Intel has spent a considerable sum of money acquiring switching technologies over the past several years as well as doing a whole bunch of its own engineering so it can branch out in a serious way into the $25 billion networking business and keep its flagship Data Center Group growing and profitable. …
Ratcheting up the bandwidth on networks has been easier in many ways that getting low and predictable latencies for the transfer of information across those networks. …
The gap between what a hyperscaler can build and what it might need seems to be increasing, and perhaps at a ridiculous pace. …
Everything seems to be easier for the hyperscalers than it is for large enterprises, but it is just an illusion created by the confluence of some of the best minds in IT with a whole lot of money. …
When search engine giant Google started planning and then building software-defined networks more than a decade ago, the term did not even exist yet. …
Mellanox Technologies has long desired to be a major player in the Ethernet switching space, and with its forthcoming Spectrum switch ASICs and ConnectX-4 adapter cards, the company is positioning itself well to ride the next upgrade wave of Ethernet to roll into the datacenter. …
Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
It has been a year and a half since IT supplier Dell went private, and the company is reveling in the fact that competitors can no longer peer into its financials to look for weaknesses and that it can make decisions privately and for the long-term rather than make them publicly and largely on the much shorter-term that all public companies have to align to. …
John Chambers has led networking giant and now systems player Cisco Systems for two decades and is stepping down as CEO to let a new generation of executives run the company that he utterly transformed from a router maker to a broad and very profitable IT supplier. …
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