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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 1, 2025

The successful execution of AerCaps growth through acquisition strategy involved many moving parts, among them merging two IT departments, a process that has plagued other high profile M&A projects in the past. Business strategy must drive IT decision making Business-first pragmatism is the key to understanding what makes Koletzki tick.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

SONiC remains a cornerstone of Aviz’s strategy Shukla highlighted the growing demand for SONiC, particularly in data centers and GPU fabrics, driven by the need for new infrastructure to support the increasing use of GPUs and inferencing networks. The new funding follows a $10 million round announced in December 2023.

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Forrester IT

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I am happy to announce that my coverage area now includes Data Center Services, Infrastructure Outsourcing, and Semiconductors. This is in addition to my existing coverage of Technical Debt and Enterprise Architecture.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Nile Nav automates these steps, handling everything from device models that are part of deployments to AI-driven setup and installation, wrote Karthik Kannan, chief of product strategy with Nile in a blog about the news.

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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

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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

App developers may not account for the memory and processing demands required to operate private AI models in cloud services, explains Troy Leach, chief strategy officer with Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes the use of best cloud practices.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In a panel session on the shift from WAN to AI-enhanced solutions, Rajarshi Purkayastha, vice president of customer strategy and presales at Tata Communications, noted that GPUs and AI workloads have extremely high bandwidth requirements, often in the range of hundreds of terabits per second.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Oracle has partnered with telecommunications service provider Telmex-Triara to open a second region in Mexico in an effort to keep expanding its data center footprint as it eyes more revenue from AI and generative AI-based workloads. That launch was followed by the opening of a new data center in Singapore and Serbia within months.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 13, 2025

To keep ahead of the curve, CIOs should continuously evaluate their business and technology strategies, adjusting them as necessary to address rapidly evolving technology, business, and economic practices. The IT operating model is driven by the degree of data integration and process standardization across business units, Thorogood observes.

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Forrester IT

AUGUST 16, 2023

Debates surrounding the Energy Efficiency Act, which aims to reduce energy use in public authorities, corporations, and data centers, will potentially influence future laws globally. Here’s the context: Data centers use a lot of energy. Why is this important and what does it mean?

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

As gen AI heads to Gartners trough of disillusionment , CIOs should consider how to realign their 2025 strategies and roadmaps. Placing an AI bet on marketing is often a force multiplier as it can drive data governance and security investments. Even this breakdown leaves out data management, engineering, and security functions.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD). The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […].

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

C R Srinivasan, EVP of cloud and cybersecurity services and chief digital officer at Tata Communications, sees many enterprises “getting more nuanced” with their cloud use and strategies in an effort to balance performance, costs, and security. Even though we’ll often do it in the cloud, doesn’t mean we should always do it in the cloud.”

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although some continue to leap without looking into cloud deals, the value of developing a comprehensive cloud strategy has become evident. Without a clear cloud strategy and broad leadership support, even value-adding cloud investments may be at risk. And it’s never too late for CIOs to reassess their cloud strategies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 28, 2024

To consolidate and modernize our technology, we focus on three transformations: customer facing, back office, and architecture. For the technical architecture, we use a cloud-only strategy. A cloud-only architecture allows us to operate in all these modes. What is your target architecture?

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLennan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

“What’s new with the launch of FortiDLP is that this is our first, standalone endpoint DLP solution, and is part of a broader strategy to expand and enhance our overall data protection portfolio,” Nirav Shah, vice president of product and solutions at Fortinet, told Network World.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 9, 2022

Today’s cloud strategies revolve around two distinct poles: the “lift and shift” approach, in which applications and associated data are moved to the cloud without being redesigned; and the “cloud-first” approach, in which applications are developed or redesigned specifically for the cloud. Change the organizational mindset.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Cloud strategies are undergoing a sea change of late, with CIOs becoming more intentional about making the most of multiple clouds. A lot of ‘multicloud’ strategies were not actually multicloud. Today’s strategies are increasingly multicloud by intention,” she adds.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

CIOs are now reassessing the strategies to transform their organizations with gen AI, but its not exactly time to throw out the work thats already been done. Rather it builds on the existing LLM training architecture, layering on technical and architectural optimizations to make training and inference more efficient.

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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). How to get started with an AI networking strategy AI networking solutions are offered through a variety of different formats.

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Data Center Knowledge

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

While a data center migration can be a daunting challenge, it also offers a great opportunity to improve and rethink your IT architecture and examine how well it meshes with your organization''s long term business strategies. Join Data Center Knowledge team for our next webinar where we discuss the.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Paul Beswick, CIO of Marsh McLellan, served as a general strategy consultant for most of his 23 years at the firm but was tapped in 2019 to relaunch the risk, insurance, and consulting services powerhouse’s global digital practice. Simultaneously, major decisions were made to unify the company’s data and analytics platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 7, 2025

Our company is about 176 years old, so weve got a lot of legacy systems that are older than me, says Mehta, executive vice president and chief information and strategy officer at National Life Group. Henderson is in the throes of an 18- to 20-month project to consolidate three database architectures for operational efficiencies.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

As organizations grapple with exponential data growth and complex hybrid cloud environments, IT leaders and professionals who can effectively manage, optimize and secure data storage are indispensable, says Gina Smith, research director at IDC and lead for its IT Skills for Digital Business practice.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 15, 2025

For data center capacity to spread to more regions of Africa, there will need to be a major effort to create structure for overland routes. One year after the AUs digital transformation strategy, the World Bank launched the All Africa Digital Economy Moonshot. billion inhabitants making up 15% of the global population.

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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. You can catch the webcast on demand.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 23, 2023

According to the MIT Technology Review Insights Survey, an enterprise data strategy supports vital business objectives including expanding sales, improving operational efficiency, and reducing time to market. The problem is today, just 13% of organizations excel at delivering on their data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet, controlling cloud costs remains the top challenge IT leaders face in making the most of their cloud strategies, with about one third — 35% — of respondents citing these expenses as the No. Other top concerns are data privacy and security challenges (31%) and lack of cloud security and cloud expertise (24%).

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