The networking industry has been on an evolutionary path from monolithic systems toward open, disaggregated and virtualized infrastructure. Here, we feature a deep dive discussion on the Fungible Data Center architecture with Srinidhi Varadarajan, SVP Solutions at Fungible, and Pardha Pyla, VP Product Solutions & Design at Fungible.
Q&A Topics
04:33 – Fungible has a very audacious vision. How are you doing this?
06:22 – There is no shortage of innovation for data center software, but Fungible’s starting point is its DPU. What is special about it?
08:31 – Where does the DPU fit?
11:02 – Is True Fabric proprietary? Do I need special switches to make it work? Why TCP?
12:17 – What exactly are you announcing?
12:46 – What problems does the Fungible Data Center solve?
15:10 – How does the FDC address these challenges?
16:31 – Not everyone is familiar with bare metal composition. Can you elaborate on how that is different from virtualization?
18:17 – Do you consider the FDC a form or composable, disaggregated architecture?
22:25 – Are the benefits of the FDC similar to virtualization?
23:42 – Who are the target customers for the Fungible Data Center?
24:44 – How does the FDC enter the market without having customers start from scratch? What is the insertion point for cloud data centers or telco data centers?
27:13 – Are there any cloud or telco workloads in particular that are especially well-suited for this architecture?
28:05 – What is the insertion point opportunity for enterprise data centers?
31:05 – How does Fungible address the high-performance compute (HPC) opportunity? What is the insertion point for AI and ML data center architecture?
32:53 – Let’s talk about the software side of the FDC solution. What are the unique innovations behind the Fungible Data Center Composer?
35:11 – Clearly Fungible is not stopping here. What comes next? What about optimizing GPUs and memory?
