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 30^th– June 3^rd 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

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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

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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. 

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Cavium Announces Financial Results for Q4 2016

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 1, 2017 – Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced financial results for the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2016.

Net revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 was $226.2 million, a 34.5% sequential increase from the $168.1 million reported in the third quarter of 2016 and 124.0% from the $100.9 million reported in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) Results
Net loss for the fourth quarter of 2016 was $121.6 million, or ($1.82) per diluted share, compared to $14.4 million, or ($0.23) per diluted share in the third quarter of 2016. Gross margins were 43.4% in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared to 28.2% in the third quarter of 2016. GAAP operating loss (GAAP loss from operations as a percentage of revenue) was 12.9% in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared to 56.1% in the third quarter of 2016. Total cash and cash equivalents were $221.4 million at December 31, 2016.

Non-GAAP ResultsCavium believes that the presentation of non-GAAP financial measures provides important supplemental information to management and investors regarding financial and business trends relating to Cavium’s financial condition and results of operations. Cavium believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide additional insight into Cavium’s ongoing performance and core operational activities and has chosen to provide these measures for more consistent and meaningful comparison between periods. These measures should only be used to evaluate Cavium’s results of operations in conjunction with the corresponding GAAP measures. The reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP financial results is provided in the financial statements portion of this release.

In the fourth quarter of 2016, Non-GAAP net income was $39.8 million, or $0.56 per diluted share. Non-GAAP gross margin was 65.0% and Non-GAAP operating margin (non-GAAP income from operations as a percentage of revenue) was 21.6%.

Recent News Highlights

• January 31, 2017  - Cavium QLogic Leads Ethernet & Fibre Channel I/O Innovation for Next Generation Servers
• January 24, 2017  - Cavium Contributes to the First Programmable Wedge 100C Switch Design to OCP
• January 17, 2017  - Cavium QLogic Delivers Expanded Options for Server and Storage Connectivity
• January 16, 2017 - Cavium's XPliant Family of Ethernet Switches Received Linley Group's Analysts' Choice Award for Best Networking Chip 2016
• December 8, 2016 - Cavium and China Unicom Signed Collaboration Agreement for Virtualized RAN Technology
• November 15, 2016 - Cavium and Leading Partners Showcased ThunderX ARM-based Server Platforms, QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters and Fibre Channel HBAs for High Performance Computing at SC16

Cavium will broadcast its fourth quarter of 2016 financial results conference call today, February 1, 2017, at 2 p.m. Pacific time (5 p.m. Eastern time). The conference call will be available via a live web cast on the investor relations section of the Cavium website at http://www.cavium.com. Please access the website at least a few minutes prior to the start of the call in order to download and install any necessary audio software. An archived web cast replay of the call will be available on the web site for a limited period of time.

About Cavium

Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, 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.

Cavium ContactAngel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: (408) 943-7417
Email:angel.atondo@cavium.com

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Cavium and China Unicom Sign Collaboration Agreement for Virtualized RAN Technology

Parties to work together to accelerate virtualized BBUs based on General-Purpose Processors

SAN JOSE, CA December 8th, 2016 - Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and cloud data centers, announced an agreement with China Unicom to accelerate the design and development of Virtualized BBU and provide a path for 5G adoption. The collaboration will focus on commercializing vBBU systems using general purpose hardware based on Cavium’s ThunderX® workload optimized data server processors which are built on ARM architecture. In addition, Cavium has joined the China Unicom CORD Industry Alliance and will drive adoption of open source architecture and technologies in China together with China Unicom.

China Unicom and Cavium will work together on new innovative fronthaul solutions, system architecture and vBBU performance and deployment. This collaboration allows Cavium to align with China Unicom’s commercial networks technology development and innovation, research feasibility of Next Generation Virtualized Wireless Access Network, perform lab and field testing, evaluate results, drive deployment of developed technologies into commercial network, carry out lab and field performance test and assessment, accelerate pilot and application of new technical innovations in real-world networks.

“We are very pleased to collaborate with China Unicom in this critical area. As network capacity continues to be stretched and the user demands continue to grow the industry is faced with significant challenges which cannot be solved by traditional means,” said Raj Singh General Manager of the Wireless Broadband Group at Cavium. “The use of advanced general purpose hardware such as Cavium’s ThunderX workload optimized data severs allows us to provide a highly scalable virtualized solution for these requirements.”

