Solarflare,
a pioneer in the development of neural-class networks, today announced
that the company will demonstrate NVMe over TCP storage fabrics
technology with industry collaborators Intel, Supermicro, Smart IOPS and
EXTEN Technologies, at Flash Memory Summit, today through Aug. 9 in
booth #128 at the Santa Clara Convention Center. NVMe over TCP storage
fabrics deliver the same performance, usability and streamlined
deployment benefits associated with more complicated proprietary
networks, but at a lower cost.
In
the past, network latency was rarely an issue because disk drives were
typically the source of performance bottlenecks. However, as storage
media has migrated from disk to flash, networks have become the
bottleneck. Applications harnessing hundreds-to-thousands of servers in
the data center are constantly accessing random bits of data distributed
across these servers.
Commodity,
high-performance NVMe over TCP storage fabrics solve this network
bottleneck problem with acceleration services running over streamlined
Ethernet networks. By leveraging the native Ethernet TCP transport
ubiquitous in every data center, NVMe over TCP eliminates the need for
proprietary Ethernet extensions, and is equivalent to any other
technology to date.
"Cloud
and enterprise data centers are looking forward to cost-effective,
low-latency NVMe storage fabrics to scale-out flash without performance
degradation," said Ahmet Houssein, VP of Marketing and Strategic
Development, Solarflare. "NVMe over TCP technology is an industry game
changer, allowing customers to efficiently overlay a storage fabric onto
their existing network that performs within 10 percent of locally
connected high performance flash storage."
Solarflare at Flash Memory Summit
At
Flash Memory Summit, Solarflare and Intel will demonstrate Intel's
groundbreaking new memory media line of SSDs - OptaneTM, the
lowest-latency storage over TCP with Solarflare's innovative approach to
NVMe over TCP. The combination provides customers with access to remote
data faster than ever before. Intel and Solarflare will illustrate how
to achieve disaggregated access end-to-end latency as low as 15
microseconds, utilizing Solarflare's high performance XtremeScaleTM
Network Adapter and software.
In
addition, Solarflare, Supermicro, Smart IOPS and EXTEN Technologies
will demonstrate all-flash software-defined storage servers and NVMe
over TCP fabrics that represent the future of cost-effective,
ultra-high-performance networked storage.
Attend Solarflare Talks at Flash Memory Summit
- Aug. 8 - 11:30 a.m. - Ahmet
Houssein, VP of Marketing & Strategic Development, will present the
keynote address "Data Explosion Demands Ethernet-Based Fast Flash
Fabrics"
- Aug. 8 - 5:45 p.m. - Tom
Spencer, Senior Director of Product Marketing, will host a theater talk
discussing the "Five Reasons Why TCP for NVMe-oF is Cool"
Solarflare XtremeScale X2 NICs
For modern data centers, Solarflare XtremeScale X2 NICs lay
a new foundation for NIC-based network virtualization needed by
distributed applications with inter-connected cloud services, machine
learning, and big data workloads. Solarflare's X2 NIC is the first and
only NIC platform that can establish ultra-scale connectivity to
thousands of virtual networks, while at the same time provide real-time
packet and flow information. This foundation of ultra-high bandwidth,
ultra-low latency, ultra-scale connectivity and packet telemetry allows
X2 NICs to serve as the industry's first commercial platform for
micro-segmented acceleration, security and visibility providing NIC fabric services that scale with each server, VM or container.
The
NVMe over TCP specification is expected to be standardized within the
second half of 2018. Every Solarflare XtremeScale adapter and software
will be backward compliant to the specification at no additional cost.