Network World

APRIL 3, 2025

Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. And if you slow down AI, that will slow down the data centers.

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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. Industry implications The introduction of silicon photonics into AI infrastructure represents a potential shift in how data centers are designed.

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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 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

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

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.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

On the demand side for data centers, large hyperscale cloud providers and other corporations are building increasingly bigger large language models (LLMs) that must be trained on massive compute clusters. Still, several questions remain about DeepSeeks training, infrastructure, and ability to scale, Schneider stated.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A report by TD Cowen indicating that Microsoft is reportedly slowing down or possibly redirecting its data center construction plans is tied to the company potentially being in an oversupply position, analysts with the brokerage say. Over the past four years, he said, Microsoft has been leasing more data centers than owning.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

In large-scale AI data centers with thousands of switches, this equates to hundreds of thousands or even millions of transceivers. The former is built for AI data centers that use Ethernet, while providing significantly more bandwidth than traditional Ethernet setups. The use of CPO translates to a 3.5x

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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

MARCH 25, 2025

DellOro herself has had a long career in networking, going back to SynOptics in the 1990s, where she developed a competitive analysis program to evaluate the strategic performance of key companies in the networking industry. She has worked in media, communications, and networking industries.

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Information Week

JULY 29, 2024

CoreSite’s 2024 State of the Data Center Report sees some repatriation of cloud workloads and more hybrid deployments, driven in part by AI.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The company, known for licensing its chip designs to industry heavyweights like Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm, is now stepping directly into the silicon market, a move that could put it in direct competition with the very customers it once served.

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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 16, 2022

Hybrid and multicloud initiatives will continue to shape enterprise IT in 2023, and the impact on data-center networking will be felt across key areas including security, management, and operations. and a Network World columnist. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Data centers could consume upwards of 9% of US electricity generation by 2030, more than double the amount currently used, although the role AI contributing to the demand, a new study has found. While AI applications are estimated to use only 10%-20% of data center electricity today, that percentage is growing rapidly.”

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Network World

MARCH 26, 2025

The Ethernet Alliances roadmap references the consortiums 2024 Technology Exploration Forum (TEF), which highlighted the critical need for collaboration across the Ethernet ecosystem: Industry experts emphasized the importance of uniting different sectors to tackle the engineering challenges posed by the rapid advancement of AI.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

This surprised many in the industry. 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. billion, gaming chip revenue plummeted 69% year-over-year, and embedded chip sales dropped 25%.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Herweck, who had been in the role for 18 months, was replaced by the head of the company’s energy management business, Olivier Blum, to drive Schneider Electric’s next strategic phase, which includes scaling its energy management and data center operations. The unexpected change in leadership has raised eyebrows in the industry.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Considerable amounts of data are collected on the edge. Edge servers do the job of culling the useless data and sending only the necessary data back to data centers for processing. Liquid cooling gains ground: Liquid cooling is inching its way in from the fringes into the mainstream of data center infrastructure.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

1.6Tb Ethernet is being discussed in terms of the optics, the form factors and use cases, and we expect industry leaders to be trialing 1.6T Ethernet Alliances Rodgers noted that the industry has already begun to chart the path toward 3.2Tb and 400G/lane Ethernet. systems towards the end of 2025.

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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

JULY 25, 2024

“Historically, liquid cooling vendors touted increased efficiency and sustainability as factors behind the technology’s adoption,” said Lucas Beran, research director at Dell’Oro Group and author of the firm’s Data Center Liquid Cooling Advanced Research Report. Single-phase DLC deployments are scaling first, Beran said.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell data center processors have significant problems with overheating when installed in high-capacity server racks, forcing redesigns of the racks themselves, according to a report by The Information. Nvidia reports earnings on Wednesday, November 20, after the close of trading on the stock market.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The UK government added data centers to its list of protected critical national infrastructure (CNI) on Thursday, the first change to its CNI list since 2015, when it added the space and defense sectors. Earlier this week, Amazon made a major investment in UK data centers. “In

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Network World

JULY 9, 2024

The change in the UK government following the general election on July 4 is also leading to a change in the country’s planning policies for data center construction. The new Labour government is reconsidering two urban planning decisions that had put the brakes on data center investments. a year to reach $10.13

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The rapid expansion of AI and generative AI (GenAI) workloads could see 40% of data centers constrained by power shortages by 2027, according to Gartner. The surge is attributed to the increased deployment of large-scale language models (LLMs) and complex algorithms that require massive data processing capabilities.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Microsoft and BlackRock are leading a group of investment companies with plans to plow up to $100 billion into the development of data centers for artificial intelligence and the energy infrastructure to power them. But those GPUs consume far more power than your typical data center, and they are already power constrained.

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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. Three metrics are worth noting because they speak directly to the hurdles to adoption that are widely expressed in the industry today.

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Network World

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger retired Sunday, after more than 40 years in the industry. In this newly created role she will oversee the company’s client computing group, data center and AI group, and network and edge group. The company quickly named two interim co-CEOs to hold the fort while it searches for a long-term replacement.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

SONiC remains a cornerstone of Aviz’s strategy Shukla highlighted the growing demand for SONiC, particularly in data centers and GPU fabrics, driven by the need for new infrastructure to support the increasing use of GPUs and inferencing networks. The new funding follows a $10 million round announced in December 2023.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

If SoftBank successfully steers its portfolio companies toward Ampere processors, it could accelerate the shift away from x86 architecture in data centers worldwide. The Ampere acquisition enables SoftBank to double down on its semiconductor industry ambitions, said Prabhu Ram, VP Industry Research Group at CyberMedia Research.

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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. Digital Realty alone supports around 2.4

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

An industry generative artificial intelligence (genAI) alliance, the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), on Wednesday announced that xAI, Nvidia, GE Vernova, and NextEra Energy were joining BlackRock, Microsoft, and Global Infrastructure Partners as members. trillion, making it the worlds largest money manager, can make the difference.

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