Veri­zon and AMD crea­te tech­no­lo­gy that trans­forms the public cloud, deli­ve­ring the industry’s most advan­ced cloud capabilities

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 7, 2013 – AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announ­ced that Veri­zon is deploy­ing Sea­Mi­cro SM15000™ ser­vers for its new glo­bal cloud plat­form and cloud-based object sto­rage ser­vice, who­se public beta was recent­ly announ­ced. AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver links hundreds of cores tog­e­ther in a sin­gle sys­tem using a frac­tion of the power and space of tra­di­tio­nal ser­vers. To enable Verizon’s next gene­ra­ti­on solu­ti­on, tech­no­lo­gy has been taken one step fur­ther: Veri­zon and AMD co-deve­lo­ped addi­tio­nal hard­ware and soft­ware tech­no­lo­gy on the SM15000 ser­ver that pro­vi­des unpre­ce­den­ted per­for­mance and best-in-class relia­bi­li­ty backed by enter­pri­se-level ser­vice level agree­ments (SLAs). The com­bi­na­ti­on of the­se tech­no­lo­gies co-deve­lo­ped by AMD and Veri­zon ushers in a new era of enter­pri­se-class cloud ser­vices by enab­ling a hig­her level of con­trol over secu­ri­ty and per­for­mance SLAs. With this tech­no­lo­gy under­pin­ning the new Veri­zon Cloud Com­pu­te and Veri­zon Cloud Sto­rage, enter­pri­se cus­to­mers can for the first time con­fi­dent­ly deploy mis­si­on-cri­ti­cal sys­tems in the public cloud.

“We reinven­ted the public cloud from the ground up to spe­ci­fi­cal­ly address the needs of our enter­pri­se cli­ents,” said John Con­sidi­ne, chief tech­no­lo­gy offi­cer at Veri­zon Ter­re­mark.  “We wan­ted to give them back con­trol of their infra­struc­tu­re – pro­vi­ding the speed and fle­xi­bi­li­ty of a gene­ric public cloud with the per­for­mance and secu­ri­ty they expect from an enter­pri­se-gra­de cloud. Our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD enab­led us to deve­lop revo­lu­tio­na­ry tech­no­lo­gy, and it repres­ents the back­bone of our future plans.”

As part of its joint deve­lo­p­ment, AMD and Veri­zon co-deve­lo­ped hard­ware and soft­ware to reser­ve, allo­ca­te and gua­ran­tee appli­ca­ti­on SLAs.  AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro Free­dom™ fabric-based SM15000 ser­ver deli­vers the industry’s first and only pro­gramma­ble ser­ver hard­ware that includes a high band­width, low laten­cy pro­gramma­ble inter­con­nect fabric, and pro­gramma­ble data and con­trol pla­ne for both net­work and sto­rage traf­fic.  Lever­aging AMD’s pro­gramma­ble ser­ver hard­ware, Veri­zon deve­lo­ped uni­que soft­ware to gua­ran­tee and deli­ver relia­bi­li­ty, unhe­ral­ded per­for­mance gua­ran­tees and SLAs for enter­pri­se cloud com­pu­ting services.

“Veri­zon has a clear visi­on for the future of the public cloud services—services that are more fle­xi­ble, more relia­ble and gua­ran­teed,” said Andrew Feld­man, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Ser­ver, AMD. “The tech­no­lo­gy we deve­lo­ped turns the cloud para­digm upsi­de down by crea­ting a ser­vice that an enter­pri­se can con­fi­gu­re and con­trol as if the equip­ment were in its own data cen­ter.  With this inno­va­ti­on in cloud ser­vices, I expect enter­pri­ses to migra­te their core IT ser­vices and mis­si­on cri­ti­cal appli­ca­ti­ons to Verizon’s cloud services.”

“The rapid, relia­ble and sca­lable deli­very of cloud com­pu­te and sto­rage ser­vices is the key to com­pe­ting suc­cessful­ly in any cloud mar­ket from infra­struc­tu­re, to plat­form, to appli­ca­ti­on; and enter­pri­ses are con­stant­ly asking for more as they alter their busi­ness models to thri­ve in a mobi­le and ana­ly­tic world,” said Richard Vil­lars, vice pre­si­dent, Dat­a­cen­ter & Cloud at IDC.  “Next gene­ra­ti­on inte­gra­ted IT solu­ti­ons like AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 pro­vi­de a fle­xi­ble yet high-per­for­mance plat­form upon which com­pa­nies like Veri­zon can build the next gene­ra­ti­on of cloud ser­vice offerings.”

