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

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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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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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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Forrester IT

APRIL 21, 2021

Your car is a small data center on wheels. Worry not, your supply of Cool Ranch Doritos is just fine. The chips I’m talking about here are based on silicon, not potatoes or corn. Semiconductors power just about everything now. When you do a Zoom […].

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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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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Dynamic changes are occurring in the technology infrastructure landscape, impacting the data center, remote work, edge environments, and connectivity. Learn more in our 2024 technology infrastructure predictions.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

HPE claims that this approach effectively reduces the required data center floor space by 50% and reduces the cooling power necessary per server blade by 37%. “As Data centers warm up to liquid cooling : AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing are creating cooling challenges for data center owners and operators.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

If you spend any amount of time reading whitepapers, analyst research, or attending webinars you’ll see the term digital transformation used in conjunction with a wide range of enterprise-focused technologies ranging from data centers to application development, to enterprise architecture and AI […].

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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

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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Forrester IT

JANUARY 10, 2022

They are also crossing into the physical world, from data centers to factory floors, customer touchpoints, […].

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Schneider Electric has introduced AI-ready data center designs aimed at addressing the energy demands and sustainability challenges brought by artificial intelligence (AI). Data centers are the backbone of this AI infrastructure and are the critical enabler of efficiency and decarbonization.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Japanese IT corporation Fujitsu and US server manufacturer Supermicro have teamed up to develop a new data center platform designed for AI applications. The technology will be based on Fujitsu's Monaka, a novel Arm-based processor architecture, announced as the successor to the A64FX chip. Read Entire Article

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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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Forrester IT

AUGUST 29, 2024

The previous evaluation, The Forrester New Wave™: Microsegmentation, Q1 2022 was all about layer 3 microsegmentation in a data center (or private […] Just over two years separates this research from the previous report, and the technological advances over that short time are stunning.

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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 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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 29, 2024

In an era marked by heightened environmental, social and governance (ESG) scrutiny and rapid artificial intelligence (AI) adoption, the integration of actionable sustainable principles in enterprise architecture (EA) is indispensable. Training a single AI model emits as much as five average cars over their lifetimes.

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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

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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GeekWire

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. GemaTEG’s thermal management system aims to improve the way data centers regulate energy-hungry microprocessors. a startup based in Bellevue, Wash.,

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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Nvidia has announced a Zero Trust platform built around its BlueField data-processing units and Nvidia software. You cannot just rely on the firewall on the outside, you have to assume that any application or any user inside your data center is a bad actor,” said Manuvir Das, head of enterprise computing at Nvidia.

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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. Storing too much (or too little) data Software developers are pack rats. To make matters worse, finding the right bits gets harder as the data lakes get filled to the brim.

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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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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Apollo is believed to be the first large-scale deployment of optical circuit switching (OCS) for data center networking. Apollo has served as the backbone of all Google data center networks, having been in production for nearly a decade, supporting all data center use cases.

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Network World

MAY 28, 2020

Cisco is embracing the secure-access service edge (SASE) architecture put forth by Gartner with plans to upgrade some of its existing products to reach the goal of delivering access control, security and networking to cloud services. Network pros react to new Cisco certification curriculum.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Networking startup Enfabrica is making the rounds at trade shows to demonstrate its new networking products, which are specifically targeted to handle the heavy data throughput required for AI. In an AI environment, data movement across GPUs requires multiple hops, is prone to congestion, and results in unpredictable load distribution.

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Network World

AUGUST 1, 2024

It rearchitected the traditional secure web gateway (SWG) to avoid routing traffic through cloud data centers. By performing security directly on the endpoint instead of routing traffic through stopover data centers, dope.security says its SWG can boost network performance fourfold.

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Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, supports many large data centers and handles massive amounts of data traffic over high-bandwidth network connections worldwide. The Arista 7800R3 is a data center switch that supports up to 48 100GbE ports. “The

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TechSpot

AUGUST 11, 2023

In addition to announcing the 256TB drives, Samsung also unveiled the PBSSD architecture, a petabyte-scale ultra-high capacity solution that it claims "provides scalability through capacity variation depending on the application." Read Entire Article

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