Showing posts with label Ethernet Nics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ethernet Nics. Show all posts

Tuesday, 11 July 2017

Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet Enables Universal RDMA for Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge Servers

Concurrent 10/25GbE iWARP and RoCE deliver ultimate flexibility to accelerate I/O with CPU offload

SAN JOSE, CA – July 11, 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 the new FastLinQ® QL41000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs, which are supported on Dell EMC14th Generation PowerEdge servers. The FastLinQ QL41000 Series are the industry’s only NIC solution that gives customers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP.  The FastLinQ adapters coupled with new generation PowerEdge servers enable administrators to optimize their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and Network Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and quality of service (QoS) for workloads and infrastructure traffic.  Additionally, the FastLinQ adapters provide full network function virtualization (NFV) with excellent small packet performance and integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enabling telcos and NFV application customers to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.

“Enterprise and cloud data centers have differing requirements driven by infrastructure and applications for latency and congestion management, so flexibility of the networking solution is key, said Bob Wheeler, principal analyst at The Linley Group. Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series family with Universal RDMA effectively addresses these challenges while delivering a flexible and future proof networking solution.

“Cavium FastLinQ 10GbE/25GbE Ethernet NICs, with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate access to networking and storage while offloading server CPU,” said Rajneesh Gaur, vice president and general manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. “The introduction of Universal RDMA in Dell’s flagship 14G server is a major milestone and provides customers with an innovative solution delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation private, hybrid and telco cloud data centers.”

“Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers are delivering a scalable, automated and secure architecture for any workload, from traditional to cloud-native applications and converged platforms,”  said Brian Payne, vice president product management and marketing, server solutions division, Dell EMC. “With the unique Universal RDMA capabilities in the FastLinQ QL41000 Series Ethernet NICs in the new PowerEdge servers, customers can transform their infrastructure for modern workloads and cloud initiatives by increasing performance while optimizing infrastructure costs.”

Purpose built to accelerate and simplify data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in Dell PowerEdge servers delivers:
  • Universal RDMA – Industry’s only network adapter that offers customers a choice of RDMA technology and investment protection with concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP.
  • Network Virtualization Offloads – Acceleration for network virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE, enabling customers to build and scale virtualized networks without impacting network performance.
  • Server Virtualization – Optimizes infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver acceleration and QoS for workloads and infrastructure traffic.
  • Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables telco and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads by delivering leading small packet performance and integration with DPDK and OpenStack.
  • Storage Acceleration: Full protocol offload for iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 3M IOPS while consuming the fewest server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and enabling higher ROI on server investments.
Availability
The new FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are now available from Dell EMC.

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.

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

Monday, 29 May 2017

Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet Adopted by Major ODMs for Next-Generation Cloud and Telco Datacenters

Datacenter Servers from ASUS, GIGABYTE, Inventec, MiTAC, Wistron now leverage FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet NICs

COMPUTEX, TAIPEI, Taiwan and SAN JOSE, Calif., – May 29, 2017 –Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, datacenter, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced adoption of its flagship FastLinQ family of 10/25/50/100Gbps Ethernet NICs at several Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs that deliver hyperscale cloud platforms to Tier-1 customers worldwide. This product family delivers a range of solutions from entry level LOM to high end converged NIC and is offered in a variety of form factors. The FastLinQ QL45000 adapters with Universal RDMA are the industry’s only NIC family that delivers the technology choice and investment protection with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. With several unique designs at more than a dozen top Tier-1 OEMs and ODMs, FastLinQ Ethernet technology from Cavium is purpose-built to deliver acceleration and offload for business-critical applications, artificial intelligence, Big Data, CDN, Machine Learning and hyperscale storage workloads in emerging cloud and telco datacenters.

“Cavium is seeing significantly increased adoption at major OEMs and ODMs which is a testament to the performance, features and competitiveness of our FastLinQ family of NICs,” said Christopher Moezzi, Vice President of Marketing, Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “Cavium has the widest and most compelling Ethernet NIC solutions from 10Gbps to 100Gbps in a wide range of form factors. We provide customers with innovative, high performance solutions, delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next-generation Cloud, Web2.0, Storage and Telco datacenters.”

Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying datacenter networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology delivers:
  • Broad Spectrum of Ethernet Connectivity Speeds – 10/25/40/50/100GbE to host the most demanding enterprise, telco and cloud applications and deliver scalability to drive business growth.
  • Enterprise Class Reliability and Flexibility – With millions of Ethernet ports shipped, and a flexible architecture that delivers faster time to market and adaption to new and emerging technologies, FastLinQ Ethernet NICs are amongst the top choices for enterprise datacenters.
  • Cloud-Ready – Industry's only network adapter that delivers the ultimate choice and investment protection with concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. Acceleration for Network Virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and GENEVE enables customers to build and scale virtualized networks without impacting network performance.
  • Storage Acceleration - Full protocol concurrent offload for NVMe-oF™, iSER, iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 5M IOPS while consuming the fewest server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and higher RoI on server investments with seamless upgrade paths of next gen storage connectivity. 
  • Telco and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Leading small packet performance, 100Gbps Ethernet connectivity, and integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enables Telcos and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads.
Industry’s Most Comprehensive Network Adapter portfolio – Cavium offers the broadest set of Ethernet networking adapters – FastLinQ® Standard Ethernet Adapters, Converged Networking Adapters and LiquidIO® Intelligent NICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet connectivity and offload requirements. Cavium Ethernet adapters are trusted by customers worldwide.

Visit the Cavium suite #2412 at the Grand Hyatt hotel during COMPUTEX 2017, Taipei, Taiwan from May 30th– June 3rd to learn more!

Supporting Quotes
“NVMe Over Fabrics will radically change Storage and Networking paradigms in next generation datacenter and cloud architectures,” said Robert Chin, General Manager of ASUS Server Business Unit. “Close collaboration with Cavium on Ethernet RDMA Fabrics for scaling out NVMe enables us to expand our addressable market, with increased performance and offloads delivered by FastLinQ 25GbE NICs, particularly for hyperscale cloud customers.”

“GIGABYTE servers address the broad spectrum of needs of hyperscale datacenters across standard, Open Compute Platform (OCP) and rack scale form factors while delivering exceptional value, performance and scalability,” said Etay Lee, GM of GIGABYTE Technology’s Server Division. “The addition of Cavium FastLinQ 10GbE and 25GbE FastLinQ Ethernet NICs in OCP and Standard form factors will enable delivery on all of the tenets of open standards, while enabling key virtualization technologies like SR-IOV and full offloads for overlay networks using VxLAN, NVGRE and GENEVE.”

“Cavium FastLinQ Network Virtualization optimized 25GbE Ethernet adapters in OCP form factor enable open platforms, unleash innovation, and unlock performance for Telcos and Private, Hybrid and Public Clouds," said Joseph Li, Director of Inventec Data Center Business. "Offering a comprehensive set of server and network virtualization features, this 10/25GbE OCP adapter enables open platforms to achieve higher performance, flexibility and agility, while leveraging open standards.”

“One of our key goals in selecting Cavium FastLinQ 10/25GbE technology as a leading Ethernet adapter is to enable high performance networking for our customers, irrespective of the server form factor that they have chosen,” said Simon Hwang, VP of MiTAC Computing Technology. “Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet adapters available in standard, mezzanine, LOM and OCP form factors deliver offloads for overlay networking to ensure that organizations can realize predictable performance and offload server CPU across a variety of demanding virtual applications and workloads.”

“We are pleased to announce our collaboration with Cavium,” said Peter Tung, Chief Operation Officer of Enterprise Business Group, Wistron. “With years of experience in server development and networking infrastructure, workload acceleration technology built into FastLinQ 25/100GbE technology enables our customers to maximize datacenter performance.”

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, Datacenter 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. For more information, please visit: 
http://www.cavium.com

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 


Tuesday, 4 April 2017

Cavium Schedules Q1 2017 Financial Results Conference Call

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 4, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud wired and wireless networking, has scheduled its first quarter 2017 financial results conference call for 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, April 26, 2017. Cavium will release the company’s first quarter financial results approximately one hour prior to the conference call.

