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Cisco Puts Big AI Infrastructure Into Small Packages

November 7, 2024 Jeffrey Burt 0

Generative AI is still very much an emerging technology and it’s morphing and evolving rapidly, as is illustrated with the trend toward agentic AI, which we’ve written about previously. …

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Cisco Pushes Nvidia Enterprise AI, But Has Its Own Network Agenda

June 7, 2024 Jeffrey Burt 2

In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …

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Micas Takes On Arista And The Whiteboxes In Datacenter Switching

October 17, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The rise of the merchant silicon suppliers for datacenter networking and routing, which was spearheaded by Broadcom with chips and Arista Networks with switches, was not a foregone conclusion. …

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Ethernet Consortium Shoots For 1 Million Node Clusters That Beat InfiniBand

July 20, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 14

Here we go again. Some big hyperscalers and cloud builders and their ASIC and switch suppliers are unhappy about Ethernet, and rather than wait for the IEEE to address issues, they are taking matters in their own hands to create what will ultimately become an IEEE standard that moves Ethernet forward in a direction and speed of their choosing. …

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Cisco Figures Out How To Sell Switches To Hyperscalers And Enterprises Alike

October 19, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

Selling hardware into the modern datacenter is no easy feat, particularly when the needs of hyperscalers and enterprises have long since diverged. …

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The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco

August 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …

Connect

Controlling The Network When You Don’t Own All Of It

June 14, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 0

Like others in the datacenter infrastructure space, Cisco Systems has had a front-row seat to the rapid changes in enterprise tech, from the accelerating adoption of the multicloud model to the increasing decentralization of the IT environment, rippling out to the network edge. …

Compute

Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much

May 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …

Compute

Cisco Rolls Out New Systems As It Stretches Kubernetes To Clouds

March 24, 2022 Jeffrey Burt 1

There is no shortage of options for enterprises when it comes to Kubernetes platforms. …

Connect

Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco

February 22, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …

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