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AI Driven Workloads drive high-density Colocation Solutions

Courtney Munroe — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

Over the last two months, a slew of announcements from Colocation and cloud infrastructure companies point to the acceleration of deployments to serve AI workloads in colocation facilities. Several major infrastructure vendors have partnered with NVIDIA and introduced AI datacenter solutions that will require high density colocation facilities beyond the average rack capacity that has dominated the industry over the last several years.

As UCaaS Solutions Begin to Appear in CCaaS Portfolios, Telecom Service Providers Should Take Notice

Denise Lund — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

NICE 1CX, a turnkey UCaaS solution, was introduced at the recently completed series of NICE Interactions 2024 events. This OEM-provided UCaaS solution from 3CX offered by NICE is available only as an add-on integrated service to NICE CCaaS. This is the first turnkey UCaaS solution offered by a full-fledged, center vendor targeting businesses that want an integrated UCaaS-CCaaS solution. As such, NICE presents a new competitive challenge to telecom service providers who have been targeting the integrated UCaaS-CCaaS with their unified communications strengths.

With the close of NICE Interactions 2024, a reflection on NICE’s 1CX UCaaS product availability announcement brings to the forefront a new competitive threat to Telecom service providers (i.e., AT&T, Lumen, Windstream, Verizon) in their efforts to grow their UCaaS revenues. Key highlights about The NICE 1CX solution include:

NICE 1CX is a white-labeled OEM UCaaS solution from 3CX newly offered by NICE.
The solution is only available as an add-on to NICE CXone contact center seat for $5/user/month.
NICE 1CX UCaaS solution enables integrated modes of communications into the CCaaS solution, including voice, messaging, and video collaboration, including live chat, SMS and MMS, and audio and videoconferencing, including pre-built integrations to CRM, UCaaS and messaging solutions that include integration into YouTube, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, WhatsApp, and Facebook for example.
Additional key features available in NICE 1CX beyond the traditional cloud PBX capabilities such as number porting, phone directory, extensions, ring groups, built-in SBC and accommodation of customer’s SIP Trunk, and auto attendant are videoconferencing features such as screensharing, polls, and quick meet link, as well as enterprise features such as call flow designer, call recording, custom IP phone logo, hot desking, and skills-based routing, for example
The solution is offered with a 99.99% availability guarantee and is currently being offered only in the U.S.

Asia/Pacific (Excluding Japan) Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast, 2024–2028

Mikhail Jaura, William Lee — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This APEJ Datacenter Deployment Model and Spend Forecast for 2024–2028 highlights significant growth driven by digital transformation (DX) and generative AI (GenAI), with a projected increase in DC capacity to meet the demands of cloud services, AI applications, and remote work. However, challenges, such as power scarcity and supply chain disruptions, pose inhibitors to this growth. The key developments include the adoption of NVIDIA's Blackwell platform and liquid cooling technologies, indicating a shift toward more efficient and sustainable DC operations.

"Digital transformation and GenAI are reshaping datacenters, driving unprecedented growth and technological advancements in the Asia/Pacific region," says Mikhail Jaura, senior research analyst, Cloud and Datacenter services, IDC Asia/Pacific.

EMEA Infrastructure Market Overview, 4Q23

Andrew Buss, Pavel Roland, Luis Fernandes, Shahin Hashim, Victoria Mendes — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an overview of the EMEA IT infrastructure market in 4Q23 and related trends across servers, external enterprise storage systems, and enterprise networking (including Ethernet switching and routers) compared with the same period in 2022. It also compares the performance of the top 10 server, storage, and enterprise networking vendors with market performance and analyzes whether they are outperforming or underperforming the market.

Enterprise Storage Infrastructure Considerations for Artificial Intelligence Workloads

Carol Sliwa — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation provides insight on the spending, implementation, and usage plans for enterprise storage infrastructure to address artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, with a special focus on generative AI (GenAI). The presentation includes results from IDC's Future Enterprise Resiliency and Spending Survey, AI View 2023, Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey, and Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker Workloads Forecast. This IDC Tech Buyer Presentation includes advice for technology buyers on approaches to meet the storage requirements of AI workloads.

