Achronix FPGA-Based Accelerator-6D PCIe Board for Data Center & Network Acceleration

Max Maxfield,EEtimes, Jun. 21, 2016 – 

A data center (or datacenter) is a centralized repository for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information. Many people tend to think of data centers in the context of search engines like Google and Bing; others regard data centers as being the purview of huge entities like Amazon; in reality, almost every organization of any significance has a data center facility that centralizes its IT operations and equipment and houses the network's most critical systems.

All data centers share the same priorities, although their weighting may vary depending on the target application. These priorities include power efficiency, scalability, flexibility, longevity, cost, and performance. Additional requirements include monitoring, security, and the ability to support new types of applications as and when they appear on the market.

Today's data centers are struggling to accommodate exponential growth in the amount of data being processed, searched, and disseminated. They are also faced with increasingly complicated software stacks necessary to satisfy the demands of services and security.

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