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Cavium Showcases The CloudScale Rack™

A Fully Cavium Powered Rack for Flexible and Scalable Software Defined Data Centers

TAIPEI, Taiwan, May 30, 2016 — (PRNewswire) — Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), a leading provider of semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless networking today showcased CloudScale Rack™  solution that demonstrates a complete cloud data center  enabled using customer platforms built on Cavium's product portfolio.

Cavium CloudScale Rack(TM)

Today's data center platforms are built using legacy building blocks that evolved over time and are unable to address the growing complexity and scale of current data centers. Servers are not Workload Optimized™. They use legacy one-size-fits all processors and require NICs, HBAs and offload cards to meet the storage and virtualization needs of data centers. Fixed server configurations make it very challenging to seamlessly provision and move workloads across the data center. Legacy L3, L2 switches are designed for wiring closets and not for modern data centers. They use fixed function ASICs that limit visibility making it difficult to capture errant events, identify latency and congestion hotspots.

Modern data centers need flow based switching and ability to quickly deploy emerging protocols. These are not supported by legacy switches.  Traditional data center security appliances require specialized hardware modules for secure key storage and authentication. They do not support security in a multi-tenant environment and are not suitable for securing virtual networks. Traditional custom appliances are designed with the point of view of physical network constraints and are not suitable for scale out virtualized data centers.

There arises a need for a new approach for a software defined rack solution across network, storage and compute to deliver the scalability, flexibility and efficiency to compete in the future where hyperscale is mandatory. This new approach is the scalable rack solution with a range of Workload Optimized servers for compute, storage, networking and management modules that work together to build a wide range of on-demand logical, virtual systems, which are more adoptable and scalable to emerging networking protocol and security needs of the cloud.

Cavium delivers silicon and software building blocks engineered from the ground up for flexible, scalable software defined data centers.  The CloudScale Rack includes:

CloudScale Rack is a flexible & scalable fully standards based solution based on OEM/ODM platforms developed using Cavium silicon building blocks. CloudScale Rack allows scale-out of individual rack elements, while the entire rack cabinet behaves as scalable unit of data center. Cavium CloudScale Rack solution enables a range of powerful capabilities:

"Cavium is one of the few semiconductor companies with a comprehensive portfolio of products from switching to security to intelligent NICs and servers for the state of the art data centers today" said Raghib Hussain, CTO and Corporate VP/GM of Cavium. "Customers can build an efficient and scalable software defined data center based entirely on Cavium data center technologies."

"The CloudScale Rack offering tightly couples the state of art software defined XPliant Ethernet switch fabric , Workload Optimized ThunderX servers for compute & storage applications, intelligent LiquidIO offload cards in and LiquidSecurity appliance for VM security & key management " said Alex Liu, Product Marketing Executive, Network & Communication Business Unit, GIGABYTE. "Today's cloud data center infrastructure requires this level of scalability & flexibility to meet the demands of ever changing workloads, networking protocols and on demand provisioning of the rack. Gigabyte will start sampling the CloudScale Rack in Q3' 2016."

About Cavium

Cavium is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in enterprise, data center, cloud, wired and wireless service provider applications. Cavium offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 100 Mbps to 100 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data center, broadband/consumer and access & service provider equipment. Cavium's processors are supported by ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tool support, reference designs and other services. Cavium's principal offices are in San Jose, California with design team locations in California, Massachusetts, India, and China. For more information, please visit: http://www.cavium.com

 

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