Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With all the focus on power consumption, the water consumption of data centers has been somewhat overlooked. Data centers are already wearing out their welcome in certain areas. Data centers need so much water because it is used in a variety of functions.

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to a report released this week by Bloom Energy, US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years. The report , based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.

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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Networking software provider Aviz Networks today announced a $17 million Series A funding round to accelerate its growth in open networking solutions and artificial intelligence capabilities. The latest addition is the company’s network AI assistant, which aims to assist with operations and management.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 The Tier 4 data center certificates are awarded by Uptime Institute and not “Uptime Council.”

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Arista Networks is expecting a potential revenue spike of $1.5 billion from AI-based networking growth through 2025. Arista has between 10 and 15 classic enterprise accounts that are trialing AI networks, but they have a very low number of GPUs involved in the pilots, Ullal said. 30, an increase of 7.1%

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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 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. We have some customers that are going to deploy these when they do their next network refresh.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

Space supply in major data center markets increased by 34% year-over-year to 6,922.6 There is a considerable pricing disparity between newly built data centers and legacy facilities, reflecting the premium placed on modern, energy-efficient infrastructure. MW capacity being built at the end of 2023.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

In 2019, Gartner analyst Dave Cappuccio issued the headline-grabbing prediction that by 2025, 80% of enterprises will have shut down their traditional data centers and moved everything to the cloud. The enterprise data center is here to stay. As we enter 2025, here are the key trends shaping enterprise data centers.

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Network World

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) set its sights on world of AI networking this week. As AI usage grows, the core foundation that enables current and future potential is the power of the network. That’s a message that was echoed time and again during the ONUG AI Networking Summit , held in New York (and webcast).

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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 26, 2025

Red Hat is updating its OpenShiftplatform with a series of capabilities that will provide more advanced networking and virtualization functionality for cloud-native deployments. integrates what Red Hat refers to as VM-friendly networking. The first of these enhancements is custom user-defined networks (UDN).

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Today’s networks face a multitude of challenges as they become more complex and distributed. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. But AI holds the potential to improve IT networks. So what exactly is AI networking, how does it work and what are its top use cases?

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Instead, it uses an 8-element cooling design that covers various server components such as the server blade, network fabric, and coolant distribution unit (CDU). HPE claims that this approach effectively reduces the required data center floor space by 50% and reduces the cooling power necessary per server blade by 37%.

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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. I am honored to have the opportunity to lead Nokia, a global leader in connectivity with a unique technology heritage.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2024

New learning resources from CompTIA are aimed at helping entry-level IT professionals to accelerate their career path to networking and cybersecurity roles. The new courses, available now, will help professionals develop the prerequisite skills to train for higher-level certifications such as CompTIA Network+ and Security+.

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Network World

JANUARY 16, 2025

Network-as-a-service startup Nile has added an AI-based tool aimed at helping enterprise customers provision and operatethe vendors Campus Network-as-a-Service deployments. The new feature, Nile Nav is aimed at reducing the complexity of network provisioning to save money and time, according to the company.

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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

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Gluware today announced a series of upcoming features for its network automation platform, designed to streamline network management and reduce downtime across diverse network environments. The platform currently supports 56 operating systems across 22 vendors, making it a versatile solution for complex network ecosystems.

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The chief architect for Intels Xeon server processors has defected to chip rival Qualcomm, which is making yet another run at entering the data center market. If Intel was hoping for a turnaround in 2025, it will have to wait at least a little bit longer.

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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. Nokia EDA is an infrastructure automation platform that offers network provisioning, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting features.

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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. We’re really founded and continue to focus on solving connectivity bottlenecks within AI and cloud infrastructure,” Ahmad Danesh, associate vice president, product line management at Astera Labs, told Network World.

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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. Rather than cobbling together separate components like a hypervisor, storage and networking, VergeOS integrates all of these functions into a single codebase.

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Network World

JANUARY 14, 2025

2024 was a banner year for Ethernet , which has been a foundational element of networking for more than 50 years and is poised for more advancements as 2025 kicks off. Rodgers, Ethernet Alliance events & conference chair, told Network World. systems towards the end of 2025.

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Network World

JANUARY 27, 2025

Switches and routers remain the workhorses of the networking world.Viewed through that lens, 2024 offered a mixed bag of results for the networking market. It was also an active year for switches and routers as the impact of AI on networking began to manifest and accelerate. year-over-year in the second quarter of 2024 to $10.2

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Network World

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The chipmaker has released a series of what it calls Enterprise Reference Architectures (Enterprise RA), which are blueprints to simplify the building of AI-oriented data centers. Building an AI-oriented data center is no easy task, even by data center construction standards.

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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. Optical networking : Up to 16 ports on the DCS511 support 400G ZR or ZR+ coherent optics, each with a 24-watt power budget. Terabits per second.

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Network World

MARCH 6, 2025

AI servers are notable because they are decked out with high end CPUs, GPU accelerators, and oftentimes a SmartNIC network controller. All the major players Nvidia, Supermicro, Google, Asus, Dell, Intel, HPE as well as smaller vendors are offering purpose-built AI hardware, according to a recent Network World article.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A challenge for enterprises that operate large-scale network infrastructure has long been how to maintain performance while updating critical systems. The Linux Foundations networking division (LF Networking) is helping to address that challenge with the L3AF project, which is based on eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter ) technology.

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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 ). SONiC is seen as a viable alternative to more traditional, less flexible network operating systems.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Cisco has taken the wraps off a pair of intelligent WiFi-7 access points and introduced a new way of licensing wireless gear across cloud, on-premises and hybrid networks. Support for Cisco ThousandEyes network performance and intelligence platform is built in. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Benefits of using small modular reactors Data center power usage is set to surge in the coming years, driven by cloud computing and AI. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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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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