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Why Would HPE Buy Juniper Networks?
It looks like Hewlett Packard Enterprise might be having a datacenter networking revival. …
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Meta Platforms Spent Over $1 Billion On Arista Networking In 2022
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are the toughest customers in the IT sector, demanding the highest performance at the lowest price and an ever-improving ratio between the two. …
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After Long Last, A Commercial-Grade SONiC Network Operating System
It is perplexing to us that the world’s largest distributor of client and server operating systems and also the creator of the Linux-based, open source SONiC network operating system – that would be Microsoft with its Windows and Windows Server franchises – did not see the benefit or the need to commercialize SONiC and lead the open networking revolution. …
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The Supply Chain Boa Constrictor Still Tight Around Cisco
There are times when Cisco Systems, which has a strong presence in datacenter switching, routing, and serving as well as a representative showing in storage and software, is a bellwether for IT market spending and transitions going on in the IT space. …
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Composing The Impossible Server
Paid Feature There are many ways to scale up and scale out systems, and that is a problem as much as it is a solution for distributed systems architects. …
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Arista Networks Brings The Battle For Routing To Cisco
It’s a great thing when an upstart supplier of hardware or software lands one of the hyperscalers or large public cloud builders on Earth as a customer. …
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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. …
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A New Twist On PCI-Express Switching For The Datacenter
While there are plenty of distributed applications that are going to chew through the hundreds of gigabits per second of bandwidth per port that modern Ethernet or InfiniBand ASICs deliver inside of switches, there are still others that might benefit from having a more streamlined stack that is also more malleable and composable. …