Kingston Digital, Inc.,
the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the
independent world leader in memory products, today announced it will
demo the forthcoming DCU1000 2.5″ U.2 NVMe PCIe SSD at VMworld 2017
(booth #1112). DCU1000 makes Kingston one
of the industry's most complete providers of end-to-end data
performance solutions - from leading server memory products to its
highest performance NVMe SSD solutions. At VMworld, Kingston and its
partners will provide a variety of demonstrations highlighting the
performance capabilities of DCU1000, the industry's fastest NVMe SSD for
the U.2 form factor as well as other DC-series NVMe data performance
solutions.
As
more mainstream servers launch with U.2 NVMe SSD slots, DCU1000 is the
perfect solution to optimize virtual machine performance management
throughout the datacenter infrastructure, eliminating many data
bottlenecks that are storage-bound. Whether deployed in the Cloud,
on-premises or hybrid environments, Kingston's industry-leading NVMe SSD
is perfectly tuned for policy-based, software-defined storage and
storage virtualization. DCU1000 maximizes virtual machine (VM) agility
while reducing the data center footprint required to support higher
performance workloads.
"Kingston's
DCU1000 offers reliable and consistent high data performance in the U.2
form factor, delivering what IT leaders need to optimize virtualized
and multi-Cloud environments on the latest generation of servers," said
Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. "With our family of Server Premier memory
and NVMe PCIe SSD solutions, we meet the data and server storage
performance needs of virtualized enterprise environments in which fully
optimized mobility is essential, and legacy software business software
applications must be scaled in performance to maintain a competitive
edge."
As adoption of the Intel Purley Platform featuring the Intel® Xeon® Scalable processor family (formerly known as "Skylake-SP") takes hold in the marketplace, PCIe NVMe SSD and server DDR4 memory capacities
will grow rapidly. Each CPU features 48 PCIe lanes as well as a total
of 12 memory slots (6 channels in 2 banks per processor). With a variety
of Cloud options including private, public and Cloud service providers,
software such as VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture allows securing,
running and managing Clouds in a common operating environment. DCU1000
SSDs and Kingston's Server Premier memory provide the end-to-end data
solutions that power the hardware needed to accomplish this.
VMworld Demos by Kingston: Data Agility for a Virtualized World
Kingston's family of Server Premier memory
and PCIe NVMe SSD data performance solutions are available in the
industry's widest variety of form factors and are designed to meet the
requirements of the most taxing use cases where data performance is
critical to success. To showcase its products at VMworld, the company
worked with its industry-leading partners to create demos that speak
directly to the requirements of modern data centers in which
virtualization is the rule, not the exception. With superior data
performance, Kingston solutions facilitate more efficient container
orchestration, VM cloning and VMotionTM at
near-memory speeds, and deliver the real-time data support necessary to
achieve significant improvements in parallel processing for VMs,
maximize existing datacenter assets, increase business mobility, and
better facilitate the ongoing digitization of business operations.
Demonstrations include:
- NVIDIA Quadro Raw 8K Graphics Rendering Demo
The
next evolution in faster high-definition video capture for broadcast is
here. See the DCP1000 paired with the powerful NVIDIA Quadro P6000 GPU
render raw 8K Red camera video footage in real time at 25 frames per
second in Adobe Premier Pro using the Mercury Playback Engine.
- DCU1000 High Density, Extreme Performance
Kingston demonstrates the upcoming DCU1000 U.2 NVMe SSD in a 10-Bay 1U server chassis from AIC.
Populating 10 DCU1000 SSDs (totaling 40 physical drives) in a compact
1U server form factor illustrates density and scaling of the Kingston
U.2 design and the extreme performance of NVMe.
- DCP1000 Wall Of Video
Kingston
will show approximately 500 individual videos running from a single
DCP1000 NVMe PCIe SSD. The 500 videos will be displayed on a customized
42U rack with LCD screens attached broadcasting the videos. Visitors to
the Kingston Booth (#1112) can easily walk around the wall of videos and
get a closer look.
- Composable Infrastructure Demo
DCU1000 will be part of live CI demo that shows dynamic assignment of DCU1000 storage devices to CPU nodes.