Data CenterHarry Petty - May 23, 2016 - 0 Comments
This is the third in the three part Advantage series on Cisco Cloud Scale technology. Cisco's Cloud Scale ASIC innovations address the new requirements that distributed computing at scale across whole or partial data centers are going to require. Many enterprises looking to deliver greater customer value are looking to cloud native platforms to develop customer applications or gain greater customer insights. To provide a sound foundation for an applications centric business strategy, an IT architecture for the software applications and the supporting infrastructure will ensure service level agreements (SLAs) for performance and reliability can be met efficiently by the IT operations team.
Seven years ago, in the early days of server virtualization, the right processor architecture led the way for mission critical production server applications to run virtualized while meeting compute, I/O, and other performance targets. If you remember the x86 virtualization technology from Intel, called VT-x and VT-d, these processor architectural innovations were needed to allow server virtualization of production workloads to happen without the overhead penalties in virtual memory and virtual I/O operations. The Cloud Scale switching architectural innovations for addressing scale, smart buffers, dynamic load balancing, and more (native VXLAN, real time telemetry at 100G, …) - are similar in importance to those processor innovations over 7 years ago but today they enable cloud scale computing with balanced I/O across the computing, storage, and network fabric.
This short video highlights the importance of Cloud Scale technology innovation using flowlets, dynamic load balancing, and dynamic packet prioritization to maintain balanced performance of application and data I/O across distributed cloud applications.
After listening, I hope you and your architects will be interested in taking a closer look at the detailed technical comparisons provided in the Advantage series Cloud Scale technology white papers. I've provided reference links for further consideration in your data center architecture and IT roadmap planning.
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