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STAX and BOLT Products Deliver Unprecedented Edge Processing, Full Range of Connectivity, Enterprise-Class Security, Modularity, Scalability and Ease-of-Use

NEW YORK and SAN DIEGO, Sept. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Veea Inc., an innovation leader in integrated smart edge connectivity and computing, today introduced two new models of VeeaHub products, STAX and BOLT, at Qualcomm's signature global event, Smart Cities Accelerate 2021, being held in San Diego on September 28th and 29th. Both products will be on display with live demonstrations of several applications and solutions supported by these products including "Automation for Smart Spaces" and Trollee.

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STAX is the world's most advanced and currently the only stackable, ultracompact, multi-purpose, multi-protocol edge computing product with integrated wireless access, including Wi-Fi 6, server-class processing, and mesh scalability. Its design supports VeeaWare, Veea's leading edge software platform for running containerized applications on one VeeaHub or a micro-cloud of VeeaHub units that are clustered together on a mesh network at the "Device Edge" of the user premises. STAX and BOLT are two new members of the VeeaHub platform product family, primarily based on highly integrated Qualcomm components for a wide range of smart vertical use cases.

STAX is a groundbreaking Smart Computing Hub product supported by extensive cloud-based network management, monitoring and maintenance services that are field-proven with the current models of VeeaHub for a variety of edge use cases for the past several years. Its powerful Linux server can support multiple applications concurrently on one or several VeeaHub units across the mesh network installed at the user premises in a manner similar to how Wi-Fi Access Points are installed.

VeeaWare software platform applications are all secured by a chain of trust that includes hardware secure boot supported by bootstrap and enrollment servers with Single Sign-on (SSO) across the entire platform. Additional, highly differentiated features include unique secure lightweight Docker containers with digitally signed software applications and network interfaces.

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Finally, VeeaHubs utilize the most powerful commercially available encryption for all network connections on the local network and for WAN connections to cloud-managed services and cloud-managed security functions, as well as other remote connections. STAX offers a powerful and feature-rich alternative to simple Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and basic 4G/5G WAN connectivity product solutions. Its highly integrated platform provides enterprise-class tri-band Wi-Fi 6, Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity, a 64-bit quad-core Linux processor and up to 2TB of local storage. Cellular connectivity solutions are offered through optional 4G (Gigabit LTE) and 5G (Sub-6 GHz) SD-WAN stackable modules as either a primary or a failover WAN connection with or without an optional cloud-based full security stack that exceeds the functionality and features of most next generation firewalls (NGFW).

STAX, with a 4G or 5G module, can be bootstrapped and activated over a cellular connection with its combination of USIM, eSIM and vSIM capabilities, which supports most carrier networks globally by virtue of switching between any of its SIM functions at activation. STAX is implemented entirely through one 12-layer PCBA, measuring 4 in. x 4 in. on its sides, that integrates all STAX functionality to provide for an affordable product in the most compact form factor compared to other products in its category of products in the market today.

STAX incorporates IoT connectivity including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Classic and a range of IEEE 802.15.4 protocol-based solutions including Zigbee. VeeaHub nodes installed on the local network instantaneously create a self-organizing Connectivity Mesh, called vMesh, that simultaneously provides for a Computing Mesh, a microservice-based Service Mesh, an Application Mesh and an Edge Intelligence Mesh that also supports a highly accurate indoor positioning solution.

With STAX, Veea provides yet another comprehensive edge platform product delivering all-in-one SASE-ready edge connectivity and server-grade edge processing with secure edge applications and service management across a scalable mesh network of VeeaHubs. Other STAX product features include:

Modular design supporting add-on functionality with stackable modules, with more modules under development for introduction over the next twelve months

Simple plug-and-play setup with PoE supported through a stackable module

Highly compact form-factor (approx. 4.2 in. x 4.2 in. x 2 in. or 10 cm x 10 cm x 5 cm) made possible through patented innovations

Highly unique integrated antenna/heat-sink design

Fan-less with no special cooling required

With multiple connectivity capabilities, server functions, simplicity of its activation and "fleet-managed"-like remote monitoring and maintenance features, it is an ideal product to be offered by service providers, including ISPs, MNOs, and MSOs, for many use cases including as a highly secure remote connectivity solution for Work-from-Home (WFH) use cases.

