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Sustainability, grid demands, AI workloads will challenge data center growth in 2025

Network World

Data centers this year will face several challenges as the demand for artificial intelligence introduces an evolution in AI hardware, on-premises and cloud-based strategies for training and inference, and innovations in power distributionsall while opposition to new data center developments continues to grow.

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Backup Software vs. Backup as a Service (BaaS): The Key Differences

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Businesses who own backup software (and have the resources to support their own backup infrastructure) have complete authority over their backup operations, including where the data is stored, how often backups are performed, and how data is secured. However, managing backup software can be complex and resource intensive.

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Nvidia releases reference architectures for AI factories

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A reference architecture provides the full-stack hardware and software recommendations. Instead, storage hardware and software is left to Nvidia’s certified server partners, such as Dell Technologies, Pure Storage, and NetApp. The one thing that the reference architecture does not cover is storage, since Nvidia does not supply storage.

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A matter of time: 3 metrics that demonstrate the value of immersion cooling

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Provisioning Time: Streamlined in High-Density Environments Discussions with key industry stakeholders revealed a sentiment that after immersion cooling infrastructure is established, provisioning resources such as servers have not been found to take a significant amount of additional time compared to traditional systems.

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5 alternatives to VMware vSphere virtualization platform

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Customers can choose either of two approaches: Azure Stack HCI hardware-as-a-service, in which the hardware and software are pre-installed. Or, an enterprise can buy validated nodes and assume the responsibility for acquiring, sizing and deploying the underlying hardware. In addition, all storage is pooled.

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Astera Labs debuts Scorpio fabric switch to accelerate PCIe for AI, cloud

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fabric switch GPUs and AI acceleration technologies typically connect to a hardware motherboard via a PCIe (PCI Express) slot connection. Astera Labs has not announced plans to build their own physical chassis or rack-level hardware for the Scorpio switch. Scorpio PCIe 6.0

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Microsoft to launch zero water consumption cooling for future data centers

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The design is part of the companys aim to reduce strain on the local resources of the communities where its data centers are located, as it continues to scale infrastructure to support AI and other technology investments. Going forward, Microsoft will replace evaporative systems with mechanical chip-level cooling, Solomon said.