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Why The DPU Is More Important Than The CPU For Nvidia

October 5, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

If you are fairly new to the IT racket, you might be under the impression that the waves of integration and disaggregation in compute, networking, and storage that swept over the datacenter in recent decades were all new, that somehow the issues of complexity and cost did not plague systems of the past. …

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Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox

November 2, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Datacenter 25G Ethernet Upgrade Wave Lifts Mellanox

Having multiple related but distinct product lines turns a company into an economic engine that runs a lot smoother than an it would run with a single cylinder. …

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Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization

November 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Delivering On The Promise Of Network Function Virtualization

People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. …

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Living In The SmartNIC Future

August 6, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Getting processing closer to data is going to be one of the major themes in compute in the next decade, and we know this because for the past decade this is precisely what the big hyperscalers and cloud builders have been doing. …

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