QLogic and Huawei Partner

At Huawei Cloud Congress 2015, Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. and QLogic Corp. announced plans to collaborate on the delivery of 25GbE for Huawei’s scale-out NAS system.

Leveraging QLogic’s 25GbE technology, the next generation offering of Huawei’s OceanStor 9000 system will consolidate storage, archiving and analyzing capabilities using a symmetrically distributed architecture to deliver performance, large-scale horizontal expansion capabilities and a super-large, single-file system that provides shared storage for structured and unstructured data.

“Our new OceanStor 9000 product is slated to improve the customer experience, bringing higher network throughput and storage performance to applications, such as media and entertainment, and HPC,” said Fan Ruiqi, president, Huawei storage product line. “By enhancing our offering with 25GbE connectivity from QLogic, we will improve its massive data processing efficiency and provide customers with a seamless path to 100GbE for extreme scalability.“

Crehan Research, Inc. predicted that the adoption rate of 25GbE will be faster than 10GbE (Crehan Research Long-range Forecast – Server-class Adapter & LOM Controller: July 2015.)

QLogic attributes acceleration of 25GbE adoption to:

• Over the last 10 years, the adoption of 10GbE has driven economies of scale across the ecosystems for cards, cables, optics and switching.
• The single lane of 25Gb/s makes it more saleable and cost effective than 40GbE for the mass market.
• More than 90% of new applications are delivered over Ethernet and the next generation of 25GbE, 50GbE and 100GbE solutions will improve bandwidth, simplify scalability and increase port density, all of which lower TCO.
• New cloud and converged infrastructure models are built to leverage up to 100GbE speeds.
• File and object-based storage are driving the demand for more bandwidth and improved responsiveness.
  

Built on a scalable and programmable platform, QLogic’s next generation of Ethernet connectivity leverages the low-latency of RDMA-based Ethernet protocols to create new levels of application and storage scalability, acceleration and delivery. The Huawei solution will enhance data sharing and analysis efficiency, allowing for the acceleration of cloud and hyperscale workloads. Additionally, with 2.5 times the bandwidth and a reduction in latency with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA), customers will be able to scale current workloads as their data continues to grow exponentially.

“We are proud to work with Huawei on the development of the next generation in scale-out NAS performance. Our new Ethernet connectivity platform is targeted toward cloud, enterprise and MSPs who need to scale to 100Gb/s bandwidth and accelerate application delivery by reducing latency with RoCE or iWARP,” said Shaun Walsh, VP of corporate marketing, QLogic. “The bottom line is that customers buy our products to improve revenue, scale operations and reduce OPEX; this new scale-out NAS solution will be a critical tool in accomplishing these business goals.“