
Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
The advent of the Data Processing Unit or the I/O Processing Unit, or whatever you want to call it, was driven as much by economics as it was by architectural necessity. …
The old AMD – the one before Lisa Su took over – was often brilliant with its instruction set architecture and CPU designs, but sometimes perplexingly careless with its design choices and chip roadmaps. …
Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …
Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …
In the past several decades, data processing and storage systems could be architected from best of breed components, and the market could – and did – sustain multiple suppliers of competing technologies in each of the categories of compute, networking, and storage. …
IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …
There is a fundamental disconnect between the cadence that chip makers want for their devices and what the hyperscalers and cloud builders would prefer. …
There is no question that that the combination of Nvidia and Arm Holdings would have been a powerful one in the datacenter. …
The rapid movement of data to the cloud, the sharp rise in the amount of east-west traffic and the broadening adoption of modern applications like artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are putting stress on traditional networking infrastructures that were designed for a different era and are struggling to meet the demands for better performance, more bandwidth and less latency. …
Software maker VMware has always been about tight partnerships with other tech vendors. …
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