Data centre efficiency is a central cost factor in enterprise IT environments. So, in the face of rising energy costs and increasingly resource-intensive workloads, it is more important than ever for businesses to seek out greater optimisation. Traditionally, CPUs have been used for the majority of data centre workloads, including network related tasks. However, it is possible to unlock significant improvements in efficiency, performance and capabilities by offloading some of these workloads to dedicated hardware.
Enter SmartNICs
SmartNICs – also known as data processing units (DPUs) and infrastructure processing units (IPUs) – are a relatively new technology that enables organisations to free up CPU capacity by moving network functions to intelligent network interface cards (NICs). SmartNICs combine traditional NIC capabilities with advanced processing power and security controls to support highly complex and demanding networking tasks.
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