Your Next Move: Data Center Technician
Association of Information Technology Professional
APRIL 7, 2021
If you enjoy configuring server hardware, implementing security controls and troubleshooting, a data center technician job may be for you.
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Association of Information Technology Professional
APRIL 7, 2021
If you enjoy configuring server hardware, implementing security controls and troubleshooting, a data center technician job may be for you.
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.
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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.
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.
Network World
JUNE 4, 2024
Computex 2024 is taking place in Taiwan this week, which means lots of hardware news as the OEM and parts suppliers of the world gather to show off their latest wares. 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.
Forrester IT
OCTOBER 5, 2020
Data center vendors are transforming and offering a significant portion of IT infrastructure as on-premises services. Firms need to understand the shift and how it impacts them before embracing the aaS phenomenon in the data center. Listen in to hear the key changes organizations need to plan, and prepare for.
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.
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 new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.
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.
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!
Forrester IT
JUNE 13, 2022
Elucidate Subscription-Based Hardware Offerings Public cloud innovations influence your technology decisions in many ways. Cloud pricing is shaping the pricing for on-premises data center infrastructure. I receive many client calls around evolving subscription-based hardware, and those discussions reveal their confusions.
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.
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%
Network World
JULY 9, 2024
Fortinet is unveiling a hardware-as-a-service offering that promises to ease the stress of keeping up with the latest firewall technology. The new FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS) offering lets customers choose the hardware they want the FortiGate next-generation firewalls to run on, and Fortinet will configure and manage the devices.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. However, this is often not true.
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!]
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.
Tech Republic Data Center
MAY 25, 2023
The post Dell’s sustainable data center management strategy: Interview with expert Alyson Freeman appeared first on TechRepublic. Learn about Dell's perspective on the future of saving energy, recycling servers and monitoring carbon footprints.
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.
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. Clients are seeing increased costs with on-premises virtualization with Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Data Center
Network World
OCTOBER 6, 2021
When it comes to protecting data-center-based resources in the highly distributed world, traditional security hardware and software components just aren’t going to cut it.
Tech Republic Data Center
MAY 2, 2023
Joseph Vijay, CEO of Intelli-Systems, talks about the challenges of supporting critical infrastructure, and right-sizing data center power portfolios without disruption. The post Juggling critical infrastructure for data centers, hospitals and more, with an eye on resilience appeared first on TechRepublic.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
While some vendors in this space offer hardware devices to connect at-home employees and corporate data centers to their SASE networks, most vendors handle the connections through software clients or virtual appliances. As a result, it can be an attractive option in a time of rapid change.
Tech Republic Data Center
JANUARY 24, 2024
Customers are asking for secure AI that can use current data, Equinix and NVIDIA said. Equinix Private AI can now run on NVIDIA DGX, a supercomputing platform for enterprise AI.
TechSpot
JULY 16, 2022
According to two estimates from 2020, data centers consume anywhere from 1.5% to 2% of the world's energy and could be consuming as much as 13% within ten years. Around half of that energy is used by the computers themselves and 25% to 40% is used by air conditioning, says the US Department of Energy.
TechSpot
DECEMBER 7, 2023
In truth, there was a relative scarcity of "truly new" news, and yet you couldn't help but walk away from the event feeling impressed. AMD told a solid and comprehensive product story, highlighted a large (perhaps even too large?) number of clients/partners, and demonstrated the scrappy, competitive ethos of the. Read Entire Article
Network World
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
Enterprise infrastructure that supports data center, cloud and edge networks could someday be dominated by one of its tiniest components--the smartNIC or data processing unit (DPU).
Network World
DECEMBER 2, 2024
Intel is rolling out a new form of memory that requires no changes to existing hardware or software, is usable by the competition, and promises up to a 40% increase in memory performance for certain workloads. Singhal believes that AMD and other server hardware vendors will adopt MRDIMM over time. Optane was driven by Intel.
Network World
OCTOBER 10, 2024
There’s a new type of switch that could soon be showing up in AI-optimized data centers, a PCIe 6 fabric switch. fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. Scorpio PCIe 6.0 Read more from this author Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6
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.
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The Intel Core Ultra mobile processor family brings AI to PCs, while 5th Gen Intel Xeon processors offer AI acceleration for data centers.
Network World
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
The latest announcement is important because it couples progress on the hardware side with that of the software, says Heather West, research manager in the infrastructure systems, platforms, and technology group at IDC. But we’re not at the end goal yet, she adds.
Network World
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
“Instead, by doubling down on AI chips, particularly with the success of their EPYC and MI300 series in data centers, AMD is positioning itself as a formidable player in an industry where demand for AI accelerators is only set to grow exponentially.” Once we get that, then we can go after the top,” he told the PC hardware publication.
Network World
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Nvidia has partnered with hardware infrastructure vendor Vertiv to provide liquid cooling designs for future data centers designed to be AI factories. AI factories are specified data centers emphasizing AI applications as opposed to traditional line of business applications like databases and ERP.
Network World
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Immersion cooling in the data center space gets a lot of positive attention for the formulations that enhance thermal performance, material compatibility, and durability. It reduces hotspots and thermal cycling (temperature fluctuations), which could cause wear on hardware components over time.
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