SAN JOSE, Calif., April 20, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.,
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of products that enable secure
and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and
wireless networking will demonstrate its 48 core, dual socket
capable ThunderX_SC family of ARMv8-A based processors with
integrated security accelerators. The demonstration will be
showcased at Cavium's booth #S2726 during RSA Conference,
April 20-24th at the
Moscone Center in San
Francisco.
The Cloud is growing exponentially with the increased adoption
of PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS resulting in data centers hosting a large
number of users and applications with different levels of security
requirements on the same underlying infrastructure. Physical
resources such as processors, memory, storage and network are
physically remote and are shared among all users making security a
prime concern. In addition, a number of high profile attacks on
Cloud Data Centers and security breaches are driving the need for
further securing cloud compute and telco infrastructure.
Many of the existing servers in the market today typically
implement complex security algorithms in software which results in
poor performance per watt and performance per dollar. The
addition of hardware acceleration for widely used security
protocols and algorithms significantly improves both performance
per watt and performance per dollar metrics.
ThunderX_SC is built to meet the demanding security needs
of next generation fully secure cloud and telco infrastructure. It
integrates Cavium's industry leading NITROX® technology
along with other hardware accelerators enabling the ThunderX_SC
family of server SoCs to deliver unmatched performance for Layer 3
to Layer 7 security. The ThunderX_SC includes hundreds of
accelerator engines for transport/transaction level security such
as IPsec, SSL and application level security such as firewalls,
IPS/IDS, Anti-virus, Anti-Malware and Deep Packet Inspection.
ThunderX_SC supports industry standard cryptography
acceleration APIs through OpenSSL and provides kernel cryptography
acceleration for protocols including IPSec, which is widely
supported by leading Linux and FreeBSD distributions enabling
seamless migration.
Secure links are required to connect to cloud data centers for
access to applications like webmail, network file sharing and other
common business applications. IPSec and SSL VPNs are also required
to provide secure remote access to corporate server resources. For
secure inter and intra-rack connectivity, secure protocols like
IPSec and VPN tunneling are deployed for an added layer of
security. In case of service provider networks and cloud, IPsec is
also commonly deployed to encrypt user data traffic over backhaul
links for the wired and wireless infrastructure. The ThunderX_SC
meets the varied security needs of cloud data center and service
provider workloads to build optimized and energy efficient
front-end web server, mail server, file server, proxy server,
application server and centralized C-RAN server with integrated
security.
"The rapid adoption of Cloud Infrastructure for Data Center and
Telco mandates security at every node," Gopal Hegde, VP/GM Data Center Processor Group.
"Cavium is a leader in security. The ThunderX_SC SKU integrates our
industry leading security IP into best in class ARMv8-A based
ThunderX Data Center processors enabling world class solutions for
secure cloud and telco data centers with industry leading
performance/$ and performance/watt."
The ThunderX product family includes multiple workload optimized
SKUs for next generation Data Center and Networking Applications
including the ThunderX_SC SKUs for secure data center
workloads. The ThunderX family of processors features high
performance custom cores, single and dual socket configurations,
high memory bandwidth, large memory capacity, integrated hardware
accelerators, integrated feature rich high bandwidth network and
storage IO, fully virtualized core and IO, and scalable high
bandwidth, low latency Ethernet fabric. The ThunderX
processor family is fully compliant with ARMv8-A architecture
specifications as well as ARM's SBSA and SBBR standards and is
widely supported by industry leading OS, Hypervisor and Software
tool and application vendors.
Availability
Samples and Reference software and hardware platforms are available
today.
About Cavium
Cavium 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
processors ranging in performance from 100Mbps to 100Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise,
data-center, broadband/consumer and access and service provider
equipment. 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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