Mellanox Announces General Availability of
ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs, Featuring Pioneering Security Accelerators
for Cloud Platforms
RSA Conference 2020 – Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:
MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end smart
interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems,
today announced the immediate general availability of ConnectX-6 Dx
SmartNICs, in addition to the soon-to-be-released BlueField-2 I/O
Processing Units (IPUs). Both feature a suite of cutting-edge
security acceleration engines and platform security capabilities
for building highly secure and efficient data center
infrastructures at massive scale, across public, on-premises and
edge environments.
Today’s rapidly evolving cyber threats are driving organizations
to continuously assess their security postures and adopt holistic
defense strategies that address physical, virtual and human
factors. The growth of cloud and edge computing has redefined the
physical and virtual boundaries of the data center. Continuous
advancements in cloud networking technologies and growing data
volumes pose challenges to enterprises and cloud operators to
deliver enhanced digital experiences, while also protecting data
and assets.
“Networking and security must converge to achieve consistent and
predictable application performance, with all the necessary levels
of data privacy, integrity and reliability. This vision is the core
foundation on which we designed our ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNIC and
BlueField-2 IPU products,” said Amit Krig, senior vice president,
Ethernet NIC and IPU Product Line at Mellanox Technologies. “Today
we are excited to ship production qualified ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs
to our hyperscale customers, turning our vision into a
reality.”
“As countless economic opportunities are unlocked by
software-defined cloud technologies, they bring along security
requirements. Pure software-defined cyber security offerings that
are decoupled from the underlying hardware will be challenged to
achieve adequate protection, scale, and efficiency,” said Vikram
Phatak, Founder of NSS Labs. “By deploying purpose-built networking
hardware like ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs and BlueField-2 IPUs with
cloud-native software, cloud adopters and innovators can benefit
from hardware-accelerated, fine-grained security that improves
efficiency, increases agility and lowers costs.”
ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 play a key role in distributed,
zero-trust security architectures that extend traditional perimeter
security to every endpoint. Integrating cutting-edge IPsec and TLS
cryptographic acceleration technologies with leading open-source,
upstream software solutions, Mellanox allows customers and partners
to take advantage of innovative hardware acceleration capabilities
in both new and existing data center environments. Both virtualized
and bare metal servers benefit from secure web application
delivery, east-west communication encryption, RoCE transport
communication encryption and data-at-rest storage encryption, at
data rates of up to 200Gb/s, and enhanced CPU efficiencies.
The emergence of cloud workload protection solutions calls for
scalable and stateful packet filtering capabilities that both
preserve application performance and enforce resilient security
policies. Mellanox ConnectX SmartNICs and BlueField IPUs provide
in-hardware security policy enforcement and connection tracking at
full wire speed with up to 100X performance gains compared to
non-accelerated solutions - making them ideal to boost
next-generation firewalls in bare-metal, virtualized and
containerized cloud environments.
As an IPU, BlueField-2 provides even more in-hardware security
capabilities, including agentless micro-segmentation, advanced
malware detection, deep packet inspection and application
recognition, that far outperform software-only solutions. Mellanox
BlueField IPUs enable the best of both worlds – the speed and
flexibility of software-defined solutions, with tighter security,
accelerated performance and improved efficiency by processing data
in the device hardware at the I/O path.
See the Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx and BlueField-2 IPU in the
Mellanox booth #4525 at the RSA Conference, February 24-27, Moscone
Center, San Francisco.
Supporting Quotes:
“The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors are the first x86 data center
processor that supports PCIe 4.0 and provides industry leading
performance for workloads such as virtualization, database
applications, and high-performance computing,” said Raghu Nambiar,
corporate vice president, Data center Ecosystems & Application
Engineering, AMD. “Our partnership with Mellanox, the leader in
high-performance network solutions, is a natural fit for our open
ecosystem strategy and we look forward to seeing our joint
customers deploy Mellanox ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs and BlueField-2
IPUs on 2nd Gen AMD EPYC based systems.”
