SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
March 3, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Marvell (NASDAQ: MRVL) today announced that it is working
with leading SSD vendor KIOXIA and original design manufacturers
(ODMs) Foxconn-Ingrasys and Accton to bring its groundbreaking
Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) technology solutions to market. As
data growth continues to soar, data centers are faced with demand
for greater storage bandwidth and capacity as well as lower
latency. The EBOF architecture provides an innovative approach to
address these challenges by offering an Ethernet fabric to scale
flash and optimally disaggregate storage from compute. This results
in significantly greater performance and lower total cost of
ownership (TCO) for edge, enterprise and cloud data centers.
Today's announcement marks a milestone in helping accelerate the
adoption of EBOF platforms that incorporate Marvell's NVMe™ over
Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) Ethernet solid state drive (SSD) controllers,
NVMe-oF Ethernet SSD converter controllers and Prestera®
CX 8500 family of switches with Storage Aware Flow Engine
technology. Marvell's EBOF technology provides greater flexibility
for data center operators to develop their infrastructure and
enables them to meet evolving workload demands with optimized
scalable units of disaggregated storage.
In currently deployed and shipping Just a Bunch of Flash (JBOF)
architectures, which are comprised of server-class CPUs, DRAM and
the PCIe® fabric, compute and storage continue to be
underutilized, with storage servers typically oversubscribed,
resulting in increased capital and operational expenditures.
Marvell's EBOF technology is designed to replace Just a Bunch of
Flash (JBOF) architecture by integrating the Ethernet network
interface directly into the flash drive. Compared to the existing
JBOF architecture, Marvell's EBOF architecture can deliver 3X the
performance while consuming lower power and enabling greater than
65%* TCO savings.
"Marvell's innovative EBOF architecture is poised to
revolutionize edge to cloud data centers by addressing the growing
needs for increased storage efficiencies and lower overall TCO,"
said Nigel Alvares, vice president
of Solutions Marketing at Marvell. "We are excited to be
collaborating with industry leaders KIOXIA, Foxconn-Ingrasys and
Accton to proliferate the unique and game-changing disaggregation
values of Ethernet storage to cloud data center operators,
software-defined storage providers, server and storage system
OEMs."
"It is clear that EBOF has the potential to be highly
advantageous by enabling optimal storage disaggregation,
eliminating costly CPU and DRAM components and increasing overall
data center storage efficiencies," said Benjamin Ting, vice president of Ingrasys, Inc.
a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group. "The ecosystem that we
are establishing with Marvell will have far-reaching implications,
making it much easier for our customer base to incorporate this
technology into their next-generation data storage systems."
"We have great confidence in EBOF technology and its ability to
disrupt the global data storage market," said C.C. Lee, president
of Accton Technology Corporation. "Through this collaboration, our
customers will have direct access to everything they need to begin
storage infrastructure deployments using EBOF, and this is certain
to be pivotal in accelerating its widespread adoption."
"KIOXIA's collaboration with Marvell, Foxconn-Ingrasys and
Accton is pioneering the Ethernet-attached storage ecosystem. Our
work together will realize what has, up until now, remained a dream
of storage architects — the ability to deliver direct-attached
performance from network-attached devices," stated Alvaro Toledo, vice president of SSD marketing
and product planning at KIOXIA America, Inc. "This EBOF
concept is a significant leap forward in enabling the true
potential of NVMe over fabrics, eliminating network bottlenecks,
and driving efficiency gains to a wide range of industry
segments."
Key EBOF Platform Highlights
- The Foxconn-Ingrasys EBOF platform is a 2U chassis with 24 SSDs
in a U.2 form factor and 48 SSDs in an EDSFF E1.S form factor.
- The Accton EBOF platform is a 2U chassis that can accommodate
24 SSDs in a U.2 or EDSFF E1.S and EDSFF E1.L (9.5 mm) form
factor.
- Fully compliant to SNIA SFF-9639 standards
- Marvell's EBOF SDK version 1.0, leveraging the SONiC network
operating system
- Latest generation of enterprise NVMe SSDs from KIOXIA
Customer samples are available in early Q2 of 2020.
*Excludes SSD costs for each architecture
About Marvell
Marvell first revolutionized the digital
storage industry by moving information at speeds never thought
possible. Today, that same breakthrough innovation remains at the
heart of the company's storage, processing, networking, security
and connectivity solutions. With leading intellectual property and
deep system-level knowledge, Marvell's semiconductor solutions
continue to transform the enterprise, cloud, automotive,
industrial, and consumer markets. To learn more, visit:
https://www.marvell.com/
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Marvell and/or its affiliates in the US and/or elsewhere. NVMe and
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For further information, contact:
Stacey Keegan
Senior Director, Global Communications
pr@marvell.com
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