Facebook shows off and donates its 100GbE central switching design. The Facebook Fabric Aggregator is a scalable architecture to handle massive traffic. It is also calling for the end of pluggable optics with the 400GbE generation
Just in time for OCP Summit 2018, Toshiba released new SSDs the Toshiba XD5, HK6-DC and CD5 and its KumoScale NVMeoF solutions.
New Marvell NVMe switches provide functionality to the NVMe domain that we have been lacking such as the ability to transparently RAID NVMe SSDs for more performance or redundancy
AMD confirms that the CTS-Labs vulnerabilities are real, but they require low-level admin access that means security has already been completely compromised before launching the attacks
We found a new Intel Data Center Optane m.2 at OCP Summit 2018, perhaps this will be an Intel DC P4801X or P4601X when it is publicly launched
Mellanox Spectrum switches and ConnectX adapters now support Microsoft Azure SONiC at OCP Summit 2018 showing the power of open SDN solutions
The Gigabyte ThunderXStation uses up to two Cavium ThunderX2 32 core 128 thread CPUs with up to 8x DDR4 RDIMMs per CPU to speed development in a deskside 4U tower workstation format
The Cavium Packet Trakker technology allows low-level hardware enabled telemetry data to be collected for Cavium's XPliant switches enabling many open networking vendors
Xilinx recently held a discussion with Victor Peng, the new CEO of Xilinx. A major thrust of the conversation the company's data center first approach to the market and how Xilinx is changing is posture focusing on a broader software developer community. We had the opportunity to get a few items answered on this front. The other major area of...
A 30-minute power outage at a Samsung NAND fab is reported to have destroyed 3.5% of the world's March 2018 NAND supply. This will increase SSD prices in the near term.