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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

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Ultimately, all of this complexity gradually resulted from incremental server hardware evolution… the motherboards to be exact. Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. Ken Oestreich. 9:15 AM.

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7 Software Defined Networking Considerations » Data Center.

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The good news is that data center networks will receive more attention and product development than other technologies (such as WANs and LANs). The potential exists for significant savings as SDN allows data centers to move away from single source hardware to the commodity-based pricing we see with servers. December 2007 (95).