VMware has clouded the SmartNIC market, not created it
Virtzilla has built itself an island. Important players aren't welcome to visit and might go elsewhere
Analysis About a decade ago hyperscale clouds realized that they couldn't rent all the cores in their servers because some of them were doing boring work needed to make secure multitenancy possible. So they offloaded that work into network interface controllers imbued with some modest computing capacity – devices known as SmartNICs or Data Processing Units (DPUs).…