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Are your data center investments silently underperforming?
While enterprises invest heavily in high-performance servers, GPUs, and storage, many overlook a critical weak link: the network. Even minor latency or bandwidth issues can lead to massive inefficiencies—wasting energy, reducing ROI, and degrading performance.
- The Hidden Bottlenecks in Your Infrastructure – See how network constraints are limiting the performance of your GPU, memory, and storage investments.
- The 45% Energy Waste You're Paying For – Learn how lack of network performance forces hardware to consume maximum power while delivering minimal results.
- The AI Amplification Effect – Understand how AI workloads turn minor network issues into major resource drains, extending training times from hours to days while GPU investments idle.
This whitepaper from ProLabs reveals how to identify and eliminate hidden inefficiencies in your infrastructure.
The Hidden Bottleneck: Network Performance
High-performance computing resources often sit idle due to slow or outdated network infrastructure.
Latency, jitter, and packet loss can negate the benefits of expensive hardware.
Real-world examples show how simple network upgrades dramatically improve utilization.
Energy Waste and Sustainability Risks
Data centers consume massive power, but underperforming networks reduce productive output per kilowatt-hour.
Optimizing network throughput can cut effective energy use by up to 45%.
As such, sustainability mandates make this inefficiency financially and ethically unsustainable.
AI & HPC: The Amplification Effect
AI workloads demand massive data movement—exposing network weaknesses.
Bottlenecks lead to longer training times, higher costs, and reduced model accuracy.
Network optimization is essential to maximize GPU ROI and meet SLAs.
Storage and Memory: Capacity Without Access
Fast storage and memory are wasted if data can’t move efficiently. And backup and recovery times are often dominated by network speed, not storage performance.
Memory caching and in-memory databases suffer from stale or delayed data.
Security Trade-offs and Compliance Risks
Performance issues often lead to dangerous workarounds: disabling encryption, bypassing inspection points, etc.
These compromises increase vulnerability and violate compliance standards like NIS2 and DORA.
A performant network eliminates the need for risky shortcuts.
The ProLabs Approach to Network Optimization
Precision-engineered transceivers and cables reduce error rates and boost throughput.
Modern topologies and protocol tuning unlock hidden capacity.
ProLabs helps organizations quantify and reclaim wasted resources.
Unlock the Full Value of Your Infrastructure
Your servers, GPUs, memory and storage are only as effective as the network that connects them.
Download this whitepaper to learn how to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce energy waste, and future-proof your data center.
Optimize your network. Reclaim your resources. Drive performance.
