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The need for infrastructure acceleration has never been so acute. Advances in silicon are making possible highly programmable and very efficient network flow path engines for true data-centric computing.
In this 5-minute video we present the concise thoughts of the industry's thought leaders: Vapor IO's Cole Crawford; NVIDIA's Ash Bhalgat; Fungible's Pradeep Sindhu; Pensando's Prem Jain & Soni Jiandani; and 21K Consulting's Charlie Ashton.
Infrastructure acceleration is critical to ensuring that CSPs and cloud providers can cope with 5G and edge workloads, ongoing security and storage needs, plus AI and ML demands.
The following media comprises interviews and other content related to infrastructure acceleration. Views expressed are those of the presenting individuals and companies and may not necessarily represent views of Converge! Network Digest or AvidThink.
Andy Stewart, CEO of Evoque, talks about the advances made since they spun out of AT&T in 2018 and the continued transformation to expect in the future: professional services to help customers around cost optimization and their digital transformation efforts; managed services (such as security, hosted private cloud, private cloud, etc.); and expanding into additional markets.
In just a few short years, the market for SmartNICs reached $200 million in sales in 2019. Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell’Oro Group, expects this segment to triple over the next five years. Fung provides a definition of the Infrastructure Acceleration segment (SmartNICs), talks about early adopters and use cases, introduces the major vendors, and offers commentary on the factors that will lead players to success.
Charlie Ashton, President at 21K Consulting, talks about evaluating accelerated networking technologies from a carrier perspective and how AvidThink’s 2020 Infrastructure Acceleration Report was compiled. Ashton also draws on his past experience as Director of Business Development at Wind River and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at 6WIND, an early entrant in the infrastructure acceleration space.
Customers deploying cloud infrastructure run into performance issues in four key areas: virtualization, SDN, storage, and security. In this video, Ash Bhalgat, Senior Director of Cloud & Telco Market Development at NVIDIA’s Networking Business Unit, explains how to achieve maximum cloud infrastructure efficiency without sacrificing performance by using NVIDIA’s Mellanox Networking products and open-source software tools.
White paper: SR-IOV vs. VirtIO: Comparison of two OVS/vRouter Acceleration Techniques
Fungible was founded in 2015 to revolutionize the performance, economics, reliability, and security of scale-out data centers. In this video, Pradeep Sindhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Fungible, shares observations about scale-out data centers and the key innovations of Fungible’s Data Processing Unit (Fungible DPU) which has been positioned as the “third socket” in data centers, complementing the CPU and GPU.
Pensando Systems is working with VMware on Project Monterey to integrate the next generation of SmartNIC technology into fully virtualized enterprise networks. In this video, Silvano Gai of Pensando Systems talks about Project Monterey and the benefits for customers, including performance, scale, and features such as firewalling, micro-segmentation, encryption, telemetry, and more.
