SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- OCP Summit
-- Today, Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of
semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent
processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless
networking, announced that it is collaborating with Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (HPE), to bring hyperscale-inspired designs based on
Open Compute Project into mainstream enterprise IT. The
introduction of Cavium FastLinQ® 41000 Series 10/25GbE NICs in OCP
2.0 form factor for HPE's Cloudline Servers and broad collaboration
on driving the emerging OCP NIC 3.0 standard will enable mainstream
delivery of the most efficient designs for scalable computing to
Cavium and HPE's enterprise and cloud service provider
customers.
Tier-1 hyperscale buyers define leading-edge operational
efficiency and have the skill set along with the purchasing power
to request or design custom and semi-custom hardware, which enables
operational cost savings and performance benefits to enable their
businesses to run more efficiently. Enterprise IT organizations and
cloud service providers outside the hyperscale category often lack
the scale and skill set for custom hardware design but are
increasingly under more pressure to improve efficiency and provide
competitive differentiation for their business. As a result,
minimizing capital expenses and operating expenses is a key
priority for Enterprise IT as they seek disruptive innovations or
new business models to achieve their goals. These organizations are
closely tracking hyperscale buyers' actions and are looking for
ways to leverage hyperscale best practices in their own IT
environments. To optimize visibility, improve efficiencies, and
achieve collaborative design opportunities with the Enterprise
datacenter supply chain, CIO and CTOs are demanding technologies
that are considered "open."
One such "open" technology that brings efficient designs for
scalable computing is Open Compute Project (OCP), initiated by
Facebook and now a truly open and collaborative community spanning
hyperscale, enterprise and cloud service providers. With the aim to
facilitate the open development of compute, storage and network
hardware – together with trusted project validation - the OCP
standard has the potential to minimize CapEx and OpEx by bringing
the economies of scale within reach of Enterprise IT. The OCP NIC
standard, now in its third generation (OCP NIC 3.0) proposes to
further enhance server networking I/O options with expanded
provisions for thermal footprints, PCIe Gen 4 and SmartNICs while
reducing overall downtime by simplifying NIC installation and
removal.
Cavium and HPE were both quick to recognize the value that the
OCP standard can bring to customers and have been committed to
OCP's vision since its inception. HPE Cloudline uses standardized
and custom servers that leverage OCP mezzanine adapters, such as
the Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25GbE NICs. Currently
available from HPE in OCP 2.0 form factors, Cavium FastLinQ
adapters enable easier adaptability, scalability, and integration
with support for key features such as network virtualization
offload and Universal RDMA. Further extending their leadership in
OCP, Cavium and HPE are collaborating to jointly drive, evangelize
and embrace the Open Compute Project NIC 3.0 standard across the
server and networking community worldwide.
"Cavium has a decade-old relationship with Hewlett Packard
Enterprise (HPE) and provides differentiated I/O technology for HPE
servers, storage and networking," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice
President and General Manager of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium.
"As technology pioneers and innovators of open standards, I am
proud to announce that Cavium and HPE are aligning their strategy
and investments to enable Enterprise and Cloud IT to leverage the
economics of scale by driving the OCP NIC 3.0 standard."
"HPE is committed to decreasing data center TCO while improving
performance and availability by enabling an Open Infrastructure,"
said Kara Long, Vice President and
General Manager for Cloudline Portfolio at HPE. "With the
introduction of Cavium FastLinQ OCP 2.0 NICs in Cloudline servers
and collaboration with Cavium on the OCP NIC 3.0 standard
development, joint customers will have the ability to transform
their infrastructure for modern workloads and cloud initiatives
while optimizing infrastructure costs."
Purpose-built to accelerate and simplify data center networking,
Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet OCP NIC technology in HPE Cloudline
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 increases 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 Telcos
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.
Availability
The OCP NIC 3.0 Specification is a developing standard. Cavium
FastLinQ 41000 Series 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters in OCP 2.0 and
Standard form factors are now available from HPE.
For more information, visit and www.cavium.com and
www.cavium.com/hpe
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.
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