If data center capacity and demand continue to rise, are more efficient technologies enough to make a difference?

“The longer this goes on the more painful for the customers and shareholders in the companies,” Dell'Oro Group's Mauricio Sanchez said.

As organizations move further into hybrid cloud, data privacy and data security are becoming even more closely intertwined, IBM's Akiba Saeedi said.

"Money shouts, and there is a lot of money being spent by hyperscale operators on data center construction," analyst John Dinsdale said.

“This gap will widen as developers increasingly use AI [artificial intelligence] to write and deploy code more quickly,” SVP Ankur Shah said.

The cable giant is looking to grow its private networks business in a market it sees as just now starting to gain momentum.

While horizontal AI is broad-reaching and can be layered across multiple industries and use cases, vertical AI is tailor-made for specific ones.

Piecing together the right discovery, protection and management tools for multicloud environments remains a challenge.

Next-generation security companies are typically built at the point of an imbalanced supply and demand of capital in the cycle, said Richard Seewald.

Open-source SDN technology is coming to help power the fastest Wi-Fi connections.

Broadcom says the chip is initially meant for data centers, but "lays the foundation for next-generation 1.6 T/3.2 T deployments in AI [artificial intelligence] clusters."

The U.K.'s ongoing investigation signals a "growing momentum of folks that want more openness between the cloud providers," Forrester's Tracy Woo said.

A diverse range of operating systems "is a big part of how PowerFlex enables effective data center consolidation," Dell VP Shannon Champion said.

We're in the midst of a data center arms race to offer more territories with higher availability and deliver a wider range of low-latency services.

We're still in the early phase of multicloud implementations. Here's how to overcome the obstacles that still stand in the way today.

From artificial intelligence to augmented reality, data centers are getting a technological boost with design and maintenance.

Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are raising the limit for compute, storage capacity, networking resources and rack densities.

"This is the moment where data and AI are coming together to transform businesses," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said.

T-Mobile US gains immediate leasing access to some of Comcast's 600 MHz licenses, which have been linked to the cable giant's cellular plans.

Snapshots don't take up much space and can be made quickly – unlike backups, which can take many hours as every bit of data must be transferred.

Enterprise spending, not cloud service provider spending, was the main driver of the data center switch market's growth for the first time in years.

The main difference in security between public and private 5G networks is the level of control that the organization has over the network.

"The cost of operating dedicated infrastructure makes very little sense," Cisco VP of Data Center Networking Thomas Scheibe said.

Despite macro-economic challenges and demands to reduce the carbon footprint, data center growth is fierce and shows no signs of slowing down.