The Cavium financial results conference call will be available via a live webcast on the investor relations section of the Cavium web site at http://www.cavium.com. Please access the web site at least a few minutes prior to the start of the call if you need to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived webcast replay will be available on the web site for a limited period.

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, applicat

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com    

Monday, 3 April 2017

Cavium FastLinQ® 25/100GbE Ethernet Adapter Accelerates Telco NFV & Cloud Workloads

Delivers breakthrough performance with Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK) 

SAN JOSE, CA – April 3, 2017 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable intelligent and secure processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that its FastLinQ® 45000 Series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapter technology that delivers a breakthrough performance of up to 200Gbps throughput is completely integrated into Data Plan Development Kit (DPDK). Cavium FastLinQ technology can now host the most demanding Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and cloud workloads while reducing deployment costs.

"Telco and cloud service providers are embracing NFV to fundamentally change the architecture of their networks to obtain greater service agility and reduce costs," said Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., senior research director & advisor for cloud, data center and SDN at IHS Market. "In a recent IHS Market report, 63% of service provider respondents want improved operational efficiencies without sacrificing carrier grade performance and quality. This will drive the need for solutions providing 100Gbps Ethernet high-performance CPU offload for NFV and cloud workloads providing operational efficiencies with reducing deployment costs."[1]

"Cavium FastLinQ cutting-edge NIC technologies and joint innovation with leading NFV and cloud infrastructure partners eliminate the performance barrier associated with realizing and deploying NFV and cloud solutions," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "Moreover, this groundbreaking performance combined with the intelligence and offload capabilities of our FastLinQ family of 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters empowers NFV and cloud platforms to deliver exceptional levels of service and application processing, while offloading packet I/O."

"As Telecom operators are deploying their NFV solutions in production environments, they require reliable carrier grade platforms and infrastructure which have the data packet processing performance necessary to support virtualized network functions (VNF's). HPE continues to invest in our HPE NFV Infrastructure Lab where our team works with leading NIC providers like Cavium to test and optimize our HPE Servers to provide industry leading performance for Telco workloads," said Claus Pedersen, Director, Communication Service Provider Platforms, Data Center Infrastructure Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

"Cloud and telco providers need high performance Ethernet connectivity solutions and innovative designs in order to achieve new levels of scalability, reliability and efficiency as they deploy, manage, and operate services in a virtualized environment," said Sameh Boujelbene, senior director, Dell'Oro Group. "We expect 100Gb Ethernet market to answer some of these challenges and to grow significantly over the next few years and we see Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series well positioned to benefit from this opportunity."

With up to 200Gbps of Ethernet line rate throughput, the FastLinQ 45000 series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters offer an extremely expansive set of features and protocols, delivering the following key benefits for cloud and Telco deployments:
  • Increased Performance and Scalability for NFV and cloud Workloads: Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series 25/100Gb Ethernet Adapters leverage industry standard technologies combined with impressive small packet performance to deliver enhanced scalability and improved performance. FastLinQ 100GbE Ethernet adapters are optimized for software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenStack deployments to deliver a robust and feature rich high speed networking solution for Telco and Cloud deployments.
  • Improved Server Utilization: Cavium FastLinQ 100GbE solutions provide hardware offloaded protocol processing, which results in a significant reduction of the CPU burden and improves overall server efficiency. Hardware offloads for RDMA, VxLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE optimize performance while reducing the cost of network encapsulation for virtualized workloads and hybrid cloud deployments.
  • Efficient Administration: Cavium technologies, combined with Mirantis® FUEL for OpenStack orchestration and QConvergeConsole® topology maps for OpenStack, allow the seamless integration and accelerated deployment of workloads in Telco and Cloud datacenters.
Available from Cavium, HPE and other leading OEMs, Cavium FastLinQ 45000 Series 25/100GbE adapters are fully integrated into DPDK and shipping in volume now.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com to learn more today!
###
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.

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com 

[1] Information based on IHS Market Technology Group, NFV Strategies Global Service Provider Survey August 2016. Information is not an endorsement of Cavium. Any reliance on these results is at the third party's own risk. Visit technology.ihs.com for more details.


Monday, 27 March 2017

Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet First to Achieve Microsoft Windows Server SDDC Premium Certification

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. 

Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com