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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Converged Data Center and Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 1: Benefits of Data Center Convergence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Chapter 2: Converged Infrastructure Use Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4Chapter 3: Converged Infrastructure Architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6

Chapter 4: Market Landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Featured Converged Infrastructure

Juniper Networks, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Featured White Box and Supporting Applications

Big Switch Networks, Inc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Pluribus Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Converged Infrastructure

Cisco Systems, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Dell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Ericsson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Fujitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lenovo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

NetApp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Nimboxx, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Pure Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

SolidFire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Tegile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

VCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Converged Compute & Storage

Atlantis Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Data Gravity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Gridstore, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Nexenta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Nimble Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Nutanix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Pivot3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Scale Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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SimpliVity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Skyport Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Super Micro Computer Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Teradata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

VMware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

White Boxes & Supporting Applications

Arkin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Cumulus Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Pica8, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Introduction: The Converged Data Center and Hyper ConvergedInfrastructure (HCI)

The disaggregation of software and hardware is driving the emergence of new data center architectures built

on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) or near-COTS hardware that converges the functions of traditional data

centers into a single, converged infrastructure. This converged infrastructure pools compute, network andstorage resources to simplify management and make it easier to scale up/down, move and share resources to

better support fluctuating demands, optimize utilization and reduce overall costs.

In theory, a converged – or hyper converged – data center sounds great, but what does it really look like in

practice? This report is designed to pull back the covers of the converged data center and describe its state

today, with some assumptions and predictions of where it might go in the future. The report will cover:

• What is driving the need for converged and hyper converged data centers

• Emerging use cases and deployment scenarios

• Major organizations and influencers critical to the development of next-generation data center infrastructure

• SDxCentral’s taxonomy of converged and hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) solution providers and their

role in the ecosystem, categorized accordingly• List of key leading converged infrastructure vendors per category, their products, and best fit use cases

• How software-defined networking and storage tools are being integrated with server hardware to build

converged systems

The report also includes the results from the 2016 Converged Data Center Survey. The SDxCentral Research

Team surveyed the SDxCentral community to better understand if and how converged data center solutions

are being deployed today. SDxCentral Survey ran on the SDxCentral site, January 28 – February 8, 2016. 91

people responded: 22% self-identified themselves as service providers, 36% as large enterprises, 42% as

small-medium businesses.

For the purposes of the survey, a converged data center solution was defined as a hardware platform that

integrates compute, network, and storage functionality, at capacity and performance-levels required to support

the scale of a data center.

We hope you find the Report informative, providing a snapshot of what is happening today in the market and

what’s to come. If you have questions, comments or feedback, we would love to hear it. Please reach out to

[email protected].

Chapter 1: Benefits of Data Center Convergence

The three components of IT infrastructure have traditionally been compute, storage, and networking. The move

toward, open, software-defined everything (SDx) infrastructure has enabled all these functions to be placed on

COTS hardware, creating strong drivers for convergence.

The emergence of the SDx market means that more functions can be controlled by software regardless of the

type of hardware function. Powerful COTS platforms for compute, storage, and networking enables thesefunctions to be controlled, integrated, and managed from a central software management layer.

COTS Diminishes Need for Proprietary Systems

The trend toward COTS diminishes the need for proprietary systems. A reliance on closed, proprietary hardware

stifles innovation and adds unnecessary costs and complexity to the infrastructure. As a result, we have seen

storage, compute and networking functions all start to be abstracted – the value of these solutions is moving

into software that can run on any commodity x86 server components. In some converged solutions, vendors take

COTS systems and add their own differentiators, such as hardware acceleration for specific functions in storage

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(de-dup, compression) or networking. Regardless, the primarily value-add is always sophisticated software.

The adoption of platforms/architectures, such as hypervisors, software-defined networks (SDN), and network

functions virtualization (NFV) can result in more open, flexible, cost-effective and scalable environments. It no

longer makes sense to have a wide range of proprietary, specialized systems, when you can build virtualized

platforms that can connect with a software-defined infrastructure. It also no longer makes sense to keep allthese functions separate – enter convergence, a.k.a. hyper convergence.

Trends in Convergence

Our research has revealed consistent trends in convergence in the data center, revealing common drivers.

By consolidating all this software on a single, open, commodity server platform, organizations can:

• Simplify the Infrastructure – reducing not only the number of hardware appliances, but also the number of

software platforms needed.

• Scale out the Infrastructure – adding components in a modular fashion, which can be plugged into the system,

orchestrated and configured using software-defined management.

• Improve the performance of key applications – coordinating all the resources necessary to maximize the

availability and performance of ‘Tier 1’ applications throughout the environment.• Maximize the Return on Investment (ROI) of the Infrastructure – ensuring optimal resource utilization and

minimizing capital outlays.

Overall Cost and Management Benefits

The increased use of industry-standard COTS hardware coupled with robust software management platforms

to build the SDx infrastructure has many perceived benefits to users. Based on primary research, including

interviews with industry experts and our own users survey, the primary benefits of a converged data center

architecture include the following:

• Lower costs – requiring less

hardware to purchase (CAPEX),

since storage, network, and computeresources are combined in a single

appliance, and reduced operational

costs (OPEX), due to less real estate,

power and cooling consumption.

• Increased flexibility – enabling pools

of resources to be quickly deployed

or moved to where they are needed.

• Simplified management – providing

a centralized view (single pane of

glass) into the infrastructure, which

makes it easier to roll out,

orchestrate and automate functions

to meet changing requirements.

In the minds of the IT professionals

considering and working with

converged data center solutions,

however, the benefits are not so cut

and dry. The responses of participants

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PRIMARY BENEFITS

Scalability

13%

Centralization

11%

Automation

9%

Capital Cost

Savings

20%

Flexibility

18%

Operational

Cost Savings

17%

Scalability

13%

Centralization

11%

Automation

9%

Capital

Cost Savings

20%

Flexibility

18%

Operational

Cost Savings

17%

Other 2%No Benefits 3%

Visibility 3%

Orchestration 4%




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When asked what they felt was the primary benefit, nothing stood out, which means either the value of converged

solutions is still not clear or IT professionals see a lot of different ways they can benefit from these solutions.

‘Capital Cost Savings’ received one-fifth of the vote (20%), ‘Flexibility’ was identified by 18% as the primary

benefit, followed by ‘Operational Cost Savings’ at 17%.

Convergence: ‘Important’ and ‘Mission Critical’

Feedback from users indicates there is high demand for converged data center solutions to solve basic

problems. Users also cite a mixture of the top drivers for converged systems, include optimizing resource

allocation and accelerating the roll out of new functionality.

Seventy percent of respondents to the SDxCentral Survey on Converged Data Center Infrastructure ranked the

importance of finding a converged data center solution in the next 2–5 years as ‘Important’ or ‘Mission critical

(Need a Solution ASAP).’

The drivers for this move are a little more mixed: 49% of respondents chose ‘Optimizing Resource Utilization’ as

the biggest business driver for implementing a converged data center infrastructure; while 48% picked

‘Accelerating the Roll Out of New Functionality;’ ‘Reducing Costs’ and ‘Improving Operational Efficiencies’ each

got 42% of the vote; while ‘Scaling Deployments’ received 38%.

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BUSINESS DRIVERS FOR IMPLEMENTING CONVERGED DC SOLUTIONS

Scaling Deployments38%

Improving Operational Efficiencies42%

Reducing Costs42%

Preventing IT Sprawl13%

Don’t See Advantages4%

1% Other

0 20% 40% 60% 80%

Optimizing Resource Utilization49%

Accelerating the Roll Out of New Functionality48%




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When asked what the most important attributes organizations were looking for in their converged data center

solutions (they could pick two), the majority of respondents (55%) replied ‘Automation & Orchestration.’ A

solution that could ‘Lower Capital Costs’ was chosen by 35% of survey participants, while ‘Interoperability with

Other Virtualized Systems’ was cited by 30% as a critical attribute.

Chapter 2: Converged Infrastructure Use Cases

The need to better manage hybrid cloud environments, upgrade the existing infrastructure, or optimize thedelivery of business critical applications has created many converged infrastructure use cases. Customers looking

to consolidate data center resources, cut costs, and improve data protection are turning to convergence and

hyper convergence as a critical tool.

Some of the most common use cases for a converged infrastructure include:

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CRITICAL ATTRIBUTES OF A CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE

0 20% 40% 60% 80%

Data Protection and Security Features14%

Robust Networking Features14%

Interoperability w/ Other Virtualized Systems30%

Ease of Use22%

Computing Power10%

Energy Efficiency10%

Robust Storage Features4%

Automation & Orchestration55%

Low Capital Costs35%

2% Auditability & Reporting




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Foundation for Cloud Data Centers and Hybrid Cloud

A foundational infrastructure that can be used to implement private, public, and hybrid clouds is very important.

Both enterprises and services providers are revamping existing data centers through the use of cloud

architectures and all new data center build-outs conform to cloud architecture models.

HCI provides a natural hardware foundation on which to build out clouds. The concept of stacking yet another

“Lego brick” when more capacity is needed without worrying excessively about the nature of coupling and

interactions between compute, storage and networking frees data center operators from focusing more of their

energies on other more pressing problems like automation and disaster planning.

And with the current move towards hybrid clouds for maximal flexibility and scalability, using converged

infrastructure in private clouds provides a path towards effective hybrid cloud roll-out. The key is ensuring

the converged infrastructure vendor can integrate with the service provider partners the organization wants

to implement.

With a solution that can work with a broad set of service provider partners, organizations can build a cloud

strategy to fit any and all of their requirements, in a way that is simple to deploy, manage and maintain. In

addition, organizations look for automation capabilities, such as Cisco’s UCS Director and VMware’s vRealizeAutomation, that can support the self-provisioning and orchestration of workloads across cloud environments.

Data Center Consolidation

Data center consolidation has become a prime attraction to converged infrastructure. IT managers are looking

to reign in appliance sprawl and ensure optimal resource utilization with a single, consolidated infrastructure

that can be easily managed and scaled.

Data center consolidation also means resources can be deployed to enable organizations to accelerate time to

business value, by unifying resource silos into adaptive pools of assets that can be shared by many and

managed as an overall service.

There are a lot of claims around the benefits of a converged data center solution:

• Cisco claims UCS customers benefit from a 86% reduction in provisioning times, 77% reduction in cabling,

74% reduction in ongoing management costs, and 53% reduction in power and cooling costs.

• HPE claims its ConvergedSystem 700 requires 50% fewer management tools, takes 96% less server

configuration time, and results in a 217% reduction in staffing costs versus the competition.

• SimpliVity’s Omnicube claims to deliver data center consolidation at a 3x total cost of ownership savings.

• Nutanix claims a webscale Converged Infrastructure that is 100% software-defined and can deliver up to 8x

faster time to value.

Integrated Data Protection

In many cases, it makes sense to integrate storage hardware and software with the compute and networking

functions in the data center. The most obvious benefit is centralized management of the backup policies

for systems.

By consistently enforcing policies around the frequency of backups, retention time and storage location

(including local and off-site copies), managers can ensure data on multiple virtual machines remains available

in the event of a disaster.

Some of the hyper converged players, such as SimpliVity, say that bandwidth and storage needs can be

reduced by sharing data in a de-duplicated compressed and optimized state and by managing the entire

lifecycle of the data.

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Optimizing Workloads and Applications

Converged systems can provide centralized visibility and management of workloads to ensure ‘Tier 1’

applications can be prioritized for optimum availability. Resources may need to be moved or allocated to meet

spikes in demand for different applications.

In a software-defined infrastructure environment, the data, metadata, and operations of a system are often

distributed across the pool of resources. A big advantage of this distribution is that data and workloads can be

moved around to remove any bottlenecks or choke points. Overall performance and capacity can be easily

scaled out, by adding additional units, as needed.