“Virtualized network based on general purpose hardware and open source technologies represents the overall direction for future network changes. China Unicom partners with Cavium, a leader in virtualized BBU technology field, to drive R&D of virtualization products based on general purpose processors, thus laying a solid foundation for building new generation of network infrastructure,” said Dr. Tang Xiongyan, CTO of Network Technology Research Institute, China Unicom. 

About Cavium

Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com.

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Cavium QLogic Adds PowerShell Integrated Management Solution for FastLinQ™ Ethernet Adapters

Simplify and Streamline Management to Reduce TCO with QConvergeConsole® PowerKit

SAN JOSE, CA – Oct. 27, 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for Enterprise, Telco, MSP and cloud data centers, announced the addition of a highly scalable and PowerShell integrated management solution to its broad offering of FastLinQ Ethernet adapter management solutions. The QLogic ConvergeConsole(QCC) PowerKit seamlessly integrates with Microsoft PowerShell to deliver an integrated, scriptable and scalable solution for deploying and managing QLogic FastLinQ series of 10/25/40/50/100GbE NICs across heterogeneous platforms. QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet-based technology is highly extensible and flexible, delivering a broad set of capabilities customized to address the needs of the telco, enterprise, managed service provider (MSP), cloud and storage markets. The ability to streamline their administration through centralized cross-platform and cross-protocol capabilities enhances network availability and reduces management costs.

Infrastructure Management Challenges in Enterprise Datacenters
IT administrators face many challenges and responsibilities when it comes to maintaining the server and network infrastructure and keeping downtime at a minimum, especially in large hybrid, Telco and Cloud deployments. Depending upon the size of the organization there are many components to keep track of, such as device management, updates, patching, new application configurations, compliance requirements, and issues that arise as the result of human error or environmental factors. Conventional approaches do not deliver centralized control and integration with Operating System infrastructure and processes, or require a steep learning curve of vendor specific syntaxes, increasing the cost and complexity of management and creating silos of management toolchains. 

Integration and Automation Aware Approaches reduce TCO
In its fifth generation, Microsoft PowerShell delivers an integrated, robust and scalable task automation and configuration management framework for cross-platform server infrastructure management. QLogic ConvergeConsole PowerKit, which is now generally available, seamlessly integrates into Microsoft PowerShell to deliver a consistent and powerful set of new capabilities directly into PowerShell. This enables management efficiencies, improves time to deploy and implements best practices when managing QLogic FastLinQ 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters. IT administrators no longer need to learn a new scripting language or vendor specific syntaxes.

"We designed our FastLinQ Ethernet-based products to address the rapidly changing needs of the data center and the specific needs of mega data centers run by telecommunications providers, MSPs and enterprise private clouds," said Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "The latest innovation from Cavium, the QCC PowerKit, enables our broad base of customers to significantly reduce TCO by delivering an integrated and scalable management solution."

QConvergeConsole PowerKit Advanced Capabilities Include:

• Comprehensive Management Capabilities – With over 40 unique command-lets, the QCC PowerKit has the ability to manage all the advanced features of the QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet portfolio, including Network Partitioning (NPAR), SR-IOV, RDMA and server boot configurations. The QCC PowerKit enables IT administrators to enhance overall performance and speed troubleshooting with robust diagnostic capabilities.
• Scalable, Scriptable and Remote Management – The QCC PowerKit has the ability to automate key management tasks for unparalleled efficiency in adapter configuration and management. This increases management efficiency and reduces overall TCO.
• Cross Platform and Integrated – The QCC PowerKit can be deployed across a heterogeneous datacenter environment due to its broad operating system support. Support for various Windows and Linux versions ensures seamless integration and operation for enterprise, Telco and Cloud network environments.

For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 1Gbps to 100Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center, Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and application support, hardware reference designs and other products. Cavium is headquartered in San Jose, CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China and Taiwan. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.

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Cavium QLogic Accelerates Cloud Deployments with OpenStack Integration

QLogic® FastLinQ™ Ethernet Adapters and QConvergeConsole® automate OpenStack® Configurations

BARCELONA, SPAIN – Oct. 25, 2016 – Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers, announced that it is showcasing technologies available for its FastLinQ™ line of 10/25/40/50/100GbE Ethernet adapters that accelerate the deployment of OpenStack by delivering the ability to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack configuration for hybrid and public cloud deployments. QLogic technologies like the Plug-in for Mirantis® Fuel for automatic SR-IOV configuration across multiple OpenStack nodes and QConvergeConsole (QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps enable hyperscale, private/hybrid and telco cloud deployments with Cavium QLogic Ethernet NICs to be accelerated with OpenStack. In addition, the ability to deliver QoS for network functions with QLogic FastLinQ technology comprise the broad set of technology investments.

