Cloud
Prying The Lid Off Black Box Switch SDKs
It would be hard to find a business that has been more proprietary, insular, and secretive than the networking industry, and for good reasons. …
Connect
Connect
Networking With Intent
Networking has always been the laggard in the enterprise datacenter. As servers and then storage appliances became increasingly virtualized and disaggregated over the past 15 years or so, the network stubbornly stuck with the appliance model, closed and proprietary. …
Cloud
Mellanox Trims Down To Reach For A Profitable $1 Billion
If Mellanox Technologies had not begun investing in the Ethernet switching as it came out of the Great Recession, it would be a much different company than it is today. …
AI
Flattening Networks – And Budgets – With 400G Ethernet
If it were not for the insatiable bandwidth needs of the twenty major hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is safe to say that the innovation necessary to get Ethernet switching and routing up to 200 Gb/sec or 400 Gb/sec might not have been done at the fast pace that the industry as been able to pull off. …
Code
Juniper Flips OpenContrail To The Linux Foundation
It’s a familiar story arc for open source efforts started by vendors or vendor-led industry consortiums. …
Connect
A Purified Implementation Of NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. …
Cloud
VMware Tweaks NSX Virtual Networks For Containers, Microservices
VMware jumped into burgeoning software-defined networking (SDN) field in a big way four years ago when it bought started Nicira for $1.26 billion, a deal that led to the launch of VMware’s NSX offering a year later. …
Compute
Battle Of The InfiniBands
When it comes to HPC, compute is like the singers in a rock band, making all of the noise and soaking up most of the attention. …
Connect
Breaking Memory Free Of Compute With Gen-Z
Servers have become increasingly powerful in recent years, with more processing cores being added and accelerators like GPUs and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) being added, and the amount of data that can be processed is growing rapidly. …
Compute
The TOP500 is Dead, Long Live The TOP500
Twice a year, the TOP500 project publishes a list of the 500 most powerful computer systems, aka supercomputers. …