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
Arista Flattens Networks for Large Enterprises with Splines
Arista Networks, which boasts serial entrepreneur Andy Bechtolsheim as its chief development officer and chairman, has been selling products for five years against Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Mellanox Technologies, ...Full Article
Cray Buys Gnodal Networking Assets, Hires Key People
British high-end Ethernet switch maker Gnodal went into administration in early October, and Cray has hired the key staff at the company while also picking up a bunch of ...Full Article
Mellanox Weaves Tightly Into OpenStack, Adds Long Haul Switches
Mellanox is making headway selling its networking hardware and software in both public and private clouds, as EnterpriseTech has previously reported. But the company has to make it easier ...Full Article