Some vendors offer dedicated ‘units’ of resources to support those applications that have a lot of storage

performance demands, such as a virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI). These units set aside CPU and disc

capacity that can be called upon to support the application. For those applications that may need to scale at an

accelerated pace, ‘units’ may be too restrictive, requiring a hyper-converged infrastructure that can support

clusters of servers.

When asked if there were any workloads or use cases that were not a fit for a converged data center

infrastructure, 98% of respondents to SDxCentral’s Converged Data Center Infrastructure survey said ‘No.’ VDIis often cited as a workload that can greatly benefit from a converged infrastructure.

The drive to run Microsoft business applications more effectively is also a key driver for convergence. One

survey by converged systems startup SimpliVity indicated that the top applications production workloads of

their users include Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint, VDI, and industry-specific

applications (E.g. legal, healthcare, CAD, CAM) system.

Chapter 3: Converged Infrastructure Architectures

As it turns out, there isn’t a single converged solution architecture, but many different approaches to convergence

and hyper convergence. Convergence across the the SDx infrastructure is happening across many different

vectors, with individual applications optimized for a unique mix of networking, storage, and compute functionality.

For example, a hyperscale Web platform might be focused on serving messaging, video, and content. A service

provider hosting business applications may have different needs. ‘Webscale’ platforms have more traffic internal

to their data center, giving them unique intra-datacenter networking requirements (more on that in sections

about Facebook and Google below).

Let’s look at some of the detailed architectures proposed by the converged infrastructure players and webscale

players, as well as where deployment is happening.

Architectural Variations of Converged Data Center Solutions

The future converged data center will include a wide range of physical infrastructure including converged

appliances, new classes of servers, and storage and networking equipment. The value is in the software running

and managing this collection of COTS or near-COTS hardware.

It’s best to look at a converged solution as a basket of different hardware functions supported by software

management. Converged data center infrastructure solutions are typically sold as an integrated offering that

consists of the following components:

• Server Functionality

• Networking Functionality

• Storage Functionality

• Management Software




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The capabilities of each of these components varies based on the vendor and their approach to the market. This

explains the varying terminology ranging from semi-converged to hyper converged as vendors make decisions

about how much functionality to pack into one product offering.

Although the terms hyper converged and HCI have been broadly applied to many categories of solutions,

convergence is in fact a spectrum of integrated capabilities in different combinations. We see them brokendown into these combinations:

1. Converged Infrastructure (compute, storage, and networking) – Designed to deliver a shared

infrastructure for server, storage, and network functionality. Examples include Cisco UCS, VCE Vblock, HPE

ConvergedSystem and Lenovo Converged System (formerly PureFlex). Can also be customized for a specific

vertical application (e.g. Oracle Exadata).

2. Converged Compute and Storage – Software-driven solutions that use standard x86 COTS servers to

deliver compute and storage resources to replace regular storage area networks (SANs). Typically offer a

number of storage management functions as part of their centralized management capabilities. Examples

include Gridstore, Nimboxx, Nutanix, Pivot3, Scale Computing and SimpliVity. The industry often refers to

such solutions as hyper converged or HCI products. They rely on virtualization software to drive

convergence of commodity hardware.3. White Boxes and Supporting Applications – To interconnect multiple HCI nodes often requires newer and more

flexible approaches. Many webscale data centers end up using white boxes for their networking solutions. These

white boxes use merchant silicon coupled with COTS platform to bridge and connect converged systems. While

networking white boxes may not be full-blown HCI solutions today, they are an emerging category of networking

device that can also provide compute capabilities. Built on COTS hardware, they are designed to replace

proprietary gear for specific data center applications such as top of rack switching, analytics, message queuing

and routing and even some application caching and acceleration functions.

FaceBook, Open Compute Project and ‘Webscale’ Architectures

Many of the large webscale players such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google have been instrumental in starting

many trends in converged and hyper converged infrastructure. With requirements to massively scale their data

centers very quickly, webscale players developed new architectures for networking, compute, and storage on

COTS hardware.

In 2010–2011, a group of Facebook engineers organized a movement to create specifications for massively

scalable, energy efficient data centers. Some of the engineering principles were used to build the massive

Facebook data center in Prineville, Oregon. It resulted in Facebook building its own custom-designed servers,

power supplies, server racks, and battery backup systems. All of the projects were focused on energy efficiency.

Energy consumption can result in as much as 40–50% of the cost of a data center’s operations. Facebook said

the Prineville facility consumed 38% less energy than Facebook’s previous facilities.

This initial engineering effort was expanded to become Open Compute Project (OCP), with a goal of creating

sustainable and energy-efficient specs for hardware and data center design, for everything from servers,

storage, and power supplies to mechanical systems. The specs are designed to be modular and scalable. This

follows the concept of data-center disaggregation – the ability to build entire data centers based on open,

interchangeable parts. The advantage of such a vision is speed of development, growth, and agility. The

creation of standards helps suppliers lower costs by building standard parts with a single market in mind.

OCP is designed to make data center technologies open and more interoperable. It dovetails well with the SDx

movement, which aims to define a set of open standards for networking software that can be loaded onto

commodity hardware, a concept known in the industry as “white boxes.” Facebook says it has open-sourced

every major physical component of its data center stack. The company claims it has saved $2 billion in

infrastructure costs over last three years.




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Google’s Influence on Converged Infrastructure

Google has been a leader in using COTS hardware and open source software to develop its own data center

infrastructure, which is often converged or hyper converged. The company’s data and networking requirements

have scaled so rapidly that it has been forced to craft new architectures to handle the massive increase in

data needs.

Google has released information in snippets, including some of its code as open source. But recently, it has

become more transparent in detailing its technology development. At Sigcomm in August 2015, Google

published a paper revealing the most detailed description of its technology infrastructure, so far.

That paper includes these facts about data center demands:

• Bandwidth demands in the data center are doubling every 12 to 15 months

• Data-set sizes are continuing to explode with more photo/video content, logs, and the proliferation of

Internet-connected sensors

• Web services can deliver higher-quality results by accessing more data on the critical path of individual requests

• Co-resident applications often share substantial data with one another in the same cluster; consider index

generation, Web search, and serving ads

These characteristics require a data center that must scale faster than ever before. All along, Google has treated

its data center and network as one virtualized supercomputing platform that can be managed with central control.

Google’s goal was not simply to rely on merchant silicon and commodity switching technology. It also wanted to

devise a more efficient design for data center traffic, which typically includes many data exchanges within the

data center, in an “East-West” pattern, rather than out of the data center, in a “North-South” pattern. Google

popularized the use of the CLOS network topology, which it said “can scale to nearly arbitrary size” by adding

switches in stages on a leaf/spine architecture (where “top-of-rack” switches aggregate traffic from a rack of

servers and feed it into a non-blocking group of “spin” switches). In doing so, Google threw traditional notions

out the window. Some of the common technologies you are hearing of now, including pervasive use of

containers and Kubernetes, originated in Google data centers.

Because of Google’s continued influence on SDx infrastructure and open source, IT experts should follow

developments closely to gain insights into the evolution of the industry. Many of Google’s developments can be

followed at the Google research blog.

Where to Plug it In?

Not everybody is Google, and many of the commercial converged infrastructure products on the market are

designed for those that who don’t have the resources to build custom webscale center architectures and

software. There are a wide range of data center sizes, configurations, and needs that have a different

requirement for converged infrastructure.

In our user survey, we asked whether organizations had deployed some sort of converged data center solution

and where they deployed it. Not surprisingly, it turns out that it can be dependent on the size of theorganization. While 58% of the users surveyed had deployed a converged solution, the numbers went up with

the size of the organization. The larger the organization, the more likely they were to have deployed a

converged solution. Seventy-five percent of service providers (100% of those who identified themselves as

cloud service providers) and 66% of large enterprises had deployed some type of converged solution, while only

42% of small and medium businesses were using a converged data center solution. Only 42% of small and

medium businesses were using a converged data center solution.

When asked to indicate all potential environments in which their organization is deploying or plans to deploy

converged data center solutions, 55% of respondents identified their internal data centers; 50% their private

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clouds; 47% their hybrid clouds; and 25% their public cloud environments. Only 11% of respondents had no plans

to deploy converged solutions at all.

Chapter 4: Market Landscape

If you’re up for analyzing the competitive landscape and strategy of the many converged infrastructure and HCI

vendors, this market offers the world’s fair. It’s a heated market with lots of growth and many companies

pursuing the customer demand.

Organizations have plenty of options as they look to trial and deploy converged solution, which include products

marketed by the world’s largest IT players. Many of the different vendors have subtle differences in their

approaches, with the technology architecture deriving from their original heritage and technology resources

(software, hardware, storage and management). In the end, what customers are looking for are technology

partners that can deliver a converged data center infrastructure in a more cost-effective package than it would

take to integrate the technology themselves.

Within converged infrastructures, there are differences in architectural solutions. For example, in storage, SAN vs

NAS battles still play out and difference in approaches between FCoE (fiber channel over Ethernet), iSCSI, FCoIP

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create different operational siloes. Some vendors preset the amount of storage and compute available, while others

allow customization of resource allocation. Organizations should look closely at a solution’s capabilities to determine

which are best for their use cases and overall environment.

With the merger of Dell and EMC driving much of the dynamics in this market, 2016 will prove to be a crucial year.

A Look at Market Leaders and Partnerships

Below, we summarize the strategies of the largest positions, but first, it might be worth looking at which

organizations are perceived as leaders, according to our survey.

When asked in the SDxCentral Converged Infrastructure Survey, ‘Which vendors of converged infrastructure

would or did you consider for your converged data center projects (check all that apply),’ Cisco (68%) and

VMware (58%) were the clear

leaders. EMC (25%), IBM (24%), and

HPE (23%) were the only other

vendors that were cited by more

than a fifth of the participants.

When it came time to trial different

vendor’s solutions, not surprisingly

Cisco was cited most often (44%),

followed by VMware (32%), IBM

(14%), EMC (13%), HPE (11%), VCE

(10%), and Dell (9%).

However, when it comes to

deployments in production

networks, 48% of survey

respondents said they still hadn’t

selected a solution. Of those that

had, 32% deployed Cisco, 22%

VMware, 10% IBM, 9% EMC, and 7%

chose Dell and Ericsson. The scale

of those deployments tends to be

between 100–2000 nodes (36%),

with only 6% running deployments

with more than 10K nodes.

A quick look at some of the market

leaders finds that many of them

have a long history in this market.

They may have found themselves

in the converged data centerinfrastructure space out of

necessity, looking to extend and

enhance their offerings to meet

emerging data center requirements

and customer demands.

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CONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE: VENDORS CONSIDERED

0 20% 40% 60% 80%

HPE23%

VCE19%

EMC25%

IBM24%

Dell18%

Huawei13%

Nutanix13%

Ericsson12%

SimpliVity7%

NetApp (w/Cisco)12%

4% Lenovo

Oracle10%

Cisco68%

VMware58%

3% Scale Computing

2% Pluribus Networks

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Market Leaders: Converged and HCI Strategy

Cisco

Cisco was early in spotting the converged opportunity. Its Unified Computing System (UCS) has been in the

market since 2009. It uses Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), which enables storage and IP protocols to run

on a single cable transport and interface, to converge the traffic. With no native storage solutions, Cisco relieson external partners, such as Hitachi, IBM and Nimble Storage to fill out the architecture. The UCS Manager is

the centralized control point for the converged resources, abstracting all the information from the UCS B-Series

blades and/or C-Series rack-mountable systems that are deployed.

