Hitachi Vantara’s State of Data Infrastructure Sustainability Report

U.S. businesses have made sustainability a priority, with nearly four in five companies saying that they have developed plans for achieving carbon neutrality (78%) and net zero carbon emissions (79%), according to the State of Data Infrastructure Sustainability, a new report from our friends over at Hitachi Vantara, the modern infrastructure, data management and digital solutions subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501). However, despite this and the fact that 85% of respondents claim to be “on plan” or “ahead of plan” when it comes to their carbon reduction goals, the survey revealed that actual progress may not be as robust as many businesses believe.

Data Center and Infrastructure Report: Trends and Insights for 2023

Service Express surveyed over 900 IT professionals to identify the priorities, challenges and decision drivers impacting data center strategies. Find helpful insights and more in this fifth annual report. The global shift in health, business and technology is still shaping IT landscapes. Leaders continue to evolve strategies to address supply chain disruptions, security threats, performance […]

AMAX Launches GPU Servers Powered by Intel’s Newest Data Center GPU Flex Series for AI, Gaming, & Media Streaming

AMAX, a leading provider of turnkey rack-scale High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions, Deep Learning/AI applications and server appliance manufacturing, announces the new AceleMax X-122-Flex server solution featuring Intel’s next-generation Data Center GPU Flex Series, (formerly code-named Arctic Sound-M), providing the capability of a graphics processing (GPU) solution handling high density and complex workloads targeted towards media delivery, cloud gaming, AI, metaverse, and other emerging visual cloud use cases.

The Looming Datacenter Paradigm Shift

In this contributed article, Jonathan Friedmann, CEO & Co-Founder of Speedata, discusses a paradigm shift that is already underway. CPU’s leading role in datacenters is no longer a given, and as database workloads grow increasingly varied, market forces will point more and more in a clear direction: the development of new, dedicated, accelerated solutions. Data workloads are only going to grow more diverse and intricate from here. The same holds true for the chips that will process them.

Building the GPU-accelerated Datacenter

[Sponsored Post] To learn about GPU-accelerated datacenters, join the upcoming live webinar from Thinkmate and PNY. You’ll hear about the future of the datacenter, why the GPU is crucial, the technology behind GPU acceleration, and what sort of options exist for different industries or types of organizations.

Data Gravity Intensity Expected to More Than Double Annually for the Financial Services, Manufacturing and Insurance Industries through 2024

Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, has published version 1.5 of its Data Gravity Index DGx™, expanding the scope of the study from the 21 initial metros in version 1.0 to encompass 53 global metros and assessing the intensity and gravitational force of enterprise data growth on 23 distinct global industries.

Cyxtera Simplifies AI Innovation with AI/ML Compute as a Service Powered by NVIDIA DGX A100 Systems

Cyxtera, a global leader in data center colocation and interconnection services, launched its landmark Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) compute as a service offering to deliver data center platform capabilities enabling AI-powered workloads. Leveraging the NVIDIA DGX™ A100 system, this new offering provides enterprises greater agility and faster deployment with a flexible OpEx model, avoiding the need for large capital outlays and over provisioning.

Uptime Assurance through the Mobilization and Augmentation of Data Center IT Teams with Artificially Intelligent Applications

In this contributed article, AJ Byers, CEO of ROOT Data Center, discusses how AI technology was implemented in ROOT Data Centers since it was initially deployed in early 2018. Since then, over 250 hours and 3,000 training sessions have been completed to gather the data necessary for the AI persona. As a result, ROOT compiled the case study below covering how they achieved these processes.

How to Get to the Data-Enabled Data Center

Despite their many promising benefits, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) are creating some of the most challenging workloads in modern computing history and put significant strain on the underlying I/O, storage, compute and network. An AI-enabled data center must be able to concurrently and efficiently service the entire spectrum of activities involved in the AI and DL process, including data ingest, training and inference.

HPE Brings Artificial Intelligence to the Data Center

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) announced an artificial intelligence (AI) recommendation engine designed to simplify and reduce the guesswork in managing infrastructure and improve application reliability. HPE InfoSight is an industry-leading predictive analytics platform that brings software-defined intelligence to the data center with the ability to predict and prevent infrastructure problems before they happen.