Jennifer Hesse, Editor, OpenSystems Media

• PCI Express fabric: Rethinking data center architectures - Q&A with David Raun, Senior Executive VP and General Manager, PLX Technology

  

  With its 8 Gbps speeds and potential for reducing connection costs, PCI Express Gen3 is gaining acceptance in a variety of embedded applications, including cloud-driven data centers. David explains how PCI Express is playing an increasing role in system fabrics and introduces a next-generation system model presented at the recent PCI-SIG Developers Conference that uses PCI Express-centric hardware and software as the backbone of a data center rack.

  Jennifer Hesse Managing Editor