Dell onthult programma’s om de ARM-gebaseerde
server-ecosystemen te ondersteunen
Dell kondigt aan dat het bedrijf tegemoet komt aan de eisen
van klanten voor verdere innovatie ter ondersteuning van hyperschaalbare
omgevingen en het mogelijk maken van een ecosysteem voor ARM-gebaseerde
servers. De markt van ARM-gebaseerde servers nadert een keerpunt dat wordt
gekenmerkt door toenemende belangstelling van klanten in het testen en
ontwikkelen van toepassingen. Dell gelooft dat nu het moment is om de
ontwikkeling en het testen van besturingssystemen en toepassingen voor
ARM-servers te stimuleren.
Klanten hebben grote interesse getoond in het ontdekken van
de voordelen van de ARM-gebaseerde server en hoe zij deze kunnen toepassen in
een hyperschaalbare omgeving. Dell gelooft dat ARM-infrastructuren veel te
bieden hebben voor web front-end en Hadoop-omgevingen, waar de
prestatievoordelen per dollar en per watt belangrijk zijn. Het
ARM-server-ecosysteem is nog steeds in ontwikkeling en veelvuldig beschikbaar
in open-source, niet-productieversies. De huidige focus is op het ondersteunen
van de ontwikkeling van dat ecosysteem. Dell heeft programma’s ontwikkeld die
de huidige markttrends ondersteunen en biedt lichtgewicht, high-performance
seed units en een eenvoudige toegang op afstand tot ontwikkelingsclusters.
Dell “Copper” ARM server seed unit-programma
zal softwareontwikkeling en verificatie ondersteunen voor een klein aantal
klanten wereldwijd, variërend van leiders in de hyperschaalbare markt tot
kleinere klanten in een webomgeving. Momenteel is de Dell “Copper” ARM-server
niet algemeen beschikbaar. Dell zal doorgaan met het ondersteunen van de
ontwikkeling van de ecosystemen en de ARM-servers algemeen beschikbaar stellen
in de toekomst.
Dell plaatst de clusters van de Dell “Copper” ARM-server
binnen de Dell Solutions Centers met TACC, zodat ontwikkelaars tijd
kunnen reserveren op de platforms. Dell zal in de toekomst ook een ARM
ondersteunde versie leveren van Crowbar, Dell’s open-source
management infrastructuursoftware.
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Dell
Unveils Programmes to Enable the ARM-based Server Ecosystem and Accelerate
Development and Testing of ARM-based Applications and Solutions
·
Dell
enables customers and the developer community through:
o
Promoting
open development environments and collaboration with remote-accessible clusters
of ARM-based servers via Dell Solution Centers and partnership with Texas Advanced Computing
Center (TACC), which will be available to developers worldwide
o
Delivering
Dell ARM-based servers to select hyperscale customers and partners
BRACKNELL,
United Kingdom, 29th May 2012 – Dell today announced it is responding to the
demands of our customers for continued innovation in support of hyperscale
environments, and enabling the ecosystem for ARM-based servers. The
ARM-based server market is approaching an inflection point, marked by
increasing customer interest in testing and developing applications, and Dell believes
now is the right time to help foster development and testing of operating
systems and applications for ARM servers.
Dell is
recognised as an industry leader in both the x86 architecture and the
hyperscale server market segments. Dell began testing ARM server technology
internally in 2010 in response to increasing customer demands for density and
power efficiency, and worked closely with select Dell Data Center Solutions
(DCS) hyperscale customers to understand their interest level and expectations
for ARM-based servers. Today’s announcement is a natural extension of Dell’s
server leadership and the company’s continued focus on delivering next
generation technology innovation.
As part of
this effort, Dell is enabling customers and partners to develop on ARM servers
in three ways:
1.
Continuing
delivery of the Dell “Copper” ARM server to select customers and
partners.
2.
Delivering
servers to key ecosystem partners such as Canonical and Cloudera, to support
their development activities.
3.
Enabling
continued software and ecosystem testing and development by providing
remote-accessible Copper server clusters deployed in Dell Solution Centers, and through its deep partnership with Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).
