ARM Reaches Into the Data Center, Competes With Intel

When talking about #softwaredefined networking ( #SDN) and network functions virtualization ( #NFV), we often talk about software that can run on x86 servers. The term x86 refers to instruction set architectures for silicon chips. Most x86 servers that run SDN and NFV software use chips from either @Intel or @AMD. But that could change as @ARM is making a concerted effort to take market share in this segment. ARM doesn’t make chips. It creates the intellectual property (IP) building blocks for a chip. And while x86 refers to an instruction set architecture, ARM also has a set of defined instructions. But instead of manufacturing chips, ARM gives the instruction set architecture to its customers — such as @Qualcomm, @Broadcom, @NXP, and @Cavium — and those companies manufacture the chips.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/arm-reaches-data-center-competes-intel/2018/04/

Cavium™ Expands Industry Partnerships to Drive OCP NIC 3.0

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, #datacenter, 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."

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NVM Express, Inc. Elects Cavium, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Intel, Microsemi and NetApp to Promoter Board for 2018

@NVM Express, Inc. Elects @Cavium, @Cisco, @Dell, @Facebook, @Intel, @Microsemi and @NetApp to Promoter Board for 2018 Promoters range from OEMs to Enterprise Data Suppliers February 01, 2018 05:21 PM Eastern Standard Time BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--@NVMExpress, Inc. elected @Cavium, @Cisco, @Dell, @Facebook, @Intel, @Microsemi and @NetApp to join their Board of Directors, the NVM Express Promoters Group. Existing Promoter members include @Micron, @Microsoft, @Samsung, @Seagate, @Toshiba and @Western Digital. NVM Express elects Cavium, Cisco, Dell, Facebook, Intel, Microsemi and NetApp to 2018 Promoter Board. Tweet this The NVM Express Inc., offering an open collection of NVM Express (NVMe™) specifications and resources on the benefits of non-volatile memory, holds an election for a group of the NVM Express Promoters Group representatives at the end of each year. The elected representatives occupy a two-year term and are eligible for re-election. All NVM Express, Inc. Contributor and Promoter member companies may run for Promoter positions. “Storage architectures are undergoing a sea change with NVM Express playing a pivotal role,” Craig W. Carlson, Senior Technologist, said. “Cavium is a leader in NVMe and has been actively working with the industry on NVMe over Fabric technologies for both Ethernet and Fibre Channel for some time, and with our participation on the Board of Directors we look forward to helping steward the broader NVM Express mission going forward.” The NVM Express Promoter Group is responsible for the operations and financial management of the organization, as well as being the stewards of the specification and standard. To learn more about the NVM Express Promoter Group election process and responsibilities, check out the NVMe Bylaws. About NVM Express, Inc. With more than 100 members, NVM Express, Inc. is a non-profit organization focused on enabling broad ecosystem adoption of high performance and low latency non-volatile memory (NVM) storage through a standards-based approach. The organization offers an open collection of NVM Express (NVMe™) specifications and information to fully expose the benefits of non-volatile memory in all types of computing environments from mobile to data center. NVMe-based specifications are designed from the ground up to deliver high bandwidth and low latency storage access for current and future NVM technologies. For more information, visit http://www.nvmexpress.org. Follow NVM Express on Twitter and LinkedIn Supporting Quotes for NVMe Express, Inc. 2018 Board of Directors Dell EMC “Dell has been working on NVMe since its inception and is one of the leading suppliers of NVMe storage for both enterprise servers and client applications. We believe that NVMe presents a unique opportunity to radically redefine the capabilities of client and server based storage subsystems. As a member of the Board of Directors, we want to work to insure that NVMe has the features and capabilities needed to enable high performance next generation storage subsystems.” — William Lynn, Distinguished Engineer Microsemi Corp., Performance Storage Business Unit “NVMe is the only interface standard that meets the needs of current (Flash) as well as next generation NVM and Microsemi is committed to its success. Microsemi Corp. is a leader in NVMe controllers and custom NVMe board level solution products. Microsemi is also a PCIe switch supplier and is working to enhance PCIe switching to meet the needs of NVMe storage systems.” — Peter Onufryk, Fellow NetApp Inc. “NVMe provides a technology that can be used in a wide variety of environments from laptops to Enterprise data centers. We believe the Promoters Group should contain a balance of representatives from device vendors, host users of storage, and Enterprise data center suppliers. We will bring input that is representative of all those environments to help NVMe become the ubiquitous storage protocol of the future.” — Frederick Knight, Principal Standards Technologist

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Cavium FastLinQ® Delivers Advanced Networking I/O for HPE Gen 10 Servers

