VM Aware Fibre Channel Virtual Machine Traffic Visibility for SANs


Mysteries of the world, such as how the Monarch butterflies can find their way migration paths all the way back to their species’ origination point even though they had never been there before, but these occurrences in nature should remain a complete mystery. With VM clusters generating an increasing amount of FC traffic that crisscrosses across SANs within enterprise/datacenter ecosystem, th... » read more

Week In Review: Design


Acquisitions Marvell signed a definitive agreement to buy Cavium for roughly $6 billion. The deal is expected to close in mid-2018. The Cavium deal fits squarely on the cloud side and gives Marvell a much bigger reach into enterprise networking and infrastructure, as well as some developing markets. Siemens paid an undisclosed price to buy Solido Design Automation, which tracks variation i... » read more

Experts Panel And Tutorial At DVCon


Besides our usual exhibit at the Design and Verification Conference in Santa Clara at the end of next month, Real Intent has organized a panel and a half-day tutorial that highlights some of the changes happening in our industry—and which may have been overlooked. The panel addresses the interesting topic “Where Does Design End and Verification Begin?” The abstract states that design a... » read more

The Enterprise Effect


By Pallab Chatterjee In the enterprise it’s all about speed and power—as in more speed and less power—and those changes are forcing shifts in the chip architectures as well as the processes used to develop those chips. At the Linley Data Center Conference the next generation of network control chips were discussed. The keys for the new networks are 10G data lanes to be used with 10G/4... » read more