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With DPU-Goosed Switches, HPE Tackles VMware, Security – And Maybe HPC And AI

May 28, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Pendulums are always swinging back and forth in the datacenter, with functions being offloaded from one thing and onloaded to another cheaper thing that is often more flexible or faster. …

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Hell Freezes Over: Cisco And Nvidia Cross-Pollenate AI Networking

February 25, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

UPDATED  Networking giant Cisco Systems and AI platform provider Nvidia have hammered out a deal to mix and match each other’s technologies to create a broader set of AI networking options for their respective and – importantly, prospective – customers. …

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Cisco Cuts Network Costs By Welding Nexus Switch To AMD DPU

February 11, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

There are two ways to make a programmable switch that can run network applications and accelerate certain network functions. …

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MGX: Nvidia Standardizes Multi-Generation Server Designs

May 30, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Updated With More MGX Specs: Whenever a compute engine maker also does motherboards as well as system designs, those companies that make motherboards (there are dozens who do) and create system designs (the original design manufacturers and the original – get a little bit nervous as well as a bit relieved. …

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Economics And The Inevitability Of The DPU

November 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 5

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. …

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The Steady Hand Guiding AMD’s “Prudently Expanding” Datacenter Business

October 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 10

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. …

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Bringing AWS-Style DPU Offload To The VMware Base

August 30, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Databases and datastores are by far the stickiest things in the datacenter. …

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AMD Finally Reaps The Fortunes It Has Sown

August 3, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 12

Sometimes, competing for business means coming up with better products than your rivals. …

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AMD Needs To Complete The Datacenter Set With Switching

June 24, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

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. …

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AMD Roadmaps Lead To Mountains Of Money

June 10, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 11

IT organizations, especially the key hyperscalers and cloud builders, don’t buy point products, they buy roadmaps. …

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