Customers
have expressed great interest in understanding ARM-based server advantages and
how they may apply to their hyperscale environments. Dell believes ARM
infrastructures demonstrate promise for web front-end and Hadoop environments,
where advantages in performance per dollar and performance per watt are
critical. The ARM server ecosystem is still developing, and largely available
in open-source, non-production versions, and the current focus is on supporting
development of that ecosystem. Dell has designed its programmes to
support today’s market realities by providing lightweight, high-performance
seed units and easy remote access to development clusters.
The Dell
“Copper” ARM server seed unit programme will support software development and
verification with a small number of customers worldwide ranging from the
leaders in the hyperscale industry to smaller customers in focused web environments.
At present, the Dell “Copper” ARM server is not generally available. Dell will
continue to help enable ecosystem development, and bring ARM servers to general
availability at the appropriate time.
Dell is
working to enable software development for ARM-based server solutions, together
with other leading industry partners such as Canonical and Cloudera. The
partnership with these companies, and soon others in Dell’s Emerging Solutions Ecosystem, will help customers and the
industry scope and test new applications.
Dell is
staging clusters of the Dell “Copper” ARM server within the Dell Solution
Centers and with TACC so developers may book time on the platforms. Dell also
will deliver an ARM-supported version of Crowbar, Dell’s open-source management
infrastructure software, to the industry in the future.
Supporting
Quotes:
“Dell
has a long history of addressing customer needs by delivering relevant
innovation across the server portfolio, and within its Data Center Solutions
business. Today Dell is delivering this same innovation focus to the ARM server
market, working hand-in-hand with customers and the community to enable
development and testing of workloads for leading-edge hyperscale environments.
We recognise the market potential for ARM servers, and with our experience and
understanding of the market, are enabling developers with the right systems and
access for the current state of the ARM server market maturity.”– Forrest
Norrod, vice president and general manager, Server Solutions, Dell
“Ubuntu
is the prevalent OS for scale-out workloads such as Hadoop, Condor, Memcached
and edge-of-the-network web servers. The latest release, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, is
the first widely-certified enterprise platform with full support for ARM. That
combination makes Ubuntu a great fit for the first generation of ARM servers.
Canonical - the company behind Ubuntu - is delighted to support Dell in bringing
hyperscale ARM server products to market.” – Mark Shuttleworth, founder of
Ubuntu and leader of Canonical product and design
"As
the leader in Apache Hadoop and Big Data systems, we are continuously seeking
new technologies that can help our Big Data platforms operate at the next level
of efficiency. We are very excited about the ARM based server line from Dell,
as this technology will allow our customers to pack more processing heft into a
smaller data centre footprint and do so with a significantly lower energy
consumption profile." - Amr Awadallah, co-founder and CTO of
Cloudera
“Within
data centres, the need to improve performance per watt while decreasing power
consumption will continue to be strong area of concern for data centre
developers, and forcing them to find ways of incorporating density optimised
servers into the data centres. We saw Dell’s DCS division become an early
innovator and subsequent market leader with customised server solutions
stemming from deep engagement with hyperscale customers. Dell is smartly
extending this strategy to help foster the ARM ecosystem while providing a
robust, reasonably priced testing and development platform with its new Dell
Copper ARM server.” - Matt Eastwood, Group Vice President, IDC Enterprise
Platforms.
“We are
excited to see the growing enthusiasm and demand in the customer and developer
communities for energy efficient server solutions based on ARM processor
technology. Dell’s programme creates a platform for the industry that
demonstrates the benefits of ARM processor based system-on-chips in servers,
and also enables the opportunity to develop new applications and solutions to
address the divergent requirements of cloud based computing. Given Dell’s
extensive experience and expertise in the hyperscale market, we’re delighted to
be partnering with them at the leading edge of energy efficient server
innovation to make this a reality.”- Lance Howarth, EVP marketing at ARM
"Dell's
approach to maturing the ARM server ecosystem is the right one, and Marvell is
very pleased to collaborate with them. Today's data centers run the distinct
risk of over-extension due to the rising popularity of connected lifestyles and
the resulting explosion in unstructured data. A key component of Marvell's
all-encompassing cloud-services platform, the Marvell(r) ARMADA(r) XP series of
multi-core processors, represents a benchmark in security, scalability,
performance and power conservation - ultimately offering a vast amount of
headroom to cloud service providers looking to reinforce their capacities for
the long haul." - Paul Valentine, vice president of marketing for the
Cloud Services and Infrastructure (CSI) Business Unit of Marvell Semiconductor,
Inc.
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