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. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.

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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

APRIL 23, 2021

European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one.

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Network World

MAY 20, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a pair of changes to its GreenLake Alletra MP block storage services, with a new program for on-premises users as well as support for Amazon Web Services. Now, HPE has added the Timeless Program for GreenLake Alletra MP block storage users with non-disruptive controller upgrades.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

Enterprise data storage skills are in demand, and that means storage certifications can be more valuable to organizations looking for people with those qualifications. No longer are storage skills a niche specialty, Smith says. Both vendor-specific and general storage certifications are valuable, Smith says.

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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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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

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

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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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 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. Efforts are already underway to focus on compliance, performance enhancements, storage, and management solutions.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. The data is their lifeblood.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Backup software is a traditional approach to data protection, requiring businesses to purchase and manage their own backup solutions. This software is installed on-premises and is responsible for copying data from servers, databases, and other devices to a storage system to safeguard it against loss or corruption.

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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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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

IBM has broadened its support of Nvidia technology and added new features that are aimed at helping enterprises increase their AI production and storage capabilities. Content-aware IBM Storage Scale On the storage front, IBM said it would add Nvidia awareness to its recently introduced content-aware storage (CAS) technology.

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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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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 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

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.

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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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CTOvision

MAY 4, 2021

Cloud data storage company Wasabi today announced that it raised $112 million in series C financing, bringing its total raised to $219 million.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Moving applications between data center, edge, and cloud environments is no simple task. Additionally, containers need application-level data services, which becomes increasingly difficult containers because are not static.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Historically, data center virtualization pioneer VMware was seen as a technology leader, but recent business changes have stirred consternation since its acquisition by Broadcom in late 2023. Learn how Nutanix can accelerate your hybrid cloud journey and transform your business. Disclaimer: Nutanix, Inc.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 11, 2024

As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. In that case, Duos needs super-fast storage that works alongside its AI computing units. “If If you have a broken wheel, you want to know right now,” he says. “We

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 18, 2023

We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. What is SASE?

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 24, 2024

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), how can enterprises evaluate whether their existing data center design can fully employ the modern requirements needed to run AI? Evaluating data center design and legacy infrastructure. The art of the data center retrofit. Digital Realty alone supports around 2.4

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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. The money will be spent “building, operating and maintaining data centers in the UK,” an AWS statement said. The UK needs a lot more cloud resources,” Nag said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 22, 2022

One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.

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Network World

MARCH 18, 2025

The companies rolled out the Cisco Secure AI Factory with Nvidia, which brings together Cisco security and networking technology, Nvidia DPUs, and storage options from Pure Storage, Hitachi, Vantara, NetApp, and VAST Data. VAST Data Storage support. Nvidia BlueField-3 DPUs and SuperNICs.

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Network World

MAY 21, 2024

This includes everything from devices to data centers and cloud, as well as an open ecosystem of technology partners to create AI applications through a traditional purchase or as a subscription to Dell Apex, its collection of multi-cloud services. “AI AI is transforming business at an unprecedented rate.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 26, 2024

To optimize such environments, IT leaders should consider a multipronged approach, comprising common sets of software-defined infrastructure services, integrated cloud platforms, and modern as-a-service subscriptions that have been designed to address exactly these issues.

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Network World

JUNE 26, 2024

Pure Storage is upping its AI game with a pair of announcements, including a new storage-as-a-service offering that’s designed for AI workloads and new AI-driven security features to detect and prevent ransomware. The company bills its new Evergreen//One product as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service offering.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IBM is all set to increase its cloud services costs by up to 26% from January 2024. IBM PaaS services — slated for a 3% price hike globally — include IBM’s Kubernetes Services, RedHat OpenShift, all security services, and all cloud database offerings including Message Hub, Cloudant, and SQL query services. Cloud Computing, IBM

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Virtually every company relied on cloud, connectivity, and security solutions, but no technology organization provided all three. Leaders across every industry depend on its resilient cloud platform operated by a team of industry veterans and experts with extensive networking, connectivity, and security expertise.

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