NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Packet, the leading
bare metal cloud for developers, today announced a new
ARM®v8-A based on-demand server configuration, available
to deploy in less than ten minutes from its data centers in
Parsippany (NJ), Sunnyvale (CA),
Amsterdam (NL) and Tokyo (JP).
The ARMv8-A option - powered by a pair of 48-core Cavium
(NASDAQ: CAVM) ThunderX chips - makes Packet the first cloud
provider to offer a 64-bit ARM server with the same elastic
benefits of Intel-powered solutions. The 2A server is priced at
$0.50/hr, or $0.005/core per hour (about 1/10th the cost per
core of Packet's existing Intel-powered Type 2) and is available in
minutes via API, portal or widely used DevOps tools such as
Terraform and Ansible.
"Making a powerful, low-cost ARM compute node available to
developers has been a dream of mine for years," said Zachary Smith, CEO at Packet. "With the support
of the Cavium and SoftBank teams, as well as our hardware and
ecosystem partners, we're thrilled that users can take advantage of
ARMv8-A powered bare metal at this incredible price point with the
same experience as our x86 solutions."
Unlike lower-end ARMv7-A variants, the ARMv8-A architecture
powering Packet's bare metal Type 2A is designed for high density
data center workloads and thrives on tasks like container-based
applications, data processing, threaded application workloads and
network heavy functions such as load balancing. To encourage rapid
adoption, Packet also announced full 64-bit ARM support for Ubuntu
16.04, as well as a pipeline that includes CoreOS, FreeBSD and
CentOS.
"Packet is enabling genuine choice in the data center market
with an instantly available ARMv8-A 64-bit server solution that is
a direct challenger to legacy providers," said Jeff Underhill, director of server programs,
ARM. "The combination of outstanding performance at a compelling
price is bolstered by Packet's access to a wide range of developer
networks anxious to test their workloads on ARM processor-based
servers."
Cloud native (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) and the Internet of
Things (IoT) are natural workloads for ARMv8-A as they are highly
portable and do not require the same tie-in with Intel processors.
Packet's offering follows a recent investment by SoftBank, who
acquired ARM Holdings for $32 billion
in September.
"Packet brought the public cloud experience to single tenant
bare metal," said Rishi Chugh,
Director Marketing, Data Center Processor Group at Cavium. "The
ARM-based high density server platform, built on Cavium's
award-winning workload optimized ThunderX processor, further
accelerates the enablement of next generation cloud applications
that power the modern internet and technology of tomorrow."
About Packet
Founded in 2014, Packet's proprietary technology automates
physical servers and networks without the use of virtualization or
multi-tenancy to provide on-demand compute and connectivity.
Customers can either build on Packet's public cloud service or
leverage advanced automation software to enable their own private
compute infrastructure.
The company is headquartered in New
York City and maintains an advanced global IP network
between its data center locations in New
York Metro (Parsippany,
NJ), Sunnyvale (CA), Amsterdam (NL) and Tokyo (JP). Packet is a member of the
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and supports many open
source projects, including Memcached.org, which uses Packet to
perform automatic performance and burn-in testing of new
features.
About Cavium
Cavium, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAVM), offers a broad portfolio of
integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance
from 1Gbps to 100Gbp that enable
secure, intelligent functionality in Enterprise, Data Center,
Broadband/Consumer, Mobile and Service Provider Equipment, highly
programmable switches which scale to 3.2Tbps and Ethernet and Fibre
Channel adapters up to 100Gbps. Cavium processors are supported by
ecosystem partners that provide operating systems, tools and
application support, hardware reference designs and other products.
Cavium is headquartered in San Jose,
CA with design centers in California, Massachusetts, India, China
and Taiwan.
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