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Cisco: Datacenter Demand Strong, Supply Not So Much

May 19, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The good news, and we all need to be looking at the bright sides of things a bit these days is that the biggest IT shops in the world want to buy a lot of datacenter gear from Cisco Systems. …

Connect

Ethernet Switching Keeps Rising Despite Supply Chain Woes

March 14, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Whenever demand exceeds supply, inflation is inevitable. And it is not at all surprising to find that in certain sectors of the networking space, the cost of bandwidth is flattening out instead of decreasing and in some cases is on the rise. …

Connect

Datacenter Networks Push Ethernet Switching To New Highs

December 10, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

The switching market has its ups and downs depending on the upgrade cycle for server processors and the nature of the economy at any given time. …

Connect

Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS

November 11, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …

Connect

Semiconductor Supply Woes Barely Slow Arista Networks

November 4, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Anyone building any kind of system that employs any kind of chippery – which means any device today excepting maybe an old-school hammer or screwdriver – is suffering from the vicissitudes and capriciousness of semiconductor supplies. …

Connect

Networking A Way Into The Datacenter From The Outside In

October 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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

Compute

The Dance Between Compute And Network In The Datacenter

September 14, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

Connect

More Than Anything Else, Cost Per Bit Drives Datacenter Ethernet

August 30, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

Connect

Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures

May 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that one of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …

Connect

Is AWS Making The Switch To Homegrown Network ASICs?

April 7, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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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