Cisco's Virtual NICs Boosts its Unified Computing Oct 14, 2009
Paul Durzan, Cisco's director of hardware platform marketing, explained that with a typical two-port 10 gigabit NIC (network interface card), the host OS will see two 10 gigabit NICs that a network administrator can provision. "What we're doing with the virtual interface card is we can show up to 128 vNICs (virtual NICs) to the host OS," Durzan told InternetNews. (Datamation)
IT Gets More Scrutiny (and More Headaches) May 22, 2009
"If you have one Network Interface Card NIC in a physical box and set up 4 VMs on that box with 4 virtual NICs, you are going to have contention problems.". He offered an automotive analogy as an explanation. (Datamation)
Emulex Gives Broadcom the Cold Shoulder May 5, 2009
Emulex said it has achieved "numerous design wins" for its and convergence management framework, including five "tier one" 10Gb/s Ethernet Network Interface Card (NIC) placements, three 10Gb/s iSCSI CNA placements and four 10Gb/s Fibre Channel over Ethernet () CNA placements. Those moves have doubled its market reach, Emulex said. (EnterpriseStorageForum)
'Sleep Talking' PCs Save Energy And Money May 2, 2009
In the future, Somniloquy could be incorporated into the network interface card of new PCs, which would eliminate the need for the prototype's external USB plug-in hardware. Yuvraj Agarwal worked on this project when he was an intern at Microsoft Research, Cambridge in the summer of 2007, and continued afterwards at UC San Diego. (Science Daily)
