Juniper opens Ops4AI Lab in Silicon Valley

Juniper Networks is opening a multivendor lab dedicated to validating end-to-end automated AI Data Center solutions. This lab will support automated operations with switching, routing, storage, and compute solutions from leading vendors. Juniper is also introducing new Juniper Validated Designs (JVDs) to accelerate the deployment of AI clusters, along with key software enhancements to optimize AI workloads over Ethernet.A core component of Juniper’s...

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CoreSite's 2024 State of the Data Center report

CoreSite has published its 2024 State of the Data Center Report, which explores the latest trends, strategies, and requirements in data centers and cloud computing. Now in its fifth year, the report highlights a consensus among IT leaders on the increasing variety of data management and processing needs, necessitating highly customized IT solutions.Despite high confidence in the economy among C-suite executives, a volatile, uncertain, complex,...

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Dell'Oro: AI buildouts expanding data center switch market by 50%

Spending on switches deployed in AI back-end networks is forecast to expand the Data Center Switch Market by 50 percent, according to a new report from Dell'Oro Group. Current data center switch market spending is on front-end networks used primarily to connect general-purpose servers. AI workloads will require a new back-end infrastructure buildout. The competition intensifies between InfiniBand and Ethernet as manufacturers vie for market dominance...

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New Plans for 324 MW Hyperscale Campus in Atlanta

TA Realty LLC and EdgeConneX have announced a joint venture to develop a 324MW hyperscale data center campus in Atlanta, GA. This project marks a significant step in addressing the growing demand for high-performance computing infrastructure driven by advancements in AI, cloud services, and other emerging technologies. This collaboration combines TA Realty’s real estate acumen with EdgeConneX’s data center expertise to deliver a state-of-the-art...

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EchoStar opens Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment

EchoStar has inaugurated the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID) at its data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming. This cutting-edge lab, supported by a $50 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund, allows vendors to test and validate O-RAN solutions using EchoStar’s live commercial-grade cloud-native Open RAN network.ORCID...

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Vectara adds $25 million for LLMs without hallucinations

Vectara, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, closed a $25 million Series A round for its Generative AI product platform aimed at advancing the state of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Service for regulated industries.The new funding was led by FPV Ventures and Race Capital. Additional investors include Alumni Ventures, WVV Capital, Samsung Next, Fusion Fund, Green Sands Equity, and Mack Ventures. This funding round, combined with...

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MEF announces 2024-2025 Board of Directors

MEF announced its newly appointed 2024-2025 Board of DirectorsDebika Bhattacharya, Chair, Chief Technology Officer, Verizon BusinessFranck Morales, Secretary, Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Orange Wholesale InternationalBob Victor, Treasurer, Senior Vice President of Product Management, Comcast BusinessColin Bannon, Chief Technology Officer, BT BusinessNan Chen, Chief Executive Officer, MEFPaul Gampe, Chief Technology...

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Viavi launches NITRO Fiber Sensing for critical infrastructure monitoring

Viavi Solutions introduced NITRO Fiber Sensing, an advanced real-time asset monitoring and analytics solution designed to safeguard critical infrastructure such as oil, gas, and water pipelines, electrical power transmission, border and perimeter security, and data center interconnects.NITRO Fiber Sensing integrates Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS), Simultaneous Temperature and Strain Sensing (DTSS), and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) technologies....

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