IDC AI Networking and Traditional Networking Analysis, 2024

Brandon Hoff — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation provides an in-depth look at datacenter AI networking and non–AI networking. AI networking is experiencing significant growth, shifting network spending and reinvigorating legacy technologies such as InfiniBand, while newer technologies like Ultra Ethernet are emerging. This new market segment is expanding rapidly, although networking expenditure spans a broad array of markets and products.

Datacenter AI networking is evolving and includes components like DPUs, IPUs, NICs, HCAs, PCIe Switches, NVLink Switches, Ethernet Switches, AI Routers, InfiniBand Switches, and Optical Ports/Transceivers. AI will integrate with traditional networking at the edge, and AI clusters, utilizing AI networking, can be deployed in various environments.

In contrast, traditional networking encompasses a more diverse spectrum, from the 5G/carrier networks to the backbone/core, extending to the cloud and MEC, the telco edge, enterprises, private 5G, FWA, and consumer endpoints.

This Market Presentation aggregates market data and highlights the key differences between these segments.

IDC Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse, 1Q24: Market Opportunities — Executive Summary

Chris Drake, Kuba Stolarski — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is an executive summary of IDC's 1Q24 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey findings. The survey draws upon in-depth insights gathered from experts responsible for purchasing compute platforms and infrastructure. Taking the pulse of the enterprise IT market, the 1Q24 Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse Survey offers valuable insights into IT customers' current and future infrastructure investments in computing systems, platforms, and technologies. Topics covered include compute procurement strategies, server automation strategies and benefits, server utilization and upgrade/refresh rates, challenges and limitations related to on-premises compute infrastructure, use of accelerated computing, virtual machines and containers, workloads and workload deployment locations, mainframe computing, server security, and confidential computing. Delivered quarterly, this product is focused on better understanding what drives customer behavior for enterprise IT infrastructure procurement on a worldwide basis across different buyer personas. Enterprise Infrastructure Pulse is a companion product to the Infrastructure Trends and Strategies: Enterprise Workloads CIS.

IDC Field-Programmable Gate Array Market Analysis, 2024

Brandon Hoff — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Market Presentation is an analysis of the field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) market and an updated forecast for the FPGA market. The FPGA market covers wireless, wired, datacenter, auto, and embedded/IoT markets. FPGAs are an implementation option to build a product as an alternative to processors, merchant silicon, and custom application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs).

Field-programmable gate arrays are semiconductor devices that can be programmed after manufacturing to perform specific tasks. Unlike traditional ASICs, which have a fixed architecture, and processors that run software, FPGAs consist of an array of programmable logic blocks and interconnects that can be configured to implement custom hardware functionality. FPGAs offer a combination of flexibility, performance, and low latency, making them valuable for applications that demand custom hardware solutions and high levels of parallel processing.

In late 2022 and early 2023, the FPGA market went through a bubble that is correcting itself in 2024. This covers FPGA market's historical data and a market forecast.

IDC PlanScape: Emerging Trends Shaping Datacenter Colocation

Courtney Munroe, Avinash Naga — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC PlanScape provides an overview of benefits, emerging trends, usage of AI, and its impact on colocation datacenters.

"Emerging trends such as GenAI and edge computing are reshaping the colocation landscape. While AI applications are increasing power demands, they also create new opportunities for colocation datacenter providers, such as optimizing resource utilization, enhancing energy efficiency, and strengthening security and compliance within datacenters," according to Avinash Naga, research manager of Cloud Communications and Datacenter Services at IDC.

In Which Areas Are European Manufacturers Operationalizing Sustainability?

Gunjan Bassi — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 04:00:00 GMT

This IDC Tech Buyer Survey Spotlight draws data from the IDC's 2024 Supply Chain Survey. Operationalizing sustainability involves embedding sustainable practices into an organization's core functions, ensuring that sustainability goals are translated into actionable strategies and processes. The presentation highlights key focus areas for operationalizing sustainability by European manufacturers.