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, #Cavium™, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of #semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise and #cloud #datacenters, announced that its #FastLinQ QL41000 Series of 10/25GbE Ethernet NICs are now available from @Hewlett Packard Enterprise (#HPE) for HPE ProLiant and HPE #Apollo Gen10 servers. @Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology with Universal RDMA is purpose-built to accelerate access to networking and flash storage while offloading server CPU. The introduction of FastLinQ 10/25GbE NICs into HPE's broad portfolio of Gen10 servers, including select HPE ProLiant DL, ML and HPE Apollo servers, 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. This, along with the recent announcement of Cavium FastLinQ 25/50GbE NICs for HPE Synergy, completes the availability of Cavium NICs across the HPE Gen10 server portfolio. The FastLinQ technology in the new HPE Ethernet 10GbE 52x Series and HPE Ethernet 62x Series adapters coupled with new generation of HPE servers empower data center administrators to optimize their server infrastructure costs, increase application performance and deliver a future-proof design. Leveraging built-in technologies like concurrent support for RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP (Universal RDMA) and SR-IOV, tenant workloads and infrastructure traffic can scale to deliver business results. With full offloads for tunneling protocols including VxLAN, GENEVE and NVGRE, the new HPE adapters deliver near line-rate performance for Software Defined Networking (SDN) workloads enabling Telcos and MSPs to seamlessly deploy, manage and scale the most demanding tenant workloads. Extending Cavium's legacy and expertise in security, FastLinQ NICs deliver robust security features like Secure Firmware Updates and UEFI Secure Boot, which enables HPE Secure Compute Lifecycle on Gen10 servers to offer best-in-class innovations in protection, malware detection, and recovery. "The advent of NVMe and persistent memory, coupled with the introduction of the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processor family, have enabled higher workload and virtual machine density for enterprise and hybrid cloud architectures, putting even more importance on the flexibility and performance of the networking solution," said Seamus Crehan, President of Crehan Research. "Adapters based on Cavium's FastLinQ 41000 Series technology deliver this flexibility and performance with Universal RDMA offloads which should meet the networking demands of next-gen applications while delivering a secure and future-proof solution." "The FastLinQ 41000 family delivers customers technology choice and investment protection by supporting concurrent RoCE, RoCEv2 and iWARP – Universal RDMA," said Rajneesh Gaur, Vice President and General Manager of Ethernet Adapter Group, Cavium. "The introduction of this new class of I/O connectivity for a broad range of HPE Gen 10 compute platforms provides significant VM density, by allowing customers to remove all I/O bottnecks and utilize the full potential of the HPE Gen 10 servers." "Intelligent networking is a critical component for an agile application and delivering a secure environment for a hybrid infrastructure," said Tom Lattin, VP and GM of HPE Mass Market Platforms, Options, & Software. "One of our key goals in collaborating with Cavium on their FastLinQ 10/25GbE technology was to enhance the performance and security of HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo Gen10 servers." Purpose-built for accelerating and simplifying datacenter networking, Cavium FastLinQ Ethernet technology in HPE ProLiant and HPE Apollo servers deliver: 10GBASE-T: Utilize low cost Cat6a cables and RJ-45 connections for 10GbE, eliminating the need for potentially expensive 10GbE SFP+ optics. This reduces deployment costs by up to 46%(1) and is backward compatible with 1GbE infrastructure. Universal RDMA – Industry's only network adapter that offers customers a flexibility of RDMA technology, customer can choose RoCE/RoCEv2 for small to medium scale deployments on a lossless ethernet network and iWARP for large cloud scale architectures built on standard Ethernet fabrics. Cavium SmartAN™ Technology - Supports auto configuration of the adapter when connecting between 10GbE and 25GbE networks, eliminating server administrator intervention for manually configuring port speeds and FECs. Cavium FastLinQ SmartANtechnology along with extensive interop testing virtually eliminate interoperability challenges in physical layer networks. Network and Server 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. Optimize infrastructure costs and increase virtual machine density by leveraging technologies like SR-IOV that deliver acceleration and QoS for enterprise workloads. Flexible Archtecture: A flexible microcoded architecture delivers faster time to market and adaption to new and emerging technologies, extending the return of investment in FastLinQ NIC technology The new HPE adapters from Cavium are also capable of supporting additional advanced features that will be enabled by HPE with firmware upgrades in early CY2018. These include: NIC Partioning – Optimize infrastructure and streamline traffic management using NIC Partitioning (NPAR) that delivers up to 16 physical functions per adapter with QoS. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) – Enables Telcos and NFV application vendors to seamlessly deploy, manage and accelerate the most demanding NFV workloads by delivering up to 36 Million small packet performance, MPLSoUDP offload and integration with OpenStack. Storage Acceleration: Full protocol offload for iSCSI, FCoE and NVMe over Fabrics 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 10/25Gbps Ethernet adapters based on Cavium FastLinQ 41000 Series technology are now available from HPE. These include HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 621SFP28 Adapter HPE Ethernet 10/25Gb 2-port 622FLR-SFP28 CNA HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 521T Adapter For more information, visit www.qlogic.com/info/hpe 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.

