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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022

February 15, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …

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Paving The Way For 800 Gb/sec Ethernet In The Enterprise

January 6, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

There are exceptions to every rule, but in general, when it comes to datacenter networks, enterprise customers are doing now what the hyperscalers and cloud builders were doing six or seven years ago. …

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Hyperscalers And Clouds Lift Arista Networks Sky High

November 1, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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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E Pluribus, Network – Arista Networks, That Is

August 4, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Software is not actually eating the world, but it is absolutely smashing out of appliance-style boxes and creating a massive, interconnected overlay atop aggregations of very shiny and powerful hardware. …

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Playing The Long Game With The Hyperscalers And Clouds

May 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

To build a very large IT business often takes a channel approach, where manufacturers sell a certain amount of their own product – say to the key 10 percent or 20 percent of their accounts – and then offload the rest of the sales job to a third party. …

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Talking Silicon Photonics Signal And Noise With Andy Bechtolsheim

March 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

There is a lot of chatter this week about optical communications with the OFC2022 conference being held in San Diego. …

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Surfing On The Ethernet Bandwidth Waves, Avoiding The Rocks

February 15, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any company making any kind of box – a server, a switch, a storage array – has three battles they need to fight here in 2022, one of which they did not have to worry about very much before the coronavirus pandemic and which is of prime importance these days. …

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Despite Supply Chain Woes, Arista Networks Does Record Business

August 6, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As everybody in the world now knows, there are downsides to just-in-time manufacturing during a global pandemic. …

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Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures

May 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that one of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …

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The 400 Gb/sec Ethernet Upgrade Cycle Finally Begins

May 7, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It has been a long time coming. Over two years, in fact. …

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