Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Data Center and Co-location

Sustainable Data Center
In today’s digital landscape, data centers are the critical infrastructure powering everything from cloud storage to streaming media. But as essential as they are, data centers also come with a hefty environmental cost. With massive energy consumption and a high carbon footprint, their impact on the environment is substantial....
Stelia
Stelia, the AI acceleration platform, and Polar, Europe's leader in AI-ready data centers, announced a partnership set to redefine enterprise AI adoption. This collaboration integrates Stelia's innovative data mobility platform with Polar's state-of-the-art, sustainable AI-ready data center infrastructure, backed by a recent €500 million investment. "This partnership removes the complexities of...
Blend
Blend, a leader in data science and AI-powered solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mike Mischel as Senior Vice President of AI Consulting. With over a decade of experience leading AI and digital transformation at Accenture, Mike joins Blend to expand its AI consulting capabilities, focusing on empowering clients to...
Cisco
Cisco announced new additions to its data center infrastructure portfolio: an AI server family purpose-built for GPU-intensive AI workloads with NVIDIA accelerated computing, and AI PODs to simplify and de-risk AI infrastructure investment. They give organizations an adaptable and scalable path to AI, supported by Cisco's industry-leading networking capabilities. "Enterprise customers...
Lightbits
Lightbits Labs, the inventor of NVMe® over TCP storage protocol and pioneer in flexible, efficient, and resilient cloud data storage platforms, announced that Crusoe Energy Systems LLC (“Crusoe”), a vertically-integrated AI infrastructure company, has expanded its AI cloud service with Lightbits' high-performance, software-defined block storage. The collaboration between Crusoe...
F5
F5 announced the availability of BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes, an innovative AI application delivery and security solution that equips service providers and large enterprises with a centralized control point to accelerate, secure, and streamline data traffic that flows into and out of large-scale AI infrastructures. The solution harnesses the power...
Nokia
Nokia announced a strategic partnership with Lenovo to create comprehensive data center networking and automation solutions that support the massive and highly precise compute, storage and transit needs for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning (AI/ML) and other compute-intensive workloads. These solutions will be jointly marketed to enterprises, telcos, and digital...
Xscape Photonics
Xscape Photonics, a startup using silicon photonics to support the next generation of AI data centers, announced the successful close of a $44 million Series A funding round, increasing the total amount raised to $57 million. The financing was led by IAG Capital Partners with investment from Altair, Cisco...
Celestica
Celestica Inc., a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions for the world’s most innovative companies, launched its DS4100, a new 1U 800G per port top-of-rack, leaf/spine switch designed to address the high-bandwidth demands of AI/ML data center networking across enterprise, service provider and cloud provider...
Keysight
Keysight Technologies, Inc. introduces the Interconnect and Network Performance Tester 800GE Benchtop, a new multiport, multi-user, and multi-speed portable design and validation platform that tests artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC), data center interconnects (DCI), and network infrastructure. Demand for optical interconnects (optics and fiber cables) and the 800GE Ethernet...