Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is laying off 4% of its global workforce, around 1,000 employees, as it pivots resources to developing AI-focused chips. In its recent earnings call, AMD CEO Lisa Su underscored that the data center and AI business is now pivotal to the company’s future, expecting a 98% growth in this segment for 2024.

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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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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

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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Unified subscription model eases licensing The new Cisco Networking Subscription is designed to streamline the purchasing and use of Cisco software, hardware, services, and platforms. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software. AI and security aren’t just add-on features—they’re built into every layer.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2025

Traditionally, setting up DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) meant dealing with a mix of hardware, virtual machines, and manual configuration across multiple environments. Reduce on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a cloud-delivered option.

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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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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Businesses who own backup software (and have the resources to support their own backup infrastructure) have complete authority over their backup operations, including where the data is stored, how often backups are performed, and how data is secured. However, managing backup software can be complex and resource intensive.

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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). This represents a roughly 20X higher cost than that of an orbiting data center.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources. A 2024 report from Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) identified VergeOS as one of the top 5 alternatives to VMware. Its still sharing all the same resources, but its their own world from that point forward.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

For day 2, AI can be used to allocate resources, identify and quickly address (and predict) problems in the network, centralize problem identification, automate recommendation and response, resolve lower-level support issues and reduce trouble ticket false positives through confirm-reject analysis, among other capabilities.

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Network World

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A user can directly terminate into a cloud exchange point and have the same kind of visibility, governance and control in terms of what resources that user can access on the network.” This allows for more fine-grained control over what resources a user can access. The platform provides administrators with detailed dashboards.

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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.

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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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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.

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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. However, switching to HCI is a capital expense decision.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2025

Chinas largest tech giants such as Baidu and Tencent have been working on their own large language models (LLMs) for some time now, andthe unexpected debutof DeepSeek , despite numerous hardware sanctions, surprised even the most powerful AI companies from the West. [

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CTOvision

JUNE 30, 2016

One of the perennial problems of data centers is monitoring server utilization to ensure right-sizing of resources. Having too few resources can lead to overprovisioning, which can cause downtime as virtual machines become starved for compute, memory, and storage. Charles Hall. One company that makes such tools is Nlyte.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

All of the new servers include support for the latest version of HPEs Integrated Lights Out (iLO) management technology, which lets customers diagnose and resolve server issues, configure and manage access, and perform a variety of other automated tasks aimed at improving efficiency, HPE stated.

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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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This offers several benefits, including scalability, flexibility, and reduced hardware costs. ZTNA requires verification of every user and device before granting access to any resource, regardless of location. This is especially important for remote and mobile workers who need seamless access to cloud-based applications.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Cisco is updating its existing learning materials in the data center and security certification tracks to incorporate the AI-related information that IT professionals need at different levels of expertise. The training focuses on professionals working on a multi-vendor approach to building AI infrastructure.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A lack of planning In addition, the percentage of CIOs who can’t tell if their AI POCs are successful suggests a lack of strategic planning before the projects are launched , says Michael Stoyanovich, vice president and senior consultant at Segal, a consulting firm focused on human resources and employee benefits.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

AMD is essentially acknowledging that, to capture significant market share, chasing Nvidia’s top-tier products may not be worth the resources,” Dylan said. Once we get that, then we can go after the top,” he told the PC hardware publication. My priority right now is to build scale for AMD. Then they say, ‘I’m with you now, Jack.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

It can take money and personnel to fix encryption, and not all providers will have the resources or the interest in making it a priority. Investors are buying up data centers to create a Pony Express quantum signal to go coast-to-coast, he says. On the plus side, theres more than just customer demand forcing them to step up.

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Network World

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Open RAN (O-RAN) O-RAN is a wireless-industry initiative for designing and building 5G radio access networks using software-defined technology and general-purpose, vendor-neutral hardware. Power usage effectiveness (PUE) Power usage effectiveness (PUE) is metric that measures the energy efficiency of a data center.

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Dataconomy

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? 2020s Modern hyperscale data centers consume >100 MW.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The key zero trust principle of least-privileged access says a user should be given access only to a specific IT resource the user is authorized to access, at the moment that user needs it, and nothing more. Secure any entity accessing any resource Plenty of people hear zero trust and assume its the same as zero trust network access (ZTNA).

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The system is part of IBMs vision for quantum-centric supercomputing, combining quantum and classical resources. Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. The improvements come from both hardware and software advances.

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Network World

AUGUST 29, 2024

“This feature is useful for distributed applications or scenarios where AI inference needs to be performed on powerful servers while the client device has limited resources.” Intel IPUs are hardware accelerators that offload a number of tasks such as packet processing, traffic shaping, and virtual switching from the server CPU.

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Network World

APRIL 10, 2018

Cisco’s Tetration system gathers information from hardware and software sensors and analyzes it using big-data analytics and machine learning to offer IT managers a deeper understanding of their data center resources. Don’t miss customer reviews of top remote access tools and see the most powerful IoT companies. |

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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. Shared Resources. 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.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

MMA is a feature of Power10-based servers that handles matrix multiplication operations in hardware, rather than relying solely on software routines. The company added a Power Virtual Server Private Cloud features that lets customers better control and manage Power resources locally or in a hybrid cloud environment, according to IBM.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 26, 2013

The move toward software defined networks (SDN) in the data center is no longer a question of “if” or “when,” but “how.” The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). PATRICK HUBBARD. SolarWinds.

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