Cloud storage startup Wasabi nabs $112M, plans new datacenters
CTOvision
MAY 4, 2021
Cloud data storage company Wasabi today announced that it raised $112 million in series C financing, bringing its total raised to $219 million.
Folio Photonics innovates in optical data storage for enterprise data centers
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 30, 2022
At CES 2023, Folio Photonics will reveal an enterprise-grade optical data storage solution. The post Folio Photonics innovates in optical data storage for enterprise data centers appeared first on TechRepublic. Here's what we know about it so far.
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Data Center TCO Factors You Can’t Afford to Overlook
Information Week
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
(SPONSORED) As we adopt hybrid work environments for good, here's how storage leaders can improve data center success and longevity while lowering total cost of ownership.
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Solidigm unveils 122TB data center SSD for AI workloads
Network World
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Solidigm, a provider of NAND flash solid-state drives, and memory giant Micron have each introduced very high-capacity SSD drives meant for enterprise data centers, particularly in AI use cases. Solidigm intros 122TB PCIe SSD Solidigm unveiled its highest capacity PCIe drive yet, the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 data center SSD.
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Data center certifications target newcomers, experts, and sustainability pros
Network World
DECEMBER 9, 2024
As data centers evolve from traditional compute and storage facilities into AI powerhouses, the demand for qualified professionals continues to grow exponentially and salaries are high. The rise of AI, in particular, is dramatically reshaping the technology industry, and data centers are at the epicenter of the changes.
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Google Ireland bid to build new data center rejected
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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Singapore government pushes energy-efficient data center plan
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. Singapore wants to go beyond that and reduce energy use for air-cooling by raising the temperatures at which servers and storage racks can safely operate.
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HPE updates block storage services
Network World
MAY 20, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced a pair of changes to its GreenLake Alletra MP block storage services, with a new program for on-premises users as well as support for Amazon Web Services. Now, HPE has added the Timeless Program for GreenLake Alletra MP block storage users with non-disruptive controller upgrades.
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Hungry for resources, AI redefines the data center calculus
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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Data centers in space
CIO Business Intelligence
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Imagine a world in which data centers were deployed in space. Using a satellite networking system, data would be collected from Earth, then sent to space for processing and storage. The system would use photonics and optical technology, dramatically cutting down on power consumption and boosting data transmission speeds.
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Backup lessons from a cloud-storage disaster
Network World
APRIL 23, 2021
European’s largest cloud provider, OVHcloud, suffered a catastrophic fire last month that destroyed one of its data centers and smoke-damaged a neighboring one.
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Blackstone to invest $13.3B in AI data center in the UK
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.
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Data center design in the age of AI: Integrating AI with legacy Infrastructure
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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Supermicro unveils AI-optimized storage powered by Nvidia
Network World
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Supermicro announced the launch of a new storage system optimized for AI workloads using multiple Nvidia BlueField-3 data processing units (DPU) combined with an all-flash array. These units support 400Gb Ethernet or InfiniBand networking and provide hardware acceleration for demanding storage and networking workloads.
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Energy shortages threaten to restrict 40% of AI data centers by 2027
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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Aston University researchers to tackle global data storage crisis
Tech Republic Data Center
DECEMBER 30, 2022
As the datasphere grows, data storage solutions struggle to keep pace. Experts are looking for ways to address this global data storage crisis. The post Aston University researchers to tackle global data storage crisis appeared first on TechRepublic.
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How AI could help enterprises to reduce data storage costs
Venture Beast
APRIL 7, 2022
AI is emerging as a tool to help enterprises reduce their data storage needs, whether in the cloud or a private data center. Read More.
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Exploring the Advantages of Deploying DPUs in the Data Center
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 22, 2022
One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data.
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Storage: The unsung hero of AI deployments
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 11, 2024
As enterprises begin to deploy and use AI, many realize they’ll need access to massive computing power and fast networking capabilities, but storage needs may be overlooked. In that case, Duos needs super-fast storage that works alongside its AI computing units. “If If you have a broken wheel, you want to know right now,” he says. “We
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Solarflare: Revolutionizing the way enterprises scale, manage and secure data centers
CTOvision
SEPTEMBER 12, 2016
Solarflare is a leading provider of application-intelligent networking I/O software and hardware that facilitate the acceleration, monitoring and security of network data. They are a top player in infrastructure including the critically important Data Center so we track them in our Leading Infrastructure Companies category.
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Damac Group expands into Spain with 400 million euros data center investment in Madrid
CIO Business Intelligence
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The data center market in Spain continues to heat up with the latest major development from Dubai-based Damac Group. The company has announced its entry into the Spanish market with the acquisition of land in Madrid, where it plans to build a state-of-the-art data center.
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Data Centers Are Pushing Ireland’s Electric Grid to the Brink
Gizmodo
DECEMBER 29, 2021
Behind every TikTok, Zoom call, and cat meme is a data center that stores, processes, or reroutes that data around the world. The more we do online, the bigger these data centers and their energy footprint get. Read more.
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Top data center trends you need to know in 2025
Dataconomy
DECEMBER 24, 2024
But a crucial part of the tech world is often overlooked, despite its equally dynamic growth: the data center industry. What data center trends and buzzwords should you be aware of in 2025? How have data centers evolved over the past few decades? 2020s Modern hyperscale data centers consume >100 MW.
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Lumen Orbit emerges from stealth and raises $2.4M to put data centers in space
GeekWire
MARCH 11, 2024
“We started Lumen with the mission of launching a constellation of orbital data centers for in-space edge processing,” Oltean explained in an email. “Essentially, other satellites will send our constellation the raw data they collect.