Cisco was originally an active partner in the VCE coalition, but that is expected to diminish now that VCE has

been acquired by EMC/Dell. Cisco has worked to build out a robust ecosystem that can expand the capabilities

of UCS. In addition to the aforementioned storage vendors, Cisco has built traction with integrations with

NetApp and the FlexPod architecture. Cisco has started partnering with other HCI vendors, such as StorMagic,

ScaleIO, Maxta, SimpliVity and provides integration with VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN) to provide a HCI solution

hosted on UCS rack-optimized systems.

Cisco is one of the leaders in converged infrastructure deployments and has put together a smart and balanced

strategy for all the components. The only recurring concern is on storage resources, for which Cisco has relied

heavily on its partnership with NetApp. This is a close area to watch to see if Cisco makes an acquisition

– perhaps NetApp or a storage-defined software startup.

As this report was going to press, Cisco announced its new HyperFlex line of servers on March 1. Cisco says

that HyperFlex, which includes management software from partner Springpath, moves further towards

hyper convergence by integrating storage and data services features into an already robust compute and

networking platform.

Dell

Dell – where to start? The company is in the process of subsuming EMC (including VMware) for one of the

largest technology mergers in history. Therefore, it’s difficult to pinpoint a single Dell converged and hyper

converged strategy because that would include all of the EMC, VMware, and VCE elements (all included inseparate descriptions).

With its background in both servers and networking, Dell is a natural fit for having a converged infrastructure

story. The current linchpin of its strategy – in addition to the merger with EMC – is a partnership with Nutanix to

combine Nutanix software on Dell servers. This is an approach that makes sense, bringing Dell’s support,

hardware and brand and combining with Nutanix’ software. This is similar to the concept of a “brite box” – or

branded white box – in which an open, SDx approach to COTs hardware is augmented with the support and

services of a major IT player.

Looking forward, it will be interesting to see what the Dell/EMC merger means for the partnership with Nutanix.

Dell has a deep and wide portfolio of converged assets, but how it sorts out the series of combinations will be

interesting to watch in 2016.

EMC

EMC is a giant in the storage industry and it owns VMware, so it has all of the components of converged

infrastructure and HCI. To confuse things, it also owns VCE and is being merged with Dell along with VMware

– creating a giant company with massive convergence potential for networking, virtualization software, and

hardware components.

EMC leans heavily on VMware software for creating converged and HCI solutions, including its VSPEX Blue

product, which uses VMware’s VSAN. Look for a continued development and integration of EMC storage

resources, Dell hardware and services, and VMware virtualization products.




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HPE

HPE built a converged infrastructure portfolio by assembling many different pieces of its portfolio, including

storage from its 3Par SAN division, HP blade servers, HP networking gear, and its OpenView management

software. The company has been active in this space and there have also been rumors that it would be looking

to acquire a startup such as SimpliVity to augment its hyper convergence story.

IBM

IBM has a strong position in virtualized storage, with Spectrum Accelerate software and its own storage appliances.

It has been using a position in storage for the HCI market, though it’s been a bit low on visibility compared with the

stories of Cisco, EMC (with VMware), and startups such as Nutanix and SimpliVity. Spectrum Accelerate is used on

IBM’s cloud service, SoftLayer, to virtualize storage. IBM’s sale of its server business to Lenovo weakened its

position in HCI, and it is primarily relying on partnership with Cisco on UCS to deliver full solutions.

VCE

VCE was a leader in developing the converged infrastructure vision. The company was formed in 2009 as a

partnership between Cisco, VMware, and EMC. The idea was to create a virtualized infrastructure that combines

Cisco UCS servers, Cisco Nexus networking components, VMware software, and EMC storage systems. In 2015,

VCE announced a new VxBlock converged infrastructure system which includes VMware’s NSX software-defined networking technology for the first time. It was initially only supported by Cisco’s Application Centric

Infrastructure (ACI).

Questions remain about the VCE partnership, however, because VMware and EMC are being merged with Dell,

which has its own converged infrastructure products and competes with Cisco in networking. Cisco has backed

off from VCE, selling most of its stake to EMC/VMware in 2015, even though Cisco said last October that it still

“pledges support” to VCE. It’s hard to see why Cisco would continue to support the effort once VMware, EMC

and VCE are all owned by rival Dell. This all raises many question posed by the gigantic Dell/EMC merger, one of

which is: With so many HCI products under the Dell umbrella, where will it consolidate its brand? In press

reports, some resellers say it makes sense that VMware software will be combined with Dell hardware for HCI,

replacing Cisco hardware.

VMware Inc.

VMware is driving its hyper converged strategy by combining elements of vSphere virtualization platform and

its Virtual SAN (VSAN) product. This includes marketing the software as part of integrated hardware

appliances, including VMware’s recent VMware VxRail appliance which serves as an upgrade path from

EVO:RAIL (VMware) / VSPEX Blue (EMC). VxRail is a fully integrated, preconfigured and tested HCI appliance

powered by VMware’s Hyper-Converged Software.

The company says it makes these products available through “a broad and deep range of consumption options,”

which means internal combinations as well as partnerships. VMware recently revealed that in Q4 of 2015, total

VSAN bookings grew nearly 200% year over year, and customer count has increased to over 3000 versus over

1000 a year ago. The company says it is now has more than a $100 million annual run rate for total bookings.

VMware partners with many different hardware partners, including its majority-owned subsidiary, VCE, withEMC. When EVO:RAIL was first announced in 2014, partners included Dell, EMC, Inspur, NetOne, Fujitsu and

SuperMicro. Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and Hitachi Data Systems were later added to the list. Last year,

VMware also released a product more targeted at the HCI market, called EVO:SDDC, which adds network

control. Given the recent large announcements and transactions – including VxRail, Dell’s purchase of EMC

(which owns a majority of VMware) and the announcement that VMware would buy a majority of VCE, these

partnerships are shifting rapidly. Once absorbed by Dell, we would expect that the HCI appliances will be

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Notable Converged and HCI Challengers & Startups

Emerging vendors challenging the more established vendors were leaders in the HCI market, building

purpose-built software-and-appliance combinations that could be plugged in and used to scale the data center

quickly. They are making quite a bit of noise in the market. The two most prominent HCI startups include

Nutanix and SimpliVity.

Atlantis Computing

Atlantis Computing provides storage virtualization software, which it calls USX, to be loaded onto servers to

create an HCI product. USX can pool network attached storage (NAS), SAN, or flash resources. OEM partners

including IBM and Lenovo.

Originally a pure SDS play, Atlantis has seen the opportunity in HCI (or maybe its investors did) and in 2015 it

launched its own HCI appliance, called HyperScale. The company recently stated that bookings grew 80%

year-over-year in 2015.

Juniper Networks, Inc.

Juniper is pursuing a “converged stack” strategy that can draw from its Contrail, MetaFabric Architecture, QFX,

Contrail and SRX technology lines to create converged infrastructure solutions targeted at specific applicationssuch as networking and security. One example is its vSRX virtual firewall, which can be deployed as a converged

security solution on COTS hardware in cloud environments. Contrail is the primary control platform, which can

automate and orchestrate compute, storage, and networking resources on an open, converged COTS hardware

platform. Juniper is also partnering with Nutanix to deliver a converged solution that combines Nutanix’

compute & storage platform with Juniper’s Virtual Chassis Fabric and firewall offerings.

Nutanix

Nutanix has been gathering momentum with its converged infrastructure offering, which it calls the Xtreme

Computing Platform, targeted at webscale architectures by integrating server and storage resources into

turnkey appliances. Its appliances are run by this Acropolis virtualization software, which controls compute and

storage. It is often cited as a leader in the space, including mention on the vaunted upper-right of Gartner’s

Magic Quadrant.

Nutanix focuses on scalability and speed of deployment, saying its products can be deployed in just 30 to 60

minutes and run applications at any scale. All of its products run on standard, x86 COTS servers. Nutanix

recently filed for an IPO and its OEM partners including Brocade, Dell, and Lenovo. In its IPO filing in December

of 2015, Nutanix revealed revenues of $241 million for the year ended July 2015 up from $127 million the previous

year and way up from $6.6 million in fiscal 2012. But it was also losing money – to the tune of $126 million for the

fiscal year ending last July and a total accumulated deficit of $312 million since being founded in 2009.

Pivot3

Pivot3 recently acquired NexGen Storage, a privately held leading provider of hybrid storage appliances and

dynamic all-flash arrays. Pivot3 provides software and hardware solutions in the form of its vSTAC OS software

(which leverages VMware vSphere 6.0) and its All-Flash Enterprise HCI appliances which are hyper-converged

data center nodes with converged compute and all-flash storage. Its global HCI solutions allow sharing of

resources across nodes. And as a result of the acquisition, Pivot3 has folded NexGen Storage’s into its current

offering, leveraging unique QoS (quality of service) capabilities to improve application performance.

Scale Computing

Scale Computing markets the HC3 and HC3x hyper converged platforms, competing with both Nutanix and

SimpliVity in the startup world. It is looking to differentiate its offering by focusing on the open source KVM

hypervisor, which simplifies and potentially reduces costs on hypervisor licensing, which is a major gripe among

those buying solutions from the big-name vendors.




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SimpliVity

SimpliVity also provides a HCI solution, combining storage, compute, and applications such as WAN

optimization on COTS hardware. The company has been touting their advantages over public cloud offerings,

such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), citing a report by Evaluator Group that found SimpliVity’s

HyperConverged Infrastructure offers a 22% to 49% savings over AWS. It markets its own OmniCube family of

appliances as well as packaging its OmniStack software with hardware partners such as Cisco and Lenovo.

HCI Networking Solutions – White Box Switches and More

Most HCI solutions today focus on preconfigured compute nodes, or on combining compute and storage,

utilizing software to create a storage system from compute nodes coupled with flash arrays or spinning disks.

As HCI architectures develop, we expect to see more investments in R&D on the networking front. Regardless,

leading data centers (such as those from Google, Facebook and other web giants) recognize the need to

increase connectivity between the various nodes today and have turned to white boxes coupled with

intelligence to accelerate the process.

Entrants in HCI networking solutions include networking functions built into HCI infrastructure solutions from

Cisco (UCS + Nexus), EMC/VMware (vCenter + vSphere + vSAN + NSX) and other infrastructure vendors. We

also view white box and network virtualization vendors such as Pluribus Networks and Big Switch Networks as

significant players in converged data centers, providing flexible connectivity options between converged

hardware nodes.

Big Switch Networks, Inc.

Big Switch Networks develops and sells network virtualization solutions for data centers. Their Big Cloud Fabric

is used in hyperscale data centers, providing converged infrastructure with a unified networking fabric across

physical and virtual networks through the use of whitebox and britebox switches. It has been a strong partner

with Dell, which is using Big Switch software on server hardware to build converged solutions. Other partners on

the hardware side include Accton.

Pluribus Networks

Pluribus Networks provides a Virtualization-Centric Fabric architecture that works as a strong foundation forconverged data centers. Pluribus VCF provides increased visibility into the application traffic flows in these

converged data centers, allow for improved application optimization and troubleshooting. Pluribus has built a

converged solution using its own hardware platform as well as integrating its software with partners to develop

hardware solutions. Key partners include Dell, Nutanix, and Supermicro.




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Vendor Profiles

The following sections profile many of the vendors in the converged data center market. The individual profiles

were created through a collaborative effort between SDNCentral’s Research Team and the Vendor’s product

experts. SDNCentral worked under the assumption the information provided by the vendors was factual, auditing

the submissions only to remove unverifiable claims and hyperbole. Extended profiles can be viewed online.

