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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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The Dance Between Compute And Network In The Datacenter
In an ideal world, there is a balance between compute, network, and storage that allows for the CPUs to be fed with data such that they do not waste too much of their processing capacity spinning empty clocks. …
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More Than Anything Else, Cost Per Bit Drives Datacenter Ethernet
For whatever reason, it takes a lot longer to case the commercial Ethernet switching and routing markets, which is dominated by datacenter and campus use cases, than it does for the server and storage markets. …
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Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs?
Amazon Web Services, the juggernaut of cloud computing, may be forging its own path with Arm-based CPUs and associated DPUs thanks to its 2015 acquisition of Annapurna Labs for $350 million. …
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The Citadel That Is Still Cisco Systems
The hyperscalers and cloud builders can be split into two camps, but a third one might be emerging. …
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Why There’s Hard, Cold Cash For Soft, Disaggregated Routing
No matter if you are talking about compute or networking, there are two opposing forces that are constantly at interplay on a field of green money. …
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The Tectonic Shift To Virtual Distributed Routing
In the IT sector, there is a constant flow of little changes to hardware and software that culminate in progress. …
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Switching Back Into A Higher Gear
If you want to get a sense of what is happening in the high-end of the Ethernet switch and routing market, it is Arista Networks, formerly an upstart and now just one of the bigger vendors taking on the hegemony of Cisco Systems in networking in the datacenter and now on the campus and at the edge, is probably the best bellwether there is. …
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One Network Operating System To Rule Them All
Networks may not be the most expensive thing in the datacenter – they typically comprise about 10 percent to 15 percent of the cost of a distributed system, including cables, transceivers, switches, and routers – but they are without a doubt the most complex part of distributed systems. …
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Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur
With the dividing line between switching and routing blurring among the hyperscalers and cloud builders, it is no wonder to us that switching is growing as Ethernet switch ASICs get more and more routing functions and true Ethernet routing has remained more or less flat in the past five years. …