Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Last month, Microsoft and Constellation Energy agreed to revive a unit at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island plant, the site of the worst US nuclear accident. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. In addition, Nokia is developing quantum-safe technology for both IP and optical networks to ensure secure data transmission between data centers. “We

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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. HPE Arubas CX 10000 high-end switch uses AMD DPUs, and other vendors such as Microsoft and IBM use the technology as well.)

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

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. Public cloud providers, including Microsoft and Oracle Cloud, along with several AI startups, also adopted MI300X instances.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Data center power constraints and burgeoning AI workloads have companies scrambling to find new sources of electricity. That’s why, in an effort to find new energy sources—and in the face of the push to make it clean energy—data center owners are turning to nuclear power. times the 2023 level. times the 2023 level.

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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

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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GeekWire

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Illustration of the Microsoft’s closed-loop system for future data centers that will recycle water for cooling its computing operations. Microsoft Image) Microsoft revealed details of new approach to cooling data centers that won’t lose water to evaporation. Pleasant, Wis.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Microsoft Ignite announcements The news announced at Microsoft Ignite was understandably centered around Microsoft products as related to Dell AI Factory, the company’s AI initiative covering products and services. The software is available now, while the GPU update will be available by the end of the year.

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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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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 25, 2024

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. That system is able to sort through and analyze a large volume of log and alert data, helping the humans to prioritize needs.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A malicious campaign against data centers stole the access credentials of some of the world's biggest companies — including Amazon, Apple, Goldman Sachs, and Microsoft — according to reports.

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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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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

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

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ampere is challenged in that all the hyperscale cloud providers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Meta are making their own custom chips rather than using a third-party processor. But the challenge of getting Arm into enterprise data centers lies in all the legacy code.

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Network World

JANUARY 8, 2025

The blueprints require Nvidias AI Enterprise Software, which means it can only be run on cloud services from AWS, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle or Nvidia certified data center equipment from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, and Supermicro. The blueprints run on Nvidias new Nemotron models, built on Metas Llama LLM.

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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 4, 2024

The training can help professionals that are preparing to take the CompTIA Network+ certification exam and passing the exam can lead to network-related roles such as IT support manager, network administrator, and data center technician.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The program, known as Project Transcendence, marks a significant push by the Kingdom to develop a robust AI ecosystem that can rival leading tech hubs, including neighbouring United Arab Emirates and other global technology centers. billion in a global super-scaler cloud, and Oracle investing $1.5

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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

MAY 21, 2024

At its Build 2024 event in Seattle this week, Microsoft released updates to its cloud infrastructure to bolster support for all workloads, including AI-related ones. The updates includes new Azure virtual machines (VM), a new provisioning service, and options for enabling access to Microsoft Copilot in Azure.

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Network World

APRIL 4, 2025

On April 4, 2000, to celebrate Microsofts 25 th anniversary, Network Worlds Paul McNamara put together the post youll see below. 1, 1999, when Microsofts stock price reached its peak, you would have reaped $1.4 Surprisingly, the Microsoft crew tended to be more conservative and pessimistic than the interrogators.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 18, 2025

Microsoft is reportedly developing its own reasoning capabilities , and Baidu unveiled Ernie XI earlier this week. Ultra microservices are for multi-GPU servers and data-center-scale applications. Reasoning model announcements have been accelerating in 2025, especially in the wake of DeepSeeks January unveiling.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Arista has expanded its security software to let customers control authorized network access and communication between groups from the data center to the cloud. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies. Additionally, the company’s MSS Host focuses on data-center security policies.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

These processors have attracted major cloud providers including Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Alibaba, and Tencent. If SoftBank successfully steers its portfolio companies toward Ampere processors, it could accelerate the shift away from x86 architecture in data centers worldwide.

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Information Week

JANUARY 31, 2025

As Microsoft invests $80 billion to build out AI-powered data centers, tech companies face energy challenges in the cost of AI infrastructure.

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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. Microsoft is probably the most interesting addition to the group, because its emphasis has been on GPUs and its own custom Arm project. But the two aren’t going alone.

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