While every attempt has been made to validate the capabilities listed in the profiles, SDNCentral advises end

users to verify the veracity of each claim for themselves in their actual deployment environments. SDNCentral

cannot be held liable for unexpected operations, damages or incorrect operation due to any inaccuracies listed

here. SDNCentral welcomes feedback and additional information from end users based on their real-world

experiences with the products and technologies listed. The SDNCentral research team can be reached at

[email protected].

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Juniper Converged Stack Solutions(Click for Online Version)

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Description of Product and Its Differentiation: Converged stacks aim to address the problem of provisioning datacenters by allowing enterprises to purchase a plug-and-play, preconfigured data center in a rack. While that sounds

good, most converged stacks today are vertically integrated, locked-in solutions from a single supplier. This is where

Juniper and our partners come in. We are solving this problem in a different way with a range of flexible and open

choices that allow customers to get the simplicity of a converged stack leveraging open, best in class technology.

Juniper and our partners are building a business around putting together best of breed cloud stacks built on

Juniper’s MetaFabric reference framework with QFX, Contrail and SRX product lines.

1133 Innovation Way

Sunnyvale, CA 94089

www.juniper.ne

[email protected]

JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC

Hypervisors Supported Raid Storage Support

ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Xen Yes

Network Virtualization Features and Capacity

Based on the principles of SDN, Contrail leverages

BGP signaled end-system IP/VPNs to implement

network virtualization overlays. These standards-

based overlays, which span cloud boundaries, deliver

a vendor-neutral approach for creating multitenant

virtualized, containerized and bare-metal cloud

environments. Infrastructure analytics and visualization

features provide insight into virtual and physical

networks, simplifying operations and decision making

with proactive planning and predictive diagnostic

capabilities. Please visit: www.opencontrail.org/

evaluating-opencontrail-virtual-router-performance

Partners

Atos Networks, FusionStorm, Intervision, InterCloudSystems, ITQAN, Redapt, Technica, Virtual Armor

Security Features

The SRX Series and vSRX firewalls are high-

performance security platforms featuring open and

programmable APIs for automation, offering application

security, Intrusion Prevention, UTM, and cloud-basedanti-malware. At 17 Gbps throughput, the vSRX is the

industry’s fastest and most efficient virtual firewall,

enabling the deployment of scalable security services

in cloud environments. The vSRX is also integrated with

Contrail and other third-party plug-ins for orchestration

in SDN environments. For more information, please visit

www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/security.

Compute and Storage Features

Compute and storage resources are provided by our

partners. For more information, please contact Juniper

at [email protected].

Licensing/PricingPlease contact Juniper Networks at

[email protected] for pricing information.

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Big Cloud Fabric (v3.5)(Click for Online Version)

www.bigswitch.com/sdn-products/big-cloud-fabrictm

Description of Product: Big Cloud Fabric™ is the industry’s first unified physical & virtual data center networking

fabric built using whitebox or britebox switches and SDN controller technology. Embracing hyperscale data center

design principles, Big Cloud Fabric enables rapid innovation, ease of provisioning, and management, while reducing

overall costs, making it ideal for current and next generation data centers.

3965 Freedom Circle, Suite 300

Santa Clara, CA 95054

www.bigswitch.com

650.714.4564

BIG SWITCH NETWORKS, INC

Date of Initial Release

August 2014

Hypervisors Supported

ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Xen

RAID Storage Support

YesProduct Differentiation

Big Cloud Fabric network controller is integrated

with OpenStack and VMware (vSphere and NSX)

data center deployments — providing a single pane

of glass management and operational workflow. IT

organizations get OpEx benefits (10x reduction),

including an application/tenant-centric configuration to

streamline all networking configuration, management,

and troubleshooting. Bare metal or whitebox hardware

reduces 3-year infrastructure costs by over 50%.

Compute Features and Capacity

A flexible, scale-out design that lets you to start at

the size/scale needed with room to grow. Typical pod

deployment scenarios:

• Unified P+V SDN for OpenStack Clouds

• VMware Data Centers — vSphere, NSX or VIO

• High Performance Computing

• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Pods

• Specialized NFV Pods


Supports both physical and virtual (multi-hypervisor)

workloads and choice of orchestration software -

VMware vSphere or OpenStack . Provides L2 switching,

L3 routing, and L4-7 service insertion and chaining

while ensuring high bisectional bandwidth.

Storage Features and Capacity

Big Cloud Fabric is designed from the ground up

to satisfy the requirements of physical, virtual or

combination of physical, and virtual workloads. These

include big data and software defined storage Pods.

Security Features

• Crypto-secure communications controller and data

center fabric

• Full visibility into data center traffic with Analytics

module (inbuilt)

• Integrated security tool chaining

• Standard network security features include: Layer 3

and 4 ACLs: IPv4, ICMP, TCP/UDP etc.

Partners

Dell, VMware, Red Hat, Mirantis, Accton, Palo Alto

Networks, F5 Networks, A10 Networks

3rd-party Integrations

Big Cloud Fabric Controller natively supports

integration with various Cloud Management

Platforms including VMware, Red Hat OpenStack,

and Citirix CloudStack. This is done through a single

programmatic interface, which is simpler and scalable

compared to box-by-box networking.

Customers

Clemson University, U2 Cloud, CleanSafeCloud


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Pluribus Freedom Series F64-FL1T(Click for Online Version)

www.pluribusnetworks.com/products/freedom-spine-switches

Description of Product: Best-in-class networking functionality with a unique combination of router, switch,compute, and storage designed to run fabric switching along with converged network services and high-perfor-

mance analytics directly into the fabric. It can be used to build the Spine layer of the Leaf-Spine architecture.

Powered by the Netvisor® operating system, built on the Pluribus Virtualization-Centric Fabric architecture, the

F64-FL1T switch can create a distributed controller, tap-less network fabric.

2455 Faber Place, Suite 100

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855.GET.VNET

PLURIBUS NETWORKS

Date of Initial Release Hypervisors Supported

May 2014 KVM

Product Differentiation

Can scale to a number of nodes and server ports

much larger than any existing fabric technology

without imposing any restriction on the network

topology, in-band or out-of-band connectivity andtopological distance between nodes. No master node

roles, external controllers nor NMS tools. Control and

visibility of the entire fabric is possible by connecting

to any switch, eliminating single points of failure while

automating control and analytics. Application flows are

recognized for any endpoint.


The dual socket Xeon E5 with up to 16 cores and up to

256 GB of RAM give these switches enormous amount

of compute power.


• Virtual Network (VNET) Provisioning, Management

and Segmentation

• Multi-tenancy/Role-Based Access

• Virtual Networks (VNETs) with L3-7 services

including vRouters


The switch’s 240 GB of internal storage can be

extended up 3.84 TB of external storage through

4 SSD slots. The storage options can be used as a

Network DVR enabling NetOps to analyze networking

transactions for deep forensic analysis by going back

up to 3 years of networking metadataSecurity Features

• Fabric-wide segmentation

• Mgmt, Control + Data Plane isolation

• Per VNET/tenant services e.g. Virtual Routing w/HW

switch offload

• No proprietary underlay protocols

• VM/bare metal orch. agnostic

• Fabric-wide flow classification + flow policy enforcement

• Flow capture, drop, redirect to security tools

Partners

Dell - www.pluribusnetworks.com/dell

Ericsson - www.pluribusnetworks.com/ericsson

Technology Partners - www.pluribusnetworks.com/

partners/technology-partners

Solution Partners - www.pluribusnetworks.com/

partners/solution-partners

3rd-party Integrations

www.pluribusnetworks.com/partners/technology-

partners

Customers

www.pluribusnetworks.com/resources/case-studies

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Licensing/Pricing

The Pluribus Freedom F64-FL1T licensing involves:

• Pluribus Enterprise Fabric – includes all traditional

Layer-2, Layer-3 protocols, QoS and network

management features plus Fabric Automation andFabric Visibility feature sets.

• Fabric Visibility - this feature set has application flows

across the entire fabric plus a Time Machine (aka

Network DVR).

• Fabric Virtualization – this additional license is to

support virtualization for an unlimited number of

fabric nodes.

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Description of Product: Cisco has converged and hyper converged infrastructure solutions with software-defined

computing, networking and storage. Cisco delivers solutions with storage partners, such as FlexPod, Vblock,

VersaStack, and SmartStack. With HyperFlex Systems, Cisco is now addressing hyper convergence with a platform

fully integrated into UCS management. According to IDC, Cisco’s converged infrastructure solutions represent

nearly 50% of the installed solutions.

CISCO SYSTEMS, INCwww.cisco.com




With service profiles, IT can define a server in software

and apply that to the underlying hardware. This

dramatically simplifies configuration and management

of the infrastructure. SingleConnect simplifies the overall

networking fabric, simplifying the cable plant while

delivering high performance.


ACI, Cisco’s SDN solution, is integrated into all converged

infrastructure solutions. With ACI, you can extend

policies from the converged and hyper converged

infrastructure into the network, including security, QoS

and load balancing.


For our converged infrastructure solutions, we leverage

a broad range of our partner’s storage features and

capabilities. For hyperconverged HyperFlex Systems,

we deliver software designed to provide custom built,

log structured file system with flash, de-dup and

compression as foundational elements

Security Features

Our converged infrastructure solutions integrate secure

multi-tenancy in order to securely segment and firewall

different applications from each other. This is critical in

a private cloud environment. Additionally, ACI extends

security policies from the server and storage into the

network.

Dell Converged Solutions(Click for online version)

www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/converged-solutions

Description of Product: Dell offers variants of both converged solutions, built on Dell’s PowerEdge FX architecture,

PowerEdge VRTX, and the PowerEdge M1000e blade enclosures, and hyper converged solutions, which are

available on Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO:RAIL and the Dell XC Series powered by Nutanix.

DELL

www.dell.com


ESXi, Hyper-V, Dell XC Series solutions support Nutanix

Acropolis hypervisors.


Dell offers high compute densities based on Intel Xeon

processors across multiple converged offerings but aredesigned as single hyperscale platform that runs lighter-

threaded and heavier-threaded workloads equally well

from a single architecture


Dell offers open networking and management choices

and options on multiple solutions to avoid vendor lock-in

even on converged solution offerings.

Customers

www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/customer-

stories#!facets=technology-type-server-virtualization&p

=1&keyword=Converged


Multiple systems from Dell support new storageparadigms based on local storage such as software-

defined storage, VMware’s vSAN and Microsoft’s Storage

Spaces.

Security Features

Dell employs best in class security practices on converged

solutions such as utilizing VMware’s NSX that provides a

complete suite of simplified logical networking elements

and services, including logical switches, routers, rewalls,

load balancers, VPN, QoS, monitoring and security.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/reports/converged-data-center/chapter-5-product-categories/


http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/data-center-virtualization/ucs-integrated-infrastructure/index.html

http://www.cisco.com/



http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/converged-solutions

http://www.dell.com/

http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/uscorp1/customer-stories#!facets=technology-type-server-virtualization&p=1&keyword=Converged






http://www.dell.com/

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/learn/converged-solutions



http://www.cisco.com/

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Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000(Click for online version)

http://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/products/hyperscale-datacenter-system-8000

Description of Product: Ericsson Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000 is a new generation of data center systems

using disaggregated hardware architecture for better resource utilization. The initial focus is on complete operator

cloud transformation for network functions virtualization (NFV), IT and commercial cloud operations. It is a high

performance, resource optimized platform to bring hyperscale infrastructure practice to all service providers.

ERICSSONwww.ericsson.com


ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Xen, Ubuntu 14.04, RHEL 6.5/7,

CentOS 7, Oracle VM/Linux7, SLES 12, WindRiver Linux 7,

MontaVista Linux CGE 7


Optically connected to 4x10 GE for networking and

8x12 Gbps SAS for storage. Additional 4X10 or 4X25 GE

available. Dual socket Haswell and Broadwell (as soon as

released from Intel) support with up to 3 TB RAM. TPM

for security. Dual 2.5” drives with SATA or PCIe interface.


