I can imagine small services in hundreds of zones colocated near the clients, rather than clustered in a couple dozen regions. But whatever their story is, they will need to tell it better.
Basically PCI cards to put into commodity servers. That do various types of hardware offload for routing, switching, storage, security, etc. Probably with out of the box hypervisors and management for those functions.
I imagine they want to sell direct to cloud providers like Digital Ocean and IBM. And perhaps through Dell, VMWare, etc, for Enterprise customers that want high end private clouds.
"Years ago, AWS developed something similar in Nitro, a system of dedicated integrated circuits and specialized software that offloads some of the heavy lifting from host machines provisioned through Amazon's next-generation C- and M-series of EC2 instances."
"Whereas Nitro is exclusive to AWS, Pensando will be available to the wider market, allowing enterprises to create "their own customized version of the cloud systems," Chambers said."
Gives me flashbacks to the days 20 years ago when a 32-bit/33MHz PCI interface crypto accelerator card, with dedicated ASIC, was a good way to speed up SSL page serving on your openbsd machines.
From the docs .. AWS Nitro is 1] a family of cards that offloads and accelerates IO for functions (for VPC, EBS, Instance Storage, Security) 2] a lightweight hypervisor that presumably works well with these cards, and 3] the nitro "security chip" specifics of which are sparse.
More than a few ex-Cisco staff would pour fuel on any fire under chambers' pyre. I never quite got why. Clearly he has loyalty and antipathy but in different proportion?
Actually amazing part of this is MPLS phenomenon...
Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, and Soni Jiandani (long known collectively at and around Cisco as MPLS) have played key roles in Cisco’s “spin in” strategy under former CEO John Chambers.
while John Chambers was the CEO he I think bought four (!) companies that these folks had created.
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Basically PCI cards to put into commodity servers. That do various types of hardware offload for routing, switching, storage, security, etc. Probably with out of the box hypervisors and management for those functions.
I imagine they want to sell direct to cloud providers like Digital Ocean and IBM. And perhaps through Dell, VMWare, etc, for Enterprise customers that want high end private clouds.
"Whereas Nitro is exclusive to AWS, Pensando will be available to the wider market, allowing enterprises to create "their own customized version of the cloud systems," Chambers said."
Ballsy. I wonder what services they will kick off with. I especially wonder what their Lambda service will be like.
https://www.google.com/search?q=translate%3A+pensando
Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, and Soni Jiandani (long known collectively at and around Cisco as MPLS) have played key roles in Cisco’s “spin in” strategy under former CEO John Chambers.
while John Chambers was the CEO he I think bought four (!) companies that these folks had created.
https://www.businessinsider.in/enterprise/mobile/why-cisco-h...
They beat most of 'serial entrepreneurs' hands down.