ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
Aug. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading
provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power,
security, reliability and performance, today announced its
collaboration with Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (Nasdaq: MLNX), a
leading supplier of high-performance end-to-end smart interconnect
solutions for data center servers and storage systems, and
Celestica, a global leader in the delivery of end-to-end product
lifecycle solutions, to develop a unique reference architecture for
NVM express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) applications as part of
Microsemi's Accelerate Ecosystem Program.
Microsemi's Accelerate Ecosystem speeds development efforts for
customers and collaborators through technology alignment, joint
marketing and sales acceleration. Collaborating with Microsemi
allows companies like Mellanox and Celestica to leverage
Microsemi's peer-to-peer (P2P) memory architecture, which is
supported by its Switchtec™ PCIe switches in combination with its
Flashtec™ NVRAM cards and NVMe controllers to enable large data
streams to transfer between NVMe-oF applications without the
central processing unit (CPU) in the data plane. This leads to the
development of highly optimized NVMe-oF storage subsystems with
better throughput, latency and quality of service (QoS). It also
enables customers' data center storage applications such as rack
scale architecture, which disaggregates flash and shareable pools
of NVMe memory to operate at faster rates.
"With customers designing their next-generation applications
around NVMe-oF today, Microsemi has created a strong ecosystem of
industry leaders to put together tested and validated solutions for
their specific needs," said Amr Elashmawi, Microsemi's vice
president of corporate and vertical marketing. "The growth
potential in this market makes this the perfect time to pair
Celestica's and Mellanox's expertise with Microsemi's unique
value-add to showcase the NVMe-oF P2P reference architecture
accelerating data center and cloud applications."
The data center market continues to see NVMe storage devices
increasingly being moved outside the server to centralized
locations in order to share NVMe-based storage across multiple
servers and CPUs. This enables better utilization in terms of
capacity, rack space and power. According to industry research and
marketing firm G2M, Inc., the NVMe market will be more than
$57 billion by 2020 and nearly 40
percent of all-flash arrays will be NVMe-based by 2020. The firm
also expects NVMe-oF adapter shipments will climb to 740,000 units
by 2020.
"Working together with Microsemi through its Accelerate
Ecosystem Program allows our team to leverage its performance
storage tier, including Switchtec PSX switches, to develop
innovative hardware platforms that can be customized for our
customers," said Jason Phillips,
senior vice president, Enterprise Solutions at Celestica. "As a
result of this important relationship, Celestica successfully
launched the first commercially available NVMe dual-port All Flash
Array platform, and is preparing to launch our first NVMe-oF
solution, powered by Microsemi technology."
While other companies have seen the benefits of Microsemi's
reference architecture, Microsemi also benefits from these
cooperative efforts. With remote direct memory access (RDMA) a key
technology in the NVMe-oF ecosystem, working closely with RDMA
network interface card (NIC) providers like Mellanox enhances
Microsemi's ability to further serve the needs of its data center,
cloud, hyperscale and enterprise original equipment manufacturer
(OEM) customers. Such collaborations will enable Microsemi to gain
market share for NVMe-oF applications, positioning Microsemi as a
key player in the storage revolution.
"Mellanox is excited to collaborate with Microsemi as part of
the Accelerate Ecosystem Program, which is delivering solutions
with Microsemi's Switchtec and Flashtec products for NVMe-oF
applications," said Rob Davis, vice
president of storage technology at Mellanox Technologies.
"Mellanox's market leading ConnectX® Network Adapters, including
ConnectX-5 and our new BlueField SOC, combined with Microsemi's P2P
CPU memory offload capabilities, offer a comprehensive reference
platform for high performance data plane applications and JBOF
implementations."
About Microsemi's Product Portfolio for Data
Center
Microsemi is a premier supplier of innovative
semiconductor, board, system, software and services for enterprise
and hyperscale data centers, enabling high performance, secure, low
power and reliable infrastructure for scalable deployments.
Microsemi technologies drive innovation in applications including
storage systems, server storage, NVMe solutions, Ethernet
switching, rack scale architecture, data center interconnect, board
management, network timing and power subsystems. Building on a
track record of technology leadership, Microsemi's data center
infrastructure portfolio is transforming networks that connect,
store and move big data, while lowering the total cost of ownership
of deploying next generation services.
The portfolio includes high performance NVMe storage
controllers, NVRAM drives, SAS/SATA host bus adapters and RAID
controllers enabling high capacity storage architectures, high
density PCIe switching and firmware for rack scale architectures,
PCIe re-drivers, and Ethernet PHYs for intra-rack connectivity.
Microsemi's product portfolio also includes clock and power
management, IEEE1588 integrated circuits (ICs) and NTP servers for
synchronization across the data center, as well as field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and system-on-chip (SoC) FPGAs to
perform secure system management of servers and storage. For more
information, visit
http://www.microsemi.com/applications/data-center.
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies
(NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet
and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for
servers, storage, and hyperconverged infrastructure. Mellanox's
intelligent interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency
by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering
data faster to applications and unlocking system performance.
Mellanox offers a choice of high performance solutions: network and
multicore processors, network adapters, switches, cables, software
and silicon, that accelerate application runtime and maximize
business results for a wide range of markets including high
performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud,
storage, network security, telecom and financial services. More
information is available at www.mellanox.com.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC)
offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system
solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center
and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and
radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs,
SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and
synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the
world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions;
discrete components; enterprise storage and communication
solutions, security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products;
Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well
as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is
headquartered in Aliso Viejo,
California and has approximately 4,800 employees globally.
Learn more at www.microsemi.com.
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development of a unique reference architecture for NVMe-oF
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