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Toshiba introduced its new NVMe-oF (NVM Express over Fabrics) shared accelerated storage software. Toshiba, which is a leading provider of NVMe SSDs, said its KumoScale software enables the use of NVMe-oF to make flash storage accessible over a data center network, providing a simple and flexible abstraction of physical disks into a pool of block […]
Netronome is working with Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies on network interface solutions based on the upcoming OCP v3.0 NIC specification and integrated with OCP servers running on Qualcomm Centriq 2400 server processors. The OCP v3.0 NIC specification supports two new form factors and a broader solution space for NIC and system vendors to provide enhanced network […]
The P4 Language Consortium (P4.org), creator of the P4 programming language, will become a project of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and become part of the Linux Foundation portfolio. P4 was designed to be target-independent (i.e. a program written in P4 could be compiled, without modification, to run on a variety of targets, such as […]
Verizon completed a series of tests on Cisco’s Hybrid Information-Centric Networking (ICN), which is described as an innovative approach to content-aware service offerings based on “named data” rather than location identifiers such as IP addresses. Specifically, Verizon successfully demonstrated Cisco’s open-source ICN software and validated its benefits over standard TCP/IP solutions for optimized mobile video […]
Rambus and IBM announced a research pact to develop hybrid memory systems for data centers. The companies aim to optimize the use of DRAM and emerging memories to create a high-capacity memory subsystem that “delivers comparable performance to DRAM alone.” As part of the collaboration, Rambus will develop a flexible prototype hybrid memory platform using […]
OE Solutions, a global supplier of optical transceivers based in Gwangju, South Korea with R&D centres in the USA, the Netherlands as well as offices worldwide, introduced three new 25Gbps SFP28 transceiver products at OFC designed for emerging 5G wireless fronthaul architectures. The new 25Gbps transceivers joining OE Solutions’ extensive list of IT-rated transceivers for […]
RagingWire Data Centers, which is a subsidiary of NTT Communications, inaugurated its new Ashburn VA3 Data Center, a state-of-the-art facility with 245,000 square feet of space and 16 megawatts of critical power, located on RagingWire’s new Ashburn Data Center Campus. The VA3 Data Center is RagingWire’s third data center in Ashburn, and the first building […]
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey was elected to Intel’s board of directors. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey has served as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation PIK Professor of Population Health and Health Equity at the University of Pennsylvania since January 2018. From 2003 to 2017, she was the president and chief executive officer of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the […]
Etisalat has selected NEC/Netcracker’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) to deploy a virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) solution for enterprises. Specifically, Etisalat is using NEC/Netcracker’s full-stack Network-as-a-Service solution comprised with Self-Service Portals, Service Orchestration and MANO offerings. The initial service includes security virtual network functions selected from NEC/Netcracker’s Ecosystem 2.0 marketplace. The deployment is part of the service […]
Toshiba announced its latest line-up of NVM Express (NVMe) and SATA data center solid-state drives (SSDs) based on its 64-layer 3-bit-per-cell TLC (triple-level cell) BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory. The drives feature controllers designed and developed in-house. The two PCIe® NVMe SSDs are designed to accommodate multiple data center workload profiles, with capacities ranging from […]
Enea AB completed its acquisition of Openwave Mobility, a company offering a scalable NFV platform for mobile operators. The acquisition price was approximately US$90 million. Openwave Mobility is headquartered in California and generated preliminary adjusted revenues of approximately US$27 million in 2017 and an EBIT of US$ 3 million. ENEA said the acquisition expands its […]
The Linux Foundation will manage a new embedded reference hypervisor project called ACRN (pronounced “acorn”) and designed for the Internet of Things (IoT). ACRN is comprised of two main components: the hypervisor and its device model, complete with rich I/O mediators. Intel provided the initial code contributions to launch the project. ACRN will incorporate input […]
Finisar introduced the industry’s smallest fully integrated coherent optics assembly, designed for coherent line cards or DCO (Digital Coherent Optics) transceivers. Finisar’s Integrated Tunable Transmitter and Receiver Assembly (ITTRA) will be marketed as a new product family for helping customers to accelerate their time to market and reduce program and development costs. It provides the […]
