Tag: datacenter

  • 2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part I – Oracle, Intel, and Facebook Talks

    2015 Hot Interconnects Summary Part I – Oracle, Intel, and Facebook Talks

    Introduction: In this first of a multi-part series on the excellent Hot Interconnects 2015 conference, held in Santa Clara, CA, August 26-28, 2015, we highlight presentations from three major IT infrastructure vendors: Oracle, Intel, and Facebook. A follow on article will examine Huawei’s open source activities, Deep Machine Learning and its networking applications (from Brocade Research),…

  • Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Introduction: The telco data center¹(DC) is likely to be the first place network operators deploy Network Virtualization/Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).  That was the opening statement at the Light Reading conference on NFV and the Data Center, held Sept 16, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA.  A network virtualized data center was defined by the conference host…

  • Viodi View – 12/03/13

    Viodi View – 12/03/13

    It is nice when someone is listening. That’s the feeling I had last Friday while reading Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s (D-Ca) letter. Her letter was in response to my suggestion that Senator Rockefeller’s bill, S1680, provides an opportunity to reconsider the best way to serve the public interest with spectrum now used for broadcast television. She…

  • VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    Introduction: Milin Desai, Director, Product Management at VMware, presented his company’s views on network virtualization, its advantages, current and future products at a late day VMUG session on May 1, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA. The talk on Network Virtualization was in the context of a Software Designed Data Center (SD-DC), where all intra-structure (compute,…