Aruba Puts DPUs Into New Top-of-Rack Switch – 5 Questions
Aruba Networks has announced a new top-of-rack switch that includes two Data Processing Units from Pensando that can offload and accelerate functions such as stateful firewalling and DDoS protection....
View ArticleVapor IO Realizes Open Grid Vision With INZONE 5G Edge Services
One of the defining characteristics of edge applications is the need for low latency to absorb and analyze data from connected devices deployed in locations such as retail stores, manufacturing...
View ArticleRockport’s Switchless Networking – Don’t Call It A SmartNIC
Rockport Networks has announced a switchless data center networking product that targets high-performance compute clusters running latency-sensitive workloads. Instead of switches in a leaf-spine or...
View ArticleArista Adds New Hyperscale, Enterprise Switches To Its 400G Portfolio
Arista Networks announced four new switches in its 400G portfolio. Two are aimed at the hyperscale/cloud crowd, and two are intended for enterprise data centers. The new switches promise greater port...
View ArticleSD-WAN At Home? The Obstacles And Issues
As remote work becomes the norm, SD-WAN might seem like a good fit to support remote employees, but current offerings all have their drawbacks.
View ArticleAviatrix’s Modest New Blocking Feature Hints At Greater Ambitions For...
Aviatrix, which makes multi-cloud networking software for public clouds, has introduced a new security feature that can identify and then block customers’ cloud-based workloads from connecting to a...
View ArticleMarvell’s Silicon Strategy: Optimized Components For Different Workloads
Marvell has been rapidly building itself into a diversified supplier of IT infrastructure components. Through a combination of organic growth and recent acquisitions, Marvell has expanded its quarterly...
View ArticleAn Application-Layer Approach To Multi-Cloud Network Fabrics
This post was originally published on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on September 21, 2021. It sounds trite to say that enterprise IT environments are multi-cloud, but the extent of cloud...
View ArticleCarriers Are Scaling Backbones With Merchant Silicon & Disaggregated,...
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on August 20, 2021. For both individuals and businesses, the past 18-months have vastly increased their reliance on the Internet to...
View ArticleMarvell’s OCTEON 10 Challenges All Comers For DPU Supremacy
This article was originally posted on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on July 9, 2021. The ascendance of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has catalyzed a renaissance in specialized hardware designed...
View ArticleJuniper Networks’ SD-WAN Can Now Be Operated Via Mist Cloud
Juniper Networks’ SD-WAN appliances and software can now be fully managed from Juniper’s Mist Cloud. It’s part of Juniper’s larger goal to Mist-ify its LAN and WAN portfolio. Juniper’s SD-WAN product...
View ArticleSimplifying Multi-Cloud Networking: Stateless, Competitors See Opportunity In...
This article was originally posted on Packet Pushers Ignition on May 12, 2021. To business executives and the IT subordinates seeking to appease them, being a cloud-first company is no longer enough....
View ArticleDPU-Based Smart Interfaces And The Future Of Network Functions And Security...
This article was originally posted on Packet Pushers Ignition on April 26, 2021. Data center virtualization exacerbated problems for network security designs that relied on a handful of appliance-based...
View ArticleCato Networks Adds A Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) For App Visibility...
Cato Networks is announcing the availability of a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) capability that will be integrated into Cato’s cloud-based security service, which already includes next-gen...
View ArticleCould Open Base Station SoCs Unleash A New Era In Mobile Infrastructure?
This article was originally published in Packet Pushers Ignition on March 23, 2021. Just as nature abhors a vacuum and seeks to fill it with any available matter, business abhors a single-source...
View ArticleChiplets: The First Step To Integrated Silicon Photonics For Faster...
Merchant silicon applies Moore’s Law to Ethernet switching with astounding results, well documented by tech luminary Andy Bechtolsheim almost four years ago. Since then, switch chips have doubled their...
View ArticleGigamon Introduces Playbooks, Plus A Full Year Of Data Retention, To Its NDR...
Gigamon has added new features to its SaaS-based Network Detection and Response (NDR) service, including playbooks that provide context for investigations, and a full year of data retention. In...
View ArticleMarvell’s Building Blocks For Carrier Edge, 5G Networking
This article was originally posted on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on December 17, 2020. 5G and edge computing are mainstays of almost every tech company’s growth strategy, but their combined...
View ArticleMobile Edge Computing (MEC) Puts Compute, Networking Services Closer To...
The following post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on November 13, 2020. 5G has long been declared the future of mobile networks by both tech analysts and the popular press,...
View ArticleVMware And NVIDIA Focus On The Far Edge To Host Network Services On SmartNICs
This post originally appeared on the Packet Pushers’ Ignition site on October 19, 2020. The network edge is desirable new territory for software and hardware vendors. The objective is to get compute,...
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