Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. For enterprises investing heavily in AI infrastructure, this development addresses a growing challenge. Lightmatter, valued at $4.4

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to a report released this week by Bloom Energy, US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years. The report , based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.

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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 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. The fraudulent sales first came to light in January when buyers began inspecting their newly purchased Seagate Exos data center-grade HDDs.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The construction of massive data center campuses is booming, with hyperscalers, colocation providers and large enterprises developing new capacity to support the exploding requirements of AI. These are not normal times There has always been growth in data center capacity but never anything like this. TWh to 162.5

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Its enterprise-grade. For enterprises navigating this uncertainly, the challenge isnt just finding a replacement for VMware. It would take a midsize enterprise at least two years to untangle much of its dependency upon VMware, and it could take a large enterprise up to four years. IDC analyst Stephen Elliot concurs.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Supermicro have separately announced new liquid cooling products to keep up with the heat generated by large-scale AI deployments. HPE claims that this approach effectively reduces the required data center floor space by 50% and reduces the cooling power necessary per server blade by 37%. “As

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

He will be replaced by Justin Hotard, who is currently Intels Chief Data Center Officer and has previously held executive positions at technology companies such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NCR Corporation. Nokia has announced that CEO Pekka Lundmark will step down. He took up the position in 2020.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards.

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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. Enterprises are already planning to deploy many genAI apps this year, according to IDCs AI in Networking Special Report, published at the end of 2024.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Artificial intelligence is an early stage technology and the hype around it is palpable, but IT leaders need to take many challenges into consideration before making major commitments for their enterprises. With AI and data proliferating everywhere in the enterprise, AI and data are no longer centralized assets that IT directly controls.

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Network World

MARCH 31, 2025

The MonTitan RDK is designed for enterprise data center use and Silicon Motion says its sequential read speeds exceed 14 GB/s, ranking among the fastest external SSDs, with random read performance of over 3.3 The kit utilizes the PCIe Dual Ported enterprise-grade SM8366 controller with support for PCIe Gen 5 x4 NVMe 2.0

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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

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 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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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 20, 2024

Pressure to implement AI plans is on the rise, but the readiness of enterprise networks to handle AI workloads has actually declined over the past year , according to new research from Cisco. However, between 2023 and 2024, global AI readiness in the enterprise has declined.

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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

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. The IBM AI Integration service already supports a number of third-party systems, including Oracle, Salesforce, SAP and ServiceNow environments.

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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. According to Synergy Research Group, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was $79 billion worldwide in the second quarter, up $14.1

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This is particularly true with enterprise deployments as the capabilities of existing models, coupled with the complexities of many business workflows, led to slower progress than many expected. To benefit from this wider range of RAG services, organizations need to ensure their data is AI-ready.

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Network World

MARCH 26, 2025

Enterprise and campus networks represent a massive market for Ethernet, with over a billion ports shipping annually. Evolving Wi-Fi access points and Enterprise-class client devices are accelerating the transition to higher-speed Ethernet.

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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 17, 2025

Read our related feature: Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty ) However, if youre looking strictly for a replacement on-prem virtualization platform, the analyst firm Data Center Intelligence Group ( DCIG ) has identified five top alternatives to VMwares vSphere platform.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

HPE and Nvidia added to their joint, prepackaged service offerings that are aimed at helping enterprises support AI workloads. In addition, HPE Private Cloud AIincludes support for new Nvidia GPUs and blueprints that deliver proven and functioning AI workloads like data extraction with a single click, Corrado wrote.

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Network World

APRIL 9, 2025

Google Cloud describes Cloud WAN as a new fully managed, reliable, and secure enterprise backbone to transform enterprise WAN architectures, according to a blog by Muninder Singh Sambi, vice president and general manager of networking for Google Cloud.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I would say what were seeing on the enterprise side relative to AI is, its still in the very early days, and they all realize they need to figure out exactly what their use cases are, [but] were starting to see some spending though on specific AI-driven infrastructure. Second, AI inference and enterprise clouds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The business pressures prompting the need for such a service are many, including: M&A/Business Expansion : Enterprises are constantly changing, whether through sudden mergers and acquisition, digital transformation efforts, or growth into new markets. The service also enables enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN fabrics to the cloud.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.x The latest version of the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform introduces more than 70 enhancements, ranging from advanced networking capabilities to improved container management tools. RHEL) became generally available on Nov.

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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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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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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

As IT professionals and business decision-makers, weve routinely used the term digital transformation for well over a decade now to describe a portfolio of enterprise initiatives that somehow magically enable strategic business capabilities. Ultimately, the intent, however, is generally at odds with measurably useful outcomes.

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Network World

AUGUST 13, 2024

Early on July 19, just minutes after data security giant CrowdStrike released what was supposed to be a security update, enterprises started losing Windows endpoints, and we ended up with one of the worst and most widespread IT outages of all time. We’ve been told that enterprises are rethinking their cloud strategy.

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