Innovation is recognized when it disrupts a market. Network Interface Cards (NICs) have existed since the 1980s, and around the turn of the century, various companies began innovating in this area. Their initial focus was on High-Performance Computing (HPC). While businesses ran on Ethernet, the most powerful HPC clusters in the world were created using Myrinet or Infiniband. The NICs for these networks were architected to bypass the operating system (OS) kernel and communicate directly with HPC applications delivering substantially greater performance. To make this happen, these NICs applied extensive computational resources at the edge of the network, enabling them to offload common communications tasks from the host CPU.

The volume of data that healthcare providers collect is increasing and overwhelming the approaches currently being used to analyze it. At the same time, the ability to connect across tables and business entities and identify hidden relationships and patterns offers tantalizing breakthroughs in patient care and outcome improvements as well as efficiencies and cost savings for the providers.

To improve the performance of compute infrastructure, and to keep up with the expanding requirements of data analytics and AI, many enterprises are looking to hardware acceleration as an integral solution.

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The workflows of broadcasters and content creators—like those in many other industries —have been affected by the mindset changes that were ushered in by COVID and exacerbated by tough economic times and staffing shortages. Broadcast producers and engineers, security camera operators, and enterprise companies expanded their live-video systems to work remotely during the pandemic.

Large studios and control rooms with traditional on-premises video delivery methods have been replaced with distributed or decentralized production workflows spread across multiple broadcast facilities and home-based staff, taking advantage of IP workflows and working in the cloud.