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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 The Tier 4 data center certificates are awarded by Uptime Institute and not “Uptime Council.”

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Fortinet has melded some of its previously available services into an integrated cloud package aimed at helping customers secure applications. Managing application security across multiple environments isn’t easy because each cloud platform, tool, and service introduces new layers of complexity.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Will data center GPUs have their lifespans reduced by constantly running at high utilization rates? The only reason I can think of as to why a [data center add-in board] should fail is the contributed heat from the adjoining AIBs. That is an issue raised by an anonymous poster on X, but at this point it’s just a theory.

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Network World

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. Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6

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CIO Business Intelligence

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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Network World

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

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. BGP support extends cloud-native networking OpenShift 4.18 OpenShift is Red Hats commercially supported Kubernetes distribution. In particular, OpenShift 4.18

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

While public cloud data centers are often viewed as more sustainable than private ones, exceptions do exist. Read on to understand these nuances and learn how to tailor your approach for optimal sustainability.

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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 N9300 Smart Switch series is built on the vendors powerful 4.8T

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Gartner forecast highlights server sales, which are expected to triple in the coming years as genAI pushes data center systems spending up by 15.5% It took 20 years for the cloud and outsourcing vendors to build up spending to $67 billion a year on servers. trillion by 2025. Devices: 9.5% Software: 14% IT services: 9.4%

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Benefits of using small modular reactors Data center power usage is set to surge in the coming years, driven by cloud computing and AI. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 12, 2025

And while the maturity of those practices varies, large organizations at the forefront of FinOps are scaling up and out, driving the cloud optimization practice into new areas of IT, including as a way to get a handle on spiraling AI costs. And its FinOps principles arent limited to public cloud or SaaS.

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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 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 4, 2024

Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. In addition, Nokia is developing quantum-safe technology for both IP and optical networks to ensure secure data transmission between data centers. “We

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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

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

JUNE 3, 2024

The Singapore government is advancing a green data center strategy in response to rising demand for computing resources, driven in large part by resource-hungry AI projects. Data centers can potentially benefit from 2% to 5% energy savings for every 1C increase in operating temperature.

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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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Information Week

JULY 29, 2024

CoreSite’s 2024 State of the Data Center Report sees some repatriation of cloud workloads and more hybrid deployments, driven in part by AI.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In its recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su underscored that the data center and AI business is now pivotal to the company’s future, expecting a 98% growth in this segment for 2024. Public cloud providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Cloud, along with several AI startups, also adopted MI300X instances.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Terabits per second.

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Information Week

MARCH 10, 2025

Enterprise data centers remain crucial despite cloud dominance, as organizations continue to rely on them for security, cost control, and performance optimization in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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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

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

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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regardless of where they are on their AI journey, organizations need to be preparing existing data centers and cloud strategies for changing requirements, and have a plan for how to adopt AI, with agility and resilience, as strategies evolve,” said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The partners also saw a substantial increase in the number of concurrently handled AI processes across diverse cloud environments and servers when using the middleware. “By All of these will be eventually passed on to data center operators’ customers and end users,” the researchers noted. “All

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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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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

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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