Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

On the demand side for data centers, large hyperscale cloud providers and other corporations are building increasingly bigger large language models (LLMs) that must be trained on massive compute clusters. Still, several questions remain about DeepSeeks training, infrastructure, and ability to scale, Schneider stated.

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OCTOBER 10, 2024

There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. These switches are specifically designed for AI workloads in accelerated computing platforms deployed at cloud scale. Scorpio PCIe 6.0 Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Microsoft is on track to invest around $80 billion this fiscal year to build out AI-enabled data centers, company president Brad Smith said Friday.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. Over the past four years, he said, Microsoft has been leasing more data centers than owning.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Google has signed its first corporate deal to purchase power from multiple small modular reactors (SMRs) to meet the energy needs of its AI systems, marking a key step as AI companies shift toward nuclear power. This move comes as other major tech companies are also exploring nuclear power as a sustainable energy source.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

FinOps finally became ubiquitous across the enterprise landscape last year with 75% of Forbes Global 2000 companies now all-in, according to IDC. Were 80 to 85% in the cloud and for us, the job is proactively tracking this spend, then educating developers and data teams on how to use cloud capabilities in a cost-effective manner, he says.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Enterprises know everything is not moving to the cloud that was the lesson of 2024, and it triggered some extreme reactions that fueled the cloud repatriation stories we all heard. Its that some things are, and should be, moving to the cloud. The top strategy so far is what one enterprise calls the Cloud Team.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cisco’s second annual AI Readiness Index notes a “huge chasm” between the urgency companies feel to deploy AI and their ability to actually do it. Some 8,000 global companies were surveyed for the AI Readiness Index, which aims to measure how prepared organizations are to invest in, deploy and use AI.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

HPE said it would add features to its Nvidia co-developed Private Cloud AI package, which integrates Nvidia GPUs, networks, and software with HPEs AI memory, computing and GreenLake cloud support. HPE data fabric software HPE has also extended support for its Data Fabric technology across the Private Cloud offering.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

There are a lot of different components that make up a cloud deployment. How many of those components, across multiple cloud environments, is the typical enterprise actually backing up for proper disaster recovery ? Thats a question that cloud infrastructure automation startup ControlMonkey is helping enterprises to help answer.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

New middleware from Fujitsu has achieved more than a 2x increase in GPU computational efficiency for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads in trials according to the company, which designed the technology specifically to help solve the issue of GPU limitations and shortages related to computing demands of AI.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Nobody wants to waste money on cloud services. But by failing to fully address a handful of basic issues, many IT leaders squander funds on cloud services that could be used to support other important projects and initiatives especially as AI comes along to alter the cloud economics equation.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Employees too demonstrated their shock in community chat platform Blind , where the information pertaining to the layoff came out first, which was later confirmed by the company. Public cloud providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Cloud, along with several AI startups, also adopted MI300X instances.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

NextHop AI, founded by former Arista Networks Chief Operating Officer Anshul Sadana, announced this week that it has secured $110 million in funding to develop highly customized networking solutions specifically for the worlds largest cloud providers. So I felt there is a gap in the market.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Du, one of the largest telecommunications operators in the Middle East, is deploying Oracle Alloy to offer cloud and sovereign AI services to business, government, and public sector organizations in the UAE. However, with the rapid adoption of AI and cloud technologies, concerns over security and data privacy are paramount.

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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

AUGUST 27, 2024

A bid by Google Ireland to build a third data center at Grange Castle Business Park in south Dublin has been rejected by local politicians, in part due to what was described as “the lack of significant on-site renewable energy” to power the proposed facility. Carbon footprint : How power is generated matters, he pointed out. ”If

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The upgrade will also allow the company to ensure that theres a sufficient safety margin when it comes to its capacity. Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

The cloud market continues to grow at an accelerated rate, defying the economic pressures that are stifling the rest of the industry. Spending on cloud services is in turn driving massive investment in equipment , which is good for the IT vendors because the on-premises data center market is largely flat.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. Earlier this week, Amazon made a major investment in UK data centers. “In

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Network World

JULY 16, 2024

Generative AI is driving significant IT spending growth, according to Gartner’s most recent global forecast, with data center infrastructure seeing the biggest spike. growth in data center systems, largely due to AI services and GPU-based specialized services for AI workloads. The research firm is forecasting 25.3%

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.

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Network World

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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). But Nvidia and Y Combinator-backed Lumen Orbit has a novel, out-of-this-world idea: Launching data centers into space.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives. Lets talk about risk reduction.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

growth this year, with data center spending increasing by nearly 35% in 2024 in anticipation of generative AI infrastructure needs. Data center spending will increase again by 15.5% in 2025, but software spending — four times larger than the data center segment — will grow by 14% next year, to $1.24

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Network World

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Coming up: VMware Explore Barcelona, Fira Gran Via November 4-7, 2024 VMware Explore 2024 attendees saw an emphasis on private AI and cloud repatriation as key strategies for enterprises. Despite the interest in private, the cloud migration is still a hot topic. VMware Explore 2024 Broadcom bolsters VMware Cloud Foundation Nov.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

As 800GbE has come to market, the next speed for Ethernet is being talked about already, Martin Hull, vice president and general manager for cloud and AI platforms at Arista Networks, told Network World. There will be no shortage of vendors offering 800 GbE equipment in 2025, but when it comes to Ethernet standards, focus will be on 1.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The program, known as Project Transcendence, marks a significant push by the Kingdom to develop a robust AI ecosystem that can rival leading tech hubs, including neighbouring United Arab Emirates and other global technology centers. billion in a global super-scaler cloud, and Oracle investing $1.5

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. The surge is attributed to the increased deployment of large-scale language models (LLMs) and complex algorithms that require massive data processing capabilities.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Its “backbone as a service” gives customers the ability to connect branch locations, cloud workloads and applications through Alkira’s fabric. The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. NaaS buyer’s guide: Who is selling network as a service and what do you get?

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

llwyn Sequeira, founder and CEO of Highway 9 Networks, shared how this company used AI and machine learning techniques to significantly reduce the implementation and configuration time for their private mobile cloud solution on a campus. “We However, he noted that operationally, InfiniBand presents some challenges for the company.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Aviz Networks provides support and services to enable organizations to adopt the open source SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) network operating system. In the past year, Aviz Networks has seen solid progress, with the company reporting a 400% increase in revenue compared to the previous year.

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