Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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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. McGregor described Dynamo as significant: Think of an OS for an entire data center.

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Network World

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 ). The SONiC community has grown significantly since and now features some 4,000 contributors and 28 paying members.

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Network World

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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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

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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. BlueField-3 accelerates networking traffic through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over converged Ethernet), GPU direct storage and GPU initiated storage.

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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.

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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

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. 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

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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

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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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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Network World

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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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco is updating its existing learning materials in the data center and security certification tracks to incorporate the AI-related information that IT professionals need at different levels of expertise. It begins with three courses on AI basics and a series on AI infrastructure requirements, Merat explained in the blog.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

As a networking and security strategy, zero trust stands in stark contrast to traditional, network-centric, perimeter-based architectures built with firewalls and VPNs, which involve excessive permissions and increase cyber risk. The main point is this: you cannot do zero trust with firewall- and VPN-centric architectures.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says. Quantum qubits are taking over traditional architectures for protein folding and mapping, he says. The machines are very affordable, says Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research Inc.

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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. Add to all this personnel costs, and the expense might not be worth it.

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Network World

APRIL 21, 2025

How GPUs are different from CPUs GPUs and CPUs are both computer and server hardware components. But whereas GPUs are ideal for comprehensive, data-heavy tasks, CPUs act as a brain of sorts that manage computer systems. Tasks are parceled out into smaller, independent steps that are distributed across the GPUs architecture.

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Network World

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. billion by 2025.

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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. The Cafe-like Branch eliminates these inefficiencies while simplifying the network architecture. Ready to rethink your network?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

Peter Rutten, research VP, performance intensive computing, and worldwide infrastructure research at IDC, says the key takeaway from the DeepSeek results is the current approach to AI training that AI can only improve with bigger, more, and faster architecture is not justified.

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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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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

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.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

At a high level, NaaS requires a scalable cloud-native architecture thats flexible, incorporates a high degree of automation, and makes great use of AI and machine learning (ML) to facilitate self-healing, streamline management, and boost observability. Managed service: Subscription-based hardware plus a managed service to operate it.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

EMC Refreshes Data Protection Portfolio. 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. About John Rath John Rath is a veteran IT professional and regular contributor at Data Center Knowledge.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

But modernization projects are pushing ahead: In the same PWC survey, 81% of CIOs said they prioritized cloud-based architecture as a positive and tangible step forward to improve readiness to handle future challenges. The question that remains is, can this be done with the funding available in 2025?

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU. Developers can deploy their AI-infused application via a lightweight container in a data center, in the cloud, or at the edge on a variety of hardware architectures,” he wrote.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Alice & Bob devise cat qubits Also in January, quantum computing startup Alice & Bob announced their new quantum error correction architecture. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. The improvements come from both hardware and software advances.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

All this has a tremendous impact on the digital value chain and the semiconductor hardware market that cannot be overlooked. The apps and tools have to gather, process and deliver back data to the consumer with minimal latency. Hardware innovations become imperative to sustain this revolution.

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Network World

JULY 30, 2024

“The CPU becomes a data-moving machine, and unfortunately, CPUs were built to compute, not to move a ton of data back and forth. There are a number of reasons why the CPU architecture basically becomes a bottleneck.” The appliance takes over for the CPU, greatly enhancing the throughput and scalability of the GPUs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For decades, my involvement with enterprises has shown that data center networking drives enterprise networking, and data center technology drives data center networking. Cisco has servers (UCS), but they dont have a significant position in the enterprise data center market.

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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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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is metric that measures the energy efficiency of a data center.

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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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