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 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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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

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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. Image: Microsoft Corp). Microsoft: 300,000 Servers in Container Farm. You get Yahoo!

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Data Center Knowledge

MARCH 15, 2017

If you’re running a cloud platform at Microsoft’s scale (30-plus regions around the world, with multiple data centers per region) and you want it to run on the best data center hardware, you typically design it yourself. But what if there are ideas out there — outside of your company’s…

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For enterprises, owning backup software often requires significant upfront investment in both software and hardware, and with it the demand of ongoing maintenance from an in-house IT team. BaaS solutions are subscription-based, typically charged on a pay-as-you-go basis according to the amount of data backed up.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. HCI vendors include Nutanix , Scale, Microsoft Azure Stack and others.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Other members of the consortium include Broadcom, Dell, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Lenovo, Meta, Oracle, Microsoft and Red Hat. The group wants to improve compatibility between different hardware and software platforms, simplify software development, and identify “new architectural requirements and functions.”

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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. Amazon maintains its strong market-share lead with 32%, followed by Microsoft at 23% and Google at 12%. billion or 22% from the second quarter of 2023.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Microsoft and Quantinuum announce 12 logical qubits Also in September, Microsoft announced that it partnered with Quantinuum to create 12 logical qubits, which, according to Krysta Svore, Microsofts vice president of advanced quantum development, was, at the time, the most logical qubits on record.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

IBM, Microsoft and Boeing all had big announcements to make, with some indications that the industry may be entering a new phase of development. Meanwhile, Microsoft is also claiming to have the world’s most reliable quantum computing platform. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Atom Computing is working with Microsoft on fault-tolerant quantum computers. Atom Computing Photo) Microsoft and Atom Computing say they’ve reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers that can show an advantage over classical computers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 20, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20. Racks of servers housed inside the Microsoft data center in Dublin, Ireland. Photo: Microsoft). The new owner, a long-time player in data center real estate, acquired the building from Hines Property Trust.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

Other companies that have recently hit escape velocity include Microsoft , Google, and QuEra, he says. Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says. Read more: 10 quantum computing milestones of 2024 ) For some companies, quantum computing is already here.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 28, 2013

5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. 5 Tips to Boost Your Data Center IQ. It’s not easy to stay current on the many facets of data center technology and operations. This week’s Industry Perspectives explore five hot topics for data center professionals and executives. White Papers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s Data Center Building Boom Continues: $1.6 Google’s extraordinary data center building boom continues to drive its spending, as the company invested a record $1.6 billion in its data centers in the second quarter of 2013.

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Network World

JANUARY 31, 2025

NaaS can provide an alternative consumption model for a broad range of network elements, including wired and wireless LANs, WANs , and VPNs , as well as branch, data center , edge, multicloud , and hybrid-cloud environments. Managed service: Subscription-based hardware plus a managed service to operate it.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Intel Wants To Re-Architect Data Center Services. Diane Bryant, senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter and Connected Systems Group at Intel, discusses the company’s vision for the data center at an event Monday. Photo: Intel).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 19, 2013

From a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) standpoint, there were a lot of observations I picked up on that are worth sharing. For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Data Centers are increasingly complex. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 13, 2013

Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 13th. The exterior of 365 Main’s newest data center facility in Emeryville, Calif. For your weekend reading, here’s a recap of five noteworthy stories that appeared on Data Center Knowledge this past week.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Tower of Babel Invades the Data Center & NOC. Jeff Klaus is general manager, Data Center Manager (DCM) Solutions , at Intel Corporation. Jeff leads a global team that is pioneering data center infrastructure management (DCIM) technologies.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 24, 2013

Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Refining Your Criteria for Data Center Site Selection. Determining the location of a data center is one of the crucial decisions for a company as it is based on strategy and goals of a company. Industry Perspectives. PRASHANT BAWEJA.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Data Center Videos. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. Rows and rows of custom-built servers inside an OVH data center. For additional video, check out our DCK video archive and the Data Center Videos channel on YouTube.

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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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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Stream Data Centers. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. Stream Data Centers Building in Minnesota Market. A look at one of the dedicated utility yards at a Stream Data Center in Dallas. Photo: Stream Data Centers). By: Jason Verge July 15th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

As it seeks to consolidate its IT infrastructure across dozens of agencies, the government has had trouble sorting out how many data centers it has, and even more trouble adding up all the server closets, which includes rooms smaller than 100 square feet. Now Over 7,000 Data Centers. New Focus on Optimization.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Most enterprises deploying AI technology have been turning to hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft to provide all the necessary infrastructure. According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. Then theres the cost issue.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 11, 2013

Data Center Jobs. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. Data Center Jobs: CBRE. At the Data Center Jobs Board , we have two new job listings from CBRE, which is seeking a Project Manager – Data Center and an Associate Project Manager – Data Center in Mountain View, California.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Blades » Green Data Centers. Low Power Company (LoPoCo) believes high efficiency servers can save businesses more than half of what they spend to operate their data centers. ”It took a huge pile of rejected hardware to get to this point. LoPoCo Launches Low Power Server Line. Photo: LowPower Company).

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 18, 2013

Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18. “We created some unique tax incentives, but as a data center power guy for nearly two decades negotiating power deals and developing power plants, I saw the real potential was for clean, ‘ controllable’ power.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

This method of cloud computing is commonly used by federal agencies who can’t risk their data being in even a slightly unsecured location. These resources are shared with many users, and the hardware the cloud computing company provides is built on a system that makes the most efficient use of it. Modular Data Centers.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 10, 2013

At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. At WPC 2013, Microsoft Points Partners to the Cloud. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer opened the conference talking about this transformation to the more than 16,000 attendees, made up of value-added resellers and channel partners. By: John Rath July 10th, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 12, 2013

Intel is offering a new Software Development Kit for data centers that complements its Data Center Manager (DCM) product, a key ingredient in more than 80 percent of today’s Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) offerings. Intel Rolls Out Development Kit for KVM Tools. A Shift in KVM Appliances.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. Harvesting Big Data: How Farm Fields Boost Data Center Demand. The company recently expanded its data center to add more capacity for data storage. Data is permeating everything we do. By: Jason Verge July 22nd, 2013.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 22, 2013

Content delivery and security specialist CloudFlare has been growing rapidly as it builds out a global network of data centers. RELATED POSTS: OVH Builds Custom Servers at its Data Centers. Sign up for the Data Center Knowledge Newsletter. Modular Data Centers. White Papers. Infrastructure.

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