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Blog posts tagged
"Data center networking"

Benjamin Ryzman
9 June 2026

What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?

AI Ubuntu tech blog

Previous articles walked through RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) as a programming model and InfiniBand as the fabric that was built around it. Both led to the same conclusion, even if it was never stated outright: moving data, not compute, becomes the bottleneck once systems scale. So what happens when you want RDMA, but you’re ...

Benjamin Ryzman
2 June 2026

What is InfiniBand?

AI Ubuntu tech blog

When distributed workloads stall because nodes cannot exchange small messages quickly and consistently, the network is the limiting factor. How do you solve that problem? InfiniBand offers one solution. InfiniBand is an interconnect, meaning the end-to-end communication system that links compute, storage, and accelerator nodes. It is impl ...

Benjamin Ryzman
24 September 2024

Data centre networking: What is OVN?

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

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

Benjamin Ryzman
21 June 2024

Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs

AI Ubuntu tech blog

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 providing advanced s ...

Serdar Vural
6 October 2023

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

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 (NIC).  Think of it ...

Felicia Jia
14 April 2022

Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

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 cutting-edge products, such ...

Fouaz Bouguerra
17 December 2021

Data centre networking: SmartNICs

Internet of Things Ubuntu tech blog

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

Fouaz Bouguerra
30 November 2021

Data centre networking: what is OVS?

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

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. ...

Fouaz Bouguerra
4 November 2021

Data centre networking: SDDC

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components. ...

Fouaz Bouguerra
11 October 2021

Data centre networking: SDN fundamentals

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

To build your Data center networking, learn about Software Defined Netowrking and its architecure, its main components and different flavours ...

Fouaz Bouguerra
8 October 2021

Data centre networking: what is SDN?

Networking Ubuntu tech blog

Providing an introduction to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking. ...