Network World

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Cisco is boosting network density support for its data center switch and router portfolio as it works to deliver the network infrastructure its customers need for cloud architecture, AI workloads and high-performance computing. Cisco’s Nexus 9000 data center switches are a core component of the vendor’s enterprise AI offerings.

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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

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. fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. The biggest use case is NIC-to-GPU data ingest,” Danesh said. Scorpio PCIe 6.0

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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. After all, who has built AI factories before?

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Network World

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As data volumes increase exponentially, the threat of data loss from cyberattacks, human error, or system failure has never been greater — which is why, in 2025, fortifying a data protection strategy has never made more sense. Backups continue to serve as the backbone of any data protection solution.

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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. Six years ago, nearly 60% of data center capacity was on-premises; thats down to 37% in 2024.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In terms of security, the APs feature advanced threat detection capabilities, and they can secure every connection with AI-native device profiling, threat prevention, and advanced wireless security and data encryption, Huang stated. These licenses include product support for both hardware and software.

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Network World

JULY 9, 2024

Fortinet is unveiling a hardware-as-a-service offering that promises to ease the stress of keeping up with the latest firewall technology. The new FortiGate-as-a-Service (FGaaS) offering lets customers choose the hardware they want the FortiGate next-generation firewalls to run on, and Fortinet will configure and manage the devices.

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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 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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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

The transceiver modulates light waves that transmit data, making it much more efficient than copper. In large-scale AI data centers with thousands of switches, this equates to hundreds of thousands or even millions of transceivers. AI has transformed the way data centers are being designed.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Immersion cooling in the data center space gets a lot of positive attention for the formulations that enhance thermal performance, material compatibility, and durability. It reduces hotspots and thermal cycling (temperature fluctuations), which could cause wear on hardware components over time.

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

But our market investigation confirmed to us that other software options compatible with Nvidias hardware will remain available in the market. 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.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

We believe this will accelerate our timeline to a practical quantum computer by up to five years, says Oskar Painter, AWS director of Quantum Hardware, in a blog post released today. It will likely be beside other quantum hardware offerings, much like in EC2 where AWSs Graviton chips are offered alongside NVIDIA and other instances, he said.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Dell Technologies introduced new hardware products and services at two separate conferences, the Supercomputing 24 show in Atlanta and Microsoft’s Ignite conference. The two companies are working on integrating Nvidia software with Dell hardware infrastructure.

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Network World

MARCH 25, 2025

The ALE Private 5G service includes technology from across ALEs platforms, including ruggedized OmniSwitch hardware, OmniSwitch LAN, and OmniAccess Stellar WLAN software for local and wide area connectivity. Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise (ALE) has partnered with Celona to offer a turnkey private 5G package for industrial or IoT networks.

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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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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If there’s any doubt that mainframes will have a place in the AI future, many organizations running the hardware are already planning for it. Many Kyndryl customers seem to be thinking about how to merge the mission-critical data on their mainframes with AI tools, she says. I believe you’re going to see both.”

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Network World

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Attackers are using encrypted channels to bypass traditional defenses, concealing malware, phishing campaigns, cryptomining/cryptojacking, and data theft within encrypted traffic. Maintain high performance: Zscalers architecture eliminates bottlenecks typically associated with hardware appliances. The report offers examples of each.

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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. However, on a deeper look, the Q3 results showed both strengths and challenges: while total revenue rose by 18% to $6.8

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Network World

JUNE 4, 2024

Computex 2024 is taking place in Taiwan this week, which means lots of hardware news as the OEM and parts suppliers of the world gather to show off their latest wares. 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.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“We look at every business individually and guide them through the entire process from planning to predicting costs – something made far easier by our straightforward pricing model – to the migration of systems and data, the modernization and optimization of new cloud investments, and their protection and ideal management long-term,” he says. “We

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Edgecore Networks is taking the wraps off its latest data center networking hardware, the 400G-optimized DCS511 spine switch. This new hardware offering aims to address the increasing demands of modern computing infrastructures, particularly in the realms of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Terabits per second.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The AI Renewals Agent gathers data from more than 50 different sources of structured and unstructured data and then offers real-time sentiment analysis, intelligent automation, and personalized recommendations tied to customer outcomes and key performance indicators (KPIs).

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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

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. The city state aims to increase its existing 1.4

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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

JUNE 4, 2024

Cisco Hypershield, a cloud hyperscaler security system announced in April as an extension to the Cisco Security Cloud, now supports AMD’s Pensando Data Processing Units (DPUs), a hardware platform designed to accelerate AI workloads. This is why Cisco is now focused on innovating across every layer of the hardware and software stack.

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Network World

MARCH 20, 2025

This week, network hardware and testing vendor Keysight Technologies announced an expansion of its Vision series network packet brokers with the debut of new AI Insight Broker features. To be clear, the expansion is not new hardware, but rather a new capability for thesoftware stack that runs on the companys Vision packet brokers.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 24, 2024

From prompt injections to poisoning training data, these critical vulnerabilities are ripe for exploitation, potentially leading to increased security risks for businesses deploying GenAI. Data privacy in the age of AI is yet another cybersecurity concern. This puts businesses at greater risk for data breaches.

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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. Sadana noted that existing networking vendors arent building the super customized hardware that hyperscalers need either.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Python Python is a programming language used in several fields, including data analysis, web development, software programming, scientific computing, and for building AI and machine learning models. Job listings: 90,550 Year-over-year increase: 7% Total resumes: 32,773,163 3. As such, Oracle skills are perennially in-demand skill.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

According to IDC data released this month, cloud and shared environments account for most AI server spending 72% in the first half of 2024. Companies can keep their data local, for example, or reduce lag by putting their computing capacity close to where it is needed. The data is their lifeblood. Then theres the cost issue.

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Network World

JANUARY 23, 2025

IDC data shows single-digit percentages as well: In the third quarter of 2024 (the most recent quarter IDC has data for), Wi-Fi 7 made up only about 5% of the enterprise class dependent access point (AP) revenue, according to Brandon Butler, senior research manager for enterprise networks at IDC.

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