Juniper AI-Native NOW… or LATER?
In case you missed it, Juniper produced a web event last week called AI-Native NOW. I thought it might introduce Juniper as a Hedgehog competitor for owning the AI Network category. It turns out we don’t have to worry about Juniper as an AI Network competitor, at...
Hedgehog AI Network delivers $50K minimum ROI per GPU
In my “AI Needs a New Network” post last week, I noted that NVIDIA reported $13 billion in networking ARR on $18.4 billion of annual data center revenue. This week, we are diving a little deeper on the unit economics of GPUs, the Hedgehog AI Network, and LLMs offered...
AI Needs a New Network
Most investors associate NVIDIA with GPUs and recognize GPUs as the key ingredient for AI cloud infrastructure. But that’s only part of the AI infrastructure picture. Investors need to also understand the role of networking for AI. Smart investors should pay...
Hedgehog VPC Virtual Private Cloud improvements for multi-tenancy and SONiC upgrade
Hedgehog Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) delivers multi-tenancy for hybrid and distributed cloud like AWS VPC delivers multi-tenancy for public cloud. We announced our Just Cause release on December 23. Our general goal is to release new Hedgehog versions every month. ...
Run Hedgehog at the data edge with Edgecore Networks and SONiC
Hedgehog Open Network Fabric powered by SONiC runs on Edgecore DCS204, DCS203, DCS501 and EPS203 data center and edge switches. If you have been following this blog the last few weeks, you may have noticed that December’s Just Cause release gave you an option to run...
Run Hedgehog powered by SONiC on Dell PowerSwitch cloud networks
Looking for an easier way to run SONiC on Dell PowerSwitch devices? Hedgehog makes it easy to run SONiC with an automated software appliance that includes SONiC. If you have been following this blog the last few weeks, you have downloaded Hedgehog and experimented...
Experiment with SONiC using Hedgehog Virtual Lab
Want to experiment with the idea of running SONiC in your distributed cloud, but don’t want to commit to purchasing hardware? You can start with the Hedgehog Virtual Lab. Just visit https://githedgehog.com and click the DOWNLOAD button. From there you can install...
Look what Santa brought: another Hedgehog software release!
Just in time for the holidays, I’m pleased to announce that Santa and his elves are delivering Hedgehog A2 “Just Cause” available for download at https://githedgehog.com. The Hedgehog elves worked especially hard on this release to get it on the sleigh for fun...
Hedgehog “Infamous” release is now available for Hedgehog Design Partners
I’m pleased to announce that Hedgehog Open Network Fabric powered by SONiC is now available for download at https://githedgehog.com. We developed this release in a design partnership with our customer VMAccel. VMAccel’s distributed cloud infrastructure accelerates AI...
Migrating from Cumulus to SONiC for Broadcom ASICs
As a lot of people already know, Cumulus Networks was acquired by Nvidia/Mellanox in 2020, which was very exciting for some, but something of a problem for the customers who had Broadcom ASIC-based switches. Now let’s be clear, Nvidia makes some of the most bad-ass...