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Exploring the Advantages of Deploying DPUs in the Data Center

June 22, 2022

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One of the newer technologies gaining ground in data centers today is the Data Processing Unit (DPU). As VMware has observed , “In simple terms, a DPU is a programable device with hardware acceleration as well as having an ARM CPU complex capable of processing data. Today the DPU is available as a SmartNIC (PCIe Form Factor) that can be plugged in to a server and help with several functions.”

As data centers evolve to handle the exponential demand on infrastructure services generated by modern workloads, what are the potential advantages of offloading critical infrastructure services like network, security, and storage from the CPU to a DPU?

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