network Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/network/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:45:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.nextplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-PlatformStack-150x150.jpg network Archives - The Next Platform https://www.nextplatform.com/tag/network/ 32 32 86113652 Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/#respond Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:37:14 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145327 In many ways, Arista Networks still behaves like a startup even though it was founded twenty years ago, rollout out its first products a little more than a decade and a half ago, went public a decade ago, and now as over 10,000 customers and over 100 million Ethernet ports sold that generated a cumulative $32 billion in revenues for hardware, software, and support. …

Arista Can Ride AI Up Past $10 Billion In 2026 was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/02/19/arista-can-ride-ai-up-past-10-billion-in-2026/feed/ 0 145327 Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:39:21 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=145091 It is hard to bet against the GenAI boom, and thus far it is also hard for anyone other than Nvidia to profit from it. …

Marvell Pivots To AI Silicon, Looks Poised To Profit was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/04/marvell-pivots-to-ai-silicon-looks-poised-to-profit/feed/ 1 145091 Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/#respond Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:10:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=144341 Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization stalwart VMware was not an easy proposition. …

Cloud Foundation Updates Reflect The New VMware By Broadcom was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2024/06/25/cloud-foundation-updates-reflect-the-new-vmware-by-broadcom/feed/ 0 144341 Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/26/meta-platforms-is-determined-to-make-ethernet-work-for-ai/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/26/meta-platforms-is-determined-to-make-ethernet-work-for-ai/#comments Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:06:37 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=143027 We said it from the beginning: There is no way that Meta Platforms, the originator of the Open Compute Project, wanted to buy a complete supercomputer system from Nvidia in order to advance its AI research and move newer large language models and recommendation engines into production. …

Meta Platforms Is Determined To Make Ethernet Work For AI was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/09/26/meta-platforms-is-determined-to-make-ethernet-work-for-ai/feed/ 3 143027 Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/11/getting-meta-abstracting-and-multisourcing-the-network-like-an-fboss/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/11/getting-meta-abstracting-and-multisourcing-the-network-like-an-fboss/#respond Thu, 11 Nov 2021 18:39:59 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=139615 If you want to build the world’s largest social network, with 2.9 billion users, and the massive PHP stack that makes it into an application, you need a lot of infrastructure and you need it to arrive predictably. …

Getting Meta: Abstracting And Multisourcing The Network Like An FBOSS was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2021/11/11/getting-meta-abstracting-and-multisourcing-the-network-like-an-fboss/feed/ 0 139615 Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/08/following-the-network-to-the-cloud-and-edge/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/08/following-the-network-to-the-cloud-and-edge/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2020 19:22:19 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=136261 VMware burst onto the datacenter scene a little more than a decade ago, during the last big recession, when server virtualization appeared at exactly the right time when server spending was going to be seriously curtailed by economic forces. …

Following The Network To The Cloud And Edge was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2020/04/08/following-the-network-to-the-cloud-and-edge/feed/ 0 136261 HPE Buys Its Way Into Virtual Networking With Plexxi https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/hpe-buys-its-way-into-virtual-networking-with-plexxi/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/hpe-buys-its-way-into-virtual-networking-with-plexxi/#respond Tue, 15 May 2018 19:20:40 +0000 https://www.nextplatform.com/?p=36771 It is safe to say that companies that have traditionally built server, storage, and switch hardware have had a tough time finding their place in a world that is increasingly allergic to appliances and wants everything to come as software that customers have more control over. …

HPE Buys Its Way Into Virtual Networking With Plexxi was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

]]> https://www.nextplatform.com/2018/05/15/hpe-buys-its-way-into-virtual-networking-with-plexxi/feed/ 0 37555 Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/06/19/inside-a-decade-of-google-homegrown-datacenter-networks/ https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/06/19/inside-a-decade-of-google-homegrown-datacenter-networks/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:33:36 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=1173 When search engine giant Google started planning and then building software-defined networks more than a decade ago, the term did not even exist yet. …

Inside A Decade Of Google Homegrown Datacenter Networks was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

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