SAN JOSE, Calif., April 30, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Cavium™, Inc.
(NASDAQ: CAVM) a leading provider of semiconductor products that
enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data
center, cloud, wired and wireless networking, today announced the
availability of a unified driver that enables native support for
FC-NVMe protocol for servers running enterprise Linux from Red Hat
and SUSE.
This unified driver delivers simultaneous support for FCP-SCSI
and FC-NVMe protocols on the same port for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 12 SP3 kernel version 4.4.120 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.5. Cavium is actively engaged with major OSVs to enable native
FC-NVMe support on other platforms, as well.
Cavium chairs the INCITS T11 standards committee on FC-NVMe that
has been driving the definition and development of the FC-NVMe
protocol over the past three years, and is at the forefront of
support for NVMe over Fibre Channel.
The new unified driver works with both the Cavium QLogic® 2690
Family of Gen5 (16GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters, as well as the
Cavium QLogic 2700 Family of Gen6 (32GFC) Fibre Channel Adapters
for the most flexible deployment.
Cavium's unified driver with native FC-NVMe support enables
flash storage to further accelerate mission critical workloads,
such as ERP, business intelligence and messaging and collaboration
systems by:
- Lowering read access times to networked storage
- Reducing processing time with a streamlined and simplified
protocol interface compared to SCSI
- Increasing scalability and improving response times with a
highly parallelized architecture and extremely deep queuing
structures
"Cavium has long been at the forefront of storage innovation,
and we're excited to be working with our partners to bring FC-NVMe
technology to market. FC-NVMe represents a natural
progression for SAN connectivity, and provides value by delivering
performance gains that leverage existing infrastructure.
FC-NVMe couples extremely scalable, low latency flash storage with
the most reliable, secure and widely deployed storage network in
the data center allowing customers to continue to scale their
infrastructure to meet future business needs", said Vikram Karvat, vice president and general
manager, Fibre Channel Storage Group, Cavium.
"Broadcom is modernizing Fibre Channel for the next wave of
technology innovation coming with NVMe storage," said Jack Rondoni, senior vice president and general
manager, Brocade Storage Networking division at Broadcom. "Brocade
Gen 6 Fibre Channel directors and switches are at the heart of the
transition to NVMe with purpose-built SAN technology designed to
address the low latency and reliability requirements for NVMe-based
storage. Brocade and Cavium QLogic have a long history of
development, integration, and testing that ensures our shared
customers can deploy NVMe solutions with confidence."
"Cavium QLogic worked closely with SUSE in the development of
NVMe over Fibre Channel drivers on SUSE Enterprise Linux Server,"
said Olaf Kirch, VP SUSE Linux
Enterprise. "FC-NVMe is an exciting development for the storage
industry, offering improved storage solutions to meet tomorrow's
challenges. Cavium and SUSE are committed to serving our customers'
needs for superior Fibre Channel storage solutions."
More information about the unified driver software is available
at www.cavium.com/fc-nvme.html
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a
broad portfolio of infrastructure solutions for compute, security,
storage, switching, connectivity and baseband processing. Cavium's
highly integrated multi-core SoC products deliver software
compatible solutions across low to high performance points enabling
secure and intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center and
Service Provider Equipment. Cavium processors and solutions are
supported by an extensive ecosystem of operating systems, tools,
application stacks, hardware reference designs and other products.
Cavium is headquartered in San Jose,
CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, Israel, China
and Taiwan. For more information
about the Company, please visit www.cavium.com.
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