Chelsio Newsletter, December 2014
Chelsio Newsletter
Happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year from all of us at Chelsio!
The year 2014 closes on a high note with several high profile announcements that underscore the momentum behind Chelsio’s Unified Wire and RDMA over Ethernet solutions.
As Chelsio’s 40Gb iSCSI and FCoE adapters established themselves as the highest performing in the industry, designed-in by nearly all the storage OEMs, the turn was for 40Gb iWARP RDMA over Ethernet to get into the spotlight, with traction in a number of major cloud installations. Notably, Microsoft’s recently announced Cloud Platform System, a scalable turnkey private cloud solution, selected Chelsio iWARP as its RDMA fabric. The selection reflects the technical merits of the iWARP protocol, and validates the robustness and performance of Chelsio’s implementation.
Chelsio’s iWARP solution also made the headlines in showcasing the first NVMe over Fabrics demonstration, providing the same direct attach storage performance across an Ethernet link, with minimal latency impact. Chelsio’s RDMA over Ethernet solution is emerging as the interconnect of choice for this disruptive storage architecture, and an ideal unifying storage fabric as it already powers clustered storage products from tier-1 storage OEMs.
iWARP is built on top of TCP/IP, allowing it to seamlessly scale to large data centers, and operate over long distances, all the while natively providing reliable congestion and flow control. Chelsio’s iWARP implementation is a plug-and-play high performance RDMA over Ethernet solution that leverages standard Ethernet switches, routers, firewalls and other network devices, doing away with the acquisition and operating expenses of complex DCB and specialized gateway equipment.
Chelsio recently announced joining the OpenPOWER Foundation, to participate in the development of POWER Systems solutions.