Hardware accelerated VTEP in switch fabric. Overlay

network analytics. Fully configurable overlay using

OVSDB. Switch fabric can be partitioned in multiple

VPODs, each using different SDN controllers.


Disaggregated drives (JBOD) in combination with

optical interconnect and software management and

provisioning provide a very scalable infrastructure for

storage. This infrastructure enables solutions like Secure

Cloud Storage or other software defined solutions. (File,

Block, Object storage).

Security Features

Integrated with Ericsson KSI security solution. Provides

real time integrity and monitoring of all key system

infrastructure assets, e.g. network configuration, firmware

images and AAA systems. VPOD security framework

allows users to assigned resources.

Fujitsu Primergy Servers & Primeflex vShapereference architecture(Click for online version)

www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy

Description of Product: Fujitsu Primergy and Fujitsu Primequet servers are part of the Primeflex vShape reference

architecture which is a virtualization and private cloud reference architecture that integrates Fujitsu Eternus and

NetApp FAS storage platforms with best-of-breed third-party technologies. All these components are synchronized

and validated as a single solution.

FUJITSUwww.fujitsu.com




Primeflex vShape provides solutions for various

workloads starting at 25 VMs up to 200 VMs and utilizesPrimergy servers that use PSUs with up to 96% energy

efficiency. Capacity is based on servers and storage

systems and is complete with integrated features such as

high availability and security.


Fujitsu’s Primeflex vShape reference architecture utilizes

Fujitsu Primergy Blade Servers and Brocade VCS Fabric

technology to deliver virtualized integrated solutions.

Customers

www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/integrated-

systems/vshape.html


Fujitsu Server Primergy and Fujitsu Storage Eternusare optimized for server virtualization and cloud and

Fujitsu’s technology partners are integrated into the

Fujitsu Integrated System. Examples include Primeflex

for VMware EVO:RAIL, Primeflex for VMware VSAN or

Primeflex for Cluster-in-a-box.

Security Features

As a part of the FUJITSU vShape architecture adminis-

trators can use multiple management consoles to moni-

tor performance and security such as VMware’s vCenter.




http://www.ericsson.com/




http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy

http://www.fujitsu.com/

http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/integrated-systems/vshape.html




http://www.fujitsu.com/

http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy




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HPE Hyper-Converged 250 (Click for online version)

www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/hyper-converged.html

Description of Product: HPE’s hyper converged system is built on industry standard HPE Proliant servers. It is a

compact 2U/4-node virtualized platform with compute and resilient storage managed as one unit from a single

interface and optimized to handle a variety of workloads from on-demand IT infrastructure to virtual desktop

infrastructure (VDI). High availability, data protection, and back-up and recovery capabilities are built into the hyper

converged solution.

HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE (HPE)www.hpe.com


ESXi, Hyper-V


The system offers the choice of processors from 2x Intel

E5-2640 v3/8-core @ 2.6 GHz or 2x Intel E5-2680 v3/12-

core @ 2.5 GHz. Further, it can be configured with 128

GB, 256 GB or 512 GB DDR4 memory.


Each system contains four nodes; each node has an

independent ESXi (or Hyper-V) host running on it.

Therefore, one StoreVirtual system with four hosts is the

minimum number of hosts. By adding additional systems

(up to eight), the HP CS 250HC StoreVirtual scales up to

32 hosts.

Customers

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/library/

customer-success/successes.aspx


The system has either 1.2 TB 6G 10K SFF Dual-port SAS

Drive or 1.6 TB, 800 GB, 400 GB Solid State Drive, depend-

ing on model. It has a capacity of up to 38 TB maximum

included and 15 TB maximum useable storage space.

Security Features

The HC-250 supports all the security features offered in

VMWare vSphere or in Microsoft Cloud Platform System

Standard (Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter,

Hyper-V, System Center, System Center Operations

Manager, System Center Virtual Machine Manager)

depending on the configuration.

Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Portfolio(Click for online version)

https:// www.hds.com/products/converged-infrastructure/hitachi-unified-compute-platform

Description of Product: Hitachi UCP is a fully integrated, pre-validated platform family that incorporates server,

storage, networking, virtualization, and management software to support IT workloads and distributed

environments. It supports applications, such as SAP HANA, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server. It’s offered in multiple

packages that include UCP 6000, UCP 4000, UCP 2000, UCP 1000 for VMware EVO:RAIL, and UCP Select.

HITACHI DATA SYSTEMS (HDS)www.hds.com


ESXi, Hyper-V


Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director, a key

component of Hitachi UCP, is an infrastructure

orchestration software solutions that is natively embeddedinto VMware vCenter or Microsoft Systems Center which

aims to increase day-to-day operational efficiency.


Hitachi Data Systems and Cisco certify each component

of a UCP solution for interoperability. Using only tested

and validated components, UCP Select for VMware

vSphere with Cisco UCS is a Cisco Validated Design

(CVD), which aims to reduce the risk of introducing new

technologies to data centers.


HDS UCP is designed around Hitachi Virtual Storage

(VSP) Platforms, Unified Storage VM (HUS VM), Unified

Storage (HUS), and NAS Platform (HNAS). Additionally,

UCP utilizes Cisco Unified Fabric network and UCS.

These compute, network and storage resources arenatively integrated with VMware vSphere.

Security Features

HDS UCP solutions are multi vendor and utilize multiple

layers of security for each component of storage,

network, and server management. HDS UCP solutions

are designed for private cloud environments with the

necessary Integrated security and identity components

built in.



https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/hyper-converged.html

https://www.hpe.com/

http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/networking/library/customer-success/successes.aspx




https://www.hds.com/products/converged-infrastructure/hitachi-unified-compute-platform

http://www.hds.com/

http://www.hds.com/

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https://www.hpe.com/

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/integrated-systems/hyper-converged.html




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FusionCube(Click for online version)

http://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/

servers/fusioncube/fusioncube

Description of Product: Huawei FusionCube is an integrated solution designed to simplify deployment of virtualized

IT infrastructure. It features converged computing, storage, and networking, with an automated virtualization and

management system. The resulting system improves application and business efficiency beyond what was

previously possible.

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTDwww.huawei.com/e


ESXi, KVM, Huawei FusionSphere


FusionCube 9000: 4U with 8 nodes: 32CPU, 12TB

memory, 172TB storage. FusionCube 6000:

4 U with 4 nodes: 8 CPUs, 4 TB memory, 288 TB storage


FusionCube 9000: converged network switch in a

chassis, support GE, 10GE, FC and FCoE

Customers

China Sinopec, Infocast of Hongkong, Saudi TVTC, China

Mobile, CNPC


FusionCube 9000: 4U with 8 nodes: 172TB storage.

FusionCube 6000: 4 U with 4 nodes: 288 TB storage

Security Features

Classification authority management

Licensing/Pricing

http://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/

servers/fusioncube/fusioncube

IBM Pure Systems(Click for online version)

www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en

Description of Product: IBM PureSystems consist of an IBM PureFlex System that combines compute, storage,

networking, virtualization and management into a single power-based or hybrid system, optimized for cloud, to

deliver infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The IBM PureApplication automates the process for both on-premises and

off-premises cloud operations, and IBM PureData System provides analytics, powered by Netezza technology, for

managing the data warehouse.

IBMwww.ibm.com


ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Xen, PowerVM


IBM PureApplication System is available in three classes:

1) W1500-32 and W1500-64, using Intel Xeon E5-2670

processors, housed in a 25U rack. 2) W1500-96 through

to W1500-608, using Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors,

housed in a 42U rack. 3) W1700-96 through to W1700-

608, using IBM POWER7+ processors


IBM Flex System FC3171 8Gb SAN Switch provides

uncontested “wire speed” bandwidth at every port a

total of 320 Gbps per switch with less than 4 ms fabric

latency.

Customers

www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en/case-studies/

index.html


PureFlex systems use the IBM Storwize V7000 storage

solution with 20 expansion enclosures attached using

high-performance 12 Gbps SAS for maximum expansion

of 504 drives or approximately 2 PB of capacity.

Security Features

IBM PureFlex System uses LDAP (or Active Directory,

or AD) security to manage user accounts, LDAP

functionality is now the center point of the PureFlex

System security model.



http://e.huawei.com/en/products/cloud-computing-dc/servers/fusioncube/fusioncube


http://www.huawei.com/en





http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en

http://www.ibm.com/

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en/case-studies/index.html




http://www.ibm.com/

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/puresystems/us/en





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Lenovo Converged Systems(Click for online version)

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/systems/converged-systems

Description of Product: Lenovo offers both converged and hyper converged infrastructure solutions built on

Lenovo servers including Lenovo Flex Systems servers, Lenovo ThinkServer servers, or the Lenovo HX Converged

Appliances. Lenovo hyper converged solutions include Prism management software by Nutanix for HX Series

appliances; where Lenovo EMC VSPEX converged solutions utilize VMware and reference architectures and EMC

storage system that have jointly been tested, sized, and proven by Lenovo and EMC.

LENOVOwww.lenovo.com


ESXi, Hyper-V, Lenovo HX solutions support Nutanix

Acropolis hypervisors.


Lenovo servers utilize Intel Xeon processors with various

configurations of the multiple families available. HX

Series appliances scale up to 36 cores and 40 Terra

Bytes in a 2U platform; whereas Lenovo Flex Servers

use a modular book design with up to 18% faster

performance than previous versions.


Lenovo converged systems for infrastructure can

support Ethernet, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE),

iSCSI, or native Fibre Channel. All networking resources

are preconfigured, tested and and optimized.

Customers

Not publicly available.


Lenovo EMC VSPEX Solutions integrate with EMC VNX/

VNXe series storage solutions which support up to

up to 1500 drives utilizing either unified storage (file

and/or block), as a flash only configuration or as a hybrid

flash array with mixed pools (mixture of SSDs and and

HDDs).

Security Features

EMC Avamar Data Protection solutions provide data

protection for VMware Horizon View data, and RSA

SecurID provides optional secure user-authentication

functionality.

FlexPod Solutions (Click for online version)

www.netapp.com/us/solutions/flexpod/index.aspx

Description of Product: FlexPod Datacenter validated solutions combine storage, networking, and server

components into a single architecture for enterprise workloads. Solution components include NetApp clustered

Data ONTAP and MetroCluster software, NetApp traditional and All-Flash FAS unified scale-out storage systems,

Cisco Unified Computing Systems (Cisco UCS) servers, including UCS Mini, Cisco Nexus 5000, 6000, 7000, and

9000 Series Switches, and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure.

NETAPP

www.netapp.com




FlexPods are built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System

(Cisco UCS) and deploy high performance, expandedmemory server architectures.


FlexPods are built on Cisco Nexus switching: Converges

Fibre Channel and Ethernet on a unified 10 Gigabit

Ethernet fabric.

Customers

University of São Paulo, WD-40, The Commonwell

Mutual Insurance Group


FlexPods are built on NetApp storage providingstorage access through Network File System (NFS)

and Common Internet File System (CIFS) using Small

Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI) or Fibre

Channel over 10 Gigabit.

Security Features

FlexPods can enable solutions to operate across hybrid

cloud resources with the software-defined capabilities of

NetApp Data Fabric, while maintaining security, control

and workload portability with Cisco Intercloud Fabric.




http://www.lenovo.com/



http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/flexpod/index.aspx

http://www.netapp.com/

http://www.netapp.com/

http://www.netapp.com/us/solutions/flexpod/index.aspx


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Nimboxx(Click for online version)

www.nimboxx.com/product

Description of Product: Nimboxx provides a “single box” described as a powerful hyper converged infrastructure

solution that includes compute, storage, networking and orchestration capabilities. The solution consists of a VDI

server and a capacity based compute and virtualization server.

