The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is excited to announce the launch of OFA Sunfish™ – an open-source framework to help simplify the development of Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) cloud and HPC architectures. Formerly the OpenFabrics Management Framework (OFMF), the Sunfish project is a collaboration between the OFA and its partners the CXL™ Consortium, DMTF, and SNIA
Tuesday, 14 November 2017 / Published in Technologies
Last February, SNIA hosted its one-day Persistent Memory Summit in San Jose; it was my pleasure to be invited to participate by delivering a presentation on behalf of the OpenFabrics Alliance.  The day long program was chock full of deeply technical, detailed information about the state of the art in persistent memory technology coupled with
Friday, 02 September 2016 / Published in Technologies
by Phil Cayton NVMe, or NVM Express, is a standard interface connecting hosts to PCIe bus-attached SSDs. It serves to optimize the SSD’s inherent high performance and parallel computing features for data transfers. Released in June, the NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) specification is an emerging technology that gives datacenter networks unprecedented access to NVMe SSD
Tuesday, 23 July 2013 / Published in Technologies
By Brandon Hoff, director of product management, cloud and innovation, Emulex Software-defined networking (SDN) may seem like just the latest buzzword in the high tech industry, but there’s more to it than that. Among the obvious operational cost savings and operational flexibility, SDN brings a number of important benefits to the enterprise datacenter. One such