Blog posts tagged "Data center networking"

What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?

Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to...

What is InfiniBand?

When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve...

Data centre networking: What is OVN?

Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space.

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service...

What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?

Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are...

Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data center networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a...

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre.

Data centre networking: what is OVS?

Providing an overview of Open vSwitch in the context of open data centre networking, its components and benefits, main implementations and the drivers behind it.

Data centre networking: SDDC

To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components.

Data centre networking: SDN fundamentals

To build your Data center networking, learn about Software Defined Netowrking and its architecure, its main components and different flavours

Data centre networking: what is SDN?

Providing an introduction to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking.