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Industry-Leading AMD Pensando DPUs Enable Accelerated Data Centers with VMware vSphere 8

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— AMD Pensando high-performance Distributed Services Card currently deployed at scale across hyperscalers, cloud service providers and enterprises —

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced that the AMD Pen­san­do Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Card, powered by the industry’s most advan­ced data pro­ces­sing unit (DPU)1, will be one of the first DPU solu­ti­ons to sup­port VMware vSphe­re® 8 available from lea­ding ser­ver ven­dors inclu­ding Dell Tech­no­lo­gies, HPE and Lenovo.

As data cen­ter appli­ca­ti­ons grow in sca­le and sophisti­ca­ti­on, the resul­ting workloads increase the demand on infra­struc­tu­re ser­vices as well as cru­cial CPU resour­ces. VMware vSphe­re 8 aims to reim­agi­ne IT infra­struc­tu­re as a com­posable archi­tec­tu­re with a goal of off­loa­ding infra­struc­tu­re workloads such as net­wor­king, sto­rage, and secu­ri­ty from the CPU by lever­aging the new vSphe­re Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne, free­ing up valuable CPU cycles to be used for busi­ness func­tions and reve­nue gene­ra­ting applications.

The ful­ly pro­gramma­ble AMD Pen­san­do DPU is at the core of this shift toward soft­ware-defi­ned infra­struc­tu­re. The VMware vSphe­re Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne and AMD Pen­san­do DPUs can help cus­to­mers redu­ce ope­ra­tio­nal cos­ts by uni­fy­ing workload manage­ment, impro­ving per­for­mance by free­ing up CPU resour­ces, and pro­vi­ding an added lay­er of secu­ri­ty by iso­la­ting infra­struc­tu­re ser­vices from ser­ver ten­ant workloads. Ear­ly cus­to­mers of vSphe­re Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne, acce­le­ra­ted by AMD Pen­san­do DPUs, include a lea­ding finan­cial ser­vices pro­vi­der, a mul­ti-cloud solu­ti­ons hos­ter and a lea­ding busi­ness appli­ca­ti­ons company.

“Per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and secu­ri­ty are inte­gral com­pon­ents of com­pe­ti­ti­ve offe­rings within cloud com­pu­ting and hyper­con­ver­ged infra­struc­tu­re,” said For­rest Nor­rod, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Data Cen­ter Solu­ti­ons Group, AMD. “VMware vSphe­re 8, run­ning on AMD Pen­san­do DPUs, is a key step in brin­ging the indus­try clo­ser to com­posable hard­ware sys­tems and tru­ly per­va­si­ve hete­ro­ge­neous com­pu­ting. AMD is uni­que­ly posi­tio­ned in the indus­try to deli­ver per­for­mance, effi­ci­en­cy and secu­ri­ty with a dis­tri­bu­ted ser­vices plat­form that is curr­ent­ly deploy­ed with major cus­to­mers inclu­ding Gold­man Sachs, Micro­soft Azu­re, Net­APP, IBM Cloud and Ora­cle Cloud.”

“Modern appli­ca­ti­ons are dri­ving workload spe­ci­fic requi­re­ments into the infra­struc­tu­re. This has given rise to the need to reim­agi­ne data cen­ter archi­tec­tu­re with main­stream sup­port for acce­le­ra­tors such as DPUs,” said Krish Pra­sad, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, VMware Cloud Plat­form Busi­ness, VMware. “With com­bi­ned solu­ti­ons fea­turing VMware vSphe­re 8 with Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne capa­bi­li­ties and AMD Pen­san­do DPUs and EPYC CPUs, cus­to­mers can impro­ve infra­struc­tu­re per­for­mance, boost infra­struc­tu­re secu­ri­ty and sup­port the evo­lu­ti­on of cloud infra­struc­tu­re for modern applications.”

“Tog­e­ther with VMware and AMD, HPE con­ti­nues to defi­ne the enter­pri­se archi­tec­tu­re of the next deca­de,” said Kris­ta Sat­ter­thwai­te, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Main­stream Com­pu­te, HPE. “The HPE Pro­Li­ant, with vSphe­re Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne, opti­mi­zes resour­ces for data-inten­si­ve appli­ca­ti­ons by reli­e­ving the CPU of net­wor­king ser­vices, all with zero-trust secu­ri­ty and high-per­for­mance. The new inte­gra­ted solu­ti­on offers cus­to­mers a sim­pli­fied ope­ra­tio­nal expe­ri­ence com­bi­ning net­wor­king, secu­ri­ty, sto­rage, manage­ment, and life­cy­cle ser­vices to boost appli­ca­ti­on per­for­mance and impro­ve TCO.”

“Orga­niza­ti­ons are incre­asing­ly see­king IT infra­struc­tu­re that is com­posable and deli­vers a cloud-like expe­ri­ence whe­re­ver their data lives,” said Ashish Nad­kar­ni, group vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Infra­struc­tu­re Sys­tems, Plat­forms and Tech­no­lo­gies and Buy­er­View Rese­arch, IDC. “AMD Pensando’s volu­me deploy­ments with cloud pro­vi­ders are a clear indi­ca­ti­on of the capa­bi­li­ties of the plat­form, we expect to see a high degree of inte­rest from enter­pri­ses inte­res­ted in vSphe­re Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Engi­ne deployments.”

VMware also intro­du­ced seve­ral new fea­tures to their enter­pri­se workload plat­form, VMware vSphe­re 8. The deep col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween AMD and VMware con­ti­nues to deli­ver on the secu­ri­ty cus­to­mers have come to expect from the AMD Infi­ni­ty Guard set of fea­tures, inclu­ding the AMD Secu­re Encrypt­ed Vir­tua­liza­ti­on (SEV) and Secu­re Encrypt­ed Vir­tua­liza­ti­on – Encrypt­ed Sta­te (SEV-ES) advan­ced tech­no­lo­gy fea­tures of AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors. Final­ly, VMware announ­ced the latest update to their soft­ware defi­ned sto­rage solu­ti­on, vSAN 8. AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors con­ti­nue to offer excep­tio­nal per­for­mance for tra­di­tio­nal and next-gen workloads on VMware HCI powered by vSAN 8.

VMware vSphe­re 8 solu­ti­ons from Dell Tech­no­lo­gies and HPE, acce­le­ra­ted by AMD Pen­san­do Dis­tri­bu­ted Ser­vices Card, will be available in the coming months. AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor sup­port for VMware vSphe­re 8 will be available upon launch.

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1 The AMD Pen­san­do DPU is ship­ping today based on a 7nm pro­cess with sup­port for 400G through­put which places it at least one gene­ra­ti­on ahead of any other DPU on the mar­ket. Clo­sest com­pe­ti­tor is based on a 16nm process.