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This Switcheroo Doesn’t Get Old

May 7, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Any company that holds more than a quarter of a market – by money or shipments – is doing pretty well. …

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Pushing PCI-Express Fabrics Up To The Next Level

March 27, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

While the long overdue upgrade to PCI-Express 4.0 is finally coming to servers, allowing for high bandwidth links between processors and peripherals. …

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Intel Fills In The First Half Server Pothole – And Then Some

January 24, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Let’s face it. Given how poorly the server market was doing in the final quarter of 2018 and the first two quarters of 2019, we had no idea how well or poorly 2019 might end up for Intel’s Data Center Group and the server industry at large. …

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Routing Boosts Switching As The Lines Between Them Blur

December 17, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

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The Substrate To Bind Datacenter Switching And Routing

October 21, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The appliance model, where the hardware and software were tightly controlled by a single vendor, held sway in the datacenter for decades. …

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Switch Silicon To Relieve Choke Points In Servers

October 10, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Say what you will about the ruthless dominance of hyperscale companies, but they are managing to propel information technology at a rate, and in ways, that the enterprise and high performance computing markets can only dream of. …

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When Diverse Network ASICs Meet A Unifying Operating System

September 19, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It has been two decades since Juniper Networks, then the big upstart rival to Cisco Systems and others as the dot-com boom was rising towards its crescendo several years hence, took FreeBSD Unix and turned it into a network operating system that spanned both routers and switches. …

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The Switch-Router War Is Over, And Hyperscalers Won

July 23, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. …

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Bringing Big Bandwidth To Large Enterprises

June 24, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

Hyperscalers change their datacenters – by which we mean whole generations of servers, storage, and switching – like regular enterprises upgrade server platforms. …

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Relentless Competition Drives Down Ethernet Switch Costs

March 22, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

If you want to see what real competition might look like at some point in the future of the server racket, look no further than the Ethernet switch market, where switch ASICs and the companies that build switches alike have to fight for every dollar and make it up in volume every year without pause. …

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