Today at
VMworld 2020, Pensando Systems announced it is collaborating with VMware, Inc.
on Project Monterey to co-develop a platform to support the requirements of
modern applications. VMware will leverage the Pensando Distributed Services
Platform to deliver industry leading performance and latency, zero-trust
security, and simplified operations to VMware Cloud Foundation deployments in
virtualized, containerized and bare metal environments.
"We're very
excited to be working with VMware on Project Monterey," said Prem Jain, CEO of
Pensando. "Both companies have a shared vision of a programmable, scalable, low
latency, highly secure platform that not only improves the performance and
capabilities of the server platform, it is key to simplifying data center
operations and the delivery of next generation applications. The fact
that customers can start their journey today with VMware Cloud Foundation on
the Pensando Distributed Services Platform makes this an ideal partnership
across the board."
"Customers
around the globe rely on VMware Cloud Foundation to deploy and manage modern
applications across multiple environments," said Krish Prasad, senior vice
president and general manager, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "Together
with Pensando, we are building the next generation of more secure and agile
infrastructure, leveraging the new breed of accelerators exemplified by the
Pensando Distributed Services Platform, to support the evolving requirements of
these applications. The work between VMware and Pensando on Project Monterey
will help mutual customers benefit substantially from increased performance,
enhanced security and a consistent operating model."
The Pensando
Distributed Services Platform is designed to work in existing customer
environments, and provides high-performance scalable networking, security and
storage functions, always-on, end-to-end telemetry, and dramatically simplifies
IT operations. The Pensando solution enables pervasive network visibility using
its hardware bi-directional flow streaming and traffic mirroring capabilities
offering an enhanced experience and delivering significant additional value to
VMware customers. VMware's Project Monterey is an initiative to redefine
VMware's hybrid cloud architecture to support the changing nature of
applications.
"The
combination of Hewlett Packard Enterprise servers and the Pensando Distributed
Services Platform already makes HPE the best choice for VMware environments
today," said Neil MacDonald, General Manager, Compute at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. "Our joint involvement with Project Monterey ensures that HPE
customers will always be among the first to get access to new technology
innovations from VMware and can even start on their journey to next-gen
application infrastructures today."
"It's been
clear for some time that FOCP-enabled platforms would make the transition from
hyperscale to enterprise environments," said Matthew Eastwood, Senior Vice
President, Enterprise Infrastructure, Cloud, Developers and Alliances at IDC.
"Project Monterey is the first major indication that transition is starting to
occur on a broad scale and we expect that hybrid cloud deployments will benefit
from scale, security and economics similar to that of public clouds as a
result."
The
Pensando Distributed Services Platform - Powering Cloud and Enterprise
Computing
The explosion
of data generated by applications inside and outside of the data center has
enterprises of all sizes facing stark choices-scale up capacity with a
traditional IT architecture or move more workloads to public clouds. Either
approach means IT staff often end up spending more time managing complexity and
infrastructure than they do innovating for the business.
Pensando has
created a third option that overcomes the constraints of the other two, with
the first secure, programmable, edge-accelerated platform that directly
addresses the generational shift occurring as data pushes to the edge of the
cloud. The foundation of the Pensando platform is a custom, fully-programmable
processor optimized to execute a software stack delivering cloud, compute,
networking, storage and security services wherever data is located:
- Powers software-defined services at every node with
cloud performance offering class-leading capabilities and order of magnitude
improvements in scale, latency and jitter with a low power profile
- Creates simple datacenter architectures that integrate
with existing frameworks and feature always-on, end-to-end telemetry
- Hosting model agnostic empowering enterprises to
rapidly deploy new services
- Available as a standard option on the world's
best-selling servers