Veea, in parallel, introduces BOLT, which brings enterprise-class blazing fast Wi-Fi 6 mesh router technology for highly simplified deployments in the same form factor, with optional features such as "Automation for Smart Spaces", which is ideal for home, hotel and dormitory rooms, nursing homes, and many other consumer-friendly use cases. Automation for Smart Spaces provides for an "all-in-one" solution for integration with products and peripherals from several leading vendors' lighting, HVAC, air quality management, security alarm, cameras, door locks, shades, garage door openers and other home or office automation use cases.

"The VeeaHub STAX and VeeaHub BOLT extend the capabilities of our edge platform, which is raising the bar in edge computing simplicity," said Allen Salmasi, founder and CEO of Veea. "These breakthrough products represent the best-in-class solutions for edge computing at the Device Edge, which is the first and the more critical network touchpoint prior to making the WAN connection. The solution architecture substantially minimizes the backhaul requirements for data intensive activities, improves resiliency for mission critical edge computing applications and facilitates data ownership and privacy to meet regulatory requirements such as GDPR. We're making it simple, predictable, cost effective and most efficient to support a wide range of edge use cases as edge computing applications grow exponentially. With a very small physical footprint that nonetheless provides server-grade processing and scalable storage, we have broken the edge barrier with products that include zero touch plug-and-play ease of use and multilevel security features that the market demands today."

Learn more about VCH25 STAX, VHC20 BOLT, and all of Veea's products here.Learn more about the Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerate 2021 event here.

Mr. Salmasi will take the Main Stage to present his vision for the next generation of edge technologies and real-world applications on Tuesday, at 11:40 AM.

About Veea Veea is redefining and simplifying secure edge computing that improves application responsiveness, reduces bandwidth costs, and eliminates central cloud dependency. VeeaHub Smart Computing Hubs integrate a full range of connectivity options, application processing power, and a full security stack to form an elastic edge computing platform with a dynamic connectivity and application mesh that can easily be deployed and centrally managed from the cloud. Veea Edge Services run across this application mesh to deliver secure remote access, IoT/IIoT/AIoT, and a wide range of smart applications. These elements along with a range of groundbreaking vertical-specific applications comprise the Veea Edge Platform, serving the needs of organizations across Smart Buildings, Smart Energy, Smart Cities, Smart Construction, Smart Farming, Smart Retail, and other industry verticals. Veea's Virtual Trusted Private Networking (vTPN) solution, based on a unique and highly secure VPN technology and cloud-managed full stack security services, makes it simple and affordable to securely connect for most smart vertical market applications including the remote and work-from-home workforce and branch offices. Veea was formed in 2014 and is headquartered in New York, NY, with its development activities primarily located in its engineering offices in Bath, UK, and Iselin, New Jersey, USA, along with sales and support offices located at multiple locations throughout the US, France, South Korea, and Brazil. Veea was named by Gartner as a 2021 Cool Vendor in Edge Computing. For more information, visit veea.com. Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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AMD's recent server efforts have been tremendous. The company not only released CPUs with 64 cores and worked hard to win designs with server makers and cloud giants like Google, but it also prioritized producing EPYC processors over client CPUs and GPUs. These efforts paid off in the second quarter as, according to a report from analyst firm Omdia, AMD has reached its highest server CPU market share in years.

According to the report, around 3.4 million data center servers were sold in the second quarter of 2021 (flat year over year). Additionally, server makers earned $21.5 billion due to growing demand from hyperscale cloud service providers.

AMD controlled 16% of data center servers, Intel lost some revenue share to AMD, and Arm-based servers continued to progress, albeit in a limited number of cases. Omdia says that Ampere's Altra (deployed by Oracle) and chips from Fujitsu and Huawei are the most successful server-grade Arm SoCs.

An avid reader will certainly notice that data from Omdia appears to differ fromdata shared by Mercury Researchlast month, which shows that AMD commanded around 11.6% of server unit share in Q2 2021. This happens because Omdia includes all types ofgeneral-purpose servers in the report,like mainstream/datacenter machines (blades, rack servers, whitebox servers used by hyperscalers, tower servers, hyperconverged infrastructure servers), edge servers (a small emerging category),andfour-socket and beyond servers.

