Network Latency vs. Compute Latency
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by Haifeng Li
21h ago
When we say the word “latency,” most people have a specific definition in mind: the delay that occurs while a system waits for a packet to finish moving over a network. This definition is technically correct, but it’s also incomplete. There are multiple types of latency, and this definition only accounts for one of them: network latency. As digital infrastructure has expanded to circle the globe and applications have become more distributed, it’s understandable that many people would be so focused on solving for network latency that they’d fail to consider any other kind. We believe it’s time ..read more
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Data Centers Enable Our Digital World—and Thriving Communities
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by Rey Banks
1w ago
Most people don’t think about data centers in the course of their day-to-day lives. Even as they use the internet for entertainment, directions, banking, shopping and more, they don’t consider that there are physical buildings somewhere that enable all of that. The term “cloud computing” actually has some believing all of that “magic” is happening somewhere out in the atmosphere. Since today is International Data Center Day, it’s the perfect opportunity to share the integral role data centers play in our modern society and economy. Data centers enable everything from content streaming and soci ..read more
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Delivering Future-Fit Cloud Architecture for Greater Agility
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by Sam Ho
1w ago
In today’s hyperconnected landscape, businesses worldwide need to reinvent themselves with digital-first strategies to increase opportunities and close profit performance gaps. CIOs are facing tremendous pressure to balance enterprise-wide agility and digital transformation, while juggling an increasingly distributed workforce, complex IT ecosystems, increasing IT/OT convergence, and inflation. As businesses become increasingly interconnected, they are under strain to ensure secure and efficient data exchange and collaboration – which has repercussions on data sovereignty, privacy, interoperab ..read more
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How to Do Private AI
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by Milind Wagle
2w ago
While the potential benefits of AI speak for themselves, enterprises need a measured, strategic approach to pursue those benefits without placing their valuable intellectual property at risk. This is why many businesses are starting to build their own AI models, host those models on private infrastructure, and use only proprietary datasets to train them. This concept is known as private AI. Many enterprises now recognize that when they feed sensitive data into public AI services such as ChatGPT, that data gets trained into the model. In turn, this means the data could be exposed to anyone who ..read more
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Protect Against Future Threats With a Programmable Backbone Network
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by Rodney Elder
2w ago
Modern distributed infrastructure increasingly demands more flexible, dynamic networks. And with network threats becoming more frequent and costly, organizations need a backbone network that’s highly secure and reliable. As IT architectures evolve and next-generation technologies are embedded into more of our infrastructure, networking is evolving too. The backbone network plays an essential role in digital infrastructure. As the core network that interconnects various networks around the world, it is foundational to your entire infrastructure, helping to ensure seamless connectivity. With inc ..read more
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What’s Driving the Digital Economy in the Nordic Countries?
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by Regina Dahlstroem
3w ago
When we mention data centers in the Nordic countries, many people tend to focus on the climate and the landscape. They think data center operators primarily invest in the region because of the colder temperatures that enable energy-efficient cooling and the wide availability of land that’s well suited for renewable energy projects. While these factors certainly help, it would be a mistake to forget about everything else the region has to offer. The Nordic countries are poised to become a new digital hotbed within Europe because of their unique combination of robust digital infrastructure and a ..read more
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Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud for AI
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by Kaladhar Voruganti
3w ago
Now that generative AI has gone mainstream, enterprises are investing heavily in AI and developing their AI strategies. In fact, the IDC predicts that annual spending on AI—including generative AI—will go from $175.9 billion in 2023 to $509.1 billion in 2027, a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30.4%. As the generative AI industry expands, organizations are increasingly using AI models created by others instead of building their own AI models from scratch. Many key players in the industry have developed large language models (LLMs)—both commercial and open source—that are available to ente ..read more
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Digital Evolution: Taking an Iterative Approach to Transformation
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by Tim Waters
3w ago
Businesses are at various stages of digital transformation and have achieved different levels of success in reaching their destinations. It’s been a massive and often costly undertaking for them. If your digital transformation hasn’t progressed as far as you’d like, my colleague introduced three digital transformation success factors in a recent blog. Achieving a digital transformation has been about reaching a specific destination or milestone. What we’re seeing now is a transition to a more iterative approach. Companies can be more efficient, reduce costs and achieve competitive advantage wi ..read more
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To Get AI Right Tomorrow, You Need Cloud Adjacent Storage Today
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by Ian Botbyl
1M ago
The business value that AI offers is clear, and enterprises are scrambling to capture that value before the competition. To do that, they’ll have to rethink their IT infrastructure. The conventional compute and storage solutions they’ve relied on up until now simply aren’t up to the task of supporting AI. A successful enterprise AI strategy requires a data architecture built specifically for AI. This architecture must be able to support different AI workloads, including training workloads that require massive compute capacity and GPU availability and inference workloads that require ultra-low ..read more
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Rooftop Solar Systems in Melbourne Green the Grid
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by Equinix Editor
1M ago
Solar energy will play a transformative role in sustainably fueling Australia’s energy grids of the future, paving the way for Melbourne to embrace cleaner and renewable power sources. Amongst data center operators in Australia, Equinix is at the forefront in solar energy generation with its recent deployment of a 1MW rooftop solar system at its ME1 International Business Exchange® (IBX®) data centre in Melbourne. It was an honour to have the Hon. Lily D’Ambrosio MP, Minister for Climate Action, Energy and Resources and the State Electricity Commission, and Nina Taylor MP, Labor Member for Alb ..read more
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