Dynamics of Deploying an OpenStack Managed Infrastructure
As the scale of private and public cloud infrastructures grow exponentially, the orchestration of the discreet components that comprise the cloud has becoming increasingly challenging. OpenStack is a scalable, open sourced cloud computing platform that enables the construction of flexible IT infrastructures by bringing a harmony to the discreet but interconnected system, enabling it to be managed as one holistic solution serving storage, compute, and networking needs. While OpenStack has seen tremendous industry acceptance and support, some challenges still remain. The initial deployment and operation of OpenStack, which spans various services and projects and multi-vendor infrastructures, can be a significant hurdle in realizing the full potential of OpenStack. An OpenStack installation can be a manual, time-consuming and often complex process of deploying and configuring discreet hardware components and functions. In addition, current OpenStack inbuilt management services lack the ability to deliver an in-depth view of the interactions between OpenStack components. Customers are demanding a solution to gain better control of an OpenStack infrastructure from initial deployment to ongoing operations.  

QLogic Ethernet Integrations in OpenStack Simplify Deployment and Operation
Realizing the potential of a successful OpenStack deployment and the challenges that such a process entails, Cavium along with the OpenStack community have invested in several key technologies that allow the seamless integration and accelerated deployment of various networking technologies like SR-IOV with OpenStack. In addition, QLogic Ethernet management offerings deliver in-depth visibility of the OpenStack cloud along with the ability to control and guarantee network bandwidth for tenant workloads. Purpose built for accelerating and simplifying OpenStack deployments, these investments include:

• QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel for Automatic OpenStack Configuration – Single-pane-of-glass capabilities to configure SR-IOV functions across multiple nodes and eliminate manual error prone and time consuming tasks by leveraging the capabilities of the QLogic Plug-in for Mirantis Fuel. This accelerates the virtual network configurations for large scale deployments and is supported by an in-depth step by step installation runbook.
• QConvergeConsole (QCC) enables the visualization of OpenStack Components – With the ability to dynamically map the topology of an OpenStack environment, QLogic QCC enables cloud administrators to visualize the connections between virtual and physical devices, storage volumes and OpenStack services. This unique capability delivers in-depth visibility into OpenStack operations and QLogic networking components to maximize uptime, by giving operations staff the ability to map the OpenStack services interconnected by QLogic FastLinQ technology.
• Quality of Service for Tenant Networking Traffic – QLogic FastLinQ networking technology integrates with OpenStack Liberty to deliver dynamic control over tenant networking's share of the physical infrastructure. With the ability to guarantee network requirements like bandwidth, IaaS/SaaS providers can easily deliver on a strict Service Level Agreement (SLA) to their customers.

Visit the Cavium Booth #B36 at OpenStack Summit Barcelona, Spain to learn more about how OpenStack deployments can leverage QLogic networking technologies.

Supporting Quotes
"QLogic 3400/8400/45000 series of FastLinQ Ethernet adapters support a comprehensive set of virtualization and multi-tenant services for the most sophisticated data centers, telco and cloud providers," said Rajneesh Gaur, general manager and vice president of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "With integrations into Mirantis Fuel and extensive visibility provided by QConvergeConsole, OpenStack cloud deployments and operations are simplified, accelerating their adoption into hyperscale datacenters."

Cavium QLogic is an OpenStack community member and a corporate sponsor.

For more information, visit:

1. QLogic OpenStack Webpage - http://www.qlogic.com/solutions/Pages/OpenStack.aspx
2. Mirantis Unlocked Partner - https://www.mirantis.com/partners/qlogic/ and http://plugins.mirantis.com/docs/q/l/Fuel-plugin-qlogic-sriov/qlogic-sriov-1.0-1.0.0-1.pdf
3. OpenStack Networking with QoS - http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/networking-guide/adv-config-qos.html
4. QLogic Corporate Website: www.qlogic.com

About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud and wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software-compatible products ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure and intelligent functionality for compute, network connectivity, storage and wireless applications. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal office is in San Jose, CA with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India and China. For more information, please visit : http://www.cavium.com.

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Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com

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