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Cavium Programmable Switch Family Reaches for Hybrid Cloud Market

#Cavium expanded its #Xpliant programmable Ethernet switch family to include new products targeting the hybrid cloud environment. Cavium said the XP70 series can scale from 1 Tb/s to 1.8 Tb/s, and is targeted as a connectivity upgrade for enterprises, data centers, and carrier networks. The XP60 series can scale from 280 Gb/s to 720 Gb/s, and is designed for the campus, embedded, and carrier access markets.

The new products slide in under the XP80 line, which can scale up to 3.2 Tb/s.

John Harrsen, director for Cavium’s marketing switch platform group, said the new products fit into a number of market segments, including hybrid cloud, radio access, and the gigabit passive optical network (GPON) market. The products are targeted at deployments looking to scale from 1-gigabit Ethernet to 10-GbE support for the XP60, and up to 25-GbE support for the XP70.

The new products leverage the same programmable engine as the XP80. Cavium said this supports software migration for those currently using the XP80 platform and access to the Xpliant software tools.

Cavium explained its platform enables a “true” software-defined networking (SDN) support that it claims is the first of its kind at the supported speeds. The company said the support also applies to flexible routing and header formatting required for scaling network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions.

“What is relevant to us is that companies are starting to use SDN control framework for PON aggregation,” Harrsen said. “We are seeing environments where services are being provisioned using an SDN controller. This is a network management decision that was made and basically changes the paradigm on how the chips work. We are able to differentiate ourselves in the GPON aggregation market to support the control plane as an SDN controllable plane.”

Harrsen noted the new products also take into account the growing virtualization of the server environment, with greater use of hybrid cloud and containers.

“It’s interesting to watch how servers are being virtualized,” Harrsen said. “The new things we are seeing are the use of containers. A basic server can support more containers than [virtual machines]. This allows for better utilization of that server. We have enhanced our products to support this increased utilization.”

Programmable switch platforms continue to gain steam in the market.

#Barefoot Networks recently scored deals with China-based #Alibaba Group, #Baidu, and #Tencent Holding to deploy its #Tofino switches running the open source P4 language and targeted at programmable forwarding plane technology. Those deals followed up on a domestic win with #ATT, which signed on to become the first telecommunications provider to deploy the Barefoot switches.

#Broadcom last month said it was adding programmability to its chip-based switches designed for data centers, enterprises, and service provider networks. The market giant said the programmable switch series includes support for protocol parsing, processing, and virtualization services.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/cavium-programmable-switch-family-reaches-for-hybrid-cloud-market/2017/07/

