We are witnessing a major shift from traditional enterprise data centers to much larger warehouse-scale cloud data centers. This is driven by the economics of scale and the benefits of cloud computing, and is happening for both for public and private clouds.
These...
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Arista 7500: the Fastest and Greenest 10 Gigabit Ethernet Switch
April 19th, 201010 GbE is the no-brainer in Storage Networking
March 1st, 2010
I am a big fan and proponent of iSCSI or NAS protocols over 10GbE for storage access. It is the workhorse and unsung hero in storage networking. Akin to ethernet’s simplicity, iSCSI protocol is ubiquitous, familiar and enables mainstream storage applications. iSCSI also en...
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The race to zero latency in Cloud Networking
February 1st, 2010
The goal is millions of transactions in real time. Not an easy feat without a new class of networking gear and new architectures. It is changing and challenging traditional constructs for High Frequency Trading (HFT) markets. It creates an insatiable appetite to shave every n...
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Is 2010 the Year of 10Gig?
January 6th, 2010As 2010 begins and we celebrate the onset of the next new decade, I would like to wish my readers a happy new year and also pose a question asked many times before.
Will 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) reach the inflection point in the datacenter this year?
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