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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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. HPE Arubas CX 10000 high-end switch uses AMD DPUs, and other vendors such as Microsoft and IBM use the technology as well.)

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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 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

MARCH 17, 2025

Options include getting off VMs altogether and shifting workloads to the public cloud, or going to a container-based platform like Red Hat OpenShift. In alphabetical order, they are: Hive, Microsoft, Nutanix, Scale and VergeIO. Enterprises can manage and use each VDC much like the virtual private clouds offered by the hyperscalers.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. On top of that, the AI-enabled data center will need liquid cooling, advanced networking infrastructure, and advanced infrastructure management software.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. Pleasant, Wis.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Separately, Dell announced it will offer support for Nvidia Tensor Core GPUs by the end of the year, including the H200 SXM cloud GPUs. First up, Dell announced that its APEX File Storage for Microsoft Azure will offer a Dell-managed option for organizations seeking a simplified deployment and management experience.

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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

JANUARY 2, 2025

Gravitons success could impact Ampere, which makes Arm-based processors for both the enterprise and the cloud. Ampere is challenged in that all the hyperscale cloud providers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are making their own custom chips rather than using a third-party processor.

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Network World

JUNE 12, 2024

Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. However, some people believe we should trust the cloud vendors to do the right thing. Fifteen years of cloud data-loss incidents gives a pretty good idea of how bad a cloud outage can be.

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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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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

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

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 AI will also help to accelerate the deployment and provisioning of WAN capabilities.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure.

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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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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

The blueprints require Nvidias AI Enterprise Software, which means it can only be run on cloud services from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle or Nvidia certified data center equipment from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro. The blueprints run on Nvidias new Nemotron models, built on Metas Llama LLM.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Citi is using Amazon Braket, a cloud-based service, to see how well quantum computers could handle portfolio optimization tasks. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Microsoft, with Atom, has a scalable way of achieving logical qubits, says Gartners Dekate.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As demand for cloud access soars, AWS announced Tuesday that it would spend £8 billion (about US$10.4 billion) over the next five years in UK data centers. This appears to put AWS at roughly the same UK investment level as rivals Microsoft and Google. The UK needs a lot more cloud resources,” Nag said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

BaaS offers a modern approach to data backup by outsourcing the complexities of managing backup systems to a third-party provider, providing a faster and easier way to protect data. BaaS is cloud-based, meaning administrators can securely access and manage their own backup and recovery operations via a web browser.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Microsoft will invest €3.2 billion in Germany by the end of 2025 to double the artificial intelligence and cloud capacities of its data centers there. While Germany is number two in the use and development of AI, it only ranks 11th in Europe when it comes to AI skills, according to the Microsoft President.

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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.” Not at all.”

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Network World

AUGUST 13, 2024

We’ve been told that enterprises are rethinking their cloud strategy. Only 21 of the enterprises I contacted thought Microsoft was even a contributor, and none thought Microsoft was primarily to blame. Misjudging cloud’s impact on application reliability But what does this all mean with regard to things like cloud usage?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. Learn how server disaggregation can boost data center efficiency and how Windows Server 2019 embraces hyperconverged data centers. |

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Forrester IT

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Africa is home to 20% of our planet’s land and 16% of its people, but none of the hyperscale public clouds run from data centers there — yet.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

The deal, which sees Oracle and Carlyle selling their stakes in Ampere, strengthens SoftBanks position in the growing market for AI-optimized processors as major cloud providers increasingly look beyond traditional x86 architecture. SoftBank Group has announced plans to acquire Ampere Computing for $6.5

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

With ransomware attacks increasing globally, and the introduction of legislation around critical data types, there is renewed vigor in ensuring the security, integrity, and availability of data across the region. Along with Dell Technologies data resiliency offerings, the system can allay CIOs most pressing concerns.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies. See how AI can boost data-center availability and efficiency.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Palo Altos Prisma SASE platform combines SD-WAN with cloud-based security capabilities, including secure access control, advanced threat protection, user-behavior monitoring, and zero-trust network access ( ZTNA ). Kyndryl has security and networking relationships with other partners as well, including Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia and Fortinet.)

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2025

Microsoft is reportedly developing its own reasoning capabilities , and Baidu unveiled Ernie XI earlier this week. Ultra microservices are for multi-GPU servers and data-center-scale applications. Reasoning model announcements have been accelerating in 2025, especially in the wake of DeepSeeks January unveiling.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2022

Fueled by enterprise demand for data analytics , machine learning , data center consolidation and cloud-native app developmen t, spending on cloud infrastructure services jumped 33% year on year to $62.3 Cloud providers build out infrastructure. billion in the second quarter, according to Canalys.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. Microsoft is probably the most interesting addition to the group, because its emphasis has been on GPUs and its own custom Arm project. But the two aren’t going alone.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. Gambetta says that IBM has been making quantum computing available to customers since 2016, via the cloud, with hundreds of institutions using the platform.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Oracle on Wednesday said it is opening a second cloud region in Chile as part of ongoing efforts to expand its global cloud footprint to compete with the larger rivals including AWS, Microsoft, and Google. In contrast, Google has two cloud regions in South America — Santiago, Chile, and Sao Paulo, Brazil.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

(GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon has a new use for AI: dumping Microsoft Windows. The move could boost Amazon’s cloud business by reducing a major hurdle for customers to move away from data centers and servers running on Microsoft’s operating system.

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