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With VMware, Broadcom Has A Real Enterprise Software Stack
Once Dell spun out VMware on Wall Street, it was only a matter of time before someone would put together enough money to acquire it. …
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Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs?
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
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Broadcom Widens And Smartens Switch Chip Lineup
Cisco Systems may still be the biggest supplier of switches and routers in general, but it has long since been surpassed by Broadcom when it comes to suppling the silicon that does the switching itself and sometimes even a little bit of routing in the datacenter in particular. …
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Broadcom Launches Another Tomahawk Into The Datacenter
If hyperscalers, cloud builders, HPC centers, enterprises, and both OEMs and ODMs like one thing, it is a steady drumbeat of technology enhancements to drive their datacenters forward. …
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Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises
Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …
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Intel Finally Serious About Switching with Barefoot Networks Buy
In one fell swoop, Intel has finally filled a giant hole in its switching product line by acquiring upstart Barefoot Networks, the creator of the P4 programming language for networking devices and the “Tofino” family of Ethernet switch ASICs that make use of it. …
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PCI-Express Lends Server Composability A Hand
Applications do not need to use all elements of a system all the time, and usually not all at the same time for that matter. …
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Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks
Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …
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The 400G Ethernet Ramp About Radix As Much As Bandwidth
The appetite for network bandwidth is insatiable, as is that of compute and storage, but our enthusiasm to acquire larger and larger chunks of all of these things is curtailed significantly by cost. …
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A Deep Dive Into Cisco’s Use Of Merchant Switch Chips
The incumbent switch makers of the world could learn a thing or two from the server racket. …