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. …
It would be hard to find a business that has been more proprietary, insular, and secretive than the networking industry, and for good reasons. …
An unexpected jump in enterprise spending coupled with the ongoing heavy spending by hyperscalers, cloud builders, and communications companies revamping their networks of gear coupled with the ramp of the “Skylake” Xeon SP processors launched last July gave Intel the best overall quarter in its history, gauged by revenues and profits, and the best one also that its Data Center Group has ever posted. …
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. …
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. …
The Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution security vulnerabilities fall into the category of “low probability, but very high impact” potential exploits. …
The quantum computing competitive landscape continues to heat up in early 2018. …
Hyperscalers have billions of users who get access to their services for free, but the funny thing is that these users act like they are paying for it and expect for these services to be always available, no excuses. …
Here at The Next Platform, we tend to keep a close eye on how the major hyperscalers evolve their infrastructure to support massive scale and evermore complex workloads. …
You can’t call them the Super 8 because the discount hotel chain already has that name. …
Putting more and more cores on a single CPU and then having two CPUs in a standard workhorse server is something that yields the best price/performance for certain kinds of compute-hungry workloads, and these days, particularly those who want top bin Xeon parts and the cost of the processor is no object because it saves on the total number of server nodes that has to be deployed. …
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