Cavium 25/50Gbps Ethernet Adapter Technology Powers HPE Synergy

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 18, 2017 — #Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, announced today that its #FastLinQ Ethernet 25/50GbE technology will power #HPE #Synergy480 and 660 Gen10 compute modules. The introduction for this new class of I/O connectivity for the HPE Synergy Gen 9 and Gen 10 compute modules provides significant density, cost and power benefits and enables acceleration of enterprise, telco and cloud applications. Cavium FastLinQ NICs are built from the ground up to bridge traditional and new IT with the agility, speed and continuous delivery needed for today’s applications. Based on the innovative technology from Cavium and HPE, customers can run more demanding workloads and applications that require higher bandwidth and lower latency than existing I/O offerings. This includes hybrid cloud, Big Data, high performance compute and traditional enterprise applications. Cavium 25/50Gb Ethernet Adapter Technology for HPE The HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter, powered by Cavium’s QL45604 controller, delivers high bandwidth and low latency connectivity for the HPE Synergy platform. This dual-port 25/50Gb adapter provides 2.5 times the available server I/O bandwidth for HPE Synergy Gen 9 and Gen 10 compute modules vs. previous generation, allowing HPE customers to improve workload performance. With support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE), I/O latency is significantly reduced to increase application performance. “Cavium is a leading provider for I/O connectivity for a broad range of HPE servers,” said Rajneesh Gaur, VP and General Manager, Ethernet Adapter Group, at Cavium. “The introduction of the HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter based on Cavium technology brings high-performance and low latency Ethernet connectivity for world-class HPE Synergy composable infrastructure. This is an important milestone in enabling enterprise data centers and service providers to increase operational efficiency and application performance enabling an agile IT infrastructure.” “The ability to provide high-performance 25/50Gb Ethernet connectivity within HPE Synergy, the industry’s first platform for composable infrastructure, enables our customers to greatly improve application performance and virtual machine scalability, while significantly reducing hardware and management complexity. In addition, Cavium’s Ethernet technology supports enhanced security features and secure firmware updates in HPE Gen10 servers, providing customers increased protection against firmware attacks,” said Tom Lattin, Vice President of Server Options for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Key Ethernet technologies and features include: HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter supports up to 100Gbps bi-directional bandwidth for enhanced network performance. Designed to support HPC clusters, computational, financial and other applications requiring low-latency network connectivity with support for RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). Also capable of supporting Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP) with future firmware upgrade. DPDK support provides small packet acceleration capability for telco, ecommerce and other applications. Advanced Server Virtualization features that include Single Root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) for low latency high-performance virtual workloads. Support for PXE boot, IPV6 and HPE Sea of Sensor 3D Technology to simplify connectivity and improve overall TCO of the network connectivity. Acceleration for Networking Virtualization with Stateless Offloads for tunneling protocols including NVGRE, VxLAN and GRE. Security Features Authenticated updates for NICs validate that signed firmware is correct and trusted to eliminate rogue firmware installation. Secure Boot safeguards the NIC and ensures no rogue drivers are being executed on start-up. Sanitization (Secure User Data Erase) renders user and configuration data on the NIC irretrievable so that NICs can be safely repurposed or disposed. Availability The new HPE Synergy 6810C 25/50Gb Ethernet adapter was recently announced by HPE on July 11th, 2017 and will be shipping in the third quarter of 2017.

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/cavium-2550gbps-ethernet-adapter-technology-powers-hpe-synergy/

Cavium FastLinQ® Ethernet Enables Universal RDMA for Dell EMC 14th Generation PowerEdge Servers

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- 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 #DellEMC #14G #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: 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.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cavium-fastlinq-ethernet-enables-universal-rdma-for-dell-emc-14th-generation-poweredge-servers-300485708.html

Cavium to Demonstrate Newest Enterprise Connectivity and Datacenter Solutions at Dell EMC World 2017

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- #Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable secure and intelligent connectivity solutions for enterprise, datacenter, and cloud, wired and wireless networking, will demonstrate the company's newest enterprise connectivity solutions at #DellEMC World 2017 from May 8th – 11th in Las Vegas at the Venetian Expo Center, in Booth 491. Cavium will be highlighting the following enterprise, datacenter, and cloud connectivity solutions that are included in the broader Dell EMC Enterprise portfolio: FastLinQ® –10/25/40/50/100Gb Ethernet adapters and controllers that provide robust support across all storage protocols including SMB Direct, iSCSI, iSER & NVMe over Fabrics using Universal RDMA. Cavium FastLinQ products deliver maximum IOPs and bandwidth while minimizing storage system CPU utilization for efficient application handling. Cavium is showcasing how FastLinQ 10/25GbE Universal RDMA technology reduces Live Migration time in Windows Server 2016 to enable adaptive load balancing, shorter maintenance windows and predictable performance. FastLinQ Ethernet NICs deliver unprecedented flexibility for mission–critical applications connecting to any storage network, and robust infrastructure management capabilities that put network controls in the hands of customers. QLogic® Fibre Channel Adapters: Enhanced Gen5 (16 GFC) and Gen6 (32 GFC) Fibre Channel adapters delivering unsurpassed performance and reliability for enterprise, MSP and telco datacenters. QLogic Fibre Channel products feature StorFusion™ technology with advanced orchestration, manageability, and QoS enhancements geared towards large scale SAN deployments and flash storage applications, including VM–ID which allows end–to–end tagging of virtual machine traffic for SLA enablement and monitoring. LiquidIO®: 10/25/40GbE Intelligent Server/network appliance adapters accelerating performance in a Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) for SDN and NFV application by offloading Open vSwitch with various server and network virtualization with end–to–end security in the datacenter. SDDC benefit from additional unique offload including Overlay networks, IPsec, distributed firewall, DPI for application recognition and dynamic service chaining with cloud configuration, provisioning and management with OpenStack API services and plugins. LiquidIO unique high-performance offloads drastically improves cloud scalability, with low host CPU utilization, freeing expensive CPU cores to run the most optimal VMs and applications in each compute node, reducing power and cooling and improving the overall CAPEX and OPEX. Encryption for Data–in–Flight Data Compression/Decompression OVS Offload with High Availability for HCI Clusters ThunderX®: 64–bit ARMv8 based family of workload optimized processors featuring high performance custom cores, single- and dual-socket configurations, high memory bandwidth, integrated hardware accelerators for networking, storage, and security as well as low latency Ethernet fabric for scalability. XPliant®: XPliant Ethernet switch family is the first to deliver a high throughput programmable datacenter switching solution that is shipping today in production. Platforms based on the XPliant Ethernet switch family leverage its programmatic control of table resources and pipeline logic to meet the specific needs of the network architecture while providing advanced packet visibility and telemetry. In addition to programmability, the XPliant family of Ethernet switches architecture offers a fully centralized, dynamically shared, allocated packet buffer to absorb large packet bursts and provide advanced traffic management functions. To schedule a meeting with Cavium, please contact your local sales manager or Lilly Ly (lly@cavium.com). Please enter "Meeting Request at Dell EMC Conference 2017" in the subject line.

