Data center networking

Benjamin Ryzman
24 September 2024

Data centre networking: What is OVN?

Article Networking

Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space.

Benjamin Ryzman
24 September 2024

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

Article AI

It has been several years since Canonical committed to implementing support for NVIDIA smart NICs in our products. Among them, Canonical’s metal-as-a-service (MAAS) enables the management and control of smart NICs on top of bare-metal servers. NVIDIA BlueField smart NICs are very high data rate network interface cards...

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?

Article Cloud and server

Data centres are going through a transformation. Gradually, we will see a new type of equipment attached to servers in almost every data centre: smartNICs are here. They will be the enablers of converged data centres where common infrastructure tasks are offloaded from a host server to attached network interface cards...

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022

Article Cloud and server

SmartNICs, the programmable network adapters that make data center networking, security and storage efficient, scalable and modular, have started to play a significant role in the industry. Canonical believes that SmartNICs are an integral part of cloud infrastructure and we work with partners to integrate our...

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Article Internet of Things

Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre.

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Fouaz Bouguerra
30 November 2021

Data centre networking: what is OVS?

Article Networking

Providing an overview of Open vSwitch in the context of open data centre networking, its components and benefits, main implementations and the drivers behind it.