By Peter Kirkpatrick The recent news that solid-state or flash storage will change consumer technology in 2011 shouldn’t be a surprise for server architects. One theme that I saw at last month’s Server Design Summit in Santa Clara is that flash storage will fundamentally change not just how we build our servers, but even how [...]
By Craig Thompson On Wednesday, we spoke on two panels at the Server Design Summit. This event, a one-day conference at the close of the year, broadcast a pretty clear indication of where server designs are going in the next 12 months and beyond. Network convergence on Ethernet, flash solid state storage and I/O virtualization [...]
By Craig Thompson Wikibon’s Luca Bert had it right when he posted about the importance of IOV, but he missed an important point. Both Single Root IOV (SR-IOV) and Multi-Root (MR-IOV) systems today are sorely challenged. SR-IOV systems need the capabilities of MR-IOV, but MR-IOV needs the ecosystem of SR-IOV. Of the two, the latter [...]
By Craig Thompson Today we’re attending Gestalt IT’s fourth Tech Field Day in San Jose. Unlike so many industry events that focus on broadcasting information to passive audiences, this one enables vendors, industry influencers and blogger delegates to mix it up together in a setting designed to foster intimate engagement, education and experience. Foskett has [...]
By Craig Thompson Backslaps and high-fives can be expected later this month as the first public interoperability demonstration for 40/100 Gbits/s Ethernet gets underway at the supercomputing conference, SC10, in New Orleans. But those good feelings may be overshadowed by grumblings from some carriers for cheap 802.3ba equipment – now. The adoption of high-speed Ethernet [...]
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