Everything gets faster and more agile in our Data Center. Connectivity means everything. Resource sharing is the new default. Latency is the currency of the modern world to processes more data faster and smarter than ever.

1. The Fabric of the Future
Efstathios Efstathiou, CTO

2. Agenda
• Who we are and what we do
• What are the current Data Center pains?
• UniFabric
• Use Cases
• Q&A

3. Who we are and what we do
• Founded just right now 
• Lean Team of 2 Founders and 10 Employees (we hire only Aces)
• Broad Experience in Hardware Design
• Even broader one Enterprise Applications such as Oracle and SAP
• Building smart solutions for future Data Centers and Autonomous Driving
Platforms
• Located in Switzerland

4. What are the current Data Center pains?
• Cost
• Efficiency per watt
• Efficiency of Hardware in general
• Different protocols, different hbas, different switches, wires
• Security
• Control Data Streams
• Auditing
• High Change Rate
• Servers get deployed, undeployed, redeployed
• Add hardware / remove hardware

5. UniFabric
“We are the ERP of your Data Center”

6. UniFabric
Data Center
UniFabric
All Communication goes trough UniFabic Appliances
• Eases Data Compliance
• On-Fabric Analysis with Splunk et al.
• Inventory Management

7. UniFabric
Capabilities
• Device Sharing
• Virtual Device Creation
• Software Defined Networking
• Software Defined Memory / Remote
Memory Expansion
• NVMe Protocol for Legacy Storage
• Virtual SMP System Link
“Why not use what’s already there? PCIe!”

8. UniFabric
Our PCIe
Card
Access to all
resources
+ =
Implementation
• UniFabric
• Creates Virtual Devices (Hardware Abstraction)
• Shares Devices over PCIe (Virtual Device Sharing System)
• Acts as PXE Boot Target for Clients
Your Server

9. Use Cases
Physical Device Sharing
• 50 Servers
• 200 Cards spread over all boxes
• Server Nr. 90 needs additional FPGAs for complex HPC Workloads/Batch
• Zone 2 Devices to Server 90 from 8 PM to 4 AM
PCIe hotplug
Device Sharing

10. Use Cases
Virtual Device Sharing
• Customer asks for dedicated storage array on his existing servers
• Create and Zone 4 Virtual Infiniband Functions to Servers in Pool A
• Create and Zone 6 Virtual NVMe Devices and to Servers in Pool A
• Deploy Linux
• Deploy SDS Software
PCIe hotplug
Virtual
NVMe
Infiniband
VF
Device Sharing
Device
Virtualization

11. Use Cases
Software Defined Networking
• Define vSwitch on UniFabric Network Domain
• Create and Zone Virtual NIC on UniFabric Network Domain
• Zone NIC to Servers
PCIe hotplug
Device Sharing
Device
Virtualization
SDN
vNIC
vSwitch
vLAN
ACL

12. Use Cases
Software Defined Memory
• Configure Software Defined Memory (SDM) on PXE Boot Function on UniFabric
• PXE Boot Server with SDM Image
• Expand Physical Server Memory with 3DXPOINT or Remote Memory (DMA)
• Increase the size of your In-Memory Database
PCIe hotplug
Device Sharing
Device
Virtualization
PXE
PXE Boot
Virtual
Dimm
NVMe
VF

13. Use Cases
NVMe Protocol for Legacy Storage
• Assign HBA Virtual Function to UniFabric Storage Domain
• Assign Virtual NVMe to UniFabric Storage Domain
• Zone Storage Luns to UniFabric Storage Domain
• Create Tiering Setup for NVMe Over Fabrics Targets to UniFabric Storage Domain
• Create and Zone Virtal Infiniband to Clients
• Zone NVMe Over Fabrics Luns to Clients
PCIe hotplug
Device Sharing
Device
Virtualization
SDS
NVMeOF
FC LUN
Tiering
NVMe
FC HBA
SDN

14. Use Cases
USB Device Sharing
• Customer needs copy some Data to an external USB Drive (customer leave)
• Attach Device at Security Department's Office '
• Zone to Server via USB over IP via UniFabric
• Copy Data
PCIe hotplug
Device Sharing
Device
Virtualization
SDNvNIC
vUSB
USB over IP
USB Over IP Scan

15. Q&A

16. Thank you