Packet and Netronome Team Up on Microservers Built for Edge Workloads

Packet and Netronome teamed up on microservers built for cloud-native and edge workloads. The jointly designed hardware uses Netronome’s SmartNICs (network interface cards) and will be deployed across Packet’s bare metal cloud and edge sites. And it is built for the Open19 Foundation infrastructure platform.“Moore’s Law isn’t scaling the way it used to,” said Ron Renwick, senior director of products and product marketing at Netronome.Because of this slowdown in server performance, coupled with lessons learned from cloud giants, hardware is evolving to take advantage of new disaggregated architectures, said Jacob Smith, co-founder and chief marketing officer at Packet. “Design the hardware around the software, versus the software around the hardware,” he said.