Smoother Waters Ahead For Mellanox After Choppy 2013
The major markets that Mellanox Technologies sells its switch chips, switches, and server adapter cards into are inherently choppy and often driven by very large deals in its sales ...Full Article
AMD, Applied Micro Take Fabric Weaving 101 For ARM Server Chips
AMD and Applied Micro, the two biggest and most vocal of the remaining ARM server chip makers now that upstart Calxeda has shut down, have taken up weaving. Both ...Full Article
Cisco Refreshes Nexus Switches, Integrates Whiptail Flash With UCS
If you are in the hunt for new switches in your datacenter, Cisco Systems has just revamped portions of its Nexus line of top-of-rack and end-of-row devices. Cisco has ...Full Article
On-Chip Networking May Survive Calxeda Shutdown
Just after EnterpriseTech went on hiatus for the holiday, ARM server chip pioneer Calxeda closed its doors. This was something of a shock to those who have been championing ...Full Article
High Frequency Trader Spins Out Custom Network Hardware
Australian high frequency trading firm Zomojo knows a thing or two about low latency trading and has been building its own hardware and trading platform software for the past ...Full Article
Intel to Pull Networking Into Xeon and Xeon Phi Chips
Among other things, Moore's Law allows for the successive integration of system components onto processors. Various levels of cache memory as well as main memory controllers and peripheral controllers ...Full Article
Microsoft to Drive RDMA Into Datacenters and Clouds
Software giant Microsoft has been using InfiniBand networking technology in its Azure cloud for a few years now, and has also been working with Mellanox Technologies to tune up ...Full Article
Prototype Open Compute Switches Revealed
The Open Compute Project started by Facebook to do open source hardware may have to change its name soon, now that its Networking project to disaggregate switches and create ...Full Article
Regional Datacenter Bracing for 40GbE Demand
Datachambers, a datacenter operator that offers co-location and hosting services across North Carolina, has tapped Extreme Networks to be its Ethernet switch provider as part of a build out ...Full Article
Cisco Bakes SDN Into Switch Chips
Cisco Systems is still the dominant supplier of switches and routers in the datacenter, but upstarts like Arista Networks and Juniper Networks have done well selling faster switches in ...Full Article