Other firms do not include certain niche types of servers (e.g., machines with four or more CPUs) that sometimes happen to be categories in which AMD does not participate, which is why server-related reports from IDC, Mercury Research, and Omdia can have different perspectives. In the case of Omdia, it only covers data center machines.

Omdia says that AMD's 16% share in data center servers is the highest share that the company has ever reached in this market segment, but it didn't elaborate. AMD controlledover 25%of the server market in Q3 2006, based on data from Mercury Research. It's important to remember that the server market is not only larger than it was in 2006 in terms of units, but the machines themselves are becoming more expensive, so there's more revenue to be gained.

Omdia says accelerated adoption of AMD's EPYC processors by hyperscalers in general, and Google in particular, helped AMD increase its share in Q2 2021. Cloud providers were Intel's stronghold for years, but it appears AMD is beginning to gain traction here, just like it gained traction with enterprises.

Speaking of hyperscalers, it is necessary to note that they use whitebox servers produced by companies likeWiwynn, QCT (Quanta), Tyan (MiTAC), and Ingrasys (Foxconn). These companies controlled 26% of the market and produced $5.566 billion worth of servers in Q2 2021, up 17% quarter-over-quarter and 9% year-over-year. In fact, hyperscale cloud service providers like AWS, Azure, Facebook, and Google consumed more servers in the second quarter than any server vendor shipped during this timeframe.

Speaking of big server vendors. Dell EMC maintained its lead and sold $3.655 billion worth of servers in Q2 2021. The company was followed by HPE with $2.727 billion (nearly a billion of USDs behind), whereas Inspur was No. 3 with $2.285 billion. Inspur's sales grew 45% quarter-over-quarter, so the company probably delivered several large orders to its clients in China. Meanwhile, the company's server sales dropped by 5% year-over-year. By contrast, Lenovo increased its server revenue to $1.652 billion, up 15% QoQ and 13% YoY.

Since demand for servers is growing, everyone in the supply chain benefits. Omdia expects server revenue to hit $92 million for 2021 and increase by 11% compared to 2020. For obvious reasons, companies like AMD benefit more than makers of smaller components like power management ICs (PMICs) or network controllers. But as ironic as it is, makers of small components may put further growth of the server market in the second half of the year (and therefore server revenue) at risk.

Lead times for some server componentsextended to 52 70 weeksby early July, forcing some manufacturers to procure loads of cheap but critical components, putting additional pressure on the supply chain. PMICs are made on 200-mm fabs that are relatively cheap, but building additional capacity takes a long time, so shortages will persist for quite a while.

According to multiple researchers, AMD is gaining server market share as the server market grows due to demand from hyperscale cloud service providers. AMD has successfully won designs with enterprise server makers and is now gaining traction with hyperscalers, which almost guarantees steady shipment growth.

For now, AMD's EPYC CPUs have an indisputable trump over Intel's Xeon processors: their core count. However, component shortages could slow down server shipments and thus AMD's expansion.

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Solutions Reviews listing of the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools is an annual mashup of products that best represent current market conditions, according to the crowd. Our editors selected the best SIEM products based on each solutions Authority Score, a meta-analysis of real user sentiment through the webs most trusted business software review sites, and our own proprietary five-point inclusion criteria.

The editors at Solutions Review continually research the most prominent and influential SIEM tools to assist buyers in search of the tools befitting the needs of their organization. Choosing the right vendor and solution can be a complicated process; it requires constant market research and often comes down to more than just the solution and its technical capabilities. Yet its essential; Security Information and Event Management can help bridge gaps in security monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response for businesses struggling to fill their IT security teams.

Solutions Review picked out the Best SIEM Tools for 2021 and beyond. Vendors and solutions are listed in alphabetical order.

AT&T Cybersecurity aims to help businesses of all sizes stay ahead of threats. The AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform combines SIEM and log management capabilities with other essential security toolsincluding asset discovery, vulnerability assessment, and intrusion detection (NIDS and HIDS)to provide centralized security monitoring of networks and endpoints across cloud and on premises environments from a single pane of glass.

