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AI is all over the news. Its consumer applications have been impressing everyone since OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public in November 2022, and more and more business applications for AI hit the market every week. At most companies, AI is no longer a fun project for the R&D group—it’s a stakeholder-mandated must-have. Data center leaders need to determine how they can meet their organization’s AI goals.

While AI is the hot new trend, it isn’t part of every trend in data center networking. Other motions in data center networking will continue to play out—the modernization of legacy network management systems, sustainability, and repatriation of applications from public clouds to the private cloud, for example. Still, AI in the data center—both AI for IT operations (AIOps) for data center networking and designing, deploying, and operating data centers purpose-built for AI and machine learning (AI/ML) workloads— will be a huge driver of trends in 2024. Let’s get started.