E8
Storage and Mellanox have announced they're expanding their technology
partnership with an integrated solution built on Mellanox BlueField SmartNICs,
which will enable customers to maximize computing resources by pairing the E8
agent with the SmartNIC. The new integration will allow users to utilize the
benefits of CPU offload to overcome any performance bottlenecks to application
performance.
By offloading the E8
Agent functionality to the Mellanox BlueField SmartNIC, the joint solution
allows the compute resources to remain dedicated to the customer's
applications. All the storage data path operations are managed by the
dedicated computing resources of the offload engine, not by valuable server
compute cores. The ability to accelerate performance and optimise compute
resources is ideal for intensive workloads that need to operate in real time,
such as genomics, analytics and AI.
The integrated solution
delivers the proven high performance and low latency of E8 Storage systems,
while adding dedicated computing power in a low- profile PCI form factor. E8
Storage delivers 10x the performance of existing flash solutions, with
consistent sub-millisecond latency, and has set benchmark records in multiple
industries.
"The
combination of the E8 agent with our BlueField SmartNIC is ideal for organizations
that need fast and scalable performance," said Gilad Shainer, vice president of
marketing at Mellanox. "The integration is complimentary and allows
customers to take advantage of full acceleration, while adding dedicated
computing power, networking and processing subsystems. The result is high
performance and acceleration, while significantly reducing total cost of
ownership."
Zivan
Ori, co-founder and CEO of E8 Storage explained, "The SmartNIC is uniquely
designed to offer speed, reliability and high availability, many of the
concerns customers face when it comes to optimizing data workloads in data
intensive verticals. By offloading the E8 software onto Mellanox BlueField we
are able to leverage the benefits to provide a combined solution that meets the
demands of high performance compute clusters - enabling fast access to data."