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Prying The Lid Off Black Box Switch SDKs

February 1, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

It would be hard to find a business that has been more proprietary, insular, and secretive than the networking industry, and for good reasons. …

Cloud

A Rare Peek Inside A 400G Cisco Network Chip

September 14, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

Server processor architectures are trying to break the ties between memory and compute to allow the capacities of each to scale independently of each other, but switching and routing giant Cisco Systems has already done this for a high-end switch chip that looks remarkably like a CPU tuned for network processing. …

Compute

What Bellwether Cisco Reveals About Datacenter Spending

February 16, 2017 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As the world’s dominant supplier of switches and routers into the datacenter and one of the big providers of servers (with a hope of transforming part of that server businesses into a sizeable hyperconverged storage business), Cisco Systems provides a kind of lens into the glass houses of the world. …

Compute

Enterprises Take A Slight Pause To Process

February 12, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

As the dominant supplier of switches and routers to enterprise and service provider datacenters and as an upstart server maker that has carved out a hefty slice of the systems market in the past seven years, Cisco Systems is a harbinger of what is going on in terms of architectural shifts and spending among the world’s largest companies. …

Connect

Microsoft Crafts Homegrown Linux For Azure Switches

September 18, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

Microsoft doesn’t just love running Linux workloads on the Azure cloud. …

Connect

Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks

June 19, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

When search engine giant Google started planning and then building software-defined networks more than a decade ago, the term did not even exist yet. …

Connect

Mellanox Comes Out Swinging With 100G Spectrum Ethernet

June 18, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

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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