--- title: Blog posts tagged "Data center networking" description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/tag/data-center-networking --- # Blog posts tagged "Data center networking" #### [What is RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE)?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-rdma-over-converged-ethernet-roce) 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 --- AI #### [What is InfiniBand?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-infiniband) 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 --- AI #### [Data centre networking: What is OVN?](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-what-is-ovn) Providing an overview of Open Virtual Network (OVN), its architecture and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking space. --- Networking #### [Data Centre AI evolution: combining MAAS and NVIDIA smart NICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-ai-evolution-combining-maas-and-nvidia-smartnics) 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 --- AI #### [What is a smartNIC and how is the technology shaping modern data centres?](https://canonical.com/blog/what-is-a-smartnic-and-how-is-the-technology-shaping-modern-data-centres) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [Join Canonical at SmartNICs Summit 2022](https://canonical.com/blog/join-canonical-at-smartnics-summit-2022) 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 --- Cloud and server #### [Data centre networking: SmartNICs](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-smartnics) Providing an overview of SmartNIC and DPU, its architecture and the main benefits they bring to the modern data centre. --- Internet of Things #### [Data centre networking: what is OVS?](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-what-is-ovs) 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. --- Networking #### [Data centre networking: SDDC](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-software-defined-data-centre) To build modern data centre networking, learn about Software Defined Data Centre and its main components. --- Networking #### [Data centre networking: SDN fundamentals](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-sdn-fundamentals) To build your Data center networking, learn about Software Defined Netowrking and its architecure, its main components and different flavours --- Networking #### [Data centre networking: what is SDN?](https://canonical.com/blog/data-centre-networking-what-is-sdn) Providing an introduction to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the main drivers behind it in the data centre networking. --- Networking