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News Bits: Cavium, Cisco, Linux, Commvault, Cumulus, Apstra, & Pure

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. #Cavium will contribute the first programmable #Wedge100C Switch design to the #OpenComputeProject (OCP) Foundation. #Cisco has a handful of announcements including a new data and analytics training portfolio, all-in-one, cloud based meeting room product, and its intent to acquire #AppDynamics. #TheLinuxFoundation has several conferences around the world and will now have conferences in China in 2017. #Commvault has launched reference architecture for #AWS. #Cumulus ’s #Linux network OS will run on #Facebook ’s backpack switch. #Apstra announced integration with #FacebookWedge100. And #PureStorage announced general availability of its #FlashBlade product. Cavium Contributes 1st Programmable Wedge 100C Switch Design To OCP
http://www.storagereview.com/news_bits_cavium_cisco_linux_commvault_cumulus_apstra_pure

Cavium QLogic Accelerates Software Defined Datacenters with Windows Server 2016

ATLANTA, Sept. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- #MicrosoftIgnite 2016 – Today, #Cavium,Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise and cloud data centers announced broad support for #Microsoft #WindowsServer2016. Cavium's #QLogic portfolio of Ethernet and Fibre Channel adapters are now fully qualified for Microsoft Windows Server 2016, enabling key public, private and hybrid cloud capabilities, that allow IT functions to adapt rapidly to changing business requirements.
http://news.sys-con.com/node/3921086

GIGABYTE and Cavium Announce Official Release of Production-Ready ThunderX®-based Servers

SHANGHAI, July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- #GIGABYTE Technology (TWSE: 2376), a leading manufacturer of motherboards and barebones for server applications, and #Cavium Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, cloud, and data center, today announced a line-up of products built on the industry-leading ThunderX family of workload-optimized ARM server SoCs. At a joint event in Shanghai, GIGABYTE and Cavium officially announced the release of a range of 14 server SKUs – the results of co-operation based on the Cavium ThunderX platform, utilizing GIGABYTE's almost 20 years of experience in the server industry. With these products, the partnership has produced a compelling, high performance alternative to the incumbent solutions in the market. GIGABYTE and Cavium had the honor of inviting ecosystem partners - ARM, Innodisk, Linaro, Qlogic, Red Hat, and Suse - all of which have committed resource to bringing ARM-based servers to the mainstream enterprise market - as guest speakers at the event. GIGABYTE and Cavium are working with these stakeholders to bring higher performance-per-dollar to the server market and open up a range of potential new applications.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gigabyte-and-cavium-announce-official-release-of-production-ready-thunderx-based-servers-300300826.html

Cavium pays $1 billion for QLogic, storage

After months of shopping itself, storage networking vendor #QLogic has a buyer. #Cavium pays $1 billion

Networking semiconductor vendor Wednesday said it will pay $1 billion for the FC and Ethernet adapter company in a deal expected to close in the third quarter of 2016. The deal adds to the evidence that storage networking is a best fit as part of a larger Ethernet-dominated networking company.

#Cisco kicked off the trend of combining networking and storage when the Ethernet giant stared selling Fibre Channel SAN switchesin 2003. The FC connectivity market has seen a great deal of consolidation since then, with FC vendors either going away or joining forces with Ethernet companies.

#Avago Technologies acquired QLogic rival #Emulex for $606 million in 2015. That deal was sandwiched between Avago’s purchases of storage and networking chip firm #LSI and networking connectivity vendor Broadcom.

http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/blog/Storage-Soup/Cavium-pays-1-billion-for-QLogic-storage