ROUBAIX, France, July 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OVH.com, the
world's third largest Internet Hosting Company announced the
world's first ARMv8 based public cloud for scalable compute and
storage powered by Cavium's (NASDAQ: CAVM) flagship 48 core 64-bit
ARMv8-A ThunderX workload optimized processor. Cavium is a leading
provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing
for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking. These
platforms will be available to OVH.com customers starting this
quarter.
OVH.com offers a vast range of IT services for businesses and
technophiles in particular. From web hosting to virtual data
centers, dedicated servers and storage solutions, all of their
services benefit from continuous innovation and are regularly
enriched with new features. With 700,000 customers across 16
countries, 17 Data Centers, hosting a total of 200,000 servers, 18M
web applications hosted, OVH.com is one of the largest Internet
hosting providers in the world. The ThunderX powered cloud service
will be offered on RunAbove, an OVH brand that delivers public
cloud on steroids combining the power of bare metal with the
flexibility and high availability of the public cloud.
OVH.com is a leader in delivering innovative technologies to
their customers. OVH is constantly looking for opportunities to
reduce customer costs while improving user experience. Cavium's
ThunderX processors provide an ideal building block for RunAbove
public cloud. RunAbove ThunderX customers benefit from the
fine-grained control of a large number of cores, integrated
standard low latency Ethernet fabric, 10/40/100 GbE networking,
end-to-end virtualization enabled through virtSoC™ technology, and
powerful integrated accelerators for packet processing, security,
deep packet inspection and virtualization. OVH will leverage both
ThunderX_CP and ThunderX_ST workload optimized processor SKUs to
deliver fast and scalable compute and storage services seamlessly
provisioned by OpenStack ™.
"This deployment is an example of OVH.Com's leadership in
delivering latest industry leading technologies to our customers,"
said Miroslaw KLABA, VP R&D of OVH.Com. "With RunAbove ThunderX
based instances, we can offer our users breakthrough performance at
the lowest cost while optimizing the infrastructure for targeted
compute and storage workloads delivering best in class TCO and user
experience," he added.
"Cloud service operators are looking to gain the benefits and
flexibility of end to end virtualization while managing dynamically
changing workloads and massive data requirements," said
Rishi Chugh, Director Marketing,
Cavium Inc. " ThunderX based RunAbove instances provide exceptional
processing performance and flexibility by integrating a tremendous
amount of IO along with targeted workload accelerators for
compute, security, networking and storage at the lowest cost per VM
for RunAbove - into a power, space and cost-optimized form
factor."
Availability
RunAbove Cloud services
powered by ThunderX will be available in early Aug 2015.
About the OVH group
The OVH group was founded in 1999.
It innovates at the very heart of the web, data centers and
networks, and today it is a key player in the global cloud. Through
its OVH.com, So you Start, RunAbove, Kimsufi and hubiC brands, the
OVH group offers simple and powerful tools and solutions which put
technology at the service of business and significantly improve the
working practices of its 700,000 customers around the world. As
always, the company remains firmly committed to respect for the
individual and freedoms, and equal opportunity of access to new
technologies. For OVH, "Innovation is Freedom".
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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