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The specification, called RDMA over Converged Ethernet, will help reduce latencies, increase energy efficiency and reduce the amount of cabling in "Ethernet-based" data centers, claims the InfiniBand Trade Association, the group that developed the spec.
IBTA expects products based on RoCE (pronounced "Rocky") to arrive on the market during 2011.
The organization says its new spec will complement ongoing virtualization strategies and add flexibility in deploying applications.
"RoCE addresses a key concern of the enterprise - maximizing and protecting current investments in IT," said in a statement Cindy Borovick, a research VP for data center networks at IDC.
"RoCE leverages field-proven RDMA, ubiquitous Ethernet and fabric management solutions.
This will benefit data center network end users by consolidating data, storage and clustered networking and reducing costs."
RDMA allows connecting memory of one server with that of another without the use of either machine's operating system, which results in greater efficiency in compute clusters and storage systems.
The new standard can be implemented in 10G and 40G Ethernet clustering. It can deliver all three types of unified networking on Ethernet: IPC, NAS and SAN.
The specification, called RDMA over Converged Ethernet, will help reduce latencies, increase energy efficiency and reduce the amount of cabling in "Ethernet-based" data centers, claims the InfiniBand Trade Association, the group that developed the spec.
IBTA expects products based on RoCE (pronounced "Rocky") to arrive on the market during 2011.
The organization says its new spec will complement ongoing virtualization strategies and add flexibility in deploying applications.
"RoCE addresses a key concern of the enterprise - maximizing and protecting current investments in IT," said in a statement Cindy Borovick, a research VP for data center networks at IDC.
"RoCE leverages field-proven RDMA, ubiquitous Ethernet and fabric management solutions.
This will benefit data center network end users by consolidating data, storage and clustered networking and reducing costs."
RDMA allows connecting memory of one server with that of another without the use of either machine's operating system, which results in greater efficiency in compute clusters and storage systems.
The new standard can be implemented in 10G and 40G Ethernet clustering. It can deliver all three types of unified networking on Ethernet: IPC, NAS and SAN.