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

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

DECEMBER 12, 2024

AMDs Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV), meant to protect processor memory from prying eyes in virtual machine (VM) environments, can be tricked into giving access to its encrypted memory contents using a test rig costing less than $10, researchers have revealed.

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Network World

DECEMBER 4, 2024

CompTIA a+ Network and CompTIA a+ Cyber courses will provide individuals with the foundational knowledge to start a tech career in networking and security, according to IT certification and training body CompTIA. Priced at $499, the course includes some 31 hours of instruction and covers the skills to secure devices and home networks.

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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

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. “The and a Network World columnist. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

A bid by Google Ireland to build a third data center at Grange Castle Business Park in south Dublin has been rejected by local politicians, in part due to what was described as “the lack of significant on-site renewable energy” to power the proposed facility. Carbon footprint : How power is generated matters, he pointed out. ”If

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A digital workspace is a secured, flexible technology framework that centralizes company assets (apps, data, desktops) for real-time remote access. Digital workspaces encompass a variety of devices and infrastructure, including virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), data centers, edge technology, and workstations.

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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

MARCH 18, 2025

Cisco and Nvidia have expanded their partnership to create their most advanced AI architecture package to date, designed to promote secure enterprise AI networking. The Secure AI Factory, which the vendors announced at Nvidias GTC AI Conference going on this week in San Jose, Calif., VAST Data Storage support.

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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

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) added eight new servers to its ProLiant Gen 12 server portfolio, bringing advanced security and AI-optimization features to enterprise customers. The new version, iLO 7, features an independent processor called secure enclave that handles security functions for the server.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In a landmark shift, Arm has secured Meta as the first major customer for its internally designed server CPUs, a move that signals its entry into direct chip sales and places it in direct competition with its biggest customers, including Qualcomm and Nvidia.

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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. Tb/s optical transmission milestone : Ciena’s WaveLogic 6 Extreme (WL6e) is the optical networking technology that enabled the new speed record in carrier data networking transport. Wireshark 4.4

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Juniper Networks continues to fill out its core AI AI-Native Networking Platform, this time with a focus on its Apstra data center software. New to the platform is Juniper Apstra Cloud Services, a suite of cloud-based, AI-enabled applications for the data center, released along with the new 5.0

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The new access points, the CW 9176 and 9178, incorporate a blend of Cisco and Meraki management and security features that previously required significant integration work from the customer or a third party. AI and security aren’t just add-on features—they’re built into every layer.

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Network World

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Juniper Networks is working to integrate more of its security services under one AI-centric roof. Secure AI-Native Edge is part of Juniper’s AI-Native Networking Platform , which is aimed at unifying the vendor’s campus, branch and data center networking products under a common AI engine.

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CIO Business Intelligence

AUGUST 2, 2024

The AI revolution is driving demand for massive computing power and creating a data center shortage, with data center operators planning to build more facilities. But it’s time for data centers and other organizations with large compute needs to consider hardware replacement as another option, some experts say.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

Today’s enterprises need more help managing and securing their distributed networking environments than they ever have, Cisco concludes in its Global Networking Trends Report. Using a centralized network platform to help handle new and future environments could resolve those problems, according to Cisco’s data.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2025

The vendors AI Defense package offers protection to enterprise customers developing AI applications across models and cloud services, according to Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of Ciscos Security, Data Center, Internet & Cloud Infrastructure groups.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We plan to use this tech stack internally, so while we wont be developing new features for Metal, we will ensure the continued performance, security, and stability of the Metal product until it is sunset. And for existing on-demand customers, you can continue using Metal until further notice, Stein wrote.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion (£10 billion) to build one of Europe’s largest AI data centers in Northumberland, UK, the British Prime Minister’s office said in a statement. The project is expected to enhance the UK’s AI infrastructure, catering to the vast data storage demands of AI technologies. US private equity giant Blackstone is investing $13.3

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Network World

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. What is SASE?

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Network World

JUNE 17, 2024

Check out our calendar of upcoming network, I&O and data center conferences, and let us know if we’re missing any of your favorites.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

These updates aim to address key challenges faced by enterprise IT teams, including the growing complexity of modern infrastructure, the need for enhanced security in AI workloads and the demand for more efficient developer workflows. Confidential computing security gets a boost Security enhancements form a cornerstone of RHEL 9.5,

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Network World

MARCH 3, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is looking to expand the role SASE plays in securing private 5G networks by collaborating with additional partners to offer end-to-end communications protection. To truly safeguard enterprise, government and industrial operations, organizations need a holistic 5G security package. security measures.

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Information Week

MARCH 10, 2025

Enterprise data centers remain crucial despite cloud dominance, as organizations continue to rely on them for security, cost control, and performance optimization in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The main commercial model, from OpenAI, was quicker and easier to deploy and more accurate right out of the box, but the open source alternatives offered security, flexibility, lower costs, and, with additional training, even better accuracy. Plus, some regions have data residency and other restrictive requirements.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Another driver is the fact that individual data centers themselves are upgrading to 400G Ethernet. The previous capacity of the DE-CIX network was 100G, which means that data centers running at 400G need to split the signal. Companies are spending money on AI data center clusters, which need to be connected to each other.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

At a time when many DC [data center] operators are facing challenges around power and cooling, LPO can save 25% of the networking power budget, at a system level. Arista has talked about LPO for 800G earlier, but 2025 is the year when LPO will become real, with demonstrable power and cost savings, Hull said.

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Network World

JANUARY 26, 2025

The technology lets organizations steer traffic across multiple WAN links, such as broadband, MPLS, or cellular WAN links, to provide secure, high-quality connectivity to campus, branch, and edge locations.

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