Reply to post: Is this a case of having your cake and eating it too ?

NVMe fabrics could shuffle traditional arrays off to the graveyard

Pascal Monett Silver badge

Is this a case of having your cake and eating it too ?

From what I gather, there is a move to use hardware to make data transfer requests quicker. I get that, but if I'm not mistaken there is a global move to have network supervising and management via software - and that includes actually defining the network via software.

Seems to me that these two movements are in opposition with each other. You can't have a software-defined network that relies on hardware-coded optimizations.

Or can you ?

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