Data centers form a key part of the infrastructure upon which a variety of information
technology services are built. As data centers continue to grow in size and complexity, it is …

Given the rapid evolution of attack methods and toolkits, software-based solutions to secure
the network infrastructure have become overburdened. The performance gap between the …

Performance and power issues are becoming increasingly important in the design of large,
cluster-based multitier data centers for supporting a multitude of services. The design and …

Deep Payload Inspection systems like SNORT and BRO utilize regular expression for their
rules due to their high expressibility and compactness. The SNORT IDS system uses the …

The realization that the network is becoming an important bottleneck in computing clusters
and in the cloud has led in the past years to an increase scrutiny of how networking …

Virtual machine (VM) technologies have made much progress in improving the efficiency of
virtualizing CPU and memory. However, achieving high performance for I/O virtualization …

Modern datacenters support a wide range of protocols and in-network switch enhancements
aimed at improving performance. Unfortunately, most new and legacy protocols and …

Optimizing bandwidth was the main focus of designing scale-out networks for several
decades and this optimization trend has served well the traditional Internet applications …

(58) Field of Classification Search.................. 709/250 cation; Support a second queue of
data received over the link See application file for complete search history. and identified as …

(57) ABSTRACT A data processing system comprising a host computer sys tem and a
network interface device for connection to a network, the host computer system and network …