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• Cybersecurity threats are increasing.
• The preferred solution to increase cybersecurity risks is certifications for IT staff as well as security awareness training for all staff.
Cybersecurity is hard. Lack of skills, education, and modern security products + architectures make it worse.
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• Telco AI Leader: Data center industry leaders like Vertiv and Equinix are supporting the need for more liquid cooled data center infrastructure to meet demands of rising GPU use.
• Dream Bigger: While today hyperscalers are deploying the technology, private AI will drive demand for liquid cooling in smaller enterprise data centers, with potential for bottlenecks.
Data centers around the world hosting consumer and enterprise applications may see a shift towards using liquid cooling techniques, as opposed to the various forms of air cooling (e.g., room, rowm and rack) that are used for the vast majority of data center workloads today. Liquid cooling instead uses water or a refrigerant to dissipate heat from CPUs and GPUs. The advantage of liquid cooling is the higher thermal efficiency of transferring heat through water as opposed to the air. While liquid cooling is not a new technology, it has been eschewed in favor of air cooling due to the more CapEx-intensive nature of building liquid cooling systems within data halls, and the ability of air conditioning systems to largely keep up with the heat generated by IT workloads, up until this point in time.
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• Qatar-based telecoms group Ooredoo and US chipmaker Nvidia signed a deal for Ooredoo to buy and deploy thousands of Nvidia graphic processing units (GPUs).
• Ooredoo will build its AI cloud services platform and offer GPU-as-a-service to customers across its footprint: Qatar, Algeria, Kuwait, Tunisia, Oman, and the Maldives.
In one of the most significant moves made by any telecoms operator in MENA to turbocharge AI capabilities, Ooredoo Group is boosting its 26 data centers by incorporating Nvidia’s high-density GPUs. It is also becoming the region’s first Nvidia Cloud Provider. As a result, Ooredoo will develop an AI – and an ML-ready platform powered by Nvidia’s stack of software and services, including generative AI (GenAI).
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• The complexities of implementing generative AI (GenAI) and integrating it with existing systems present a challenge to enterprises; most organizations report that deployments take much longer than originally anticipated.
• Telefónica Tech is wise to expand its AI offerings for business customers and to offer tools focused on data management and governance.
On June 18, 2024, Telefónica Tech announced it was expanding its partnership with IBM to help businesses in Spain adopt artificial intelligence (AI), including GenAI. The companies will offer Shark.X, a platform designed for data management, analytics, and AI. The platform will incorporate key technologies from IBM, including IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM watsonx AI and Data. However, the partnership is not limited to hardware and software: The companies will work together to provide training and educational programs as well as to develop use cases and to help customers implement pilot projects.
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