Emulex: A joint with large data

The development of large data to this day, with the support of various viewpoints, technologies and products, has gradually been accepted by all sectors. In the http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13748.html "> Infrastructure, Disaster Recovery backup, virtualization and so on technology to the large data tilt, large data also gradually have life and its own operating mechanism." Both giants and start-ups want to occupy a place in the life of big data. When it comes to the joints in the life of big data, I think it should be a variety of HBA cards that play the role of linked storage, networking, and servers. And Emulex should be a key manufacturer in the HBA card market, and natural Emulex has a unique view of the new generation of data centers and large data.

Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development at Emulex, says there are now three major data centers. One is the traditional enterprise data centers, which provide traditional computing, storage, and network services, and the architecture matures, but many of these separate data centers are moving to mixed cloud architectures; the second high-performance computing and more scientific and technological data centers. For users with high performance requirements such as latency rates, this high performance computing based large-scale data center is further developed, and finally a new generation of highly virtualized, and the addition of many cloud genes in the internal novel data center is also developing rapidly. Intel's survey data show that cloud computing's application in the datacenter will grow by more than 25% from 2011 to 2016.

Trends in data center development. Shaun that the current trend of data center is mainly focused on the application of virtualization, open cloud, security, application delivery and Flash data center.

As shown in the figure above, Shaun lists five main aspects of data center evolution. I think the trend of the data center should be virtualized to the first aspect, of course, this part also includes the cloud based on virtualization. Only by increasing the level of virtualization, enterprises can flexibly configure their own hardware resources. Shaun mentions that the development of virtualization drives the new trend of software definition. Whether it's a software-defined network, a software-defined storage or a software-defined data center, it's important to put virtualization at the heart of this paradigm to really implement the software-defined model.

In addition to virtualization, flash memory should be a very important factor in changing the datacenter. Because of the performance and stability of flash memory as a storage medium, the data center does not have to use a lot of disk concurrency, so that the data center's energy consumption, the entire data center footprint will be greatly reduced. In this way the flash memory gives a new hope to some of the companies that fuse the architecture idea. Emulex Although there is no intention to do similar PCIe flash card style products, but Emulex has a lot of flash partners, Emulex will continue to optimize their own RDMA technology so that flash memory and network for better interaction, to reduce data center latency.

Of course, in addition to virtualization and flash memory, data center security and application delivery are also commonplace topics in data center development. However, the impact of these two developments on the data center is long term and does not cause significant structural changes. So the two are fundamental to the development of the data center and a key link, but there is no revolutionary innovation in the data center like flash memory.

As a position in the HBA card, especially in the Fibre Channel card market. Shaun that Emulex has opportunities in many aspects of Opencompute ecosystem pipelines. These include the development of management specifications, the boards that are good at Fibre Channel, and the virtualization software.

Now Emulex's strategy focuses on the optimization of flash memory, the integration of multiple network architectures, network analysis, and virtualization and software definitions.

First Emulex for flash memory applications. Shaun represents the use of flash to help further optimize storage in high-performance computing architectures and reduce the latency of storage in high-performance architectures. Flash memory greatly promoted the promotion of the Emulex 16G card products. The most direct and effective way to reduce latency in data centers is to insert a solid-state drive or a higher performance PCIe flash card, but Emulex does not have a plan to do the Flash product, which is based primarily on the partnership of Emulex and partners. Emulex is more inclined to optimize the board technology, the main strategy includes optimizing RDMA technology.

After flash memory, the fusion of multi-network architecture is also an important strategy of Emulex development. For example, on a single board card, you can support Fibre Channel, 10GB Ethernet, iSCSI, or FCoE network architecture. This is important for extending the application of the Board to achieve wider network interconnection.

The next is the detection of the environment. At the end of 2012 Emulex acquired the network monitoring infrastructure product provider Endace. After the acquisition, Emulex to the acquisition summary to the Emulex software definition Fusion architecture and ENDACE Network monitoring infrastructure strong alliances, through innovative means to help enterprises simplify the network, and at 10Gb or even higher speed to ensure application-level performance. Endace can record, display, and monitor network traffic, enabling customers to dynamically optimize application delivery across the infrastructure. Emulex's network Fusion adapter combines with Endace's network visibility monitoring function, making Emulex the only company in the industry that can provide end-to-end application monitoring, optimization, and acceleration. It can be seen that Emulex in the pursuit of low latency, multiple network integration and more attention to the whole network environment detection. To ensure the normal operation of the entire network.

In terms of virtualization and software definition, Emulex will introduce more programmable designs on its own board. The main thing is to introduce enough management into the software architecture, which can not only control the configuration of the board, but also change the parameters of the various performance to better meet the requirements of the software definition-related architecture. For software Shaun means that Emulex software is not entirely from Endace, Emulex has been the application of software, the acquisition of Endace to fill the Emulex in the field of monitoring a number of technical short board.