Network World

APRIL 3, 2025

Enterprise IT leaders are facing a double-whammy of uncertainties complicating their data center building decisions: The ever-changing realities of genAI strategies, and the back-and-forth nature of the current tariff wars pushed by the United States. And if you slow down AI, that will slow down the data centers.

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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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Network World

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Microsoft has introduced a new design for data centers to optimize artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, implementing a cooling system that it claims will consume zero water. Traditionally in Microsoft data centers, water has been evaporated on-site to reduce the power demand of the cooling systems. Many also use air cooling systems.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Once the province of the data warehouse team, data management has increasingly become a C-suite priority, with data quality seen as key for both customer experience and business performance. But along with siloed data and compliance concerns , poor data quality is holding back enterprise AI projects.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Massive global demand for AI technology is causing data centers to increase spending on servers, power, and cooling infrastructure. As a result, data center CapEx spending will hit $1.1 As a result, just four companies Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft will account for nearly half of global data center capex this year, he says.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Business leaders may be confident that their organizations data is ready for AI, but IT workers tell a much different story, with most spending hours each day massaging the data into shape. Theres a perspective that well just throw a bunch of data at the AI, and itll solve all of our problems, he says.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

With all the focus on power consumption, the water consumption of data centers has been somewhat overlooked. Data centers are already wearing out their welcome in certain areas. Data centers need so much water because it is used in a variety of functions. I believe some data center operators just bowed out, said Howard.

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Network World

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Palo Alto Networks is teaming with NTT Data to allow the global IT services company to offer an enterprise security service with continuous threat monitoring, detection and response capabilities. NTT Data’s MXDR service offers 24×7 incident detection and response and AI-driven threat intelligence orchestration and automation, Mehta stated.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2025

In the race to build the smartest LLM, the rallying cry has been more data! As businesses hurry to harness AI to gain a competitive edge, finding and using as much company data as possible may feel like the most reasonable approach. After all, if more data leads to better LLMs , shouldnt the same be true for AI business solutions?

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Network World

JANUARY 24, 2025

According to a report released this week by Bloom Energy, US data centers will need 55 gigawatts of new power capacity within the next five years. The report , based on a survey of 100 data center leaders, also shows that 30% of all sites will be using onsite power by 2030.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 24, 2025

Enterprises worldwide are harboring massive amounts of data. Although data has always accumulated naturally, the result of ever-growing consumer and business activity, data growth is expanding exponentially, opening opportunities for organizations to monetize unprecedented amounts of information.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 26, 2025

While many organizations have already run a small number of successful proofs of concept to demonstrate the value of gen AI , scaling up those PoCs and applying the new technology to other parts of the business will never work until producing AI-ready data becomes standard practice. This tends to put the brakes on their AI aspirations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 23, 2025

In 2025, insurers face a data deluge driven by expanding third-party integrations and partnerships. Many still rely on legacy platforms , such as on-premises warehouses or siloed data systems. Step 1: Data ingestion Identify your data sources. First, list out all the insurance data sources.

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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

APRIL 24, 2025

A slowdown in data center lease talks by two of the larger public cloud service providers AWS and Microsoft is unlikely to have an immediate effect on enterprises running advanced workloads in the cloud. The analysts compared the AWS move to a slowdown in data center spending at Microsoft in recent months. A sign of trouble to come?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 17, 2025

As far as many C-suite business and IT executives are concerned, their company data is in great shape, capable of fueling data-driven decision-making and delivering AI-powered solutions. That emphasis can erode an organizations data foundation over time. Teams tend to prioritize short-term wins over a long-term outlook.

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Network World

MAY 14, 2025

HPE acquired Morpheus Data in August of last year in a bid to bolster multicloud management.Nine months later, that acquisition has spawned new capabilities as part of the integrated HPE Morpheus software portfolio, aimed at alleviating the challenges of managing hybrid environments.

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Network World

APRIL 1, 2025

Lightmatter has announced new silicon photonics products that could dramatically speed up AI systems by solving a critical problem: the sluggish connections between AI chips in data centers. Todays AI chips often sit idle waiting for data to arrive, wasting computing resources and slowing down results.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 14, 2025

In Data trust and the evolution of enterprise analytics in the age of AI , I addressed the foundational role of trusted data and why governance is so crucial to playing a role in establishing it. These models often require aggregating data across varied domains, crossing the boundaries set by domain-driven architectures.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A growing number of buyers have reported purchasing supposedly new Seagate data center-grade hard drives, only to discover that they had been previously used for thousands of hours. The fraudulent sales first came to light in January when buyers began inspecting their newly purchased Seagate Exos data center-grade HDDs.

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Forrester IT

MARCH 27, 2025

Not just any humans, but those who understand how AI works, the dependencies between good data and useful AI outputs, and where human judgement […] It’s altering how we make decisions and interact with technology. But for all its power, it still needs humans (for now).

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Network World

MAY 6, 2025

Large data centers are necessary for driving next-gen technologies including large language models (LLMs) and generative and agentic AI. Further, cooling technologies can consume up to 40% of the total data center energy demand. However, their environmental challenges are increasingly concerning. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Network World

JANUARY 15, 2025

The chief architect for Intels Xeon server processors has defected to chip rival Qualcomm, which is making yet another run at entering the data center market. If Intel was hoping for a turnaround in 2025, it will have to wait at least a little bit longer.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 15, 2025

However, trade along the Silk Road was not just a matter of distance; it was shaped by numerous constraints much like todays data movement in cloud environments. Merchants had to navigate complex toll systems imposed by regional rulers, much as cloud providers impose egress fees that make it costly to move data between platforms.

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Network World

MAY 1, 2025

With data center electricity demand skyrocketing, thanks in large part to the computing requirements of artificial intelligence (AI), analysts are seeing increasing interest in nuclear power. As many as 40% of existing data centers will be operationally constrained by a shortage of power by 2027, Gartner predicts.

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Network World

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Fortinet is expanding its data loss prevention (DLP) capabilities with the launch of its new AI-powered FortiDLP products. The FortiDLP platform provides automated data movement tracking, cloud application monitoring and endpoint protection mechanisms that work both online and offline.

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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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Network World

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regardless of where they are on their AI journey, organizations need to be preparing existing data centers and cloud strategies for changing requirements, and have a plan for how to adopt AI, with agility and resilience, as strategies evolve,” said Jeetu Patel, chief product officer at Cisco. This remains almost as high as a year ago (81%).

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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. The P series fabric switch is designed to optimize data transfer between various components of an AI server. The biggest use case is NIC-to-GPU data ingest,” Danesh said.

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Network World

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In March, Amazon acquired a nuclear-powered data center from Talen Energy. Benefits of using small modular reactors Data center power usage is set to surge in the coming years, driven by cloud computing and AI. Most recently Microsoft wound down an attempt to create underwater data centers.

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