Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Nvidia will face no objections to its plan to acquire Israeli AI orchestration software vendor Run:ai Labs in Europe, after the European Commission gave the deal its approval Friday. But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market.

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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. The N9300 Smart Switch series is built on the vendors powerful 4.8T

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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

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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Cisco Wireless 9178 Series supports Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), which lets customers automate network configuration and management based on user identity, device type, and application needs. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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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 new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Nvidia has partnered with leading cybersecurity firms to provide real-time security protection using its accelerator and networking hardware in combination with its AI software. BlueField data processing units (DPUs) are designed to offload and accelerate networking traffic and specific tasks from the CPU like security and storage.

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Network World

MARCH 27, 2025

The AI infrastructure challenge for networking at hyper scale The demands of AI are changing the way data centers and particularly hyperscale data centers need to operate. Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either.

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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

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. growth in spending on software.

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Network World

APRIL 2, 2025

Although it wasnt ready for the current round of benchmarking, Salvator pointed out that the companys Dynamo open source inferencing software, introduced at GTC 2025 , will up the ante even further. McGregor described Dynamo as significant: Think of an OS for an entire data center. So, this is huge.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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Network World

MARCH 17, 2025

Broadcoms decisions to replace perpetual VMware software licenses with subscriptions and to eliminate point products in favor of an expensive bundle of private cloud tools are driving longtime VMware customers to look for an exit strategy. For customers looking elsewhere, theres no shortage of alternatives.

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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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CTOvision

OCTOBER 31, 2020

is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom’s product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, […]. Broadcom Inc.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

VergeIO is looking to shake up the virtual infrastructure market with its approach to virtualization and software-defined networking. The software requires direct hardware access due to its low-level integration with physical resources. The more of the stack you own, the better our story becomes.

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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!]

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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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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads. BlueField-3 accelerates networking traffic through hardware support for RoCE (RDMA over converged Ethernet), GPU direct storage and GPU initiated storage.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2025

We will spin it off, but really focus on our core business and how to expand that using AI and software. He said that in the past, Intel designed hardware, then partners had to figure out developing the software to make it work. Then we work backward from that, that require embrace the software 2.0 The world has changed.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Secure access service edge (SASE) is a network architecture that rolls software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security into a cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployment, improved efficiency and security, and to provide appropriate bandwidth per application. To read this article in full, please click here

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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. In 2017, the on-premise data centers of enterprises accounted for 60% of all data center capacity.

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Network World

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The group wants to improve compatibility between different hardware and software platforms, simplify software development, and identify “new architectural requirements and functions.” In addition, Linux head developer Linus Torvalds and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney will also have input.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

There are many practical reasons driving this movement away from the data center as a hallmark of information technology. But for all the undeniable reasons driving the transition to the cloud, there are a few arguments that don’t fit the narrative, a few rationales for bucking the trend and keeping your own data center running.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Quantinuum provided the quantum hardware and Microsoft handled the error correction. Microsoft and Atom Computings announce 24 working logical qubits Then, since 12 logical qubits werent enough, in November Microsoft followed up with a joint announcement with a different quantum hardware company, Atom Computing.

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Information Week

DECEMBER 17, 2018

AWS Outposts will let enterprises put the AWS hardware and software in their own data centers, providing the benefits of the public cloud for sensitive data.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Altera – Intel’s standalone company focused on FPGA hardware – introduced an array of FPGA hardware, software, and services at its annual developer conference. It also announced new development kits and software support for its Agilex 5 FPGAs. performance improvement over the previous generation. Quartus Prime Pro 24.3

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Network World

APRIL 8, 2025

HPE Aruba Networking Central, the companys core cloud-based management and orchestration platform for wired and wireless networks spanning campus, branch, and data center sites, will now be available for VPC environments and on-premises deployments that can operate while being disconnected from the cloud.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

AI networking is specific to the network itself, covering domains including multi-cloud software, wired and wireless LAN, data center switching, SD-WAN and managed network services (MNS). Improve lifecycle management by assessing devices and verifying that they all have the latest software.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 12, 2024

Good coding practices for performance and efficiency have been part of software engineering since the earliest days. Computers that piggyback on vast libraries with extraneous lines of code, developers who have lost count of the number of virtual machines they have spun off — all add drag and increase the carbon emissions related to software.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Thats also a sign of how hungry AWS thinks the market is for access to data centers, processors, networking gear, and other hardware for AI and generative AI workloads, according to the CEO. And AWS isnt the only cloud service provider that is ramping up its investments into AI-enabled data centers.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Haiby explained that L3AFsAPI-driven approach simplifies the deployment and scaling of network monitoring and control eBPF programs.The 100% software-based approach of eBPF and L3AF eliminates the need for dedicated costly networking hardware devices that tend to become performance bottlenecks, he said.

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Network World

APRIL 7, 2025

For the first time, we can confidently say, the zero to one moment has happened, and now we can look at scaling roadmaps instead of science roadmaps, says Pranav Gokhale, vice president of quantum software at Infleqtion, which is focusing on the neutral atom approach to quantum computing. Theyre buying up under-utilized or distressed assets.

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