QLogic and Cavium Collaborate to Deliver Accelerated Performance for Enterprise and Cloud Storage Applications
May 14 2015 - 8:00AM
QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), a leading supplier of high performance
network infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has
developed a joint solution with Cavium Inc. (Nasdaq:CAVM), a
leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking. The big data infrastructure solution utilizes
low-latency QLogic® 25Gb Ethernet (25GbE) RDMA-enabled NICs
(RNICs), a massively scalable cluster of compute nodes based on
high-performance 48 core ThunderX processors optimized for cloud
compute workloads and multi-petabytes of networked storage server
nodes, also based on Thunder-X processors optimized for cloud
storage workloads. This best-of-breed solution significantly
accelerates performance of enterprise storage, cloud storage and
big data storage applications such as Ceph and Hadoop, delivering
enhanced flexibility and optimized total cost of ownership (TCO).
Current cloud storage and big data architectures rely heavily on
scale-out direct-attach storage (DAS) platforms that do not allow
for either compute or storage to scale independently of each other.
QLogic and Cavium effectively address this scalability issue by
providing a disaggregated storage architecture that brings
modularity, improved efficiency and higher performance to big data
and cloud storage applications.
QLogic 25GbE RNICs provide the unique ability to deliver a
heterogeneous remote direct memory access (RDMA) transport
comprised of RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), RoCEv2 and iWARP,
accelerating cloud and hyperscale workloads without constraints.
The ThunderX product family is Cavium's 64-bit ARMv8-A server
processor for next-generation data center and cloud applications.
With high performance custom cores, single and dual socket
configurations, high memory bandwidth and large memory capacity,
ThunderX enables best-in-class performance per dollar and
performance per watt. QLogic 25GbE RNICs offload ThunderX platform
workloads by delivering a cut-through, scalable and programmable
architecture that accelerates object, block and file input/output
(I/O), thereby accelerating massively distributed scale-out storage
applications. QLogic is the leading solutions provider for Fibre
Channel adapters in enterprise storage area network (SAN)
applications and is collaborating with Cavium to deliver high
performance optimized solutions for enterprise storage applications
in the next phase of this partnership.
"The data center infrastructure of the future needs to be
intelligent and adaptive to application workload requirements,"
said Manoj Gujral, vice president of marketing, Ethernet Products,
QLogic. "Our joint development with Cavium will result in solutions
that combine the high-performance and outstanding TCO of Thunder-X
server and storage system on chip (SoC) processors with QLogic
25GbE RNICs."
"Thunder-X-based server solutions deliver best-in-class
performance per watt and performance per dollar for next-generation
data centers and cloud applications," said Steve Cumings, director
of market development, Cavium. "Cavium's joint development and
partnership with QLogic will drive combined solutions allowing
flexible scaling of compute and storage, while lowering latency,
improving workload performance, and reducing acquisition and
operating cost for customers."
The joint solution provides numerous benefits including:
- Up to 2X system performance improvement compared to scale-out
DAS based architectures
- Ability to independently scale compute and storage resources to
petabyte-class databases and beyond
- Significantly reduced latency for distributed file systems
accessing data over an RDMA-enabled fabric—without burdening the
compute infrastructure
Why QLogic?
The most advanced networks demand sophisticated capabilities,
and for 20 years QLogic has consistently delivered performance,
innovation, flexibility, reliability and control for these
environments. Breakthrough application performance gives customers
faster time-to-data. Innovation delivers new capabilities, greater
efficiency and maximum performance. Unprecedented flexibility
connects mission-critical applications to any storage network, and
robust infrastructure management capabilities put network controls
in the hands of customers.
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QLogic – the Ultimate in Performance
QLogic (Nasdaq:QLGC) is a global leader and technology innovator
in high performance server and storage networking connectivity
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QLogic for its server and storage networking solutions. For more
information, visit www.qlogic.com.
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