Meets Challenging networking
demands of HPE SimpliVity, Microsoft Windows Storage Spaces Direct and VMware
vSAN while delivering predictable performance and scalability
SAN JOSE, CA – January
23, 2018 – 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 family of FastLinQ®
10/25GbE Ethernet NICs power HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions from
industry leaders like Microsoft® Windows Storage Spaces Direct, VMware® vSAN, and
HPE SimpliVity® enabling linear scalability and predictable performance. The Cavium
FastLinQ 10/25GbE family, with millions of Ethernet ports shipped, a flexible
architecture and scalable high performance, is ideal for accelerating HyperConverged
infrastructure solutions and is amongst the top choices for enterprise cloud data
centers.
In the era of hybrid cloud and DevOps, IT departments are under tremendous
pressure to move faster and be more agile. Traditional architectures driven by
complex manual processes and non-integrated infrastructures cannot deliver the
power, simplicity, and velocity that is necessary to meet the demands of the modern
enterprise. HyperConverged infrastructure systems provide a simple, efficient,
software-defined platform that combines networking and storage along with
powerful orchestration software delivering the agility and economics of cloud
for on-premises infrastructure. HyperConverged infrastructure systems empower
IT to reduce cost and complexity while delivering service agility. Ethernet
forms the networking backbone connecting HCI systems together and networking
requirements can grow exponentially as these systems scale. The success of
HyperConverged Infrastructures requires a resilient and scalable network
architecture built on high-speed Ethernet NICs that ensure consistent
performance and availability.
“HCI architectures encompass software defined methodologies that
integrate compute, storage, and networking on commodity hardware to deliver a
cost-effective solution that is simple to deploy, manage and scale. HCI is a
fundamental building block of on-premises data centers for enterprises building
hybrid clouds where 25GbE connectivity is in high demand,” said Cliff Grossner,
Ph.D., senior research director and advisor of cloud and data center research
practice for IHS Markit, a global business information provider. In a recent
IHS Markit report [1], it was forecasted that 25GbE ports will represent 31% of
total Ethernet adapter ports shipped in CY’21, signaling a strong need for
Ethernet adapters that provide predictable low latency connectivity under fully
loaded conditions.
“Cavium FastLinQ
10/25GbE Ethernet NICs with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate networking
for HyperConverged Systems while offloading server CPU,” said Christopher Moezzi, Vice President of Marketing,
Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. “Customers deploying a wide range of HCI options
from HPE, VMware and Microsoft can now leverage Cavium NICs to enable scale and
flexibility to implement radical infrastructure simplification while reducing
cost with 10GBASE-T.”
Ravi Rao, Group Manager, Windows Networking, Microsoft
Corp. said, “Software-Defined Hyper-converged Storage with Windows Server 2016
Storage Spaces Direct are key elements of Windows Server Software Defined
solution offerings that enable flexible, economical, and high-performance data centers.
Software- Defined Data center Premium qualified Cavium FastLinQ 45000/41000
Series of 10/25GbE NICs with support for RoCE, RoCEv2, and iWARP deliver the
ability to power software-defined Storage Spaces Direct architectures built using
Windows Server 2016.”
“As customers deal with the rapid proliferation of apps and seek
alternatives to legacy infrastructure, hyperconverged platforms are becoming a
popular choice for modern workload deployment,” said McLeod Glass, VP of
SimpliVity, Software-Defined and Cloud Product Management at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. “We are proud to offer HPE Ethernet 10GbE NICs based on Cavium
FastlinQ 8400 series technology as options for our flagship SimpliVity 380
hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio that enables customers to precisely
align our technology with an organization’s unique IT environment and
workloads.”
Purpose built
for accelerating and simplifying data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ
Ethernet technology delivers:
•
Enterprise Features
– A broad spectrum of
Ethernet speeds ranging from 10GbE to 100GbE to host the most demanding
enterprise, telco and cloud applications leveraging HyperConverged
architectures. Cavium SmartAN™ technology enables adaptive link controls for
seamless zero-touch interoperability with industry wide 25GbE switches and
cables. Extensive and robust support of a broad variety of hypervisors like
VMware ESXi, Windows Server Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer and KVM for seamless
integration on diverse HyperConverged platforms.
•
Acceleration and
Scalability for HCI – 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 - Concurrent protocol offload for NVMe-oF™, NVMe-Direct, SMB Direct, iSER,
iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 5M IOPS while consuming the fewer server CPU
cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications and higher RoI on server
investments with seamless upgrade paths of next-generation storage
connectivity.
•
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™
SmartNICs that cover the entire spectrum of customer Ethernet connectivity and
offload requirements.
Availability
The new FastLinQ
Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are qualified for VMware vSAN and Microsoft Windows
S2D and are available from Cavium and leading OEMs and ODMs worldwide. Cavium
LiquidIO 10/25GbE SmartNICs are available directly through Cavium. 10GbE I/O
options based on Cavium FastLinQ 8400 series technology for HPE SimpliVity
DL380 are available from HPE.
For more
information, visit www.cavium.com
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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
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com