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Why Google Thinks We Need 5 Petabit Switching
The gap between what a hyperscaler can build and what it might need seems to be increasing, and perhaps at a ridiculous pace. …
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Bringing Hyperscale SDN Lessons Down To Enterprises
Everything seems to be easier for the hyperscalers than it is for large enterprises, but it is just an illusion created by the confluence of some of the best minds in IT with a whole lot of money. …
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Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks
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. …
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Mellanox Comes Out Swinging With 100G Spectrum Ethernet
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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There Is More Than One Route To SDN Switching
Software defined networking means different things to a lot of people, and the strictest meaning and most open (in terms of open source) variant of SDN will not necessarily – or easily – vanquish quasi-proprietary variants of SDN from the datacenter. …
Compute
Avago-Broadcom To Take On Intel In The Datacenter
Might doesn’t make right in this world, but it sure helps. …
Compute
A Peek Inside Dell’s Private Systems Business
It has been a year and a half since IT supplier Dell went private, and the company is reveling in the fact that competitors can no longer peer into its financials to look for weaknesses and that it can make decisions privately and for the long-term rather than make them publicly and largely on the much shorter-term that all public companies have to align to. …
Compute
Cisco Throws Down The Gauntlet To Open Switches
John Chambers has led networking giant and now systems player Cisco Systems for two decades and is stepping down as CEO to let a new generation of executives run the company that he utterly transformed from a router maker to a broad and very profitable IT supplier. …
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SDN Startup Pushes Switch To Open Hardware
As datacenter operators push for more choices to maximize performance and efficiency, the limited options for network operating systems against preferred hardware platforms are a new target for startups hoping to upend the established network world. …
AI
SGI Awaits UV 3000 And SAP HANA Uplifts
The high performance computing market is about as tough as they come. …