TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud,
wired and wireless networking today showcased CloudScale Rack™
solution that demonstrates a complete cloud data center
enabled using customer platforms built on Cavium's product
portfolio.
Today's data center platforms are built using legacy building
blocks that evolved over time and are unable to address the
growing complexity and scale of current data centers. Servers are
not Workload Optimized™. They use legacy one-size-fits all
processors and require NICs, HBAs and offload cards to meet the
storage and virtualization needs of data centers. Fixed server
configurations make it very challenging to seamlessly provision and
move workloads across the data center. Legacy L3, L2 switches are
designed for wiring closets and not for modern data centers. They
use fixed function ASICs that limit visibility making it difficult
to capture errant events, identify latency and congestion
hotspots.
Modern data centers need flow based switching and ability to
quickly deploy emerging protocols. These are not supported by
legacy switches. Traditional data center security appliances
require specialized hardware modules for secure key storage and
authentication. They do not support security in a multi-tenant
environment and are not suitable for securing virtual networks.
Traditional custom appliances are designed with the point of view
of physical network constraints and are not suitable for scale out
virtualized data centers.
There arises a need for a new approach for a software defined
rack solution across network, storage and compute to deliver the
scalability, flexibility and efficiency to compete in the future
where hyperscale is mandatory. This new approach is the scalable
rack solution with a range of Workload Optimized servers for
compute, storage, networking and management modules that work
together to build a wide range of on-demand logical, virtual
systems, which are more adoptable and scalable to emerging
networking protocol and security needs of the cloud.
Cavium delivers silicon and software building blocks engineered
from the ground up for flexible, scalable software defined data
centers. The CloudScale Rack includes:
- ThunderX® Workload Optimized processors for compute,
secure compute, storage, big data and networking server
applications.
- LiquidIO® Intelligent NICs that offload and enable
high performance distributed server load balancing, firewall, VM
acceleration and virtualized elastic storage with NVMe over
Ethernet protocol.
- XPliant® Flexible, high throughput data center
Ethernet switches.
- LiquidSecurity™ Appliance delivering comprehensive elastic
security to virtualized data centers including authentication and
key management for multi-tenant data centers.
CloudScale Rack is a flexible & scalable fully standards
based solution based on OEM/ODM platforms developed using Cavium
silicon building blocks. CloudScale Rack allows scale-out of
individual rack elements, while the entire rack cabinet behaves as
scalable unit of data center. Cavium CloudScale Rack solution
enables a range of powerful capabilities:
- ThunderX based Workload Optimized servers enable seamless
deployment of virtual machines through hardware support for
dedicated IO for each virtual machine, VM to VM isolation, VM
security and VM to VM switching.
- ThunderX based Workload Optimized servers integrate all the
networking, storage and accelerator capabilities required to run a
typical Data Center Application. This enables customers to
reconfigure ThunderX based server on demand to dynamically change
the type of application running on the server using OpenStack
- East-West traffic between ThunderX based clusters in the rack
can be directly switched using built in fabric in ThunderX lowering
application latency and reducing number of leaf switch ports.
- LiquidIO adapters plugged into ThunderX servers enable
distributed server load balancing, firewall, and virtualized
elastic storage with NVM over Ethernet protocol.
- Cavium LiquidSecurity appliance provides authentication and key
management on a per VM basis for IAAS and SAAS deployments.
- XPliant Software Defined (SDN) top of rack switches support a
complete set of networking protocols with future proof flexibility
to support emerging new protocols including
- Support for advanced high performance routing in and out of
tunnels enabling distributed VXLAN support in enterprise class
datacenters.
- Advanced programmable telemetry for capturing networking events
leading to higher availability, less downtime and better networking
efficiency.
- Flexible table memory allocation to support the most demanding
high scale software defined tunneled flow based networks.
- XPliant software loadable profiles support multiple Places in
the Network (PINs) with a single hardware SKU
- XPliant switches work together with ThunderX SoC to implement
VM level access control and monitoring capabilities. End to end
fabric management can be implemented using Openflow APIs.
"Cavium is one of the few semiconductor companies with a
comprehensive portfolio of products from switching to security to
intelligent NICs and servers for the state of the art data centers
today" said Raghib Hussain, CTO and
Corporate VP/GM of Cavium. "Customers can build an efficient and
scalable software defined data center based entirely on Cavium data
center technologies."
"The CloudScale Rack offering tightly couples the state of art
software defined XPliant Ethernet switch fabric , Workload
Optimized ThunderX servers for compute & storage applications,
intelligent LiquidIO offload cards in and LiquidSecurity appliance
for VM security & key management " said Alex Liu, Product Marketing Executive, Network
& Communication Business Unit, GIGABYTE. "Today's cloud data
center infrastructure requires this level of scalability &
flexibility to meet the demands of ever changing workloads,
networking protocols and on demand provisioning of the rack.
Gigabyte will start sampling the CloudScale Rack in Q3' 2016."
About Cavium
Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor
products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data
center, cloud, wired and wireless service provider applications.
Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible
processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that
enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data
center, broadband/consumer and access & 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 offices are in San Jose, California with design team
locations in California,
Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit:
http://www.cavium.com
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