6WIND, a high-performance networking software
company, today announced it will work with Canonical to help customers
accelerate cloud networking on Ubuntu. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator has
been validated on Canonical's Ubuntu platform and both companies are
working together to integrate 6WIND Virtual Accelerator with Canonical's
Juju. Juju is a service orchestration tool that enables Ubuntu users to
quickly model, configure, deploy and manage entire cloud environments
with only a few commands. Customers can leverage Juju to deploy hundreds
of pre-configured services, OpenStack or their own code to any public
or private cloud.
6WIND Virtual Accelerator is a
software package that deploys transparently within Linux's KVM
hypervisor domain on x86 servers to accelerate virtual infrastructure so
that Virtual Machine (VM) based application performance approaches bare
metal while remaining hardware independent. Virtual Accelerator removes
performance bottlenecks in the virtual networking infrastructure with
support for Open vSwitch, Linux bridge, multi-tenancy, security,
filtering and guest processing offloads. It reduces CPU resources
necessary for packet processing in the hypervisor so that more cores are
available for applications.
The integration of 6WIND Virtual
Accelerator and Juju will allow Canonical's Ubuntu community to create
cloud networks with high application throughput for demanding use cases
such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-defined
Networking (SDN). With Virtual Accelerator, application throughput
increases without any additional hardware or techniques such as SR-IOV,
preserving the benefits of virtual networking such as cost savings,
portability and flexibility.
"Canonical's Ubuntu is a market
leading Linux distribution, which many of our customers leverage to
create their public and private clouds," said Eric Carmes,
CEO and Founder of 6WIND. "By integrating 6WIND Virtual Accelerator
with Juju our joint customers will benefit from high performance virtual
applications without any change to the OS or infrastructure and full
commercial support from both companies."
"We are pleased to work with 6WIND to integrate Juju with 6WIND Virtual Accelerator," said John Zannos,
VP of Cloud Alliances at Canonical. "6WIND's expertise in NFV, SDN and
data center acceleration will help our customers deploy highly scalable
Ubuntu cloud networks."