SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO), the market chief in hyperscale video storage connectivity, at the moment introduced it’s increasing its silicon, software program and {hardware} storage connectivity merchandise with enhanced efficiency, capabilities and energy. This expanded product portfolio is the results of multi-generational investments which can be supposed to assist hyperscale information facilities to handle and keep the storage connectivity they should ship video storage at scale.
Today’s hyperscale information facilities are dealing with an unprecedented development in storage demand, pushed by video-intensive content material, together with social media, streaming providers, collaboration, and lots of different digital transformation functions. Managing the expansion of this information requires infrastructure that’s not solely performant and scalable, however maintains a excessive stage of safety whereas making certain manageability utilizing superior telemetry and diagnostics.
“Hyperscale data centers are inundated with data, including massive amounts of user generated video content and are projected to deploy a majority of the industry’s storage,” stated Charlie Kawwas, Ph. D., president, Semiconductor Solutions Group, Broadcom. “Broadcom is leading innovation at the core technology, product, and end-to-end connected portfolio. Our leading-edge video processing solutions are setting new benchmarks in video storage delivering the lowest power and latency, while delivering the highest performance in the industry— all Connected by Broadcom.”
Broadcom is main the transition from compute-centric to connectivity-centric information facilities for hyperscale storage techniques. The portfolio connects elements contained in the storage community, to the storage techniques and in the end, storage media. Broadcom’s funding scale and dedication to this section allows end-to-end power-optimized efficiency for video offload, delivering way more energy and simplified interoperability and help for the ecosystem.
- 51TB Ethernet Switch Tomahawk 5: A household of excessive pace, excessive radix, low latency, Top of Rack Ethernet switches increasing hyperscale storage clusters by way of 200G, 400G or 800G commonplace Ethernet connectivity. The newest member, Tomahawk 5, delivers an unprecedented 51.2 Tbps efficiency, making it the best bandwidth switching chip available on the market at the moment on the lowest energy consumption. Newly launched Cognitive Routing and wealthy set of programmable in-band telemetry allow the best precision end-to-end congestion management, maximizing community utilization for essentially the most demanding storage networks.
- 200G Ethernet RDMA NICs: Ethernet NICs join storage techniques to the community utilizing RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE). Cloud suppliers are choosing Broadcom for its industry-leading energy and hardware-based congestion management that delivers the bottom deterministic latency at scale.
- Video Offload Accelerator: Video accelerators assist offload compute intensive excessive density video transcoding capabilities from the general-purpose CPU. These customized {hardware} accelerators help superior codec codecs together with H.265, VP9 and AV1 driving roughly 100x extra effectivity as in comparison with video transcoding software program run on general-purpose CPU.
- 9600 Storage HBAs: The eighth era HBAs join host CPUs to drives and storage expanders. The 9600 sequence doubles efficiency and allows industry-first options like OCP quick fail and multi-actuator help, whereas supporting superior security measures like {hardware} safe boot and attestation.
- SAS4 Storage Expanders: Storage expanders join tons of to hundreds of drives to storage HBAs. The {industry}’s most trusted expander now helps 24G SAS, superior bandwidth aggregation, and enhanced safety. It additionally makes use of Broadcom’s SerDes to scale back total system energy and price.
- Custom HDD Controller SoCs: The HDD controller SoC connects the drive to the storage HBA or expanders. Broadcom’s learn channel expertise and IP allow the {industry}’s highest areal density HDDs on the lowest working energy. These customized SoCs share a standard in-house SerDes with Broadcom’s newest HBAs, expanders, and IO controllers to offer sturdy interoperability at a large scale.
- TrueStore HDD PreAmps: HDD PreAmps join the HDD SoC to the platters. They are extremely advanced, blended sign gadgets chargeable for precisely recording and studying again information from the disks inside a HDD. The newest TrueStore PreAmps allow superior recording applied sciences comparable to Energy-assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR) and Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR), with the {industry}’s highest capability and low energy.
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Industry Quotes:
Ed Chapman, Vice President Business Development and Strategic Alliances, Arista
“We are pleased to enjoy a longstanding relationship with Broadcom. Our deep collaboration has empowered high performance next generation 100G/200G and 400G networks with low latency and jitter to support the file-based workflows, video streaming, and the live production real-time broadcast applications our customer’s demand.”
Ali Zafar, Head of Hybrid Infrastructure, Dropbox
“As the first major technology company to adopt high-density Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology for our storage drives, Dropbox continues to look for improvements in storage technology, in particular for more cost-efficient storage without compromising reliability or performance. Broadcom’s unique features on SMR allowed us to maximize our storage footprint, which is critical for running a cost-efficient, high-performing data center.”
Chris Pettey, Director Hardware Storage, Meta
“We are happy to collaborate with Broadcom on video offload, and HDD-based storage as these technologies continue to be key elements for the OCP community and we are pleased to see Broadcom continue to invest in this space.”
Steve Scott, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Hardware Architecture, Microsoft Azure
“HDD-based storage will continue to be key for Microsoft Azure as we aim to continue advancing data center architectures in order to empower our customers to achieve more. We are happy to see Broadcom continue to invest in this space.”
Jeffrey Nygaard, Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations and Technology, Seagate Technology
“Seagate continues to innovate HDD and storage system technologies to offer cloud and hyperscale customers cost effective, power efficient, and secure mass capacity solutions to address a growing number of data-intensive applications. We are pleased to continue to partner with Broadcom to support our broad product portfolio and enable our customers to unlock the value of their data.”
Ravi Pendekanti, Senior Vice President, HDD Product Line Management, Western Digital Corporation
“Achieving greater economies of scale in cloud and hyperscale data centers is vital as the industry enters the zettabyte era. Western Digital’s multi-generation storage solutions partnership with Broadcom continues to deliver a unified storage effort with next-generation solutions to meet this explosion of data storage in stride.”
Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst, Wikibon Research
“This announcement provides more evidence that connectivity and the underlying hardware that supports it have become more critical than ever before. As more workloads run in the cloud, and as the demands of these workloads increase in scale, optimizing infrastructure becomes more challenging. Broadcom continues to demonstrate it understands how to deliver balanced and consistent performance while at the same time increasing levels of efficiency. The latest upgrades to its cloud data center storage connectivity portfolio further support these trends.”
