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RSSData Processing Unit (DPU) and SmartNIC vendors such as NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD are making a lot of noise about the ability of their adapters to offload work from CPUs…
READ MOREHow will the Data Processing Unit (DPU) market evolve? Are there new use cases for this infrastructure platform? Greg Ferro from the Packet Pushers and Joseph White, Fellow at Dell…
READ MOREDell Technologies and VMware have partnered on a turnkey HCI-based VxRail solution that integrates VMware’s vSphere Distributed Services Engine and DPU hardware from NVIDIA and AMD Pensando. In this video,…
READ MOREThis video looks at the fundamentals of Data Processing Units (DPUs) and what they can do with an eye toward helping network engineers and infrastructure professionals. Greg Ferro from the…
READ MOREData Processing Units (DPUs) describe the next generation of SmartNICs. They enhance the simple NIC with compute and memory and they have an operating system to host applications and APIs…
READ MOREIf you want to understand Data Processing Units (DPUs) and how they might impact your work as a network or infrastructure professional, join the Packet Pushers and Dell Technologies for…
READ MOREThis article was originally posted on Packet Pushers Ignition on April 26, 2021. Data center virtualization exacerbated problems for network security designs that relied on a handful of appliance-based (whether…
READ MOREThis article was originally posted on the Packet Pushers Ignition site on July 9, 2021. The ascendance of Software Defined Networking (SDN) has catalyzed a renaissance in specialized hardware designed…
READ MOREAruba Networks has announced a new top-of-rack switch that includes two Data Processing Units from Pensando that can offload and accelerate functions such as stateful firewalling and DDoS protection. How…
READ MOREThis guest post is by Ihab Tarazi, Sr. VP and Networking CTO at Dell Technologies. We thank Dell Technologies for being a sponsor. It’s an exciting time to be a…
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