Enables 10/25GbE RDMA NICs for SDN, Storage Spaces Direct and Microsoft Azure Stack
SAN JOSE, CA – March 27,
2017 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading
provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that its FastLinQ
QL45000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs are now certified for Microsoft Windows
Server Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) Premium, the highest category of SDDC
certification from Microsoft. Customers can now leverage the full potential of
Windows Server 2016 cloud-ready technologies like Software Defined Networking
(SDN) and Storage Spaces Direct, as well as Microsoft Azure Stack with Cavium
FastLinQ NICs.
“Traditional network
infrastructures are rigid and complex, making it time-consuming to deploy
workloads that require network changes and increasing the chance for error,”
said Frank Berry, founder and senior analyst, IT Brand Pulse. “Organizations
can achieve rapid scale and agility when they adopt a software-defined network
(SDN) and software-defined storage (SDS) model for deployment and management. Windows
Server software-defined datacenter technologies like Storage Spaces Direct
backed with certified products enable organizations to look beyond server
virtualization to achieve higher efficiency and meet operational and security
challenges.”
“Software Defined
Networking, Storage Spaces Direct and Microsoft Azure Stack are core to
Microsoft’s strategy to deliver a software-defined hybrid cloud infrastructure,”
said Ravi Rao, Group Manager, Datacenter and Cloud Networking, Windows Server,
Microsoft Corp. “The SDDC Premium certification enables datacenter managers and
system integrators deploying Microsoft SDDC technologies to leverage the proven
feature set and high-performance capabilities of Cavium Ethernet NICs to build
an efficient and reliable hyper-converged datacenter.”
Arun Mittal, Vice President
of Engineering, Cavium, said, “Cavium FastLinQ NIC delivers hardware offloads
for VxLAN overlays, Virtual Machine Multi-Queue (VMMQ) for Hyper-V Virtual
Machines, Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and Data Center Bridging (DCB) for
RDMA, key requirements for SDDC Premium certifications. This achievement further
solidifies the key role Cavium FastLinQ NICs play in delivering full software
defined capabilities for storage and networking for Windows Server 2016.”
Craig Parker, Head of
Integrated Systems Business, EMEAI, Fujitsu, said, “We are fast-tracking the
creation of enterprise software-defined datacenters (SDDC) and our PRIMERGY
servers form the system bedrock for Microsoft’s cloud-ready Windows Server 2016
solutions. We are working closely with Cavium and Microsoft to bring to
customers a scalable and agile platform that guarantees a tested and perfectly
synchronized combination of software defined technologies. The Cavium FastLinQ
SDDC Premium certification is a significant step in the right direction.”
Customers deploying
Microsoft SDDC Premium certified Cavium FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs with Windows
Server 2016 will have the ability to leverage the following technologies to
their maximum potential:
·
Software Defined Networking: Delivering the ability to offload packet processing for VxLAN and NVGRE
overlays for network virtualized environments, Cavium FastLinQ NICs and Windows
Server 2016 enable an agile and high performance software-defined network for
cloud-ready datacenters, with support for VMMQ, RDMA, DCB, and many other
offloads. SDDC Premium certified products are pre-configured and recommended
for SDN on Windows Server 2016.
·
Storage Spaces Direct: With support and acceleration for Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct,
FastLinQ 45000 Series of Ethernet adapters with Universal RDMA enable customers
to build highly available and scalable software-defined storage and hyper-converged
solutions with Ethernet RDMA as the storage fabric. Leveraging standard servers
with local storage brings the affordability and scalability of the cloud to
private and hybrid cloud deployments. SDDC Premium certified NICs are
recommended for maximum scalability of a Storage Spaces Direct hyper-converged
deployment.
·
Microsoft Azure Stack: Delivering a new hybrid cloud platform product with Azure Stack,
Microsoft in conjunction with OEMs and ODMs is bringing the power and
simplicity of the Azure cloud platform to on-premises environments. SDDC
Premium certified Ethernet NICs are required for Azure Stack solutions, making
the FastLinQ QL45000 Series an ideal choice for OEMs and ODMs building turnkey
solutions for Azure Stack.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security,
storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium’s highly
integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software compatible solutions across
low to high performance points enabling secure and intelligent functionality in
Enterprise, Data Center and Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and
solutions are supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools,
application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is
headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts,
India, Israel, China and Taiwan.
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
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