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OVH.com Launches World's first ARMv8-Based Public Cloud Powered by Cavium's ThunderX Workload Optimi
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OVH.com, the world’s third largest Internet Hosting Company announced the world’s first ARMv8 based public cloud for scalable compute and storage powered by Cavium’s flagship 48 core 64-bit ARMv8-A ThunderX workload optimized processor. Cavium is a leading provider of products that enable secure and intelligent processing for enterprise, data center, wired and wireless networking. These platforms will be available to OVH.com customers starting this quarter.
OVH.com offers a vast range of IT services for businesses and technophiles in particular. From web hosting to virtual data centers, dedicated servers and storage solutions, all of their services benefit from continuous innovation and are regularly enriched with new features. With 700,000 customers across 16 countries, 17 Data Centers, hosting a total of 200,000 servers, 18M web applications hosted, OVH.com is one of the largest Internet hosting providers in the world. The ThunderX powered cloud service will be offered on RunAbove, an OVH brand that delivers public cloud on steroids combining the power of bare metal with the flexibility and high availability of the public cloud.
OVH.com is a leader in delivering innovative technologies to their customers. OVH is constantly looking for opportunities to reduce customer costs while improving user experience. Cavium’s ThunderX processors provide an ideal building block for RunAbove public cloud. RunAbove ThunderX customers benefit from the fine-grained control of a large number of cores, integrated standard low latency Ethernet fabric, 10/40/100 GbE networking, end-to-end virtualization enabled through virtSoC™ technology, and powerful integrated accelerators for packet processing, security, deep packet inspection and virtualization. OVH will leverage both ThunderX_CP and ThunderX_ST workload optimized processor SKUs to deliver fast and scalable compute and storage services seamlessly provisioned by OpenStack ™.
“This deployment is an example of OVH.Com’s leadership in delivering latest industry leading technologies to our customers,” said Miroslaw KLABA, VP R&D of OVH.Com. “With RunAbove ThunderX based instances, we can offer our users breakthrough performance at the lowest cost while optimizing the infrastructure for targeted compute and storage workloads delivering best in class TCO and user experience,” he added.
“Cloud service operators are looking to gain the benefits and flexibility of end to end virtualization while managing dynamically changing workloads and massive data requirements,” said Rishi Chugh, Director Marketing, Cavium Inc. “ ThunderX based RunAbove instances provide exceptional processing performance and flexibility by integrating a tremendous amount of IO along with targeted workload accelerators for compute, security, networking and storage at the lowest cost per VM for RunAbove - into a power, space and cost-optimized form factor.”
Availability
RunAbove Cloud services powered by ThunderX will be available in early Aug 2015.
Comments
Already wondered why this has not been posted already.
Any idea on pricing released by anyone yet?
Will they be using the "stocks are currently being replenished" pricing model, perhaps. (small rant, been waiting for a particular SYS for a while, getting round to the idea of creating a watch script)
It feels like they just did not know what to invent so they've executed their "generate me something fancy" program and came up with this. Probably some tricks to hide the increase of prices.
what can you do with these arm machines? is it like renting a raspberry pi?
It's like renting a lower end Debian/Fedora/etc dedicated server. The performance of the ones at Scaleway was comparable to Intel Atom N2800 (maybe a bit worse). Will see with these ones, hopefully it will be higher (and/or the price will be lower).
Interestingly they mention 48 core machines, so it won't be a dedi, just a VPS with 1-4 cores on such server? Anyways, in my opinion the fate of this novel idea depends entirely on the price they will decide to ask for it.
With 48 cores I doubt the single threaded performance will be good if it's a low power processor
i can' t find any good benchmarks for this processor.
Can anybody explain. Is this processor like Atom? Or what?
Opensoose :P