Data Center network evolution with AMD Pensando DPUs
It's been a busy year since AMD acquired Pensando for its DPUs. Soni Jiandani provides an update including deployments with Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and IBM. There's also a lot...
Data Centers
Data center technologies and operators
Strong forecast for PCIe interconnect
The total addressable market for PCI Express (PCIe) technology is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14% from 2022 to 2027 in high growth verticals including data centers, edge,...
Equinix to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024
Equinix plans to open its first data center in Kuala Lumpur in Q1 2024, following its expansion announcement last year to enter Malaysia with a data center in Johor. As...
IBM to open Quantum Data Center in Germany
IBM will open its first Europe-based quantum data center in 2024 in Ehningen, Germany, and will serve as IBM Quantum's European cloud region. IBM said the data center is being...
Digital Realty raises $1.1 billion, sells Texas data center
Digital Realty raised approximately $1.1 billion of gross proceeds from the sale of approximately 11 million shares issued under the company's at-the-market program, including 3.5 million shares to be issued...
Dell’Oro: Data center switch sales at record level
Global sales of data center switches witnessed an impressive growth of more than 20 percent in 1Q 2023, representing the fourth consecutive quarter of record-breaking revenue levels, according to a...
NVIDIA positions Spectrum-X Networking for generative AI
NVIDIA introduced its Spectrum-X Networking Platform for Ethernet-based AI clouds. The Spectrum-X solution consists of the company's existing 51 Tbps NVIDIA Spectrum-4 Ethernet switch and the NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, along...
Dell’Oro: Improving component supply drives growth in optical transport equipment
Optical Transport equipment revenue grew 8 percent year-over-year in 1Q 2023, according to a new report from Dell’Oro Group. "For a second consecutive quarter, the Optical Transport equipment market growth...
DriveNets designs network fabric for large-scale AI workloads
DriveNets introduced a networking solution designed to maximize the utilization of AI infrastructures and improve the performance and utilization of large-scale AI workloads. DriveNets Network Cloud-AI aims for 30% improvement...
CoreSite expands in Silicon Valley and Denver
CoreSite announced the continued expansion of its Silicon Valley and Denver data center campuses. Plans include: Silicon Valley: CoreSite is adding its ninth data center in Santa Clara, California. With the...
Samsung debuts first 128 GB DRAM with CXL 2.0
Samsung Electronics introduced the first 128-gigabyte (GB) DRAM to support Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0. The new CXL DRAM supports PCle 5.0 interface (x8 lanes) and provides bandwidth of up...
Vantage eyes massive, US$3 billion, 256MW data center in Cyberjaya
Vantage Data centers, which already operates an existing campus in Malaysias Cyberjaya, unveiled plans for a massive, hyperscale data center complex on an adjacent 35 acre plot of land. The...
Digital Realty equips new Paris data center with liquid cooling
Digital Realty expanded its service offering with a new high-performance computing (HPC)-capable data center in Paris, France. The state of the art data center in La Courneuve is equipped with...
A private dossier for networking and telecoms