Will CXL spell the end for boutique composable infrastructure vendors?
This route isn’t without challenges of its own, and will depend heavily on whether the vendors are willing to open their platforms up to the kind of Ethernet-style standardization required for interoperability.
On the flip side, some vendors may double down on their proprietary architectures and create the CXL equivalent of Infiniband.CXL switching is likely to have a much wider appeal than composable infrastructure, according to a recent Gartner report, which predicted the segment would account for less than 10 percent of enterprise server spend through 2025.
Part of this is because many enterprise applications simply aren’t designed to take advantage of composability.
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