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

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 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. billion acquisition of Altair Engineering.

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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 feature enables long-range, high-speed connections crucial for distributed data center architectures. Terabits per second. Read more networking news Ciena and Arelion achieve 1.6

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

HPE said it would add features to its Nvidia co-developed Private Cloud AI package, which integrates Nvidia GPUs, networks, and software with HPEs AI memory, computing and GreenLake cloud support. HPE data fabric software HPE has also extended support for its Data Fabric technology across the Private Cloud offering.

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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

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

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

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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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. How the Scorpio switch fabric is deployed While Astera Labs refers to Scorpio as a switch fabric, the actual technology the company currently provides is the silicon and software.

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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

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

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 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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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 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 new funding follows a $10 million round announced in December 2023.

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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. NextHop is also working at the software layer. So I felt there is a gap in the market.

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Network World

AUGUST 27, 2024

VMware announced a number of improvements to its software-defined edge products at its annual VMware Explore conference today. Traditional applications are centered in a company’s data center or cloud. Improved connectivity and traffic-management features are aimed at helping enterprises to deploy AI at the edge.

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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

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

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. AI Defense will be available in March.

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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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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

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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The software is geared toward helping enterprises and hyperscalers more easily and inexpensively use optical technology in their networks. Effectively tying together dispersed data centers via DCI will be a key driver for AI and fiber optic networks as the distance between AI data centers becomes an issue, Gartner said.

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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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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

An artist’s conception shows data-center spacecraft being added to an orbital array. based Starcloud got its start just last year under a different name — Lumen Orbit — but the newly renamed company is already filling out its seed funding round with $10 million in fresh investment for space-based data centers.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure. Dell also is offering a new solution for general professional users and data scientists, called Dell Agentic RAG with Nvidia. Its RAG agents handle company-specific data access and regulatory challenges.

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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

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. VergeIO is not a startup; the company was founded in 2010 and hasnt made huge waves in the market.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

So we do see a lot of tailoring now around the size of the deployments based on how many GPUs they want to deploy their data center,” McCool said. “As Next-generation data centers integrating AI will contend with significant increases in power consumption while looking to double network performance.

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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. Why HP Anyware?

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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

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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