NIMBOXX, INCwww.nimboxx.com


KVM


Nimboxx provides 3 server options: AU-110 with 64GB

of memory and 24vCores and 4.8TB of storage, the

AU-110x which upgrades to 256 GB of memory and

32vCores and 9.6TB of storage, and the AU-120x which

increases storage to 14.4 TB of storage.


KVM based virtualization.

Customers

Not Provided


Storage includes a tiered flash for SSD and then raw

storage for improved performance.

Security Features

Not Applicable

Licensing/Pricing

Pricing is per device acquired and ranges from $24,995to $45,995 without support. Support plans are listed

www.nimboxx.com/support

Oracle Private Cloud Appliance(Click for online version)

www.oracle.com/servers/private-cloud-appliance

Description of Product: Oracle Private Cloud Appliance, formerly named Virtual Compute Appliance, simplifies

the way customers install, deploy, and manage converged infrastructures for Linux, Windows, or Oracle Solaris

applications.

ORACLEwww.oracle.com


Oracle VM


Compute nodes include Oracle Server X5-2 systems

with Intel Xeon CPUs, high-speed dual inline memory

modules (DIMM), redundant 40 Gb/sec InfiniBand host

channel adapters (HCAs), and redundant disks. The

base rack can support a maximum of 25 compute nodes.


Oracle SDN dynamically connects servers to networks

and storage. It eliminates the physical storage andnetworking cards found in every server and replaces

them with virtual network interface cards (vNICs) and

virtual host bus adapters (vHBAs) that can be deployed

on the fly.

Customers

www.oracle.com/servers/private-cloud-appliance/

customer-successes.html


Oracle Private Cloud Appliance features a fully

integrated, enterprise grade Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3 ES

for centrally storing the management environment as

well as providing data storage for VMs.

Security Features

Oracle Fabric Interconnect offers extremely low latency

(typically 10X faster speeds than Ethernet), 40 Gb/secthroughput, full redundancy, and integrated endpoint

security.



http://www.nimboxx.com/product

http://www.nimboxx.com/

https://www.nimboxx.com/support



https://www.oracle.com/servers/private-cloud-appliance

http://www.oracle.com/

https://www.oracle.com/servers/private-cloud-appliance/customer-successes.html




http://www.oracle.com/

https://www.oracle.com/servers/private-cloud-appliance



https://www.nimboxx.com/support

http://www.nimboxx.com/

http://www.nimboxx.com/product





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FlashStack Converged Infrastructure(Click for online version)

www.purestorage.com/solutions/infrastructure/flashstack.html

Description of Product: FlashStack CI is a flexible, all-flash converged infrastructure solution. It combines compute,

network, storage hardware and virtualization software, into a single, integrated architecture. FlashStack CI is

available from accredited FlashStack Partners who help provide an excellent converged infrastructure ownership

experience.

PURE STORAGEwww.purestorage.com


ESXi


The FlashStack CI compute resources are built out of

Cisco Nexus Switches, a Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect,

and Cisco UCS-B Series Blade Servers. Each system is

custom built to client specifications.


The FlashStack CI virtualization is controlled by

VMWare’s vSphere software. vSphere offers high

availability, fault tolerance, data protection, API’s, and

many other virtualization features that can be found

at https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMW-

vSPHR-Datasheet-6-0.pdf

Customers

Nielsen, LinkedIn, SkullCandy, UT-Dallas, and others can

be seen at www.purestorage.com/customers.html


The FlashStack CI uses the Pure Storage //m400

flash storage array. Each storage chassis can support

from 2-70 TB of raw capacity or 35TB to over 200TB

of effective capacity. Multiple chassis can be added

to a FlashStack CI system depending on customerconfiguration.

Security Features

The FlashStack CI utilizes the Cisco/VMware/Microsoft

integrated features to provide security. It does not have

any special security features beyond what is provided by

the individual components from other vendors.

SolidFire Agile Infrastructure (AI)(Click for online version)

www.solidfire.com/solutions/agile-infrastructure

Description of Product: SolidFire AI is a series of converged infrastructure designs that are thoroughly tested and

validated. SolidFire AI takes a best-of-breed approach to build converged infrastructure, combining SolidFire’s

scale-out storage system with leading compute, networking and orchestration technologies from VMware, Cisco,

Dell, and Red Hat to provide cloud infrastructure solutions for enterprise-class data centers.

SOLIDFIRE

www.solidfire.com


ESXi


The SolidFire AI can be built on a Cisco or Dell reference

architecture. The SolidFire AI platform can support up to360 cores and 4TB of RAM.


The SolidFire AI system uses VMWare vSphere for

its virutalization management. The Cisco based

architecture can host up to 2500 virtual machines,

while the Dell architecture can host up to 1,000 virtual

machines.

Customers

California Public Utilities Commission, Sungard, Colt, 1&1,

Ultimate Software and other customer success stories

can be found at www.solidfire.com/about/customers


The SolidFire AI system uses SolidFire’s SF series flash

storage devices. Up to 10 slots per system are available

per storage. The system can provide up to 40TB capcity.

Security Features

The SolidFire AI system uses the integrated security

features provided by VMware, Cisco, Dell, and RedHat.

This provides a best-of-breed approach towards

securing the system.



http://www.purestorage.com/solutions/infrastructure/flashstack.html

https://www.purestorage.com/

https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere/VMW-vSPHR-Datasheet-6-0.pdf


http://www.purestorage.com/customers.html



http://www.solidfire.com/solutions/agile-infrastructure

http://www.solidfire.com/

http://www.solidfire.com/about/customers

http://www.solidfire.com/about/customers

http://www.solidfire.com/

http://www.solidfire.com/solutions/agile-infrastructure



http://www.purestorage.com/customers.html



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VBlock and VxBlock (Click for online version)

www.vce.com/converged-infrastructure

Description of Product: VCE brings together best-of-breed technologies from technology leaders like Cisco, EMC,

VMware, and more in converged Vblock Systems and VxBlock Systems solutions to power data centers and simplify

management and operations throughout the system lifecycle. The Vblock and VxBlock converged systems are

managed by VCI Vision Intelligent Operations, which manages compute, storage, network and virtualization

components together as a single system and multiple systems as a single pool of resources.

VCEwww.vce.com

IntelliStack Converged Infrastructure(Click for online version)

www.tegile.com/solutions/intellistack

Description of Product: IntelliStack is comprised of VMware Horizon View 6, VMware vSphere 5, Cisco Unified

Computing System (UCS), and the Tegile Intelligent Flash Storage Array. It allows customers to acquire and build a

whole converged infrastructure at one time. A single SKU includes everything, such as servers, flash storage and

networking. IntelliStack offers pre-validated, pre-sized, and certified configurations to fit a wide range of

deployment requirements.

TEGILEwww.tegile.com


ESXi


Compute resources on the IntelliStack are provided by

Cisco UCS blade servers. These servers are based on

multi-core, Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 and E5-2600

v2 product families CPUs, for up to 24 processing cores

per server.


Network virtualization on Intellistack is provided by

VMware Horizon View 6 and vSphere 5. A single

Intellistack system can easily support over 1000 VDIs in

a single rack.

Customers

www.tegile.com/resources/case-studies


Storage in the IntelliStack is provided by Tegile Intelligent

Storage arrays which can be either fully flash-based or

a hybrid flash solution. As an example, the Tegile T3800

full-flash array can support up to 336TB of capacity with

192GB of controller memory.

Security Features

Security is provided by the Cisco and VMware

infrastructure of the system. A few vSphere security

features include software acceptance levels to prevent

unauthorized software installation, APIs that enable

agentless monitoring, and host firewalls.


ESXi


The system is available in a wide range of models and

blade servers that support up to 512 servers and up to

4PB of storage per blade-chassis. An overview of themodels is available at www.vce.com/asset/documents/

vblock-vxblock-product-overview.pdf


The VBlock systems support VM VSphere 6.0, and the

VxBlock systems can support VMware NSX 6.2 and

Cisco ACI. Each compute chassis can support up to

16 CIsco UCS server chassis per domain and up to 5

domains per chassis.

Customers

www.vce.com/customers/testimonials


The system can support drives sizes from 100Gb up to

3Tb. RAID 1, RAID5, RAID6, and RAID 10 stripping is

supported. At the top end, the VxBlock 740 supportsthe EMC Symmetrix 40k which can support 88 –3200

drives of varying sizes.

Security Features

The VBlock architecture supports virtual firewalls,

single-sign on services, data protection, security policy

management, and others. Security features are provided

by integrated components like the Cisco MDS 9000,

EMC VMAX series products, Cisco Nexus 1000V virtual

switch or VMware vSphere switch.



http://www.vce.com/converged-infrastructure

http://www.vce.com/



http://www.tegile.com/solutions/intellistack

http://www.tegile.com/

http://www.tegile.com/resources/case-studies

http://www.vce.com/asset/documents/vblock-vxblock-product-overview.pdf


http://www.vce.com/customers/testimonials

http://www.vce.com/customers/testimonials



http://www.tegile.com/resources/case-studies

http://www.tegile.com/

http://www.tegile.com/solutions/intellistack



http://www.vce.com/

http://www.vce.com/converged-infrastructure




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Atlantis USX(Click for online version)

www.atlantiscomputing.com/solutions/hyper-converged

Description of Product: Atlantis USX is a software-defined storage solution that delivers the performance of an

all-flash storage array at a lower cost vs. a traditional SAN or NAS. Atlantis USX enables local servers with RAM, SAS,

Flash, or memory-channel storage to create a highly scalable, hyper converged platform using existing servers. This

solution provides the flexibility to pool commodity local storage with RAM and/or flash across multiple server farms.

ATLANTIS COMPUTINGwww.atlantiscomputing.com


ESXi, Xen, Atlantis USX is a software-defined storage

solution and works with existing hypervisors running VMs.


Atlantis USX is primarily a storage management solution

that creates an all-flash hyper converged solution. It is

software that integrates with any x86 server platform,

local flash storage, and 10GB Ethernet networking to

create a hyper-converged platform.


Atlantis USX increases solution efficiency via HyperDup

Content-Aware Data Services that leverage Atlantis real-

time deduplication technology and effectively offloads

IO before data traverses network or reaches storage.

Customers

www.atlantiscomputing.com/customers


Atlantis USX converged solutions support up to 300TB

of effective storage capacity in a 3 server configuration.

Security Features

Because Atlantis USX moves applications to a centrally

managed solution in the corporate datacenter, thenthere is less of a risk of a security breach or data loss.

Licensing/Pricing

Pricing is based on storage capacity, and the least

expensive configuration is $2 per gigabyte.

DataGravity Discovery Series(Click for online version)

http://datagravity.com/products

Description of Product: DataGravity Discovery claims to be a “data-aware” storage platform. It allows the tracking

of access and analyzing of data as it is stored. This can help you secure the data, intelligently retrieve it, reduce risk,

and streamline data management.

DATA GRAVITYhttp://datagravity.com


It is a primary storage system. Any VM-aware system

can use the Datagravity Discovery Series.


Not Applicable, this is a data storage system.


Not Applicable, this is a data storage system.

Licensing/Pricing

Based on capacity. http://datagravity.com/pricing

Customers

Centria, 451 Research, tek Partners


The Discovery series provides simple deployment,

visibility into unstructured data, timely intelligence

and analytics, no production impact or performance,

enterprise class security and data awareness. Comes in18TB, 36TB, 48TB, and 96TB configurations.

