Aprius: High Bandwidth Ethernet Allowing For Virtual PCIe
Tech Field Day Presenting Company: Aprius (http://www.aprius.com/) What is Aprius all about? That is a good question. Check out the link above for the corporate lingo. However, my take on what they are...
View ArticleI/O Virtualization Redux (c/o Virtensys)
Alright… back in the day, I posted an article regarding a startup in San Jose, Aprius. You can find that post here:...
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Micron Bursts Into the PCIe SSD Market
The Micron RealSSD P320h is more than a new form-factor for the company; it also introduces their RAIN technology This morning, Micron announced their “RealSSD” P320h SSD, bringing them into the PCIe...
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EMC VFCache (aka “Project Lightning”) Is One Small Step, But an Important One
EMC will today unveil a new product, and will no doubt attract a great deal of press. The modest technical capabilities of VFCache 1.0 limit its use case, but the announcement is big news, since it...
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AMD Attempts Epyc Return to the Data Center
Howard Marks is excited about AMD’s new Epyc server CPU’s: With up to 32 cores, 2TB of RAM, and 128 lanes of PCIe Epyc puts the power of today’s dual socket servers into a single socket. That’s pretty...
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Asus B250 Mining Expert Motherboard with 19 PCI-E Slots
I’ve made no secret that I have opinions about motherboard design. Asus just released details on a new motherboard, designed for the cryptocurrency mining community, and it’s something to behold. At...
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The CLI on Death’s Door, re:Inventing the Gestalt Rundown, and Talking IT...
Welcome to the Wide World of Area Networks! Here’s your regular look at what’s happening in networking. If you’d like to sign up for our newsletter and never miss an update, sign up here! Featured...
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Apple Just Released the Mac Modular
Apple unveiled a redesigned Mac Mini yesterday. It’s been a long time coming, with the last major refresh coming in 2014. In a welcome turn of event, the diminutive Mac now features desktop class...
View ArticleAn Extra Virtual VMworld | Gestalt IT Rundown: April 15, 2020
VMware announced that VMworld US and WMworld Europe will be combined into a virtual event held in September, GitHub opens up private repositories to all users, IBM opens up resources to help with the...
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Verizon Uses Ad Tech For COVID-19 Research
One of the silver linings to come out of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is seeing individuals, organizations, and businesses putting aside business as normal and using their own particular expertise to...
View ArticleWhat Will HPE Do With Silver Peak? | Gestalt IT Rundown: July 15, 2020
HPE bought Silver Peak, Rich Stroffolino and Tom Hollingsworth break down what the company will do with the SD-WAN stalwart. Then they discuss the latest GCP announcements from Cloud Next 20. Plus...
View ArticleSlack Outage Caused by AWS | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 20, 2021
Slack’s early-January outage was caused by AWS, Intel’s New CEO is rehiring CUP Architects, there was a Verizon FIOS outage on the East Coast and AWS Forks ElasticSearch after license change. We...
View ArticlePCI Express 6.0 Finalized | Gestalt IT Rundown: January 19, 2022
The PCI Special Interest Group (SIG) announced last week that they have finalized the specification for PCI Express 6.0. And as mentioned previously on the Rundown, the 5G spectrum expansion in the...
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What Does CXL Mean? | Checksum Episode 23
Compute Express Link (CXL) is an industry-supported cache-coherent interconnect for processors, memory expansion and accelerators. But what does this really mean? In this special Gestalt IT Checksum,...
View ArticleThe History and Future of CXL with Jim Pappas | Utilizing Tech 4×20
Perhaps no one can tell the story of Compute Express Link (CXL) better than Jim Pappas, who was involved in the development of nearly every related technology, from PCI to UCIe. This episode wraps up...
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Decades of Compatibility and Evolution of PCI Express with Richard Solomon
Perhaps no computing technology has been as consistently-compatible and yet cutting edge as PCI Express (PCIe). This Gestalt IT Tech Talk features Richard Solomon of the PCI-SIG discussing the journey...
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Solidigm SSD Form Factors – Small, but Mighty
Lately things in technology seem to be following an inverse trend. Peripheral devices such as monitors and keyboards have become bigger and wider in the recent years. On the inverse, internal...
View ArticleNVIDIA GTC News and NVIDIA Blackwell Systems | Gestalt IT Rundown: March 20,...
This week is NVIDIA GTC, or as Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman called it “the Woodstock of AI”. There’s been a lot of discussion about the ascendant NVIDIA and how they plan on capitalizing on a hot...
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