A3cube Nanosecond Memory Network Solution

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Date: 25 February 2014
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Hereby an introductory piece on A3Cube, that will come out of stealth later today. After 5 years of intensive engineering, the founders of A3Cube are presenting their tremendously exciting new technology; in-memory networking. They use PCIE to create a very fast in-memory network with nanosecond latency between nodes.

Last week I had the chance to briefly speak with both the CEO Antonella Rubicco and CTO Emilio Billi, who ran me through the concepts.

According to CEO Antonella Rubicco: ‘Ronniee is a data plane technology, designed to build massively parallel storage and analytics machines. It is different from all other existing interconnection networks due to its hardware based shared memory facilities.’
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Interview with CEO Mohit Lad of ThousandEyes

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Date: 16 February 2014
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As a part of my CEO series, I interview CEOs of innovative companies in the fields of Storage, Virtualization and Networking.

Measuring how your application is performing is not a straightforward task. Many enterprises have multiple locations, work with Cloudbased applications and have end users stationed in different parts of the world.

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With the future of IT Infrastucture trending toward more interconnectedness and external dependencies, it becomes both increasing difficult and increasingly important to know how your application is performing.

ThousandEyes created a Network performance measurement tool that is ready for modern Cloud application environments. They are able to collect data inside your enterprise environment and data from various probing points on the internet, to tell you exactly how your application is performing.

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They couple this to a very intuitive interface, allowing customers and suppliers alike to monitor performance of their applications all over the planet.

ThousandEyes was founded in 2010 and is backed by the renowned Sequoia Capital. I interviewed Mohit Lad, the CEO of ThousandEyes about their service and the background of the company.
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