Security Features

Identify and protect against sensitive data loss, monitor

unusual activity via alerts and audit trails, enable

eDiscovery and governance workflows, anomaly

and access detection, quickly recover from malicious

activities, see full access history via search and more.



http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/solutions/hyper-converged

http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/

http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/customers




http://datagravity.com/

http://datagravity.com/pricing

http://datagravity.com/pricing

http://datagravity.com/




http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/customers

http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/

http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/solutions/hyper-converged





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Gridstore All-Flash HyperConverged Appliance(Click for online version)

www.gridstore.com/products/gridstore-3/#hyperconverged-appliance

Description of Product: Gridstore’s award winning all-flash hyper converged Infrastructure offers leading price/

performance, efficient scaling, and scale-to-fit design. The Gridstore HCI is easy and fast to deploy while reducing

management time and effort. Leveraging its patented software, Gridstore HCI delivers 75% less physical infrastructure

65% lower cost/VM and supports more VMs than traditional solutions.

GRIDSTORE, INCwww.gridstore.com


Hyper-V


A Gridstore all-flash HCA delivers the resources to

run a data center. Each has 4 independent nodes with

configurable cores, RAM, NICs and flash storage (select

from configurations tailored to workloads). Erasure

encoding and all-flash technology result in 50% lower

TCO and delivers QoS per VM.


With compute, SAN, and storage housed in a single

2U appliance, Gridstore all-flash HCI removes network

cabling issues forever. As a complete data center-in-

a-box, IT managers can deploy a Gridstore HCA in a

remote location and not worry about connectivity issues.

Customers

www.gridstore.com/customers


Gridstore HCI starts can grow from three nodes

supporting 92TB of affordable all-flash storage in a

2U enclosure to 256 nodes supporting 6PB of all-flash

storage. Patented software and all-flash technology

deliver the fastest performance for the lowest TCO for all

critical Windows workloads.

Security Features

Gridstore offers a fault tolerant, complete cloud-in-a-

box solution that improves security. Deploying VDI with

Gridstore improves end user satisfaction and protects

critical data. A partnership with 5nine Software, running

cloud security on a HCA ensures the highest level of

network & data security.

Nexenta OpenSDx(Click for online version)

https://nexenta.com/products

Description of Product: Nexenta OpenSDS (Open Source based Software-Defined Storage) solutions are pure

software based storage solutions running on vendor agnostic hardware providing customers freedom and

preventing vendor lock-in.

NEXENTAhttps://nexenta.com


ESXi, Xen


Not Applicable


Not Applicable

Licensing/Pricing

https://nexenta.com/how-buy

Customers

WiPro, GoDaddy, PaloAlto Networks, NASA, and more.


Nexenta delivers unified file storage such as NFS and

SMB and block storage such as Fibre Channel andiSCSI on industry standard hardware. It scales from

TeraBytes to PetaBye configurations. All management

functionality is included by default. Nexenta also delivers

scaling to OpenStack clouds.

Security Features

Security is handled at the OS level with features such as

IPtables ipfilter, etc. in Linux.



http://www.gridstore.com/products/gridstore-3/#hyperconverged-appliance

http://www.gridstore.com/

http://www.gridstore.com/customers




https://nexenta.com/



https://nexenta.com/




http://www.gridstore.com/customers

http://www.gridstore.com/

http://www.gridstore.com/products/gridstore-3/#hyperconverged-appliance





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SmartStack(Click for online version)

www.nimblestorage.com/solutions/smartstack

Description of Product: SmartStack is an integrated infrastructure solution jointly developed by Cisco and Nimble

Storage that integrates compute, network, and storage resources. SmartStack solutions are built upon Cisco Validated

Designs (CVDs) and reference architectures.

NIMBLE STORAGEwww.nimblestorage.com


ESXi, Hyper-V


Nimble Storage’s SmartStack reference architecture is

built on Cisco UCS servers. Cisco’s data center platform

that integrates industry-standard, x86-architecture Intel

processor–based servers with networking and storage

access into a single unified system.


Nimble Storage’s SmartStack reference architecture is

built on Cisco UCS platform integrating Cisco Nexus

switches, and Cisco UCS Manager. Cisco fabric extender

technology reduces the number of network layers by

directly connecting physical and virtual servers to the

system’s fabric interconnects.

Customers

www.nimblestorage.com/case-studies


Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Platform combines the

speed of flash storage with the cost-effective capacity

of a hard disk. Additionally, Nimble Storage InfoSight

is an analytics and storage management engine that is

designed to keep Nimble Storage arrays running in peak

conditions.

Security Features

SmartStack is built on industry-certified and integrated

infrastructure and bare-metal solutions. This allows

administrators to build virtual and cloud infrastructures

while maintaining the same level of security and policy

across all environments.

Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform(Click for online version)

http://go.nutanix.com/rs/nutanix/images/Datasheet_Official.pdf

Description of Product: The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform is a software-driven infrastructure solution that

converges storage, compute, and virtualization into a turnkey appliance that can be deployed in minutes. Data center

capacity can be expanded one node at a time without disruption, delivering predictable scalability and flexibility.

NUTANIXwww.nutanix.com


ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V, Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor


Nutanix Acropolis is a powerful scale-out data fabric for

storage, compute, and virtualization. Acropolis combines

software-defined storage with built-in virtualization in a

turnkey hyper-converged infrastructure solution that canrun any application at any scale.


Nutanix Acropolis builds on the core capabilities of

Nutanix HCI to incorporate an open platform for

virtualization and application mobility. A built-in

hypervisor and powerful open runtime environment

together deliver invisible virtualization capabilities for a

post-SAN world.

Customers

www.nutanix.com/customers


The Nutanix Xtreme Computing Platform delivers

enterprise data storage as an on-demand service by

employing a distributed software architecture. Nutanix

eliminates the need for traditional SAN and NASsolutions, and delivers a rich set of software-defined

services that are entirely VM-centric.

Security Features

Nutanix combines two-factor authentication and

data-at-rest encryption with a security development

lifecycle that is integrated into product development

to help customers meet the most stringent security

requirements.



http://www.nimblestorage.com/solutions/smartstack

http://www.nimblestorage.com/

http://www.nimblestorage.com/case-studies




http://www.nutanix.com/

http://www.nutanix.com/customers

http://www.nutanix.com/customers

http://www.nutanix.com/




http://www.nimblestorage.com/case-studies

http://www.nimblestorage.com/

http://www.nimblestorage.com/solutions/smartstack





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vSTAC OS and GHCI Servers(Click for online version)

http://pivot3.com/vstac-os-software

Description of Product: Pivot3’s global hyper converged infrastructure solution based on the vSTAC OS combines

clusters of hardware into a single virtualized share storage, compute and more into one single pane of glass on COTS

based hardware. This eliminates the need for separate physical storage are networks and servers.

PIVOT3http://pivot3.com


ESXi


vSTAC OS is used on Intel COTS based hardware server

configurations from standalone rack servers to blade

server configurations via partners. Stacks of 3 to 16

appliances can exist in one cluster, or “hyperconverged

protection group.” Scale is achieved with multiple

protection groups.


Aggregate up to 16 storage controller configurations or

12 servers for compute.

Customers

Not Provided


Scale to 864 TB in a protection group. Pivot3 pools

disk storage across appliances to form a Virtual SAN.

Dynamic Storage Management includes dynamic logical

and physical capacity expansion, load balancing, iSCSI

multi-path.

Security Features

State-sensitive LEDs, remote management via vSTAC

Manager, SNMP MIB support and remote notifications

via “Phone Home” functionality.

HC3(Click for online version)

www.scalecomputing.com/products/product-overview

Description of Product: Scale Computing’s HC3 virtualization platform is a complete ‘data center in a box’ with

server, storage, and virtualization integrated into a single appliance. With no virtualization software to license and no

external storage to buy, HC3 products lower out-of-pocket costs and simplify the infrastructure needed to keep

your applications running.

SCALE COMPUTINGwww.scalecomputing.com


KVM, Hyper-V, The HC3 includes Scale Computing’s own

open-source-based hypervisor.


The HC3 is available in 3 models: HC1000, HC2000, and

HC4100. At the top end, each 1-RU HC4100 can support

12xCPU cores, 24xCPU threads, and 128GB of RAM. The

chassis can be combined into an 8-node cluster that

multiplies the capacities.Network Virtualization Features and Capacity

The HC3 supports VM OS’s from Windows, Centos,

Redhat, Linux, Oracle, and Fedora. Each cluster is tested

to a maxiumum virtual disk size of 8TB, 26 virtual disks

per VM, and 8 NICs per VM.

Customers

Testimonials from current clients including KIB

Electronics, Sevier County Bank, Auburn University,

GEO Foundation, and Fidelity State Bank and Trust

can be found at www.scalecomputing.com/resources/

customer-case-studies


HC3 stripes and mirrors data across all of the drives in

the cluster in what is effectively a network RAID 10 suchthat there is no single point of failure. At the top end, the

HC4100 can support up to 14.4TB of data per chassis.

Security Features

The HC3 is an entry-level system and provides no

additional security feature beyond what are provided by

the OS’s of the installed VM’s




http://pivot3.com/



https://www.scalecomputing.com/products/product-overview

https://www.scalecomputing.com/

https://www.scalecomputing.com/resources/customer-case-studies




https://www.scalecomputing.com/

https://www.scalecomputing.com/products/product-overview



http://pivot3.com/






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SGI Servers, Storage, and Software(Click for online version)

www.sgi.com/products

Description of Product: SGI specializes in high performance computing data center environments using open systems

and industry standard components.

SILICON GRAPHICS

INTERNATIONAL CORPwww.sgi.com




SGI Rackable Servers range from four to eighteen core

Intel Xeon Processors and unto 1.5TB RAM per node. SGI

UV series servers for Super Computer power based on

Intel Xeon designs (up to 256 sockets). SGI ICE X series

“scale-out” platform for super computer applications (up

to 191 teraflops per rack).


SGI servers use Infiniband technologies to create high

speed cross connects for high speed clusters.

Customers

www.sgi.com/company_info/resources/case_studies.

html


SGI offers the InfiniteStorage series of products that

range from 240TB of raw capacity to systems of ups to

384 drives. Additional models and options optimize for

speed as well as capacity and redundancy/resiliency.

Security Features

Not Applicable

Licensing/Pricing

www.sgi.com/sales/askarep.html

OmniStack Data Virtualization Platform 3.0(Click for online version)

www.simplivity.com/products/omnistack-3-0

Description of Product: SimpliVity’s hyper-converged infrastructure provides powerful capabilities for multi- and

single-site deployments, advanced data protection, and data efficiency features. It delivers enterprise-gradescalability, performance, protection, and resiliency, with the cloud economics that businesses demand, resulting in

3x TCO reduction.

SIMPLIVITYwww.simplivity.com


KVM. At this time, SimpliVity supports KVM and VMware

vSphere/ESXi, with Microsoft Hyper-V in development.


With SimpliVity’s scale-out architecture, an IT

infrastructure can grow as a company does, allowing for

easy proof of concept and test/dev environments, and

enabling the ability for a company to start small and scale

as needed, in single-node or compute-only increments.


SimpliVity’s hyperconverged infrastructure utilizes

existing hypervisor technologies, leading network

virtualization technologies, and SimpliVity’s data

virtualization technology, so companies can realize

the full benefits of virtualizing their entire data center,

particularly workload mobility.

Customers

www.simplivity.com/resources/customer-testimonials


SimpliVity’s solution provides a building-block

approach to scaling storage that utilizes accelerated

inline deduplication, compression, and optimization

throughout the entire lifecycle of the data. SimpliVity

reduces the amount of I/O, thus delivering the optimal

performance with less hardware.

