When the Offload Doesn’t Earn Its Dependency
Offload dependency is the test every specialized-hardware bet eventually has to pass, and VMware just showed what happens when the dependency stops earning its keep. At VMware Explore this month, Broadcom VP/GM Umesh Mahajan told the room that VMware has “walked back from that space” — SmartNIC-based network offload, the layer VMware spent years building…