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New Protocol Targets Cloud Scalability

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

It is no accident that virtualizing the network has taken longer than virtualizing servers or storage, and it is similarly not a coincidence that the hyperscale datacenter operators and a small number of very large businesses have decided to build their own switches and routers operating systems for these devices. …

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Open Switches Squeeze Networking Incumbents

February 26, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 2

The so-called industry standard server, by which most people mean a machine based on an X86 processor and generally one made by Intel, has utterly transformed the datacenter. …

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