Cloud is becoming the most important technology in the Data Centers and future applications will run on the most efficient cloud with the best interconnect. CloudX is a recipe, based off the Mellanox OpenCloud™ architecture, for building an efficient cloud platform using off-the-shelf building blocks: servers, storage, interconnect and software to form flexible and cost-effective private and public clouds. Read more about it: http://www.mellanox.com/cloudx/

1. Enabling the Applications of Tomorrow
Mellanox Technologies
February 2014

2. Cloud is the New Data Center
OpenCloud Platform
Lower Your IT Cost by 50%!
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
2

3. Unbounded Cloud Performance - Examples
…
4X Higher Applications Performance
…
And Lower Your IT cost by 50%!
Compared to other cloud platforms
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
3

4. CloudX Performance Examples
4X Faster Run Time!
4X Higher Performance!
Benchmark: TestDFSIO (1TeraByte, 100 files)
Benchmark: 1M Records Workload (4M Operations)
2X faster run time and 2X higher throughput
2X Faster Run Time!
Benchmark: MemCacheD Operations
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
3X Faster Run Time!
Benchmark: Redis Operations
4

5. CloudX Platform – One-Click Cloud!
 CloudX is the most efficient cloud platform
• A reference architecture for cloud platforms
 Set your cloud in minutes, not weeks or months
One-Click Cloud
• Complete system recipe, one-click software installation
 CloudX OpenCloud Platform
• Off-the-shelf components: Servers, storage, interconnect, software
• Mellanox 40 and 56Gb/s interconnect, InfiniBand and Ethernet
• Solid State Drives (SSD), latest CPU technology
 Supports open source and commercial applications
• OpenStack
• Mellanox technology configuration
• CloudX software eco-system – management, security and more
Unbounded Cloud Performance for the Applications of Tomorrow
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
5

6. CloudX OpenCloud Architecture
Any Software
Open NIC, Open Switch, Open Server, Open Rack
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
6

7. CloudX Eco-System Examples
“We are very excited to partner
with Mellanox in this cloud
architecture.”
Lior Gal, VP worldwide
strategic accounts
“Our customers choose Mellanox
products to ensure their cloud
infrastructure run on a hardware
foundation that is well configured endto-end, to match the agility and
efficiency enabled by OpenStack
cloud.”
“Red Hat is pleased to be
collaborating with Mellanox on
CloudX architecture and as
part of our Red Hat OpenStack
Cloud Infrastructure”
Mike Werner, senior director,
Global Ecosystems
David M. Fishman
VP marketing
“Dome9 is excited to work
together with Mellanox and
enable our security offering on
the CloudX platform. “
Zohar Alon, CEO and
Co-Founder
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
“By utilizing high speed
interconnect solutions at 40
and 56Gb/s, the CloudX
platform enabled us to achieve
excellent performance"
Saggi Neumann
CTO
7

8. The CloudX Advantage
Reduces the Cost of Using Compute and Storage Infrastructure
Enables Applications to Use Much More Data at Real Time
to Get Conclusions and Make Business Decisions Faster
Test Your Applications on CloudX Platform
Join the Growing CloudX Eco-System
cloudx@mellanox.com, www.mellanox.com/cloudx
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
8

9. The Future Depends on Fastest Data Transfer
More Devices
More Applications
More Data
By 2015, 15 Billion Connected Devices will Generate Exabytes of Data
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
9

10. The Power of Data
Data-Intensive Simulations
Healthcare
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
Internet of Things
Smart Cars
Congestion-Free Traffic
National Security
Business Intelligence
10

11. Data Must Always Be Accessible and at Real-Time
Sensor Data
Compute
CPU
Storage
Archive
CPU
Lower Latency, Higher Bandwidth, RDMA, Offloads, NIC/Switch Routing, Overlay Networks
Smart Interconnect Required to Unleash The Power of Data
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
11

12. Cloud in the Data Centers
Cloud is Becoming the Most Important
Technology in the Data Centers
Future Applications will Run on the Most
Efficient Cloud with the Best Interconnect
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
12

13. CloudX - Unleash The Cloud Performance
•
•
Lower your IT cost by 50%
•
On-demand compute, storage and networking
•
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
Unbounded cloud performance
OpenCloud Architecture: Open Platform / Open Source
13

14. CloudX OpenCloud Architecture Overview
 Hardware
• Off-the-shelf components
- Servers, storage, interconnect, software
• Mellanox 40/56Gb/s interconnect
- InfiniBand and Ethernet
• Solid State Drives (SSD)
• Latest CPU technology
 OpenStack components
•
•
•
•
Nova compute
Network controller node
Storage node - Cinder & Ceph
Mellanox OpenStack plug-ins
The Building Blocks for the Most Efficient Cloud
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
14

15. What Cloud Providers Say About Mellanox Interconnect
“Mellanox provides our customers with
more features that they couldn’t get with
other clouds.” - Robert Rizika, CEO, ProfitBricks
CLICK TO WATCH FULL VIDEO
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
“Mellanox allows us to provide better
services to our customers at an attractive
price point.” - Marty Puranik, CEO, Atlantic.net
CLICK TO WATCH FULL VIDEO
15

16. Mellanox Interconnect Enables Best Data Center Return on Investment
Accelerating Half of the World’s Petascale Systems
Mellanox Connected Petascale System Examples
InfiniBand Enables Lowest Application Cost in the Cloud
(Examples)
© 2014 Mellanox Technologies
Businesses Success Depends on Mellanox
Dominant in Storage Interconnects
16

17. Thank You!