Flash Memory Summit: Excelero NVMesh Server SAN Software Validated on Broadcom Ethernet NIC Card

Excelero, Inc. validated its NVMesh server SAN software on the Broadcom Ltd.‘ NetXtreme BCM57414 25/50GbE interface card (NIC).

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The combined solution provides enterprise IT architects with an option for storage in hyperscale data centres – one that’s equipped with the low-latency RoCE support. This combination harnesses the latest innovations in NVMe and its performance, allowing enterprises to gain agility, ease of deployment and manageability in scale-out architectures.

Combining the company’s NVMesh software with the BCM57414 NIC enables a solution with low-latency performance suitable for IoT, big data analytics and artificial intelligence applications as well as web-scale enterprise loads. With the availability of the Broadcom BCM58800, a family of 100Gb Smart NIC SOCs, hyperscale data centre architects will be able to design an OS-agnostic, turnkey storage solution running on the SmartNIC, avoiding the need for software installs.

Broadcom and Excelero showcased their latest technologies at the Flash Memory Summit 2017.

“We’re proud to obtain validation with Broadcom’s 25/50Gb NIC for our shared NVMe offering with its patented approach to low latency,” said Lior Gal, CEO and co-founder, Excelero. “There’s a massive, untapped market for enterprises that want to build hyperscale data centres like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Amazon have. The combined Broadcom BCM57414 and Excelero NVMesh solution provides a fabulous storage option for them, where they take full advantage of shared NVMe across a network at local performance.“

“Broadcom’s first exposure to Excelero’s server SAN architecture was in 2015, almost two years before the company’s commercial launch, and the performance and capabilities continue to impress,” said Dan Harding, VP, marketing, compute and connectivity division, Broadcom. “Our joint validation has proven that together Broadcom and Excelero can provide a complete solution for shared NVMe storage, which will be enhanced further as our collaboration expands on new platforms such as our BCM58800 SmartNIC.“

“This is a pioneering development in integrating silicon and software that enterprises need to expedite the deployment of NVMe-over-fabrics,” said Ryan Quick, CEO and chief architect, Providentia Worldwide LLC, an enterprise hyperscale computing consultancy. “As alternatives to the PCIe bus emerge that are better for scale-out use, Broadcom and Excelero are key players to watch in an important and fast-changing market.“

“Effective storage for hyperscale data centres has been a significant limitation for quite some time, making Broadcom and Excelero’s work together especially impactful,” said George Crump, president and founder, Storage Switzerland LLC. “By using Broadcom’s new NetXtreme Ethernet NIC with Excelero’s server SAN, enterprises can make sure their applications can enjoy the latency, throughput and IO/s of a local NVMe device while getting the benefits of centralised, redundant storage.“