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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
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Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High
A massive buildout of infrastructure is happening within the datacenter walls of at least several of the hyperscalers and large clouds in the world if the financial results of Arista Networks, the upstart switch maker that has been taking on Cisco Systems in the datacenter with machines based on merchant silicon for more than a decade. …
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Mashing Up CXL And Gen-Z For Shared Disaggregated Memory
If you are impatient for not just memory pooling powered by the CXL protocol, but the much more difficult task of memory sharing by servers attached to giant blocks of external memory, you are not alone. …
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How Do You Meet The Bandwidth Demands Of HPC And AI System Architectures?
Sponsored Post: Analyst firm Gartner believes AI will remain one of the top workloads driving infrastructure decisions through to 2023 as more organizations push pilot projects into the production stage. …
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Cisco Figures Out How To Sell Switches To Hyperscalers And Enterprises Alike
Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. …
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After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System
It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …
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The Pandemic Spawns Multi-Vendor Networks In Its Wake
While the COVID-19 pandemic still has a grip on the world –the global seven-day average number of deaths was at 1,660 this past week – the chaotic days of early 2020 seem to get smaller in the review mirror. …
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Hyperscalers And Clouds Switch Up To High Bandwidth Ethernet
The hunger for more compute and storage capacity and for more bandwidth to shuffle and shuttle ever-increasing amounts of data is not insatiable among the hyperscalers and large cloud builders of the world. …
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Broadcom Secures The Edge By Beefing Up The Network Core
A lot of compute is moving to the edge, and that means that networking and storage has to follow it. …
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The Network Binds The Increasingly Distributed Datacenter
Before founding software-defined networking startup PlumGrid and then moving to VMware when it bought his company in 2016, Pere Monclus spent almost 12 years with Cisco Systems at a time when while much of enterprise networking was still in the corporate datacenter, the shift to network virtualization and the migration to the cloud were getting underway. …