Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The chief architect for Intels Xeon server processors has defected to chip rival Qualcomm, which is making yet another run at entering the data center market. If Intel was hoping for a turnaround in 2025, it will have to wait at least a little bit longer.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco has unwrapped a new family of data center switches it says will help customers more securely support large workloads and facilitate AI development across the enterprise. The first major service these DPUs will perform on the switch will be Layer 4 stateful segmentation throughCiscos Hypershield security architecture.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. CDNA 3 is based on the gaming graphics card RDNA architecture but is expressly designed for use in data center applications like generative AI and high-performance computing. The FP6 is new and unique to AMD.

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Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Rising costs, AI concerns and staffing challenges are among the top issues facing data center leaders in 2024, according to Uptime Institute’s latest survey data. Data center teams are working to balance higher rack power density and future capacity needs with capital investments and staffing limitations.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. Sharma added that hyperscale architecture is typically based on Layer-3 features and BGP. This feature enables long-range, high-speed connections crucial for distributed data center architectures.

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Information Week

MAY 18, 2021

What becomes of private data centers as hybrid architecture continues to evolve on a digital path?

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Considerable amounts of data are collected on the edge. Edge servers do the job of culling the useless data and sending only the necessary data back to data centers for processing. Liquid cooling gains ground: Liquid cooling is inching its way in from the fringes into the mainstream of data center infrastructure.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Broadcom on Tuesday released VMware Tanzu Data Services, a new “advanced service” for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), at VMware Explore Barcelona. VMware Tanzu for MySQL: “The classic web application backend that optimizes transactional data handling for cloud native environments.” Is it comprehensive?

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Information Week

MARCH 20, 2023

Data centers still focus on transactional records data. Is it time to consider a new IT architecture that accounts for AI and analytics?

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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

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

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

JANUARY 26, 2025

For starters, generative AI capabilities will improve how enterprise IT teams deploy and manage their SD-WAN architecture. An example of this is in the area of analyzing real-time network telemetry data to improve network performance as well as user and application experiences. AI is set to make its mark on SD-WAN technology.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. The previous capacity of the DE-CIX network was 100G, which means that data centers running at 400G need to split the signal. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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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

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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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The 7700R4 AI Distributed Etherlink Switch (DES) supports the largest AI clusters, offering massively parallel distributed scheduling and congestion-free traffic spraying based on the Jericho3-AI architecture. The 7060X6 AI Leaf switch features Broadcom Tomahawk 5 silicon with a capacity of 51.2 specification before the end of the year.

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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

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. Here are some of the leading data storage certifications, along with information on cost, duration of the exam, skills acquired, and other details.

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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

APRIL 19, 2020

Todd Pugh, CIO at food products manufacturer SugarCreek , manages a fully virtualized private data center. We asked three enterprises to share why they deployed microsegmentation technology in their networks and how it's working. Here are their stories. Distributed firewalls via VMware NSX.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

AI isn’t just another form of data traffic; it’s also a technology that can improve the operation of networks as well, which is another key theme that was explored at the event. “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

JANUARY 16, 2025

Other features in Nile Nav offer real-time deployment data and visibility as well as instant feedback during setup and activation ensures IT teams can monitor progress and address issues promptly, Kannan stated.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fortinet is expanding its data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities with the launch of its new AI-powered FortiDLP products. The FortiDLP platform provides automated data movement tracking, cloud application monitoring and endpoint protection mechanisms that work both online and offline.

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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. access offers visibility into who wants or has use of an AI application and then it controls access to protect and enforce data-loss prevention and mitigate potential threats.

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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

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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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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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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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. Nvidias GPUs support data types ranging from FP4 to FP64.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

The IBM Storage Scale platform will support CAS and now will respond to queries using the extracted and augmented data, speeding up the communications between GPUs and storage using Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and Spectrum-X networking, IBM stated.The multimodal document data extraction workflow will also supportNvidia NeMo Retriever microservices.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Supermicro announced the launch of a new storage system optimized for AI workloads using multiple Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing units (DPU) combined with an all-flash array. The new Just a Bunch of Flash (JBOF) system features a 2U rack that can house up to four BlueField-3 DPUs.

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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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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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