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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Routed Optical Networking offers an architecture that unifies the wave division multiplexing (WDM), optical transport network (OTN), and packet transport layers into a single layer that’s easier to control – just as Ethernet VPN and segment routing simplify the service and traffic engineering network layers, according to Cisco.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As global AI energy usage mounts, Nvidia claims efficiency gains of up to 100,000X October 08, 2024 : As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Here’s a rundown of some of the announcements you might have missed.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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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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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

AI appliance vendor NeuReality has announced its NR1-S solution significantly boosts the output of CPU- and GPU-based systems, reducing energy costs and energy efficiency, by taking over the work normally done by the CPU. There are a number of reasons why the CPU architecture basically becomes a bottleneck.”

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Network World

JULY 15, 2024

AWS built its own Ethernet-based architecture that relies on its custom-built Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA) network interface, which uses technology known as scalable reliable datagram (SRD), a network transport protocol designed by AWS. Training and running AI models can be extremely energy-intensive. “AI

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

As global AI energy usage mounts, Nvidia claims efficiency gains of up to 100,000X October 08, 2024 : As concerns over AI energy consumption ratchet up, chip maker Nvidia is defending what it calls a steadfast commitment to sustainability. Here’s a rundown of some of the announcements you might have missed.

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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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GeekWire

AUGUST 24, 2023

But they’re also sparking concern over the amount of energy needed to create and operate the systems. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. That’s on par with the annual energy use of roughly 1,000 U.S. The data centers are where the “cloud” resides. We need new ideas.”

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 25th. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 25th. “The traditional method for specifying power density using a single figure such as watts per square meter (or foot) is an unfortunate practice that often leads to confusion as well as a waste of energy and money.”

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Efforts to develop more energy efficient technologies for optical networks and interfaces are also in the works. While the need to support high bandwidth and speed is critical, these players are also focused on improving energy usage. But the use of fiber optics in networks is not without its challenges.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And the importance of energy efficiency for enterprise IT cannot be overstated. With the paradigm shift from the on-premises data center to a decentralized edge infrastructure, companies are on a journey to build more flexible, scalable, distributed IT architectures, and they need experienced technology partners to support the transition.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

Data center developer Digital Realty Trust has purchased a 5.3 megawatt data center, the company said today. The 15,900 square meter development at De President, Hoofddorp, Haarlemmermeer will feature six data halls, each capable of supporting 1.92 Each data hall will be designed using Digital Realty’s POD 3.0

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

At a Backup to the Future event this week EMC announced a broad array of new hardware and software products that enable customers to deploy new Protection Storage Architectures. The new products cut across the company’s market leading Data Domain, Avamar, NetWorker and Mozy product lines. Modular Data Centers.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

The Azure Cobalt 100 CPU , which is built on Arm architecture , was launched in November last year by Microsoft in an attempt to make its infrastructure across data centers more energy efficient when compared to commercial AMD and Intel CPUs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 20, 2022

Being on what she calls the “frontier” of the global energy transformation may keep her up some nights, but it is “rewarding” beyond words, says Karaboutis, who will be speaking at the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium next week. Modernizing a utility’s data architecture. We’re very mature in our data architecture and what we want.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 16, 2013

This is a fully redundant, Tier IV datacenter facility constructed with environmentally friendly products and systems, utilizing the newest energy efficient technology and architectural design methodologies. The site won the Silicon Valley Power Energy Innovator Award for its energy efficient technologies and architecture.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

Colocation facilities like this Equinix data center are key components of many hybrid cloud infrastructures. Colocation centers are key components of many hybrid architectures, providing third-party space to securely host corporate infrastructure, as well as ultra-fast connections to public clouds like Amazon Web Services.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 23, 2013

A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. A Closer Look at Data Center “High Availability” and “Service Delivery”. The need around the modern data center infrastructure continues to grow. The data center IT equipment space and environment. Access and connectivity.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

IBM said today that it will make CloudFoundry a component of its open cloud architecture and work with Pivotal on further development of the CloudFoundry open source project and establishing an open governance model for the community. Google, IBM Team on Data Center Research. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

The Peak Hosting deal is the latest in a series of announcements highlighting the expansion of Digital Realty’s operations in Ashburn, as well as the broader growth trends for the data center industry in Loudoun County. Phase two will feature 12 Turn-Key Flex data center PODs. Modular Data Centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 3, 2023

One of four government data centers in the Netherlands, Overheidsdatacenter Noord (ODC-Noord), the northernmost facility of its kind in The Netherlands, is located in the picturesque city of Groningen. The migration to software-defined data centers was an important step in the right direction, but it’s just the beginning.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Data Center Data centers are physical facilities that enterprises use to house business-critical applications and information and which are evolving from centralized, on-premises facilities to edge deployments and public-cloud services. Data center automation can be implemented using scripting languages (e.g.,

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

DreamWorks animators use HP Z800 and Z820 workstations with Intel Xeon E5 processors, a HP FlexNetwork architecture, and HP networking to simplify collaboration among artists. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 31, 2024

Everything from geothermal data centers to more efficient graphic processing units (GPUs) can help. Use more efficient processes and architectures Boris Gamazaychikov, senior manager of emissions reduction at SaaS provider Salesforce, recommends using specialized AI models to reduce the power needed to train them. “Is

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 18, 2023

With four high-performance data centers, including facilities in Cologne, Dusseldorf and two in Hamburg, plusserver is well known for its ability to address the most demanding data sovereignty needs in Germany and throughout Europe – a fact underscored earlier this year when it earned the VMware Sovereign Cloud distinction.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

Trillium is the sixth iteration of Google’s Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) and is 67% more energy efficient and nearly five times as fast as its predecessor, TPU v5, according to the company. MXUs are part of the TPU chip architecture. Trillium chips can scale up to 256 TPUs in a single high-bandwidth, low-latency pod, Vahdat added.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

“Using the workflow, enterprises can combine NeMo Retriever NIM microservices with community or custom models to build high-accuracy, multimodal retrieval pipelines that can be deployed wherever enterprise data resides,” according to a blog post by Justin Boitano, who leads the scale-out enterprise accelerated data center business at NVIDIA.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

To win in the Age of Data, organizations must become action-enabled enterprises with access to unconstrained analytics and frictionless data integration. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 12, 2024

The London-based energy distributor and system operator is close to completing a major migration to a hybrid cloud infrastructure that will serve roughly one third of all residents and businesses in the United Kingdom. For others, such as UK Power Networks, a more methodical and protracted journey has proved to be the best approach.

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Network World

MAY 16, 2024

With a total of 8,699,904 combined CPU and GPU cores, the Frontier system has an HPE Cray EX architecture that combines 3 rd Gen AMD EPYC CPUs optimized for HPC and AI with AMB Instinct MI250X accelerators. The system relies on Cray’s Slingshot 11 network for data transfer, and the machine has a power efficiency rating of 52.93

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

We’ve all heard this mantra: “Secure digital transformation requires a true zero trust architecture.” Its advanced zero trust architecture minimizes the attack surface by hiding applications behind the Zscaler security cloud. Zscaler’s zero trust architecture for building a security service edge (SSE) ecosystem is second to none.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 13, 2022

“As businesses and enterprises expand horizontally or vertically, they add to their IT estate whether that is through cloud or private data centers,” notes Nalini Manuru, Business Development Manager at IBM. “As In fact, self-owned data centers and IT equipment are a major source of energy usage and carbon emissions for enterprises.

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