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Concurrent 10/25GbE iWARP and RoCE deliver ultimate flexibility to accelerate I/O with CPU offload
SAN JOSE, CA – July 11,
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 the new FastLinQ® QL41000 Series
of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs, which are supported on Dell EMC14th Generation
PowerEdge servers. The FastLinQ QL41000 Series are the industry’s only NIC
solution that gives customers the technology choice and investment protection
with support for concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP. The FastLinQ adapters
coupled with new generation PowerEdge servers enable administrators to optimize
their infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging
built-in technologies like SR-IOV and Network Partitioning (NPAR) that deliver
acceleration and quality of service (QoS) for workloads and infrastructure
traffic. Additionally, the FastLinQ adapters provide full network
function virtualization (NFV) with excellent small packet performance and
integration with DPDK and OpenStack, enabling telcos and NFV application
customers to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV
workloads.
“Enterprise and cloud data centers have differing requirements driven by
infrastructure and applications for latency and congestion management, so
flexibility of the networking solution is key, said Bob Wheeler, principal
analyst at The Linley Group. Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series family with Universal
RDMA effectively addresses these challenges while delivering a flexible and
future proof networking solution.
“Cavium FastLinQ 10GbE/25GbE Ethernet NICs, with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate access to networking and storage while offloading server CPU,” said Rajneesh Gaur, vice president and general manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. “The introduction of Universal RDMA in Dell’s flagship 14G server is a major milestone and provides customers with an innovative solution delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation private, hybrid and telco cloud data centers.”
“Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers are delivering a scalable, automated and secure architecture for any workload, from traditional to cloud-native applications and converged platforms,” said Brian Payne, vice president product management and marketing, server solutions division, Dell EMC. “With the unique Universal RDMA capabilities in the FastLinQ QL41000 Series Ethernet NICs in the new PowerEdge servers, customers can transform their infrastructure for modern workloads and cloud initiatives by increasing performance while optimizing infrastructure costs.”
Purpose built to accelerate and simplify data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in Dell PowerEdge servers delivers:
“Cavium FastLinQ 10GbE/25GbE Ethernet NICs, with Universal RDMA are designed to accelerate access to networking and storage while offloading server CPU,” said Rajneesh Gaur, vice president and general manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. “The introduction of Universal RDMA in Dell’s flagship 14G server is a major milestone and provides customers with an innovative solution delivering flexibility in choice of RDMA and cost savings for next generation private, hybrid and telco cloud data centers.”
“Dell EMC 14th generation PowerEdge Servers are delivering a scalable, automated and secure architecture for any workload, from traditional to cloud-native applications and converged platforms,” said Brian Payne, vice president product management and marketing, server solutions division, Dell EMC. “With the unique Universal RDMA capabilities in the FastLinQ QL41000 Series Ethernet NICs in the new PowerEdge servers, customers can transform their infrastructure for modern workloads and cloud initiatives by increasing performance while optimizing infrastructure costs.”
Purpose built to accelerate and simplify data center networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in Dell PowerEdge servers delivers:
- Universal
RDMA –
Industry’s only network adapter that offers customers a choice of RDMA
technology and investment protection with concurrent support for RoCE,
RoCEv2 and iWARP.
- Network
Virtualization Offloads – Acceleration for network
virtualization by offloading protocol processing for VxLAN, NVGRE, GRE and
GENEVE, enabling customers to build and scale virtualized networks without
impacting network performance.
- Server
Virtualization –
Optimizes infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by
leveraging built-in technologies like SR-IOV and NIC Partitioning (NPAR)
that deliver acceleration and QoS for workloads and infrastructure
traffic.
- Network
Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables telco and NFV
application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most
demanding NFV workloads by delivering leading small packet performance and
integration with DPDK and OpenStack.
- Storage
Acceleration: Full
protocol offload for iSCSI and FCoE delivers up to 3M IOPS while consuming
the fewest server CPU cycles, leaving headroom for virtual applications
and enabling higher ROI on server investments.
Availability
The new FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are now available from Dell EMC.
For more information, visit www.qlogic.com and www.cavium.com
The new FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters are now available from Dell EMC.
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.
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.
Media Contact
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Angel Atondo
Sr. Marketing Communications Manager
Cavium, Inc.
Telephone: +1 408-943-7417
Email: angel.atondo@cavium.com
Cavium
announced range of support for the deployment of OpenStack cloud
systems. Cavium has announced full support for OpenStack deployment by
offering optimized platforms for OpenStack deployments on its devices
and systems such as ThunderX, LiquidIO and FastLinQ product families.
OpenStack is open source software for building clouds. Data centers can
use OpenStack for quickly deploy new cloud products at reduced costs.
Open Stack can deliver cheaper cloud services for multiple applications.
Cavium
has optimized its ThunderX ARMv8 based processor architecture for OpenStack
cloud infrastructure deployment. The idea is to allow users of OpenStack cloud
infrastructure to fully utilize ThunderX ARMv8 for workloads such as cloud
storage with CEPH, Apache Hadoop for Big Data Analytics, distributed data bases
such as MySQL and Cassandra and secure web serving with NGINX. Cavium also says
its ThunderX is optimized for networking specific workloads such as Network
Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Load-Balancing for Telco applications.
Cavium
said its LiquidIO II Intelligent Server adapters also support and seamlessly
integrate OpenStack software value-add functionality for application
acceleration, network configuration and provisioning, security, and isolation
in multi-tenant compute clusters. LiquidIO Open Virtual Switch (OVS) offload
enables various Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and security features as
a workload specific Virtual Network Function (VNF) or as a Service Function
Chain (SFC) with seamless configuration and provisioning using OpenStack
platform.
When
coming to next Gen Ethernet adapters, Cavium is offering QLogic FastLinQ 45000
Series capability to support 10/25/40/50/100GbE with Ethernet deliver broad set
of protocols including Universal RDMA, and stateless offloads for server and
network virtualization. QLogic FastLinQ Ethernet Adapters delivers the ability
to orchestrate and manage an OpenStack deployment with technologies like the
Plug-in for Mirantis FUEL for automatic SR-IOV configuration. QConvergeConsole
(QCC) for OpenStack physical and logical topology maps and ability to offer QoS
for network functions operating to be simplified and accelerated.
Cavium
has optimized its ThunderX 64–bit ARMv8 based SoC family with a range of SKUs
and form factors for hyper scale data centers targeting cloud computing and NFV
include volume compute, storage, secure compute and networking specific
workloads.
Software
developers who are partnering with Cavium on ThunderX include Canonical, Red
Hat and SUSE.
