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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Networking Software Defined Network Technology

Assessment of Open Networking, Bare Metal Switches, White Boxes, and NFVi

The Vision and Reality of Open Networking: From 2012 to at least 2016, there was tremendous industry buzz about disaggregation of the network switch, transport equipment, and network appliances. Many industry “experts” and stock market analysts said that purpose-built hardware would be replaced by “open network” software running on commodity “white boxes” and “bare metal […]

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Viodi View – 03/29/18

“We are dedicated to solving this problem (pedestrian/bike/auto safety). It’s a hard problem, but we think we can solve it,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at this week’s GPU Technology Conference. This is just one of the many challenges Huang, his team and the larger Nvidia ecosystem are pursuing. Project Clara, which effectively upgrades existing, […]

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Alan Weissberger Cloud Computing Optical Networking Software Defined Network

Non-Board OCP Equipment Purchases Top $1.2B in 2017; 5 year CAGR forecast of 59%

Executive Summary: The OCP (Open Compute Project) commissioned IHS Markit to do a market study of who, besides OCP Board members, were using OCP specified hardware and to estimate/forecast the resulting revenue.  Also, to identify concerns and barriers to successful deployments.  Cliff Grossner, Ph.D. Sr. Research Director & Advisor Cloud & Data Center Research Practice […]

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