Inno­va­ti­ve Veri­zon Cloud Capa­bi­li­ties on AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 Ser­ver Indus­try Firsts

Veri­zon lever­a­ged the Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 server’s abili­ty to dis­ag­gre­ga­te ser­ver resour­ces to crea­te a cloud opti­mi­zed for com­pu­ting and sto­rage ser­vices. Veri­zon and AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro engi­neers work­ed for over two years to crea­te a revo­lu­tio­na­ry public cloud plat­form with enter­pri­se class capabilities.

The­se new capa­bi­li­ties include:

· Vir­tu­al machi­ne ser­ver pro­vi­sio­ning in seconds, a frac­tion of the time of a lega­cy public cloud;

· Fine-grai­ned ser­ver con­fi­gu­ra­ti­on opti­ons that match real life requi­re­ments, not just small, medi­um, lar­ge sizing, inclu­ding pro­ces­sor speed (500 MHz to 2,000 MHz) and DRAM (.5 GB incre­ments) options;

· Shared disks across mul­ti­ple ser­ver ins­tances ver­sus requi­ring each vir­tu­al machi­ne to have its own dedi­ca­ted drive;

· Defi­ned sto­rage qua­li­ty of ser­vice by spe­ci­fy­ing per­for­mance up to 5,000 IOPS to meet the demands of the appli­ca­ti­on being deploy­ed, com­pared to best-effort performance;

· Con­sis­tent net­work secu­ri­ty poli­ci­es and pro­ce­du­res across the enter­pri­se net­work and the public cloud;

· Strict traf­fic iso­la­ti­on, data encryp­ti­on, and data inspec­tion with full fea­tured fire­walls that achie­ve Depart­ment of Defen­se and PCI com­pli­ance levels;

· Gua­ran­teed net­work per­for­mance for every vir­tu­al machi­ne with reser­ved net­work per­for­mance up to 500 Mbps com­pared to no gua­ran­tees in many other public clouds.

The public beta for Veri­zon Cloud will launch in the fourth quar­ter. Com­pa­nies inte­res­ted in beco­ming a beta cus­to­mer can sign up through the Veri­zon Enter­pri­se Solu­ti­ons web­site: www.verizonenterprise.com/verizoncloud.

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 Server

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 sys­tem is the hig­hest-den­si­ty, most ener­gy-effi­ci­ent ser­ver in the mar­ket. In 10 rack units, it links 512 com­pu­te cores, 160 giga­bits of I/O net­wor­king, more than five peta­bytes of sto­rage with a 1.28 tera­byte high-per­for­mance super­com­pu­te fabric, cal­led Free­dom™ Fabric. The SM15000 ser­ver eli­mi­na­tes top-of-rack swit­ches, ter­mi­nal ser­vers, hundreds of cables and thou­sands of unneces­sa­ry com­pon­ents for a more effi­ci­ent and simp­le ope­ra­tio­nal environment.

AMD’s Sea­Mi­cro ser­ver pro­duct fami­ly curr­ent­ly sup­ports the next gene­ra­ti­on AMD Opte­ron™ (“Piledri­ver”) pro­ces­sor, Intel® Xeon® E3-1260L (“San­dy Bridge”) and E3-1265L­v2  (“Ivy Bridge”) and Intel® Atom™ N570 pro­ces­sors. The Sea­Mi­cro SM15000 ser­ver also sup­ports the Free­dom Fabric Sto­rage pro­ducts, enab­ling a sin­gle sys­tem to con­nect with more than five peta­bytes of sto­rage capa­ci­ty in two racks. This approach deli­vers the bene­fits of expen­si­ve and com­plex solu­ti­ons such as net­work atta­ched sto­rage (NAS) and sto­rage area net­wor­king (SAN) with the sim­pli­ci­ty and low cost of direct atta­ched storage.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on the Veri­zon Cloud imple­men­ta­ti­on, plea­se visit: www.seamicro.com/vzcloud.

About AMD

AMD (NYSE: AMD) designs and inte­gra­tes tech­no­lo­gy that powers mil­li­ons of intel­li­gent devices, inclu­ding per­so­nal com­pu­ters, tablets, game con­so­les and cloud ser­vers that defi­ne the new era of sur­round com­pu­ting. AMD solu­ti­ons enable peo­p­le ever­y­whe­re to rea­li­ze the full poten­ti­al of their favo­ri­te devices and appli­ca­ti­ons to push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visit www.amd.com.

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