Data Centers

ICs

Designing Data Center Infrastructure

At Microsemi, we understand the challenges you face when designing high-density, low-power data center infrastructure that drives competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) considerations. Microsemi’s extensive data center portfolio is tailored to meet those needs with industry-leading technologies including:

• Storage Controllers: Microsemi high-density, leading performance, and low power SAS/SATA and NVMe media controllers enable differentiating volume or velocity storage solutions for the data center;
• High Density Rack Connectivity: Microsemi SAS, PCIe, and Ethernet fabrics enable extreme storage system scalability. Our fabrics are within leading rack scale architectures where disaggregation of media and CPU resources create highly optimized designs;
• Security: Microsemi SAS/SATA Storage Controllers have AES encryption enabling efficient centralized security for pools of drives. Our secure boot FGPAs ensure a secure boot loader for bare metal or virtualized environments. MACsec PHYs are used for end-to-end network encryption;
• Timing and Synchronization: Used with the data center for Software Defined Storage (SDS) synchronous replication, time stamping, or network analytics (microburst detection).

Explore our IC portfolio for data center:

• Ethernet PHYs
• Ethernet Software
• Ethernet Switches
• Flashtec NVMe Controllers
• FPGAs & SoCs
• RAID Controllers
• SAS Expanders
• SAS/SATA I/O Controllers
• Switchtec PCIe Storage Switches
• Timing & Synchronization ICs: Clock Management, IEEE 1588 PLLs 

Our innovative semiconductor and software solutions are engineered to help you enable next-generation services and transform your networks connecting, storing and moving big data. Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your data center needs.

Systems & Boards

Systems & Boards for Data Center

Building a high-density, low-power data center infrastructure that meets performance, reliability and total cost of ownership (TCO) needs demands smart choices. Microsemi's systems and boards for data center applications are engineered to meet your most stringent requirements with industry-leading advantages including:

• Microsemi Adaptec SAS/SATA RAID Adapters delivering maximum data protection, read/write bandwidth, and IOPS for performance-hungry transactional and database applications
  
• Microsemi Adaptec Host Bus Adapters for connectivity in server-based storage systems requiring maximum bandwidth and I/O connectivity, low power, and high reliability
• Flashtec NVRAM Drives for superior performance that combining the best of DRAM with NAND’s persistence for mission-critical applications
• Enterprise Network Time Servers delivering accurate, reliable and secure timing infrastructure for the data center

Microsemi helps enable your next-generation services and transform your networks connecting, storing and moving big data. Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your data center needs.

Ecosystem

Data Center Ecosystem Solutions

Microsemi is an active participant in multiple standards and industry groups within the data center ecosystem including Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe), SCSI Trade Association (STA), University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO), InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS), Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) and others.

Microsemi works with its Accelerate network of ecosystem partners to integrate, test and deliver pre-validated board or system solutions in our core vertical markets. Microsemi's portfolio and innovations for data center infrastructure span across the "stack," reflecting our continued commitment to work with data center industry bodies and ecosystem vendors to ensure interoperability, integration and optimal performance of your data center infrastructure.

See our available reference design platforms for data center applications, including data center storage sub-system optimization for data-intensive workloads, disaggregation of Flash and NVMe storage.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your data center needs.

Resources

Blue Prints:

OpenStack

Open Compute

Reference architecture based on
the OCP’s Open Rack form factor
that re-engineers the conventional data
center rack for maximum power efficiency,
serviceability and investment protection.

Blogs

• Having Fun at Queue Depth = 1: What Next Generation Non Volatile Memory (NG-NVM) means for PCIe SSDs and SSD Drivers
• What's Hot in Storage? NVMe over Fabrics, SMR, PMEM and more! Highlights from SNIA’s Storage Developer Conference 2015
• Top 5 Awesome Moments at Flash Memory Summit 2015
• Adaptec HBA and Raid Compatibility Reports
• Flash Memory Summit 2015 Special: NVMe + RDMA = Awesome!
• Why Management is Critical for Data Center Lifecycle Management
• Flashtec + Memblaze PBlaze 4 = NVM Express SSD Awesomeness!
• Power Up with Us at the Open Power Summit
• UCSD Non Volatile Memory Workshop: Paving the Way for Persistent Main Memory
• Why Standards Matter
• SNIA NVM Summit: NVDIMMs, Programming Models and Next-Generation Non-Volatile Memory
• Open Source Paves New Roads to Advanced Server Networking Storage & Acceleration Technology
• Project Donard: P2P Communication with NVM Express Devices, Part 1
• Project Donard: P2P Communication with NVM Express Devices, Part 2
• Joining Canonical's Openstack Interoperability Lab
• Can You Optimize Your Data Center Storage for Capacity and Performance with Adaptec by Microsemi Solutions? Yes!
• Protecting Data with Controller-Based Encryption, Part 1
• Protecting Data with Controller-Based Encryption, Part 2
• Protecting Data with Controller-Based Encryption, Part 3
• Latest on NVMe Open Source Drivers for Windows and VMware
• A Data Center Fast Lane for Large Files
• Latency in LDPC-based Next-Generation SSD Controllers
• Solving the Cloud Data Center Storage at Scale Problem

Case Studies

Cache IO’s products are developed exclusively for customers in the media and entertainment industry who need affordable, ultra-dense, and scalable storage solutions that enable users to store large amounts of media content with maximum bandwidth and minimal latency.		Liquid Web’s build out of data center capacity quickly outgrew the capabilities of its previous storage solution to provide the connectivity and performance to cost ratio that are at the core of its operational requirements.

Contact your local Microsemi sales office today to find the right technologies and products for your data center needs.