Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The five fastest-growing hubs for data center expansion include an interesting mix of urban areas that have one thing in common: lots of available power. Based on projected data-center capacity growth, Las Vegas/Reno is the No. Upwind says a typical data center injects about $243.5 million homes.

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The post How AI Is Shaping the Future of Data Center Financing appeared first on Spiceworks. Discover how AI impacts the industry, driving growth, sustainability, and innovative funding approaches.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems.

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IT Toolbox

APRIL 19, 2023

The post Benefits of Solid-state Drives RAID Arrays in Data Centers appeared first on Spiceworks. How SSD drives RAID arrays enable enterprises to capitalize on performance, endurance and resilience.

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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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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

CDNA 3 is based on the gaming graphics card RDNA architecture but is expressly designed for use in data center applications like generative AI and high-performance computing. The MI325X uses AMD’s CDNA 3 architecture, which the MI300X also uses. The MI350X will come with 288 GB of HBM3e, like the MI325X.

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Data centers could consume upwards of 9% of US electricity generation by 2030, more than double the amount currently used, although the role AI contributing to the demand, a new study has found. While AI applications are estimated to use only 10%-20% of data center electricity today, that percentage is growing rapidly.”

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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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Information Week

MAY 15, 2024

The increasing use of AI and data centers is leading to a surge in energy consumption, posing risks for energy, tech, and data companies. It also presents an opportunity for these companies to decarbonize, build trust, and reduce long-term costs.

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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 feature enables long-range, high-speed connections crucial for distributed data center architectures. Terabits per second. Read more networking news Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.

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Network World

JULY 25, 2024

“Historically, liquid cooling vendors touted increased efficiency and sustainability as factors behind the technology’s adoption,” said Lucas Beran, research director at Dell’Oro Group and author of the firm’s Data Center Liquid Cooling Advanced Research Report. Read more about liquid cooling Is immersion cooling ready for mainstream?

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Forrester IT

MAY 10, 2024

The consistent, high-usage profile of data centers may lead us to believe that cloud data centers are markedly more sustainable than private cloud data centers. But data shows that public cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry – a notoriously carbon-intensive segment.

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Network World

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Researchers from Cisco report there are substantial efforts underway now to develop practical quantum networks and data centers. That’s the basic definition of a quantum data center,” Nejabati said.

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Information Week

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Microsoft’s plan to tap into a reactor at Three Mile Island to power data centers fuels questions about how far our voracious appetite for energy might go.

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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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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

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

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 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

AUGUST 5, 2024

Edge data centers include hardware, software, applications, data management, connectivity, gateways, security, and advanced analytics. They come in all shapes and sizes depending on the use case. So choose carefully!

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Forrester IT

APRIL 1, 2024

Corporate cloud strategies that yesterday centered on the unglamorous transition of legacy apps from out of the data center, along with some new cloud-native apps, must now incorporate transformative technologies with radically different value propositions — all without breaking the IT budget.

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Forrester IT

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The x86 platform remains the leader in PCs and data centers, but the future growth prospects lie in […]. The combination aims to conquer the enormous compute market that has long been dominated by the x86 architecture (and thus, Intel and AMD).

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Forrester IT

APRIL 23, 2024

Cloud has driven enterprise IT transformation with speed and scale that was simply impossible with data centers alone. But operating models haven’t always kept up — and the mismatch means that old operating models impede the optimization of cloud IT.

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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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Network World

AUGUST 20, 2024

A test involving hydrogen fuel cells that is currently taking place in Dublin, Ireland at an Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data center proves progress is occurring in this space, but it is certainly not a “super meaningful step forward,” according to an analyst with Dell’Oro Group.

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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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CTOvision

AUGUST 4, 2021

Nvidia GPUs in the Cloudera Data Platform (CPD) are now generally available for enterprise customers, meeting the timeline first announced in April, and providing acceleration support to enterprise data centers.

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Forrester IT

APRIL 21, 2021

Your car is a small data center on wheels. Worry not, your supply of Cool Ranch Doritos is just fine. The chips I’m talking about here are based on silicon, not potatoes or corn. Semiconductors power just about everything now. When you do a Zoom […].

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft and BlackRock are leading a group of investment companies with plans to plow up to $100 billion into the development of data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them. But those GPUs consume far more power than your typical data center, and they are already power constrained.

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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. But that number used to be even higher.

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Network World

DECEMBER 9, 2024

IBM researchers are developing optical chips that are expected to significantly speed connectivity in data center systems, enabling better performance and lower energy costs for customers that need to build and support AI applications.

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Forrester IT

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Dynamic changes are occurring in the technology infrastructure landscape, impacting the data center, remote work, edge environments, and connectivity. Learn more in our 2024 technology infrastructure predictions.

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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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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The facility is getting a new name in the deal, Crane Clean Energy Center , and is expected to become operational by 2028. Power demand is rising as Microsoft ramps up construction of new, power-hungry data centers in order to support the increased use of artificial intelligence and generative AI.

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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.

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