Network World

JANUARY 21, 2025

The data center industry is up against significant challenges due in part to the rapid expansion of large data centers, according to Andy Lawrence, executive director of research at Uptime. For instance, AI systems are already reaching power levels of 100-120kW per rack, far exceeding typical data center densities, Uptime reports.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Last week, I attended the AV Comparatives conference in Innsbruck, Austria. This conference brought together many cybersecurity vendors, particularly those with a European focus, as well as a few non-profits, academic institutions, and analyst firms.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

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Network World

DECEMBER 18, 2024

New research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) identified how this convergence influences zero-trust strategy and implementation. EMAs latest research report, Zero Trust Networking: How Network Teams Support Cybersecurity, revealed that IT/OT convergence drives 38% of enterprise zero-trust security strategies.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“The rapid expansion of compute infrastructure to support training for genAI has created a major electrical power availability challenge,” said a Gartner research note on emerging technologies for energy-efficient generative AI compute systems by researchers Gaurav Gupta, Menglin Cao, Alan Priestley, Akhil Singh, and Joseph Unsworth.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The discovery of the vulnerability (CVE-2025-0108) was made by researchers at Assetnote and, according to researchers at Greynoise, is already being exploited. Assetnote published research about the hole on Wednesday. The issue doesnt affect the companys Cloud NGFW or Prisma Access software.

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

End-user organizations have their part in the blame for this, said Jeremy Roberts, senior research director at Info-Tech Research Group, and unconnected with the study. This situation is in part down to human nature, according to Scott Young, principal advisory director at Info-Tech Research Group.

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Network World

MARCH 19, 2025

Researchers found a critical vulnerability in the AMI MegaRAC baseband management controller (BMC) used by multiple server manufacturers. The vulnerability could allow attackers to bypass authentication and take control of vulnerable servers over the Redfish management interface. Continue reading on CSOonline.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Despite its wide adoption, researchers are now raising serious concerns about its accuracy. In a study conducted by researchers from Cornell University, the University of Washington, and others, researchers discovered that Whisper “hallucinated” in about 1.4% Whisper is not the only AI model that generates such errors.

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Network World

MARCH 5, 2025

But the balance of data center supply and demand is forecast by Goldman Sachs Research to tighten in the coming years, according to the report. Meanwhile, hyperscale cloud companies, data center operators, and asset managers are deploying large amounts of capital to build new high-capacity data centers.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Thats because enterprises have been lagging behind on adopting on-premises infrastructure, the research firm says. One of the challenges for AI for any brand new technology is putting the right combination of infrastructure together to make the technology work, says Zeus Kerravala, founder and principal analyst at ZK Research.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The research firm raised its outlook in this area due to the fact that actual 2024 results exceeded its expectations, and demand is spreading from tier one to tier two cloud service providers. Other research supports these growth projections.

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Network World

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Broadcom’s research found that 98% of companies use or plan to use cloud infrastructure and 95% support remote workers—two factors that contribute to network complexity. Broadcom worked with Dimensional Research to survey 505 participants with networking, operations, and cloud responsibilities.

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

For reference, McKinsey research estimates that there was 25 gigawatts worth of demand in 2024. This growth is fueled by the continued increase in data, compute and connectivity from digitalization, and cloud migration, as well as the scaling of new technologiesthe most important of which is AI, McKinsey researchers say.

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Network World

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Hyperion Research estimates that the global quantum computing market has reached the $1 billion mark this year and is expected to grow to $1.5 billion in 2026 though the top use case for the next couple of years will remain research and development in quantum computing. Weve jumped the qubit barrier.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn more about IDCs research for technology leaders OR subscribe today to receive industry-leading research directly to your inbox. Mona Liddell is a research manager for IDCs CIO Executive Research team. Contact us today to learn more.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

How a topological qubit is built Microsoft published a paper today in Nature magazine that describes how the topological qubits exotic quantum properties were created and how researchers were able to measure them. The way it works is that four controllable Majoranas are joined together into the letter H with aluminum nanowires.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The high energy output of nuclear reactors is prompting hyperscale providers to turn to nuclear power to meet the growing demands of AI workloads, according to Rajiv Ranjan, associate research director at IDC. Nuclear power provides a consistent energy source, unlike renewables, which depend on the availability of sun or wind,” Ranjan said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Learn more about IDC’s research for technology leaders. Daniel Saroff is group vice president of consulting and research at IDC, where he is a senior practitioner in the end-user consulting practice. This alignment enhances competitiveness, drives long-term success, and positions IT as a critical enabler of business strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 4, 2025

Security researchers are warning of a significant global rise in Chinese cyber espionage activity against organizations in every industry. Researchers at the firm also identified seven new Chinese-origin cyber espionage groups in 2024, many of which exhibited specialized targeting and toolsets.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 22, 2025

Businesses have always struggled with IT skills shortages, but the accelerating arrival of new technologies such as AI has widened the shortage gap even further, resulting in business delays, lower customer satisfaction, and loss of revenue, according to a recent report from research firm IDC. The impacts are huge here, Smith adds.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Researchers at the University of Oxford have demonstrateddistributed quantum computing for the first timeby connecting two separate quantum processors via a photonic network interface. By using optical fibers to entangle quantum bits in separate modules, quantum logic operations can be performed across the modules via quantum teleportation.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 30, 2025

DeepSeeks advancements could lead to more accessible and affordable AI solutions, but they also require careful consideration of strategic, competitive, quality, and security factors, says Ritu Jyoti, group VP and GM, worldwide AI, automation, data, and analytics research with IDCs software market research and advisory practice.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Were now in an era where the cloud companies are making their own quantum chips, said Holger Mueller, an analyst at Constellation Research. Still, the pace of progress over the past few years has exceeded his expectations, Preskill said. Its an inflection point, Mueller said. The cloud guys dont want to have a repetition of Nvidia.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

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IT Toolbox

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

Patching is not enough, tweeted cybersecurity researcher Florian Roth on Thursday. Network administrators with Fortinets FortiGate next generation firewall in their IT environments are being warned to thoroughly scrutinize systems for possible compromise, following last weeks dump of stolen configuration and VPN credentials by a threat actor.

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Network World

MARCH 13, 2025

It takes a lot of expensive research and development to create new materials. Two different groups of researchers published competing papers, claiming to have solved the same problem with classical computers. There is growing and rich research interest, he said.

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CIO Business Intelligence

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Plus, according to a recent survey of 2,500 senior leaders of global enterprises conducted by Google Cloud and National Research Group, 34% say theyre already seeing ROI for individual productivity gen AI use cases, and 33% expect to see ROI within the next year. The personal research assistant is only for Verizon employees, says Higgins.

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