This document discusses Mellanox Technologies' journey to helping customers transition their products and services to the cloud. It outlines Mellanox's value propositions for accelerating cloud applications through benchmark testing, integrating with open source cloud environments, and making deployment easier with solutions like CloudX OpenCloud Architecture. The document also highlights examples of Mellanox's work with customers like Microsoft and the National Computational Research Cloud in Australia.

1. Products Transition to the Cloud - Real Life Experience
Tom Thirer
Sr. Director of Product Management, Mellanox Technologies

2. ICs Adapter Cards Switches/Gateways Software and Services Metro / WAN Cables/Modules
Comprehensive End-to-End InfiniBand and Ethernet Portfolio
At the Speeds of 10, 40, 56 and 100 Gigabit per Second
Leading Supplier of End-to-End Interconnect Solutions

3. Journey to the Cloud
Build the Right Value Proposition

4. Enabling the Cloud ROI
“To make storage cheaper we use lots more network!
How do we make Azure Storage scale? RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) enabled at 40GbE for Windows Azure Storage, achieving massive COGS savings”
Keynote
Albert Greenberg, Microsoft
SDN Azure Infrastructure
Microsoft Keynote at Open Networking Summit 2014 on RDMA

5. Cloud ROI Calculator

6. Journey to the Cloud
Build the Right Value Proposition
Accelerate Cloud Applications

7. Benchmark, Benchmark, Benchmark…
4X Faster Run Time!
Benchmark: TestDFSIO (1TeraByte, 100 files)
2X Faster Run Time!
Benchmark: MemCacheD Operations
3X Faster Run Time!
Benchmark: Redis Operations

8. Payload
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Silicon Features to Offload Cloud Protocols
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HyperVisor (+ vSwitch)
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Software Processing
Hardware Offloads
Payload
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Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro
Legacy NIC
36 VMs
26%
36.5 GbE
17 VMs
61%
B/W: 17.6 GbE

9. Journey to the Cloud
Build the Right Value Proposition
Accelerate Cloud Apps
-Benchmarking
-Roadmap Features
Integrate with Customer Environments

10. Open Platforms

11. Integration with Cloud Environments
•Plug-ins to integrate with the open source

12. Integration with Cloud Environments
•Plug-ins to integrate with the open source
•Align cloud roadmap timeline with Open Stack distributions
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13. Integration with Cloud Environments
•Plug-ins to integrate with the open source
•Align cloud roadmap timeline with Open Stack distributions
•Mellanox Community

14. Integration with Cloud Environments
•Plug-ins to integrate with the open source
•Align cloud roadmap timeline with Open Stack distributions
•Mellanox Community
•Professional Services

15. National Computational Research Cloud in Australia
•Pioneer high performance cloud
•OpenStack expertise, deployment in Two weeks
•Converged network - Storage, tenant, management
•49.5 Gb/s bandwidth traffic from VM to VM (!)
•Application latency under 45 microseconds (!)
Core Router
40GbE
2x56GbE
14 ToR Routers SX1036
224 Node 56GbE Non-blocking Cloud
Mellanox
VMS
8 Agg. Routers
SX1036

16. Journey to the Cloud
Build the Right Value Proposition
Accelerate Cloud Apps
-Benchmarking
-Roadmap Features
Integrate with Cust. Env.
-Open Source Plug-ins
-Roadmap alignment
-Community
-Professional services
Make it Easy to Deploy

17. CloudX OpenCloud Architecture
Cloud Software, Plug-Ins, Automation
Mellanox Interconnect, Off-the Shelf Components
Open Cloud

18. Ease Solution Implementation
•Reference architectures for the most efficient, high performance and scalable cloud
Open Cloud
Use Much More Data at Real Time
and Make Business Decisions Faster
Test Your Applications Today
www.mellanox.com/cloudx

19. Journey to the Cloud
Build the Right Value Proposition
Accelerate Cloud Apps
-Benchmarking
-Roadmap Features
Integrate with Cust. Env.
-Open Source Plug-ins
-Roadmap alignment
-Community
-Professional services
Make it Easy to Deploy
-Open Architecture
-Automation software
-CloudX WW Sites

20. Thank You! tomt@mellanox.com