The Marvell Essential Technology Podcast

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director and Nishant Lodha, Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies continue discussing Fibre Channel being the gold standard protocol for connecting shared storage servers.  End customers, channel partners and OEM customers are particularly focused on virtualization, security, and transitioning from SCSI to NVMe, , all while having low cost, persistent storage and low latency.  Hear Todd and Nishant’s perspectives and solutions from Marvell that enable customers and partners to increase storage workloads with optimized security.

Radha Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell’s Optical and Copper Connectivity Business Group, discusses key insights into Marvell’s critical solutions for next generation infrastructure as well as optimal approaches for power reduction and low latency in the data center. Be sure to read Radha’s blog post for more information: https://bit.ly/33v6DW4

Will Chu, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Marvell’s Automotive Business Unit discusses Automotive Megatrends with podcast host Chris Banuelos. In this episode, hear Will’s insights on the current trends: autonomous, software-defined, vehicle connectivity and security. As next generation vehicles require zonal architectures enabled by Ethernet, Marvell is poised to enable customers with optimal solutions for smarter, safer and greener vehicles.

John Sakamoto, Vice President, Infrastructure Processors talks OCTEON® 10 with Podcast host Chris Banuelos.  In this episode, hear John’s insights, industry trends and how Marvell pioneered OCTEON 10.  Enabling a multitude of applications including cloud, 5G wireless, enterprise, carrier and datacenter, the OCTEON 10 DPU platform features the industry’s first processor family based on a 5nm ARM Neoverse N2 Platform. Tune in to hear John discuss how Marvell is moving the DPU market forward and how Marvell is adapting to market needs as more network workloads become virtualized.

Fibre Channel has been the gold standard protocol for connecting shared storage to servers for several decades now. Recently, new technologies like Flash storage, SSD's, memory class storage and NVMe have been deployed to allow servers and storage devices to be faster and deliver more performance. This would lead one to think that the time has come for Fibre Channel to be put out to pasture and for new protocols to be used to connect servers and storage together. The reality is however, Fibre Channel technology keeps advancing as well, and is more than capable for use with the high performance servers and storage arrays of today and tomorrow. In this podcast, we will explain some of the latest innovations in Fibre Channel connectivity and why Fibre Channel will remain the gold standard for shared storage connectivity. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/30wX2vQ

Rohan Gandhi, Product Marketing Manager, Optical and Copper Connectivity discusses his latest blog post “Why the 100G Optical Module Transformation is Full Steam Ahead” with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Hear Rohan discuss trends in surging data demands and how modern data centers require solutions to cost effectively and efficiently move more bandwidth at higher speeds.  Tune in and check out the link below to learn more about Marvell’s Porrima™ 100G PAM4 DSP and the Alcor™ PAM4 DSP platforms.

Read the blog post: https://bit.ly/30agfUm

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director discusses NVMe over Fabrics with podcast host Chris Banuelos.  Though NVMe is not new, moving it outside the server into storage fabric is.  The efficiency and multi-thread capability of the NVMe language when compared to SCSI (small computer system interface) makes transitioning to NVMe over Fabrics a no-brainer. The complex challenge is which type of fabric approach is best.  Arrays exist today that support NVMe over RoCE and FC-NVMe.  However, there is much discussion around new arrays with NVMe over Fabric TCP support.  Learn more about the three different approaches as well as the pros and cons. 

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Thad Omura, Vice president of Marketing in the Flash Business Unit discusses the road to launching the Bravera SSD controllers with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Thad provides insights on his career at Marvell and discusses how flash storage is increasingly more prevalent for cloud service providers in light of the work and learn from home environment. Stay tuned to hear how Thad and the Flash Business Unit worked closely with Facebook and Microsoft to comprehensively understand challenges in their infrastructure to solve application needs.  Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3mQ3gQy