CYBERShark, powered by BlackStratus, is a SIEM technology and service focused solution provider headquartered in New Jersey, provides reliable and innovative security event correlation, compliance, and log management capabilities. CYBERShark offers a huge portfolio of solutions with offerings including LogStorm, SIEMStorm, and SOC-As-A-Service. CYBERShark is a cloud-based SIEM-as-a-service designed for digital transformations.

Cygilants origins lie in the analysis of enterprise log files across web servers, file servers, firewalls, and other network devices. The company seeks to reduce cyber risk and enable enterprises to implement comprehensive strategies to combat cyber risk by combining security programs with insurance coverage. The SOCvue solution provides 24/7 security operations designed to singularly meet enterprises regulatory and industry compliance objectives.

Cysiv operates in the field of security operations center-as-a-service (SOCaaS). It works with enterprises to reduce the risk of a damaging cyber-attack or data breach by providing 24/7 threat detection and response. Its team of experts operates as a seamless extension to your IT security team to accelerate and improve the process of detecting, investigating, hunting for, and responding to actionable threats across the complete IT application environment.

empow is the developer of an SIEM system that detects cyber-attacks and automatically orchestrates adaptive investigation and mitigation actions in real-time, without the need for human-written rules. empows i-SIEM platform automatically understands the fundamental nature or intent of threats, finds the actual attacks hidden in the noise, and marshals the right security tools to respond when those attacks occur.

Exabeam offers its Security Intelligence Platform as a collection of components that can be selected and deployed separately. The vendors Log Manager component handles the data management, including collection and storage, and can collect from both local endpoints and cloud-based applications. Its Advanced Analytics component is a stand-alone UEBA tool. The threat hunting component, appropriately called Threat Hunter, is built on user-based timelines instead of the customary queries.

Fortinets platform FortiSIEM provides SIEM, file integrity monitoring (FIM), configuration management database (CMDB), and availability and performance capabilities. Analytics-driven IT operations and cloud management are provided, helping companies manage and monitor network performance, security, and compliance requirements. FortiSIEM detects network services and profiles network traffic from sources such as network flows and firewall logs.

IBM Securitys QRadar Platform offers log and risk management that can be deployed as an appliance, a virtual appliance, or an Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS); this makes them well-suited to different IT environments. Theyalso deliver a hybrid option, with on-premises QRadar deployment combined with a SaaS solution hosted on their IBM Cloud. This includes optional remote monitoring from their managed security service operations centers

Lacework automates security and compliance across AWS, Azure, GCP, and private clouds, providing a comprehensive view of risks across cloud workloads and containers. Laceworks unified cloud security platform provides unprecedented visibility, automates intrusion detection, delivers one-click investigation, and simplifies cloud compliance. Lacework was noted as an Emerging Security Vendor to Know in 2019 by CRN.

Logentries offers a real-time log management and analytics service built for the cloud. These SIEM solutions securely collect log data while preventing unencrypted sensitive data from leaving your IT environment without consent from the security team. Logentries SIEM products include search and analysis tools, alerts to identify security threats and investigate malicious activity, and allows users to send files to an Amazon long-term cloud server.

LogPoint extracts security events and incidents from logs existing in IT infrastructures and environments of any size. Filtered and correlated real-time results are displayed in dashboards that can be configured based on the specific roles and responsibilities of each user. LogPoint also creates real-time, actionable insights from raw machine data to help increase operational efficiency and streamline compliance for regulatory mandates; this strengthens enterprises overall security posture.

LogRhythms SIEM solution consists of several unified components: the Event Manager, Log Manager, Advanced Intelligence Engine (AI Engine), and Console. LogRhythm combines SIEM capabilities with endpoint monitoring, forensics, and management abilities to ease enterprise-level deployments and maintenance. Its other solutions can serve as optional add-ons for network and host monitoring or FIM functioning.

Logsign Next-Gen SIEM provides comprehensive visibility and control of data lakes. It allows security analysts to collect, store, and backup unlimited data, and investigate and detect threats and anomalies in real time. Focusing on comprehensive and security analytics-oriented visibility, Logsign supports many log collection methods such as SYSLOG, SMB, WMI, FTP, SFTP, LEA, SQL, ORACLE, and Flow. Logsign classifies and normalizes data and enriches with embedded threat intelligence services in real-time.

