Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

The company also unveiled the SF9010 a huge, fast, all-SSD storage platform that the company says is the largest and fastest in the market today. Oh, and the SSD solution costs less than disk, according to the company. The company says that all-SSD now storage has crossed a major threshold, and now has a lower cost than disk.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The first one, on virtualizing the network, did highlight an important development regarding hardware offloads for Geneve, the next-generation network overlay encapsulation protocol. Intel announced yesterday that the new XL710 network adapters (which are 40Gbps adapters) will support Geneve hardware offloads. Coffee Chats.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 9, 2014

Rob Sherwood, CTO of Big Switch, recently published a reasonably in-depth look at “modern OpenFlow” implementations and how they can leverage multiple tables in hardware. It sounds like Ivan favors scale-out architectures, not scale-up architectures (which are typically what is seen in centralized control plane deployments).

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 26, 2014

Fathi re-emphasizes that VMware’s SDDC vision is an architecture, one built on the “power of AND.” ” vCloud Suite (and vCloud Air) is a manifestation of the SDDC vision/architecture. VMware’s SDDC vision/architecture delivers the power of “AND.” betas of vSphere and VSAN).

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Fountainhead

JANUARY 26, 2010

Right-on… Then there is a report by Gartner Research on fabric-based computing… which estimated that by the end of 2012, roughly 30% of the world’s top 2000 companies would have some form of fabric-based computing architecture. Computing architecture is in high demand. Ken Oestreich. 3 comments: Kevin L.

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Virtualized Greek

JUNE 9, 2013

Rackspace, Dell and HP are all Cloud providers that were looking for a Cloud OS. They brought a virtual network company and got rid of their PaaS solutions. The SDDC is in some circles a unicorn – an architecture that can’t be achieved because you need open standards for virtualized networks, physical networks and storage.

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Fountainhead

JUNE 29, 2009

HPs BladeSystem Matrix architecture is based on VirtualConnect infrastructure, and bundled with a suite of mostly existing HP software (Insight Dynamics - VSE, Orchestration, Recovery, Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager) which itself consists of about 21 individual products. But how revolutionary and simplifying are they?

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Scott Lowe

MARCH 5, 2013

He starts out by discussing proactive vs. reactive flows , in which Brent explains that OpenFlow performance is less about OpenFlow and more about how flows are inserted into the hardware. Servers/Hardware. Note that the author apparently works for Mirantis, which is a company that provides OpenStack consulting services.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. Botsman is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum.

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Fountainhead

MAY 6, 2010

From an architectural perspective, this approach may also be referred to as a compute fabric or Processing Area Network. BTW, there is another nice resource -- a white paper commissioned by HP (!) I've spent lots of time at early stage companies, as well as Sun Microsystems, Cassatt, Egenera, EMC.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Intel just announced that its first discrete graphics cards in over a decade will start shipping soon. We didn’t get a specific release date, but the long-awaited Intel Arc graphics for laptops will be ready in Q1, so no later than April. That’s right around the time 12th-gen Intel H-series notebooks are slated to be… Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2021

Nadella and Microsoft are explicitly positioning Windows as the opposite, saying it’s more open and that the goal of Windows is to allow other companies to build big businesses and platforms of their own without Microsoft getting in the way. Different application vendors and companies use it in different ways. Oh, for sure.

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Gizmodo

MAY 11, 2021

Nvidia’s latest mobile RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 GPUs are here. Read more.

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