and 32 AI accelerator cores that will share a similar architecture to the AI accelerator integrated into the Telum II chip, according to IBM.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

didn’t intend to make a system for precisely controlling the temperature of data center microprocessors when they started dreaming up ideas five years ago. The company has its U.S. The company won the Flywheel Investment Conference in 2023 , including a $150,000 investment. a startup based in Bellevue, Wash.,

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Re-platforming to reduce friction Marsh McLennan had been running several strategic data centers globally, with some workloads on the cloud that had sprung up organically. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS). It’s critically important to select the right architecture for your enterprise to ensure the best outcomes.

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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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