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Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking

January 9, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Making It Easier To Break The SONiC Barrier For Networking

Thanks to the ubiquity of the X86 server platform, the Kubernetes container controller, and the KVM server virtualization hypervisor, it is relatively easy to compute like a hyperscaler or cloud builder. …

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Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In

October 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In

Every startup has to be both flexible and focused, and it is tough to balance the two. …

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Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes?

May 12, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Is Microsoft’s SONiC Winning The War Of The NOSes?

There are many things that are ironic in the IT business. …

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Aspiring To Be The Windows, Not The Linux, Of Networks

January 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Anyone operating at network at scale almost has to, by definition, hack together their own network operating system. …

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