The incredible increase of traffic within data centers along with increased adoption of virtualization is placing strains on the traditional data centers. Customarily, virtual machines rely on software interfaces such as VirtIO to connect with the hypervisor. Although VirtIO is significantly more flexible compared to SR-IOV, it can use up to 50% more compute power in the host��
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Cloud computing is designed to be agile and resilient to deliver additional value for businesses. China Mobile (CMCC), one of China��s largest telecom operators and cloud services providers, offers precisely this with its Bigcloud public cloud offering. Bigcloud provides PaaS and SaaS services tailored to the needs of enterprise cloud and hybrid-cloud solutions for mission-critical��
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This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. In the first post of this series, I argued that it is a function and not a form that distinguishes a SmartNIC from a data processing unit (DPU). I introduced the category of datacenter NICs called SmartNICs, which include both hardware transport and a programmable data path for virtual switch acceleration.
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Over the last five years, compute and storage technology have achieved substantial performance increases. At the same time, they��ve been hampered by PCI Express Gen3 (PCIe Gen3) bandwidth limitations. AMD is the first X86 processor company to release support for the PCIe fourth generation bus (PCIe Gen4) with the AMD EPYC 7002 Series processor. This is the second-generation AMD EPYC processor��
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This post was originally published on the Mellanox blog. At Red Hat Summit 2018, NVIDIA Mellanox announced an open network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) and cloud data center solution. The solution combined Red Hat Enterprise Linux cloud software with in-box support of NVIDIA Mellanox NIC hardware. Our close collaboration and joint validation with Red Hat yielded a fully��
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