ManageEngine Log360 simplifies IT management with an affordable software solution that offers the ease-of-use smaller enterprises need and the powerful features the largest enterprises demand. Log360 features the ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer whichcollects, analyses, archives, and reports on event logs from distributed Windows host and syslogs from myriad data sources including UNIX hosts, routers, and switches.

McAfees Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) consolidates, correlates, assesses, and prioritizes security events for both third-party and Intel Security solutions. McAfee also provides integrated tools for configuration and change management, case management, and centralized management of policy to improve workflow and efficiency. McAfees Advanced Correlation Engine is designed for dedicated correlation and risk and behavior-based correlation.

Micro Focus offers two SIEM solutions: Micro Focus ArcSight and Micro Focus Sentinel. The latter incorporates NetIQ brand technologies, but it is ArcSight that serves as their primary SIEM platform; ArcSights portfolio includes Enterprise Security Manager (ESM) software for large-scale, SEM-focused deployments. Micro Focus also offers ArcSight Express, which is an appliance-based solution for the SIEM midmarket with preconfigured monitoring and reporting.

Rapid7 InsightIDR, a cloud SIEM solution for modern threat detection and response,seeks to unify your security data with cloud-based log and event management. Rapid7 aims to assist with enterprise compliance, detect the behavior behind breaches, and monitor lateral movement. Specifically, Rapid7 monitors for lateral movement involving stolen credentials by traffic manipulation and hash extraction and facilitates the searching and visualizing of your security data

RSAs NetWitness suite provides visibility from logs, full network packet, NetFlow, and endpoint data capture. The NetWitness Logs facilitates the automated collection, analysis, alerting, auditing, reporting, and secure storage of all logs. Alerts can be delivered through the intuitive user interface, via SMS or email, and auditors can even be granted read-only access to the enVision platform so that they can access the reports whenever they need them.

Securonix offers the Snypr Security Analytics solution as its SIEM platform. Their capabilities include a library of threat signatures, UEBA functionality, and event and data collection. Other functions include configuration, indexing via Search Service, data parsing and normalization via enrichment services, and correlation services. Securonix supports advanced threat hunting and incident investigation capabilities.

Splunks security intelligence platform provides event and data collection with visualization options and use-case agnostic data analysis capabilities for IT operations. Splunk also provides out-of-the-box support for the most common security data sources including network security, endpoint solutions, malware and payload analysis, network and wire data, identity and asset management systems, and threat intelligence to accelerate deployment.

Sumo Logic enables enterprises to build analytical power that transforms daily operations into intelligent business decisions. It offers customers cloud-to-cloud integrations to simplify setup and deliver business operational insights. Sumo Logics purpose-built cloud-native service scales to over 4 petabytes of data. Above all, Sumo Logics greatest asset is its log aggregation capabilities, especially concerning big data security analytics and machine data logging.

Tenable offers SIEM which leverages the log management capabilities of their Log Correlation Engine (LCE) to collect all logs, software activity, user events, and network traffic across the entire IT environment. Tenable analyzes data for correlated events and impacts on security and compliance posture. Event context and threat-list intelligence about any system is provided by Tenable Nessus vulnerability and configuration scans and real time monitoring with the Tenable Passive Vulnerability Scanner (PVS).

Trustwaves Managed SIEM services provide threat intelligence, efficiency, and automation to organizations of all sizes. The service includes the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). Trustwave works with point-of-sale (POS) vendors to develop specific logging support for in-store payment solutions. The company offers capabilities for additional correlation, reporting, and ad-hoc analysis, both locally on the appliance and via services provided through their Security Operations Centers.

Our Buyers Guide for SIEM helps you evaluate the best solutions for your business use case and features profiles of the leading profiles, as well as a category overview of the marketplace and a Bottom Line Analysis for each vendor profile.

Dan is a tech writer who writes about Cybersecurity for Solutions Review. He graduated from Fitchburg State University with a Bachelor's in Professional Writing. You can reach him at dhein@solutionsreview.com

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Welcome to our 24th Data Center Executive Roundtable, a quarterly feature showcasing the insights of thought leaders on the state of the data center industry, and where it is headed. Our Third Quarter 2021 roundtable offers insights on four topics: The semiconductor shortage and the state of the data center supply chain, how recent weather disasters are impacting site selection and operations, the opportunities and challenges created by software-defined everything, and technologies that can drive long-term sustainability solutions.

