Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. The acquisition, reportedly valuing Run:ai at $700 million , was announced in April. The Commission began its investigation in mid-November. But Nvidia may not be out of the woods yet.

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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. However, on a deeper look, the Q3 results showed both strengths and challenges: while total revenue rose by 18% to $6.8

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

The AI infrastructure challenge for networking at hyper scale The demands of AI are changing the way data centers and particularly hyperscale data centers need to operate. Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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Network World

JULY 9, 2024

Chinese GPU startup Moore Threads has announced an upgrade to its KUAE AI data center solution, boosting the number of GPUs connectable in a single computing cluster to 10,000. Last year, the company introduced its MTT S4000 chips, featuring 128 Tensor Cores, 48GB of VRAM, and a high-speed memory bandwidth of 768GBps.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The challenges of AI on WAN connectivity With the immense hardware and bandwidth requirements of AI, the challenges for AI connectivity across the WAN are numerous. Parantap Lahiri, vice president of network and data center engineering at eBay said that his organization is using AI today for a networking monitoring system.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. Larger ones resemble traditional data centers. Download our editors’ PDF edge data center buyer’s guide today!]

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is not a startup; the company was founded in 2010 and hasnt made huge waves in the market. This week the company announced an update to its VergeFabric technology, adding several advanced networking functionalities beyond basic virtual switching. VergeFabric is one of those integrated elements.

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Network World

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. BlueField-3 accelerates networking traffic through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over converged Ethernet), GPU direct storage and GPU initiated storage. “Our

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 5, 2024

The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom that are driving up costs and prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. These changes have made it more expensive for companies to run virtual machines, particularly for demanding tasks.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 13, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has upped the ante across all tech arenas, including one of the most traditional ones: data centers. Modern data centers are running hotter than ever – not just to manage ever-increasing processing demands, but also rising temperatures as the result of AI workloads, which sees no end in sight.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

There are many practical reasons driving this movement away from the data center as a hallmark of information technology. But for all the undeniable reasons driving the transition to the cloud, there are a few arguments that don’t fit the narrative, a few rationales for bucking the trend and keeping your own data center running.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Many clients have reported dissatisfaction with the new licenses, according to research firm Gartner, which notes that changes have forced companies to purchase bundled VMware software they dont intend to use. It requires buying new hardware, which could end up negating any cost savings associated with getting off the VMware bundle.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

405B workload compared to the companys H200 NVL8, which is based on the Hopper architecture. Salvator noted that the company has almost tripled its real-time large language model (LLM) inference throughput on the Llama 2 70B Interactive workload, delivering almost 60,000 tokens per second (TPS) on a per server basis on the Blackwell platform.

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Network World

AUGUST 14, 2024

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. In 2017, the on-premise data centers of enterprises accounted for 60% of all data center capacity.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2025

We believe an AI-powered workforce is critical because AI has tremendouspotential but can deepen the digital divide if we dont act intentionally, making sure that no populations get left behind, wrote Par Merat, Vice President of Cisco Learning and Certifications, in a company blog announcing the news.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

To solve the error problem, quantum computing companies use multiple physical qubits to create one error-corrected qubits. The company outlined a three-year roadmap that calls for a computer with 10 logical qubits in 2024, 30 in 2025 using magic state distillation, and 100 logical qubits by 2026.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 15, 2024

The European Union will take a big step toward regulating energy and water use by data centers in September, when organizations operating data centers in EU nations will be required to file reports detailing water and energy consumption, as well as steps they are taking to reduce it. between 2020 and 2030.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

billion, the vast majority of it on AI for AWS, CEO Andy Jassy said during the companys earnings call on Thursday. That is reasonably representative of what you could expect in annualized capex rate in 2025, he said, suggesting the company plans to invest over $100 billion this year.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

Further tariffs and the inclusion of large companies on the Department of Commerce blacklists limit competition while favoring solutions from the US. See also: US GPU export limits could bring cold war to AI, data center markets ] China has not said its last word yet.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Companies can keep their data local, for example, or reduce lag by putting their computing capacity close to where it is needed. And if companies know theyre going to need a predictable amount of computing every month, on-premises deployments can even reduce costs. Other companies are also getting in on the act.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. Many Kyndryl customers seem to be thinking about how to merge the mission-critical data on their mainframes with AI tools, she says. “You I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The company was founded in 2018 by former Cisco employees who had previously founded SD-WAN vendor Viptella. The company’s focus remains on supporting customers as they transition to cloud environments. Alkira raised $100 million in a Series C round of funding in May of this year.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

HPE and Juniper met with the DOJ several times to go over the purchase, but the companies had no inclination the DOJ would go the direction it didcertainly with regards to its focus on the wireless market, Rahim said. Cisco has servers (UCS), but they dont have a significant position in the enterprise data center market.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

of the Fortune 500 companies have women CEOs. In an AP survey of S&P 500 companies, only 25 of 341 CEOs were women. The Women in Tech organization reports that 17% of tech companies have a woman CEO, and only 25% of all C-suite jobs are held by women. Several went out and started their own company. Only 10.4%

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Network World

JULY 17, 2024

Juniper Networks is advancing the software for its AI-Native Networking Platform to help enterprise customers better manage and support AI in their data centers. The HPE acquisition target is also offering a new validated design for enterprise AI clusters and has opened a lab to certify enterprise AI data center projects.

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

But a crucial part of the tech world is often overlooked, despite its equally dynamic growth: the data center industry. What data center trends and buzzwords should you be aware of in 2025? How have data centers evolved over the past few decades? And what companies dont these days?

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Broadcom’s product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, […]. Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products.

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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.” The new service packs will be orderable later in 2023.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS). NaaS company Nile urges enterprise leaders to invest in systems that efficiently collect and process data and are routinely retrained.

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