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Higher Speeds In Ethernet Changing The Top-of-rack To Server Topologies
Migrating Features to Active Cables to Support Performance and Reliability Traditional enterprise data centers have an Achilles heel – the single TOR per rack architecture. If that TOR fails, it takes the entire rack offline, and as Microsft recently published, this happens at least 2% of the time in the first… Read More »Blog
Higher Speeds in Ethernet Changing the Top-of-Rack to Server Topologies
Migrating Features to Active Cables to Support Performance and Reliability Traditional enterprise data centers have an Achilles heel – the single TOR per rack architecture. If that TOR fails, it takes the entire rack offline, and as Microsft recently published, this happens at least 2% of the time in the… Read More »Blog
NaaS: Can someone else run the enterprise network?
We have published our first story at Forbes Business Council. Read it herehttps://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2021/07/07/naas-businesses-may-not-have-to-run-their-own-networks-anymore/?sh=525d20d83872 A preview of the concepts: Today, mobile networks and enterprises networks use wholly different network technology and operate using different business models. There’s a push by the same companies that make enterprise networking gear to change their… Read More »Blog
The Party-Crashers of MWC21
This week’s MWC Barcelona 2021 had several themes; the most important was that several outsiders to the telecom industry were ever-present. The new entrants – the party-crashers – included Starlink, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Compute, and NVidia. These new players are forcing change either through economics, new technology,… Read More »Blog
New Network And Security Player On The Scene: Witesand
Witesand just came out of stealth today, and made a video presentation based primarily at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. Praveen Jain, a co-founder of Witesand and various other networking companies, was the main presenter and conducted various interviews with interested third parties. The company’s cloud services asset discovery, NAC,… Read More »Blog
Multi-source Solutions Strategy to Address Semiconductor Shortage Situation
650 Group offers thoughts on the state of the global semiconductor industry. Semiconductor shortages continue to make headlines impacting almost every industry from automotive, healthcare, consumer, and into all aspects of the data center. Semiconductor shortages have their roots in 2020, with COVID-19 causing a lack of investment in new… Read More »Blog