Kevin Deierling, SVP of marketing for the networking business at NVIDIA talks with host Bill Detwiler about how the data center is evolving and some common misconceptions about the modern data center on this episode of Dynamic Developer.
As the modern data center gets more intelligent, you might think it would also get more complex, but that’s not the case. In this episode of Dynamic Developer, I talk with Kevin Deierling, senior vice president of marketing for NVIDIA Networking about the evolution of the data center and some common misconceptions about modern data centers. The following is a transcript of the interview, edited for readability. You can listen to the podcast player embedded in this article, watch a video above, or read a transcript of the interview below, edited for readability.
NVIDIA is getting into the networking business
Bill Detwiler: Most people don’t necessarily think of NVIDIA as a networking company. Everyone knows about the graphics cards and the GPU’s and even them being more in the data center and high-performance computing, it’s super computing because we’re using GPU’s to do things like that, but as a networking company, not so much. Give me the rundown about how NVIDIA is getting into the networking business and their thoughts on networking going forward.
Kevin Deierling: I think NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies earlier this year–we closed that in April [2020]. That’s where I came from. Mellanox is really the leader in high-performance networking both with our InfiniBand technologies, which is HPC and artificial intelligence (AI) computing, but also with Ethernet. If you look at the highest performance Ethernet, at the 25Gb, at the 100Gb and even now 200Gb and 400Gb, Mellanox was the leader in network adapters at those speeds. Now, NVIDIA has really incorporated all of that and it’s part of their larger vision of what the data center is. We even have Ethernet switches that form the fabric of that data center and it really has to do with the changes that are happening in the data center.
by Bill Detwiler in Developer