Security Features

SimpliVity assimilates 8-12 appliances into a single

solution that eliminates IT sprawl and complexity, which

reduces information security vulnerabilities. SimpliVity

also has solutions with Vormetric and HyTrust to protect

data and VMs through encryption, while delivering

superior performance.



http://www.sgi.com/products

http://www.sgi.com/

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/resources/case_studies.html


http://www.sgi.com/sales/askarep.html



https://www.simplivity.com/products/omnistack-3-0

https://www.simplivity.com/

https://www.simplivity.com/resources/customer-testimonials

https://www.simplivity.com/resources/customer-testimonials

https://www.simplivity.com/

https://www.simplivity.com/products/omnistack-3-0



http://www.sgi.com/sales/askarep.html



http://www.sgi.com/

http://www.sgi.com/products





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SkySecure(Click for online version)

www.skyportsystems.net/overview

Description of Product: Skyport provides secure enclaves for the applications you care about most. Skyport has

rearchitected the x86 hardware and software stack into a turnkey, trusted system with embedded security. Your data

stays on your premises, while Skyport’s cloud-based management verifies and documents continuous enforcement.

SKYPORT SYSTEMSwww.skyportsystems.ne


SkySecure is a converged compute, virtualization, and

security stack platform. It has an embedded hypervisor,

currently based on Xen.


Each SkySecure System has: 2x 8-core Intel Xeon

processor E5, 128 GB ECC DRAM, 2x 960GB SATA

SSD, 28 vCPUs, shared between VMs and security

compartments. A SkySecure I/O controller assures

security is always on in a separate subsystem. Thechassis is tamper-resistant and exposes zero-ports.


SkySecure dynamically configures a private DMZ

network to establish a secure enclave for each VM using

SDN technologies. This secured network environment

provides either layer 2 or layer 3 connectivity and also

incorporates extensive network security controls and

anti-spoofing protections.

Customers

www.skyportsystems.net/partners


SkySecure systems have 2x 960GB SATA SSDs in the

chassis for hardware encrypted storage, and features

support for mounting external shared file systems, such

as with NFS. The system also includes builtin backup

management facilities that are secured and audited.

Security Features

SkySecure builds-in: Per-VM DMZ and firewall to stop

surveillance, attacks, and data exfiltration; Integrity

verification to provide confidence no malware, viruses, or

rootkits are installed; A security I/O coprocessor assures

security is on and cannot be bypassed; Lifetime storage

of evidence.

EVO:RAIL(Click for online version)

www.supermicro.com/solutions/EVO_RAIL.cfm

Description of Product: Super Micro (Supermicro) produces a complete hyper converged Infrastructure appliance

based on VMware’s EVO:RAIL architecture. It combines compute, networking and storage resources into a single 2U,

4-node form factor to create a simple, easy-to-deploy building block for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC).

SUPER MICRO COMPUTER INCwww.supermicro.com


ESXi


The SuperMicro EVO:RAIL solution is available with

either the SYS-2028TP-VRL Series with 2x Intel E5-

2630v3 (8 cores per CPU) or the SYS-2028TP-VRLX

Series with 2x Intel E5-2670v3 (12 cores per CPU).


The EVO:RAIL runs VMware Sphere, vCenter Server, and

VMware Virtual SAN software and provides for up to

200 virtual machines per 2RU chassis.

Customers

No public references are listed for Supemicro’s

EVO:RAIL


The SYS-2028TP-VRL Series supports 1x 400GB SSD for

cache, 3x 1.2TB HDD for 3.6TB capacity per chassis, and

the SYS-2028TP-VRLX Series supports 1x 800GB SSD

for cache, 5x 1.2TB HDD for 6TB capacity.

Security Features

The Supermicro EVO:RAIL supports all the integrated

security features that are built into VMware’s vSphere

and vServer software.



https://www.skyportsystems.net/overview

http://www.skyportsystems.net/

https://www.skyportsystems.net/partners



http://www.supermicro.com/solutions/EVO_RAIL.cfm

http://www.supermicro.com/

http://www.supermicro.com/

http://www.supermicro.com/solutions/EVO_RAIL.cfm



https://www.skyportsystems.net/partners

http://www.skyportsystems.net/

https://www.skyportsystems.net/overview





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Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance 2800(Click for online version)

www.teradata.com/products-and-services/Data-Appliance

Description of Product: The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance is a fully-integrated system purpose-built for data

warehousing. The appliance features the industry leading Teradata Database, a Teradata platform with dual Intel Xeon

fourteen-core processors, SUSE linux operating system, and enterprise class storage all preinstalled into a

power-efficient unit.

TERADATAwww.teradata.com


No hypervisor is present in the Teradata Data Warehouse

appliance


The Teradata Data Warehouse Appliance features Dual

Intel Xeon processors E5-2697 v3, each with 14 cores

running at 2.6GHz. Its linux software-based, shared-

nothing architecture delivers always-on parallelism so even

the toughest, most complex queries complete quickly.


The only virtualization in the appliance is for

management. It features a single, 1U server for database,

hardware, and infrastructure management. Teradata

Viewpoint, Teradata Service Workstation, and cabinet

management interface controller provide a single

operational view for managing the system.

Customers

3M, 7-11, Air Canada, Ace Hardware, Applebees


Each node has up to 512GB of memory, with up to 12

nodes per cabinet. With compression enabled, the

system is scalable to more than 54 petabytes with

1200GB drives.

Security Features

The appliance has several security features including:

user authentication (through single sign-on, trusted

sessions, and LDAP), IP filters, user authorization,

security roles, network encryption, disk encryption, and

data encryption.

EVO:RAIL (Click for online version)

www.vmware.com/products/evorail

Description of Product: EVO:RAIL combines VMware compute, network, storage, and management resources into

a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to create a simple, easy-to-manage, all-in-one solution for all your

virtualized workloads, including tier-1 production and mission-critical applications. Offered by selected partners,

EVO:RAIL is backed by a single point of contact for software and hardware support.

VMWARE

www.vmware.com


ESXi


EVO:RAIL is certified to work on a variety of partner

hardware including Fujitsu, Hitachi, Dell, EMC,

Supermicro, and others. The compute features will varydepending on the hardware selected, but it can support

up to 8 x Intel E5 Processors, Ivy Bridge or Haswell (48,

64, 80, 96 or 144 cores).


Each 2U appliance can support up to 4 nodes and

800 VMs. A cluster can be configured with up to 16

appliances and 12,800 VMs per cluster.

Customers

www.vmware.com/a/customers/product/71/EVO:RAIL


Depending upon the particular partner hardware

chosen, the EVO:RAIL can support up to 16 or 27.2

TB Hybrid Storage (HDD/SSD). It includes VMwarevSphere Data Protection Advanced (VDPA) for backup

protection and vSphere Replication, for replication. Many

3rd-party backup soluitons are also available.

Security Features

EVO:RAIL offers high-availability and built-in security

policies. It also is fully compatible with the entire VMware

portfolio such as vSphere Replication, VMware vRealize

Suite, VMware NSX , VMware Horizon and vCloud Air,

and all the security features they support.



http://www.teradata.com/products-and-services/Data-Appliance

http://www.teradata.com/



http://www.vmware.com/products/evorail

https://www.vmware.com/

http://www.vmware.com/a/customers/product/71/EVO:RAIL

http://www.vmware.com/a/customers/product/71/EVO:RAIL

https://www.vmware.com/

http://www.vmware.com/products/evorail


http://www.teradata.com/

http://www.teradata.com/products-and-services/Data-Appliance





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Arkin Visibility Platform and Cloud Service(Click for online version)

www.arkin.net/converged-infrastructure-visibility

Description of Product: The Arkin Visibility Platform and Cloud Service provides IT managers peerless visibility,

contextual analytics, and a collaboration platform for converged systems. The platform provides simplicity and

consumer class collaboration. The Arkin solutions supports technologies such as VMware NSX, Cisco UCS, VCE

Vblocks, Palo Alto Networks firewalls, and others. The platform can be deployed on-premise or consumed as a service

in the Arkin cloud (SaaS).

ARKINwww.arkin.ne


The Arkin Platform and Cloud Service is an operations

and visualization platform.


N/A as the Arkin Platform is a visualization and

collaboration platform supporting the new converged

and hyperconverged data center technologies.


The Arkin platform provides a 360 degree view of

workloads including layer 3 connectivity through logical

and physical components such as routers, switches,

L2 networks and firewalls. The platform also supports

ECMP, VRRP, HSRP, GLBP and routing protocols like

OSPF, and BGP.

Customers

Arkin does not provide a list of customers.


N/A as the Arkin Platform is a visualization and



Security FeaturesN/A as the Arkin Platform is a visualization and



Cumulus Networks DVC Converged Infrastructure

(Click for online version)

https://cumulusnetworks.com/solutions/converged-infrastructures

Description of Product: Dell, VMware, and Cumulus Networks are partnering to deliver a converged infrastructure

solution that consists of VMware NSX with Cumulus Linux on Dell Open Networking switches. The solution is

available from Dell. Cumulus Linux is a Linux-based network operating system that runs on top of industry standard

networking hardware.

CUMULUS NETWORKShttps://cumulusnetworks.com


ESXi, KVM


This multivendor solution utilizes the Dell PowerEdge

blade servers and M1000e blade enclosures for thecompute components.


Dell provides the S4810-ON and S6000-ON switches

for a scalable layer 3 underlay fabric and the S6000-ON

for L2 gateway functions. Cumulus Linux provides zero-

touch network installation using ONIE, VXLAN support,

L2 gateway services, and integration with VMware NSX.

Customers

https://cumulusnetworks.com/cumulus-linux/customers


The Cumulus DVC solution supports Dells’ rapid access

to SAN-based media sources with ‘fluid cache’ forSAN in-server storage-caching technology, redundant

embedded hypervisors, fault-resilient memory and

multiple RAID options.

Security Features

VMware NSX provides essential isolation, security and

the desired segmentation of network traffic where

communication is controlled through a policy. Security is

shrink-wrapped around each workload wherein faults &

threats are contained with micro-granularity.



http://www.arkin.net/converged-infrastructure-visibility

http://www.arkin.net/




https://cumulusnetworks.com/



https://cumulusnetworks.com/




http://www.arkin.net/

http://www.arkin.net/converged-infrastructure-visibility





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PicOS(Click for online version)

www.pica8.com/products/picos

Description of Product: PicOS eliminates vendor lock-in by delivering open, hardware-agnostic networking. Built on

Linux, PicOS incorporates a full Layer-2 and Layer-3 feature set with support for OpenFlow, OVSDB, and other key

SDN protocols such as VXLAN. PicOS enables customers to deliver differentiated network applications and services

on white box switches.

PICA8, INCwww.pica8.com




Pica8 sees white box switching hardware moving to x86

type CPUs to enable tool sharing between the server

and network sides of the data center.


PicOS has integration with OpenStack using a Neutronplugin (https://github.com/Pica8) and with ODL. PicOS

has also been integrated with VMware’s NSX, Midokura

and CPLANE using OVSDB.

Customers

Factual, TOU-IX, Baidu, Yahoo! Japan


Not Applicable

Security Features

PicOS supports expected switching security features

including SSH/SSL/TLS, TACACS+, AAA / Radius,

L2/L3/L4 ACLs, DoS protection, multi-level userauthentication and more.

Licensing/Pricing

www.pica8.com/products/picos



http://www.pica8.com/products/picos

http://www.pica8.com/

https://github.com/Pica8



https://github.com/Pica8

http://www.pica8.com/






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Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA

www.sdxcentral.com

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