Explore Buyers have not rushed to adopt SmartNICs in their VMware environments, but the virtualization giant will soon support their use in more servers – a move it hopes will spur a new wave of adoption.
SmartNICs – aka data processing units (DPUs) – are network cards that include some compute and storage capacity. Hyperscalers use them to offload networking and security chores that would otherwise occupy cores that could be rented to customers. VMware liked that approach so much…