It may become more than a SmartNIC. Whatever the IPU ends up becoming, it’s a clear step toward disaggregation, and a giant leap for the future formation of a componentized “Xeon Platform.”
Websites hit by the outage, including Amazon, the New York Times, Reddit, and U.K. government sites were accessible again shortly after Fastly said it was implementing a fix.
The colocation heavyweight chooses to focus on optimizing its network for hybrid cloud use cases, leaving the rest of the hybrid architecture up to its customers.
The cloud-based service works with Cloudflare's other SASE products to provide secure, fast connectivity even for a remotely distributed, mobile workforce.