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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories
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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Ceramic Nano Memory comes to the US, promising a data storage revolution
TechSpot
JULY 17, 2024
Founded by Christian Pflaum in 2022, the company developed a new storage technology that can seemingly retain massive amounts of data indefinitely. Modern data centers and storage operators are. Read Entire Article
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Microsoft tries to whittle down its carbon footprint by building data centers with engineered timber
GeekWire
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Rendering of a data center that Microsoft is building using cross-laminated timber for its floors and ceilings in order to reduce the amount of steel and concrete used, which have a bigger carbon impact. But they also need to put their data center infrastructure on low-carbon diets, moving away from traditional steel and concrete.
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Simplify your storage management by leveraging a universal storage layer
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 26, 2024
In a 2023 survey by Enterprise Strategy Group , IT professionals identified their top application deployment issues: 81% face challenges with data and application mobility across on-premises data centers, public clouds, and edge. 82% have difficulty sizing workloads for the optimal on- or off-premises environment.
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The Era Of Flash Is Now
Forrester IT
JUNE 15, 2023
Storage is a fundamental element of enterprise compute. Everyone’s data must go somewhere. Up until recently, mechanical spinning disk has been the default storage media for very large data needs. Flash media has steadily eaten away at the hard-disk footprint in the data center, however.
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Data center investments simplify IT and cloud modernization
CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 18, 2023
We have invested in the areas of security and private 5G with two recent acquisitions that expand our edge-to-cloud portfolio to meet the needs of organizations as they increasingly migrate from traditional centralized data centers to distributed “centers of data.”
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Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Not on our watch…
CIO Business Intelligence
JUNE 24, 2024
In my role as CTO, I’m often asked how Digital Realty designs our data centers to support new and future workloads, both efficiently and sustainably. Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that.
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Micron launches industry-first PCIe 6.0 SSDs for data centers
TechSpot
AUGUST 6, 2024
Making the tech available to partners will help kickstart the PCIe Gen6 ecosystem, we're told, and builds on recent advancement in data center storage. Micron didn't reveal much in its press release, but the company did say the tech "delivers sequential read bandwidths of over 26 GB/s." Read Entire Article
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Best of Pure//Accelerate 2024: Pure Storage Goes All in with AI
Tech Republic Data Center
JUNE 20, 2024
Storage news is in store. Pure Storage’s event ran from June 18-21 and our contributing writer Drew Robb attended in person. In this TechRepublic Premium feature, read about Pure Storage’s new products and services, the extent of artificial intelligence’s disruption of the storage industry and.
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Buyer’s guide: Edge data centers
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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Pure Storage adds AI features for security and performance
Network World
JUNE 26, 2024
Pure Storage is upping its AI game with a pair of announcements, including a new storage-as-a-service offering that’s designed for AI workloads and new AI-driven security features to detect and prevent ransomware. The company bills its new Evergreen//One product as the first purpose-built AI storage as-a-service offering.
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Juniper advances AI networking software with congestion control, load balancing
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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Micron starts shipping its 176-Layer QLC SSD, available in a tiny form factor with 2TB of storage
TechSpot
JANUARY 12, 2022
The company said it expected the technology to find its way into industries such as autonomous vehicles, in-car infotainment systems, and mobile storage, as well as client/data center SSDs. It was back in November 2020 that Micron first started shipping the world’s first 176-layer 3D NAND flash memory.
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VMware plan disaggregates servers; offloads network virtualization and security
Network World
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
VMware is continuing its effort to remake the data center, cloud and edge to handle the distributed workloads and applications of the future. To read this article in full, please click here
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Arista announces AI networking agent, Nvidia and Vast partnerships
Network World
MAY 29, 2024
Running on Arista switches, the EOS AI agent can be extended to directly-attached NICs and servers to allow a single point of control and visibility across an AI data center, according to Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal, who wrote a blog about the new agent. GPUs must exchange and compute global gradients to adjust the model’s weights.
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Adopt AI — and quick! Dell Technologies CEO tells customers
Network World
MAY 21, 2024
This includes everything from devices to data centers and cloud, as well as an open ecosystem of technology partners to create AI applications through a traditional purchase or as a subscription to Dell Apex, its collection of multi-cloud services. “AI AI is transforming business at an unprecedented rate.
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Enterprise Storage Trends That CIOs Need to Grasp for the Remainder of 2022
CIO Business Intelligence
AUGUST 17, 2022
Being on the forefront of enterprise storage in the Fortune 500 market, Infinidat has broad visibility across the market trends that are driving changes CIOs cannot ignore. Trend #1: Critical nature of data and cyber resilience in the face of increasing cyberattacks. This is a multi-faceted trend to keep front and center.
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AWS to invest $5.3 to build data centers in Saudi Arabia to bolster tech in the region
CIO Business Intelligence
MARCH 5, 2024
billion in the Middle East kingdom to build data centers and a significant cloud presence in the region. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the latest high-tech giant to announce a major stake in Saudi Arabia’s burgeoning technology industry, unveiling a plan this week to invest more than $5.3
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Price shock: IBM to increase cloud costs by up to 26% from 2024
CIO Business Intelligence
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
On the IaaS offerings front, the price hikes will be applied to bare metal servers, virtual server instances, file and block storage, and networking infrastructure for both classic and virtual private cloud ( VPC ) offerings, the company said.
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Backup lessons learned from 10 major cloud outages
Network World
JUNE 12, 2024
Whether it’s in your data center, an IaaS vendor like AWS, or a SaaS vendor like Microsoft 365, it needs independent backup. Fifteen years of cloud data-loss incidents gives a pretty good idea of how bad a cloud outage can be. They blamed their storage vendor rather than taking responsibility.
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