Solarflare provides high performance server adapters and application acceleration middleware while Arista has developed very fast switches such as the 7100 series used at CBOE.

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The company combines hardware and software to deliver high-performance server adapter products and application acceleration middleware for faster performance.

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EBay, for instance, has reduced the number of server configurations it will deploy down to two. (Before it had 200 to 300 server configurations but 15 configurations accounted for 80 percent of the total population.) EBay now has a High Performance Computing server designed to handle transactions.

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Connected Data is led by serial entrepreneur and storage industry veteran Geoff Barrall and an experienced team of professionals previously responsible for the high-performance BlueArc Silicon Server and the popular Drobo storage array.

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The enhanced 32-bit execution capability will benefit existing 32-bit cloud server applications, while 64-bit execution extends the applicability of ARM technology-based solutions to enable new opportunities in networking, server and high-performance computing.

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The low-profile, half-length WarpDrive card plugs into a standard 8 lane PCIe Gen 2.0 server slot and is designed to deliver high performance with low latency and a low CPU burden independent of main memory size.

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He also points out that AMD knows the server market well, and in theory could partner with ARM to drive that architecture into high-performance applications.

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