CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 19, 2024

The shift toward a dynamic, bidirectional, and actively managed grid marks a significant departure from traditional grid architecture. This transformation is fueled by several factors, including the surging demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and the exponential growth of renewable energy and battery storage.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

I was confident that a zero trust architecture with the right vendor would at least help address our security concerns. What to expect and advice for Zscaler deployments That’s not to say there isn’t a learning curve when transitioning to a zero trust architecture. You and your teams need to be aware of the effort it takes.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

More organizations than ever have adopted some sort of enterprise architecture framework, which provides important rules and structure that connect technology and the business. For example, one of the largest energy companies in the world has embraced TOGAF — to a point.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The energy sector, driven by sustainability goals such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and the UAEs Net Zero 2050, will see a surge in investments in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-powered energy efficiency solutions.

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Trends Healthcare Energy Disaster Recovery 264

Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For example, the open-source AI model from Chinese company DeepSeek seems to have shown that an LLM can produce very high-quality results at a very low cost with some clever architectural changes to how the models work. These improvements are likely to be quickly replicated by other AI companies.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 4, 2022

Let us take a look at some companies that have risen to the occasion and leveraged this crisis situation to rethink organizational architecture and embark upon network orchestration. . Powering through the world’s energy needs . Consider for example one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies, Chevron.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 6, 2025

In the energy and utilities sector, sustainability goals, such as Saudi Arabias Vision 2030 and UAEs Net Zero 2050, will drive investment in smart grids, renewable energy, and AI-driven energy efficiency solutions. Fintech hubs like Dubai and Riyadh will continue attracting global and regional players.

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Trends Energy Healthcare Government 203

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

Without the right cloud architecture, enterprises can be crushed under a mass of operational disruption that impedes their digital transformation. What’s getting in the way of transformation journeys for enterprises? The initial stages involve meticulous planning, analysis, and strategizing.

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Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

Data centers are going to face intense scrutiny as they consume more energy and more water. According to Uptime, infrastructure requirements for next-generation AI will force operators to explore new power architectures, which will drive innovations in data center power delivery.

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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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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 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

Network 459

Network Energy Data Center Training 459

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.”

Energy 431

Energy Data Center System Data 431

Network World

JULY 24, 2024

“Here in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, we build leadership-class supercomputers for scientific applications,” said Matt Sieger, project director for Discovery, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at ORNL, which is managed and operated by UT-Battelle on behalf of the US Department of Energy.

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Energy Budget Architecture System 434

Forrester IT

MAY 11, 2017

Zero Trust is a conceptual and architectural model for how security teams should redesign networks into secure microperimeters, increase data security through obfuscation techniques, limit the risks associated with excessive user privileges, and dramatically improve security detection and response through analytics and automation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Part of that balance is also figuring out the technologies that will have the most material impact on the organizational strategy, without wasting valuable time and energy on tech that kind of ‘is what it is’ and does its job well enough.” Some systems become useless as business needs change, so instead of maintaining them, we retire them.”

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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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Energy Hardware Training System 435

Network World

AUGUST 6, 2024

Inflation is partly to blame, Lawrence said, “but it’s also driven by the supply chain issues which followed on from Covid, high energy prices, staff shortages, and the overall really strong demand picture. Cost is clearly a big issue.”

Data Center 497

Data Center Data Survey Energy 497

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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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 GB300 NVL72 rack will offer 1.1 terabytes of HBM3e memory.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Today at the 2024 OCP Global Summit , Nvidia announced it has contributed its Blackwell GB200 NVL72 electro-mechanical designs – including the rack architecture, compute and switch tray mechanicals, liquid cooling and thermal environment specifications, and Nvidia NVLink cable cartridge volumetrics – to the project.

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Data Center Architecture Energy Open Source 369

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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Microsoft Cloud Energy Enterprise 397

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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Google Open Source Training Architecture 475

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 Software Software Data Center 418

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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IBM Intel Data Center Energy 370

Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

AI, security, energy-efficient computing , robotics, and virtual computing interactions are among the research firm’s top 10 strategic technology trends, which were unveiled at Gartner’s annual IT Symposium/XPO in Orlando. Energy-efficient computing Energy-efficient computing will continue to be a hot topic, according to Gartner.

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Trends Energy Government System 435

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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Data Center Data Energy Architecture 365

Network World

JULY 12, 2024

In addition, Schneider Electric details six common liquid cooling architectures, combining different CDU types and heat rejection methods, and it provides guidance on selecting the best option based on factors such as existing infrastructure, deployment size, speed, and energy efficiency.

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Guidelines Data Center Architecture Data 396

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 Cloud Energy Licensing 290

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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Dell Data Center Energy Disaster Recovery 317

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In Europe and some other regions, the priority is often with projects related to smart cities, circular economies, and renewable energy integration. Skills in Python, R, TensorFlow, and Apache Spark enable professionals to build predictive models for energy usage, optimize resource allocation, and analyze environmental impacts.

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Energy Engineering Devops Cloud 130

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 28, 2025

In the coming years, the region will see a surge in investments focused on AI capabilities, spanning areas such as data governance, cloud infrastructures, foundation models, and the architecture needed to support these advanced technologies.

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Government Healthcare Banking Cloud 130

Forrester IT

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The US’s Energy Information Administration predicted in its International Energy Outlook 2021 report that if current policy and technology trends continue, global energy consumption and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions will increase through 2050 as […].

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Strategy Energy Policies Trends 341

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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Network Data Center Google Applications 459

CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 8, 2025

On top of setting clear expectations, providing necessary resources, and celebrating successes, leadership must stay engaged with the team to inspire, invoke energy and provide a vision of success in relatable ways. Leadership commitment No digital transformation will be successful without leadership commitment and backing.

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Resources Architecture Guidelines Study 278

CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Trust Architectures and Digital Identity – Trust architectures and digital identity have grown by nearly 50 percent, reflecting the increasing importance of security, privacy, and resilience. – Generative AI is expected to contribute up to $4.4

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Trends Architecture .Net Software Development 298

CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 27, 2024

It arrives alongside the announcement of SAP’s Open Reference Architecture project as part of the EU’s IPCEI-CIS initiative. billion), with the goal of building a “cloud-edge continuum” with a provider-agnostic common technological foundation for energy-saving, climate-neutral, highly efficient, automated, and interconnected services.

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