February 1, 2022—
We’ve got two opportunities for you to learn more about what’s going on with Pensando.
Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Enterprise Networking
In this report, Gartner recognizes Pensando as one of their “Sample Vendors” for function accelerator cards (FACs), also known as NextGen SmartNICs or data processing units (DPUs).
Gartner categorizes function accelerators as “transformational”, improving server performance as much as 50% by offloading critical network functions, freeing resources for more workloads and eliminating the need for dedicated appliances. In addition, they note that “frequency and sophistication of cyberthreats make it imperative to have security functions offloaded and run in an independent, isolated manner,” which accelerators are ideally suited for.
However, even though the benefits of accelerators are clear, Gartner also points out that enterprises may find it hard to justify their higher incremental price in the short term.
In response to similar feedback from customers, Pensando has partnered with Aruba Networks to create a new way of delivering DPU services at both a lower cost and a dramatically simpler deployment model: the SmartSwitch.
We’re pleased to share with you the Gartner Hype Cycle report with our compliments.
ONUG Spring 2022
Pensando Systems is a Thought Leader sponsor of ONUG Spring 2022 from April 27-28 at Meadowlands Expo Center in New Jersey. We invite you to join us there, either in person or virtually, to learn more about SmartSwitches, with the world’s first Distributed Services Switch, the Aruba CX 10000, a new way to bring cloud to the data center by placing the power of the Pensando Distributed Services Platform in a best-of-breed data center switch.
Come see our luncheon keynote on Wednesday, “Not Impossible: New Models for Simplified Data Center Segmentation” and our POC on Thursday, “PoC: Protect the Unprotected with Stateful Network Zero Trust and the Aruba CX 10000”.