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Just throwing more resources at difficult and complex challenges in high performance computing design willy-nilly can often be an inefficient solution. If the resources are not used smartly and efficiently, it can lead to a lot of waste and excess. A relevant example is internal storage in computing systems. In my first blog in this three part series, I discussed the rapid growth of key performance metrics across CPU/GPU cores, memory, network throughput, storage capacity, and peripheral interconnects. These numbers certainly attest to the sheer scale that the compute industry is willing to throw at the problem of how to support the explosion of workloads and applications that we are experiencing with the mainstream adoption of cloud, mobile, and social technologies. In this second blog in the series I talk about how memory upgrades in high performance computing design today are changing the rules of the future of hardware game.

For those of you who have been following our development effort with Cisco ACI, as well as those haven’t been watching that closely, the F5 Agility 2022 event next week brings together and showcases the latest ideas and innovations around adaptive applications.

400G is quickly being adopted to help organizations meet the new demands of their data centers.

Cisco is pleased to announce the Cisco Nexus X100 SmartNIC, our latest high-density, ultra-low latency smart network interface card is now orderable on Cisco Commerce Workplace.

Today Cisco announces a collaboration that will help provide High-Frequency Traders with improved transactional reporting for better insight into trading performance.  Trading firms will now be able to benefit from the new Cisco Exablaze combined solution with Pico, a leader in performance monitoring and analytics systems. Pico’s Corvil appliances perform packet capture and analytics for the financial services industry primarily in electronic trading. By combining forces, the companies bring together Cisco’s Nexus 3550 layer 1 tapping, high-precision timestamping and aggregation capabilities, and Pico’s high-performance capture and […]

Please welcome our guest blogger Erik Lillestolen, Senior Digital Transformation.   We’ve heard the words, but have you wondered what it is all about? Digital Transformation is a strategic directive...

Just in time for summer, Cisco offers new configurations for Cisco’s Azure stack solution, including M5 Skylake with hybrid (flash and SAS) storage.

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility.

If data is the new oil, there is one major difference.  Unlike oil, which over the years have suffered from varying supply, for much of the customers, there is only...