The transition from Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) to Solid State Drives (SSDs) is one of the most significant storage trends occurring in the industry today. This major shift is happening for two important reasons: Even though HDD-based systems have lower upfront costs, the inevitable breakdown due their moving parts (motors, heads, etc.) results in higher Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). [...]
It’s that time again! Having finalized the RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) test results from Plugfest 29, the IBTA is pleased to announce the availability of the new RoCE Interoperability List. Designed to support data center managers, CIOs and other IT decision makers with their planned RoCE deployments for enterprise and high performance computing, the latest edition features a growing number [...]
“CGRB server room” by Shawn O’Neil is licensed under CC BY 2.0 We are living in an age of unprecedented data growth and the rate at which this data is being created is only accelerating. Multimedia creation – images, videos and music – from both personal and professional sources is one significant driver of this trend. In 2014, YouTube revealed [...]
Bill Lee, IBTA Marketing Work Group Co-Chair For any organization, the New Year provides a great opportunity to reflect on the past and set a healthier course for the future. Companies can take a variety of internal actions to prepare for impeding market changes, but rarely do they have the power to influence the course of an entire industry on [...]
There are two industry trends that we need to keep an eye on. First, the demand for faster data transfers continues to grow, and second, more reliance is being placed on cloud storage. Data center architects are constantly looking for ways to innovate and to implement solutions that address both of these trends. Serving as the counterpart to hardware-based RDMA [...]
At IBTA, we are pleased to announce the launch of the RoCE Initiative, a new effort to highlight the many benefits of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) and to facilitate the technology’s adoption in the enterprise data centers. With the rise of server virtualization and big data analytics, data center architects are demanding innovative ways to improve overall network performance [...]
On May 4-8, IT professionals and enterprise developers gathered in Chicago for the 2015 Microsoft Ignite conference. Attendees were given a first-hand glimpse at the future of a variety of Microsoft business solutions through a number of sessions, presentations and workshops. Of particular note were two demonstrations of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) technology and the resulting benefits for [...]