There are two sides to every server network connection coming out of the rack, and staunch competitors are vying to own as much of the circuitry real estate that drives those connections as they can possibly attain. …
We have been talking about the impending and now delivered 100 Gb/sec speeds for InfiniBand used by HPC centers and for Ethernet to be used by hyperscalers that it is hard to remember sometimes that the enterprise is a significant laggard when it comes to network bandwidth. …
Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
The 25 Gb/sec Ethernet effort that was launched by Google and Microsoft a little more than a year ago, along with switch and adapter chip makers Broadcom and Mellanox Technologies and switch maker Arista Networks, continues to gather steam. …
While supercomputing centers and hyperscalers would agree about many things when it comes to systems architecture and the need to use certain technologies to goose the performance and the scale of their applications, they often have a fundamental disagreement when it comes to networking. …
Ratcheting up the bandwidth on networks has been easier in many ways that getting low and predictable latencies for the transfer of information across those networks. …
The gap between what a hyperscaler can build and what it might need seems to be increasing, and perhaps at a ridiculous pace. …
Mellanox Technologies has long desired to be a major player in the Ethernet switching space, and with its forthcoming Spectrum switch ASICs and ConnectX-4 adapter cards, the company is positioning itself well to ride the next upgrade wave of Ethernet to roll into the datacenter. …
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