Heres a look at our distinguished panel:

The conversation is moderated by Rich Miller, the founder and editor of Data Center Frontier. Each day this week we will present a Q&A with these executives on one of our key topics. We begin with a look at our panels take on trends in data center rack density and cooling.

Data Center Frontier:The semiconductor shortage is among the examples of how the supply chain can impact business timetables. How would you assess the state of the data center supply chain, and how it has impacted the industry?

Peter Panfil, Vertiv: The supply chain issues that resulted from the pandemic are being addressed, but it will take time for the necessary capacity to come online. In the interim, we need to work together to buy ourselves that time. From a manufacturers perspective, we integrate a lot of chip-based intelligence into our systems, so weve had to work closely with our suppliers to understand how component and material availability would affect production schedules and new product introductions, and then proactively communicate with our customers so there are no surprises.

Everyone is aware of the issues, which are global and not limited to our industry, so planning, communication and collaboration become the keys to making the best of a difficult situation. From an operators perspective, its more important than ever to make investments that can extend equipment life, such as preventive maintenance and remote monitoring.

Nancy Novak, Compass Datacenters and iMasons:While weve seen increased costs in some areas for things like steel, the data center industry has probably been less effected by supply chain issues. While the chip shortage may ultimately ripple through to impact the availability of components like PDUs, ATS units and generators, it has not resulted in supply problems for data center building components anywhere near the extent that is has the things like servers that reside within the buildings themselves.

If there is a supply issue from a data center construction perspective, it is found on the labor side of the equation. Contractors and sub-contractors, like many businesses around the country are continually searching for qualified personnel. While there are a number of factors contributing to these shortages, the simple fact is that we are simply not doing enough to find and train the volume of people we need in the skilled trades.

Lenaik Andrieux, Kohler Power Systems: Tense is the word that comes to mind for global supply chains currently. Recent months have seen sharp increases in raw material (copper, iron) combined with serious production capacity limitations for key industries supplying the data center market. This has included semiconductors, but more broadly and significantly the transportation industry itself. It is leading to key components shortages, increased costs, uncertainty of project execution, increased lead-times and ultimately uncertainty in the execution of data center projects. This is a tough situation in an industry that has innovation, speed of execution and volume leverage as part of its DNA.

So how did we get here, beyond the simple of fact of very significant growth in data markets? This time the supply chain tension impacts many other markets, such as the automotive industry to name an obvious one, and the world economic growth in general. Since the 2007 financial crisis, the data industry has been the fastest growing market when more traditional markets like oil and gas, mining, and infrastructure have been soft or even depressed.

These markets are generally recognized as strong profitability drivers for the manufacturing footprint. Over this last 10 to 15 years, this has led a number of key suppliers to rationalize their production and supply chain capacities. At the same time that some operations were reducing, an increased percentage of production was made available to the data center industry. Over the last 18 months, the COVID phenomena has accelerated this gap between the worlds hunger for data and more traditional industries and markets. The recovery for all has been sudden, though, leading to the current tension.

So what to do? This does not seem to be a short term situation. The first obvious answer is that increased transparency and collaboration through the supply chain is a must. Sharing project plans much earlier with all key players enables supply positions, and guarantees better planning and project execution. It also matters who you are partnering with. Financial strength is extremely relevant here. Deep expertise and focus in the data center industry seems critical, rather than choosing more generic multi-industry entities that may have to share and allocate their production capacity with all other markets. Collaboration and focus could be the winning formula.

Rob Rockwood, Sabey Data Centers:Semiconductors, having found their way into equipment beyond just computers, are affecting the data center supply chain at several levels. For projects initiating in the second half of 2021, the industry is experiencing schedules extended by 5% to 10%. I expect, as suppliers adjust to the situation, that schedules will have returned to pre-shortage levels by the end of 2022.

Having learned from this situation, suppliers will ensure that the supply chain shows greater resiliency, with project schedules decreasing to slightly below pre-shortage durations by 2023.

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