Kaloom,
an emerging leader in the fully automated data center networking
software market, today announced the general availability of its Software Defined Fabric (SDF) product family.
Kaloom
was founded with the vision of providing the most automated and
programmable data center networking fabric, one that will disrupt how
data centers are built and managed by cloud providers, telcos and
enterprises. Beta customers have turned to Kaloom, rather than to
competing products, for increased automation and feature velocity while
reducing network latency, costs and time to introduce new services and
features.
Kaloom's
SDF leverages open networking white boxes in order to reduce CAPEX
while its automation features reduce OPEX and minimize time to
deployment and configuration errors. The P4-based programming
capabilities of the fabric future-proofs network investments compared to
slower, more costly merchant silicon product cycles. By offloading data
plane functions from virtual machines and containers, Kaloom's SDF
delivers an increase of up to 2x in throughput with a 7x reduction in
latency, improving overall networking efficiency by a factor of 5-10x.
"The
general availability of the SDF is a great achievement by our team. Our
product has been tested by several beta customers, which require
lower-latency solutions, and it was very well received," said Laurent
Marchand, CEO of Kaloom. "Since founding Kaloom, our goal has been to
deliver the most automated, programmable and scalable data center
networking fabric at the lowest cost in the industry and we're proud to
say that we've exceeded that goal."
Kaloom
offers interfaces to leading industry standard orchestration systems
and SDN controllers such as Openstack (ML2), Kubernetes (CNI) and
OpenDaylight (NETCONF). Kaloom's SDF offers a pre-tested and certified
software solution for white boxes from Accton, Delta and Foxconn that is
designed for hyperscale and distributed data center environments.
Kaloom drives innovation, enables all-layer data center automation
The
SDF's programmable fabric enables developers to drive innovation; and
customers can rapidly and easily add new services and features to the
Kaloom SDF. The flexible architecture provides an adaptable,
high-performance, low-latency multi-data center fabric specifically
designed to satisfy the current and future challenges of increasing
network workload demands at scale. The SDF is a fully containerized
networking fabric that improves scale and the overall performance of
container networking. SDF is integrated into well-known orchestration
platforms such as Kubernetes using Container Networking Interface (CNI),
and OpenStack using Neutron modular layer 2 (ML2) plugins.
The
days of managing complex and error-prone configuration files and
scripts are finally over as Kaloom brings true all-layer automation to
the data center networking space. The Kaloom SDF has advanced
self-forming and self-discovery capabilities, as well as zero-touch
provisioning of the virtual network and virtual components with
automated software upgrades. As a result, human intervention is
minimized, thus saving time, effort and errors. Network provisioning
time is reduced from several days to minutes, and the network is
automatically updated during runtime.
The
Kaloom SDF has been designed to virtualize the data center. A physical
data center can be partitioned into multiple independent and fully
isolated virtual data centers (vDCs). Each vDC operates with its own
Virtual Fabric (vFabric), which can host millions of IPv4 or IPv6 based
tenant networks. Additional compute and storage resources can be
dynamically assigned or removed from a vDC through the associated
vFabric, thus creating a flexible and elastic pool of network resources
suitable for network slicing.
Kaloom
has also revolutionized the business model for data center owners,
offering a "pay-as-you-grow" subscription license. Customers pay only
for the active number of customer-facing ports, thereby simplifying
deployments, decreasing costs and improving forecasting. In the network,
the solution leverages low-cost open networking white boxes, thus
eliminating the need for expensive physical appliances.
The Kaloom Software Defined Product Family consists of the following components:
- Kaloom Software Defined Fabric
- Kaloom vRouter
- Kaloom vSwitch
- Kaloom vGW (virtual gateway)
"Software
defined and virtual architectures are key enablers for organizations
looking to transform their network and are driving the next wave of
network investment," said Bob Laliberte, practice director and senior
analyst for networking at Enterprise Strategy Group. "Organizations will
require higher levels of network automation and programmability to meet
the rigorous demands of highly dynamic environments. Additionally,
telcos, hyperscalers and multi-data center enterprises are looking to
deploy modern, container-based solutions to optimize networking and
computing resources. Kaloom's SDF is focused on, and takes advantage of,
these key emerging trends."