back to article What are Nvidia and AMD doing getting involved with SmartNICs and VMware?

SmartNICs have long been the domain of hyperscale and cloud datacenters, but they remain relatively uncommon in enterprise environments due in large part to the lack of software compatibility. But with official support for AMD and Nvidia's data processing units (DPUs) now baked into VMware's popular hypervisor, that may not be …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Kudos, very informative round up of the situation.

    It is also interesting to read these developments in the context of other news, also reported by El Reg (https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/02/microsoft_server_life_extension/) in which Microsoft announced that investments in software have allowed the company to extend the lifetime of its cloud infrastructure from 4 to 6 years. The announcement is the last of a series which also saw Google and AWS extend the lifetime of their servers and networking hardware by one year.

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