“Arm® Neoverse™ platforms are designed for fast,
compute-intensive tasks, and support the broadest set of
applications,” said Mohamed Awad, vice president of marketing,
Infrastructure Line of Business at Arm. “Integrating high-density
Arm-based processors with Mellanox BlueField-2 IPUs delivers an
optimal balance of performance and efficiency, capable of enabling
advanced functionality across cloud, AI, and edge
applications.”
“Our hyperscale cloud platform serves over 200 million daily
active users of our artificial intelligence-based mobile news feed
and searching app. Data security is essential across every digital
product and service we offer, and even more so as we plan to move
beyond mobile, into smart homes and automobiles,” said Ning Liu,
director of system department at Baidu. “We have piloted the first
generation of Mellanox’s BlueField IPU and look forward to
deploying BlueField-2 for our bare-metal instances in
production.”
"BlueField-2 SmartNICs with Ubuntu preinstalled break new
grounds in data center security at scale and unlock exciting fields
for bare-metal provisioning, network offloading and innovative data
center architectures,” said Loic Minier, global director, Field
Engineering at Canonical. “By leveraging snaps, Bluefield 2
provides the best platform to deliver applications at the edge and
manage data center security."
"Guardicore protects organization's most critical IT assets,
wherever they run. We do so by providing a simple way to
micro-segmentation data centers and cloud environments," says
Sharon Besser, VP Business Development at Guardicore. “Our
integration with Mellanox’s BlueField IPUs is enabling us to
provide hardware accelerated segmentation in very high-speed and
low latency environments. We look forward to expanding the
integration and to derive the benefits of the enhanced security
capabilities of ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs and BlueField-2 IPUs.”
“Our collaboration with Mellanox has helped bring additional
capabilities to IBM and our customers,” said Matthew Drahzal, IBM
offering executive. “We look forward to exploring ways for this new
technology to accelerate our modern AI and HPC offerings in this
rapidly evolving space.”
“Enterprise security is paramount as AI moves to the edge,” said
Justin Boitano, general manager of Enterprise and Edge Computing at
NVIDIA. “Mellanox's new products offer high-speed crypto engines
that enable highly secure and reliable communications between the
cloud and AI applications running on millions of NVIDIA-powered
edge devices.”
“Enhancing system security is a key component of Red Hat’s open
technology approach across our Linux, hybrid cloud, container and
Kubernetes offerings, and we do so by following a ‘secure by
default’ approach across our technology portfolio,” said Tom
Nadeau, Technical Director, NFV at Red Hat. “Our collaboration with
Mellanox in this area and others, including vDPA and virtio, has
helped to amplify the adoption of software-defined networking
across the open hybrid cloud, and we’re pleased to extend our work
with them in the open source communities in driving efforts around
hardware-accelerated security.”
“UCloud’s differentiated cloud products and services deliver the
highest levels of stability and reliability for various industry
and universal use-cases,” said Leo Xu, director of network group at
UCloud. “The successful deployment of ConnectX SmartNICs in
production have significantly increased our network capacity and
reduced latency. We plan to deploy the next generation BlueField
IPUs for streamlining bare-metal server provisioning and
operations.”
Supporting Resources:
- Learn more about ConnectX-6 Dx SmartNICs
- Learn more about BlueField-2 IPUs
- Learn more about Mellanox Security Solutions
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YouTube
- Join the Mellanox Community
About Mellanox
Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading supplier of
end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand smart interconnect solutions and
services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions
increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput
and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications,
unlocking system performance and improving data security. Mellanox
offers a choice of fast interconnect products: adapters, switches,
software and silicon that accelerate application performance and
maximize business results for a wide range of markets including
cloud and hyperscale, high performance computing, artificial
intelligence, enterprise data centers, cyber security, storage,
financial services and more. More information is available at:
http://www.mellanox.com/.
Note: Mellanox, ConnectX, and BlueField are registered
trademarks of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. All other trademarks are
property of their respective owners.
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