2020 Next-Gen Infrastructure Acceleration and SmartNICs Report

Fungible was founded in 2015 to revolutionize the performance, economics, reliability, and security of scale-out data centers. In this video, Pradeep Sindhu, Co-Founder and CEO of Fungible, shares observations about scale-out data centers and the key innovations of Fungible’s Data Processing Unit (Fungible DPU™) which has been positioned as the “third socket” in data centers, complementing the CPU and GPU.

Whether you are a hyperscale cloud provider or an enterprise looking to consolidate facilities as part of a Digital Transformation, the new mandate is to find better ways to manage workloads while moving data closer to the end user. Scott Mills, Global Vice President for Solutions Engineering at Digital Realty, talks about the design challenges facing data center architects.

Andy Stewart, CEO of Evoque, talks about the advances made since they spun out of AT&T in 2018 and the continued transformation to expect in the future: professional services to help customers around cost optimization and their digital transformation efforts; managed services (such as security, hosted private cloud, private cloud, etc.); and expanding into additional markets.

In just a few short years, the market for SmartNICs reached $200 million in sales in 2019. Baron Fung, Research Director at Dell'Oro Group, expects this segment to triple over the next five years. Fung provides a definition of the Infrastructure Acceleration segment (SmartNICs), talks about early adopters and use cases, introduces the major vendors, and offers commentary on the factors that will lead players to success.

Charlie Ashton, President at 21K Consulting, talks about evaluating accelerated networking technologies from a carrier perspective and how AvidThink's 2020 Infrastructure Acceleration Report was compiled. Ashton also draws on his past experience as Director of Business Development at Wind River and Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at 6WIND, an early entrant in the infrastructure acceleration space.

Customers deploying cloud infrastructure run into performance issues in four key areas: virtualization, SDN, storage, and security. In this video, Ash Bhalgat, Senior Director of Cloud & Telco Market Development at NVIDIA’s Networking Business Unit, explains how to achieve maximum cloud infrastructure efficiency without sacrificing performance by using NVIDIA’s Mellanox Networking products and open-source software tools.

Enterprise services generate new types of workloads with increasingly stringent latency and data gravity requirements. Data center operators must find new ways to deliver infrastructure acceleration. Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO, talks about automating many of the tasks needed to accelerate data center operations.

Prem Jain, CEO, and Soni Jiandani, Chief Business Officer of Pensando Systems, discuss Pensando's unique solution architecture. Pensando's acceleration solution provides improved performance, security, and visibility for heavy networking and storage workloads. Pensando solutions marry the flexibility of Arm processors with an accelerated P4-programmable data path that offers encryption, decryption, TCP termination, as well as NVMe acceleration.

Pensando Systems is working with VMware on Project Monterey to integrate the next generation of SmartNIC technology into fully virtualized enterprise networks. In this video, Silvano Gai of Pensando Systems talks about Project Monterey and the benefits for customers, including performance, scale, and features such as firewalling, micro-segmentation, encryption, telemetry, and more.

In this video, Prem Jain, co-founder and CEO of Pensando, discusses SmartNIC adoption trends by major cloud providers. Hot topics include bare-metal-as-a-service acceleration and virtualized storage. Download the Infrastructure Acceleration Report to explore technologies being adopted by CSPs