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InfiniBand Too Quick For Ethernet To Kill

April 1, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …

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Driving The Ethernet Roadmap At 100X Speeds

March 31, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …

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Engineered Systems Stall, Modular Systems Still Growing

March 31, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Tailoring systems for specific jobs is one of the foundational themes of The Next Platform, so we like to keep an eye on the segments of the systems market that have a particular platform bend to them. …

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Why Intel Might Buy FPGA Maker Altera

March 30, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

For the past two decades, Intel has taken on the processor makers for servers and storage in the datacenter and vanquished all but a few suppliers of alternative architectures from the glass house. …

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New Dune Chips Enable Heftier Switches

March 19, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

One size does not fit all when it comes to merchant silicon chips that are used to build network devices for enterprise, hyperscale, and service provider customers. …

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Facebook Ops Director On Breaking Open The Switch

March 16, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Facebook and its peers in the hyperscale sector have been pushing the very closed network switch business to open up and embrace hardware designs that look more like X86 servers and that are based on a Linux operating system. …

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Lessons And Time Drive Better Microserver Designs

March 12, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

Sometimes a microserver is just a little too micro to do the job, something that a lot of skeptics have been saying about so-called “wimpy core” machines since the idea took off about five years ago. …

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New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …

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Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. …

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