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3 strategies for carbon-free data centers

Network World

Data centers not only require a reliable source of power, they also require backup power in the form of generators. Dietrich pointed out that if a data center operator builds out enough backup capacity to support 250 megawatts of demand, theyre essentially building a new, on-site power plant.

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Network World’s Best of Enterprise Network 2024 award winners

Network World

In many ways, networking is a mature, stable industry, based on established technologies like Wi-Fi and Ethernet, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary. But networking vendors are constantly innovating to keep pace with skyrocketing volumes of traffic that need to move securely and reliably across complex multicloud environments.

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9 steps to take to prepare for a quantum future

Network World

It is similar to how fusion power reactors have been able to produce more energy than they use. And the third step is to look at the encryption around data backups. But encryption keys are, relatively speaking, pretty short, making them a good fit for the first quantum networks. All of this needs to happen as soon as possible.

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5 Must-Have Features of Backup as a Service For Hybrid Environments

CIO Business Intelligence

As the value and business criticality of data increases, so do the challenges of backup, recovery, and data management. Many IT organizations that have cobbled together data protection solutions over the years now find themselves saddled with rigid, siloed infrastructure based on an equally rigid backup approach.

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Small step towards green data center power tested in Dublin

Network World

Hydrogen fuel cell technology developed by GeoPura, a UK-based firm that specializes in renewable energy and Siemens Energy, and managed by ESB, Ireland’s state-owned electricity company, is being put to use at a data center site. Lantry described hydrogen fuel cells as being a “sustainable alternative to traditional backup power.”

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Lenovo targets AI workloads with massive storage update

Network World

When compared to older storage systems with mechanical 10k RPM drives, they offer 97% greater energy savings and a 99% density improvement, Lenovo stated.

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Lumen Orbit wants to deploy data centers in space

Network World

Today’s data centers have a multitude of well-known issues: They gobble up massive amounts of energy and space, are costly, and struggle to meet the intense resource demands of next-gen artificial intelligence (AI). This enables “orders of magnitude lower marginal energy costs,” the company wrote.