Zenlayer uses on-demand edge cloud services in over 290 PoPs around the globe, with expertise in fast-growing emerging markets. Their objective is to allow real-time digital experiences anywhere, quickly. Consumers use Zenlayer’s edge cloud to release infrastructure and services on a worldwide scale, accelerate applications performing at the edge, enable application interactivity and communication between users, and improve digital experiences with cloud agility. Zenlayer’s edge cloud manages them the capability to reach 85% of the world’s web users in under 25 milliseconds. [1]
To date there are more than 100 applications working on the Zenlayer platform. Customers include video gaming business; blockchain business; 5G service providers; content shipment networks (CDNs); financial services; and any business that needs data reliability, ultra-high efficiency, and ultra-low latency.The obstacle Organizations are currently embracing cloud computing at breakneck speed, and Zenlayer thinks the edge cloud is the new higher-performance cloud. As a leading edge-cloud supplier, they aim to supply high-performance cloud services while stabilizing costs, privacy, and data sovereignty. Zenlayer’s goals were to move far from their tradition Direct Affixed Storage( DAS) architecture which had actually shown challenging to scale in reaction to customer need and develop a robust, high-performing, and protected offering for clients that made storage and information services simple to arrangement. And they required an architecture that secured against potential hard-drive failures so that their customers ‘experience was not interrupted.Equally important, the platform had to be cost-effective and easy to manage
to improve their margins, and versatile sufficient to incorporate with any hardware technologies they choose in the future. In addition, Zenlayer wanted to please their customers’desire to keep control of their own applications. Zenlayer defined the option requirements to consist of: High-performance and ultra-low latency Business information services with easy, scalable provisioning Cost effective and easy to handle Compatible with numerous orchestration environments(VMs and containers )Multi-tenant Versatility to adapt to
agile software-defined, high-performance cloud data storage fixed all their requirements. The combination of Lightbits software application
with Intel’s high-performance innovations resolved Zenlayer’s infrastructure obstacles making it possible for ultra-low latency disaggregated storage and on-demand around the world NVMe as a Service, while reducing management costs by 20%. The Zenlayer Edge Cloud is powered by the Lightbits Cloud Data Platform in a bare metal environment on Supermicro SuperServers and accelerated by a large range of Intel hardware, including the following:3 rd Generation Intel ® Xeon ® Scalable processors: 3rd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors offer high efficiency and acceleration, are storage-software optimized, and include Intel Volume Management Device (Intel VMD)and enterprise-class SSD hot-plug capabilities.Intel ® Optane ™ relentless memory( PMem ): Intel Optane PMem more than doubles the capability of common DDR4 DRAM DIMMs, which can help significantly lower TCO by increasing the utility of each server. Intel Optane PMem also expands the memory swimming pool that resolves high input/output(I/O) traffic jams by
keeping data easily accessible in the memory tier to satisfy the Cloud Native high-capacity information center demands as future needs grow. Lightbits Intelligent Flash Management makes use of Intel Optane PMem modules as a write buffer that extends NVMe flash endurance.Intel Ethernet 800 Series with Application Device Queues (ADQ) technology: ADQ innovation allows NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF )/ TCP to achieve dispersed storage efficiency in the very same variety as RDMA-based protocols, while NVMe-oF/TCP enables broad adoption because of its ease of deployment and scalability. The solution belongs to an Ethernet Virtual Private Network( EVPN)for multi-tenant seclusion. The Zenlayer Edge Cloud is composed of bare metal servers, VMs, and containers, and provides premium services with high-density computing capability, high-performance storage, ultra-low network latency to local areas, and can likewise make it possible for service integrations with public clouds. Lightbits storage makes the difference During their examination duration, Zenlayer engineers compared the Lightbits, software defined and architected for NVMe/TCP cloud data platform, to other storage options such as RDMA over Converged Ethernet(RoCE )and Internet Small Computer System User interface(iSCSI). Findings showed Lightbits has comparable or much better efficiency and is easier to execute. Utilizing Lightbits instead of RoCE enabled
Zenlayer to avoid needing to execute their own
devoted fabric, which would have increased their cost substantially. Lightbits developed the NVMe over TCP(NVMe/TCP)standard. It’s basic, flexible, and easy to release at scale on common TCP/IP networks, requiring no special hardware, NICs, motorists, or hypervisor on the storage nodes– streamlining storage for cloud implementations on bare metal, VMware, and Kubernetes environments. The native NMVe/TCP and clustered architecture, paired with Ingenious Intelligent Flash Management, eliminates the storage intricacies and high expenses connected with cloud-scale computing. Lightbits a perfect block-based storage option for edge clouds, delivering millions of IOPS and lower latency. It’s easier to execute and needs less release of management resources. Another essential differentiator that made Lightbits stick out from the competition: a totally automated, API-driven, versatile, and easy-to-use deployment design for provisioning consumer environments. Zenlayer’s clients retain total control of their applications. And the disaggregated architecture provides the versatility they require to immediately respond to altering consumer needs for capacity and performance. Clients are likewise ensured that their information
is more safe and secure with double [or triple] replication allowed for service connection in the event of a failure. These aspects made Lightbits the main option for Zenlayer’s edge cloud requirements. A vision recognized By choosing to incorporate Lightbits software sped up by Intel innovations into their Bare Metal Cloud(BMC)offering, Zenlayer can now offer an edge cloud service with the greatest end-to-end efficiency, security, and flexibility. Zenlayer can serve their clients simpler and with less management involvement, and with an NVMe/TCParchitecture provide a high performance with ultra low latency basic API contacts us to arrangement storage and information services lined up to Zenlayer’s requirements and lowers systems management tension for the Zenlayer team while delivering trusted, safe, fast storage for consumers. Zenlayer clients also benefit from the option with better application interactivity and communication in between users. Clients can connect directly to their servers in several regions and public clouds for a completely adjoined service. They also gain from a lower overall cost of ownership(TCO) by getting rid of the stranded capability problem present in DAS implementations, robust business continuity, and the capability to scale quickly due to quickly, dynamic provisioning. Zenlayer can now offer reputable, high-performance volume services to their consumers that are dynamically adjustable and use all the flexibility of the cloud, however with greater efficiencies and abundant enterprise information services. To get started contact your Lightbits or Intel representative today. For more information on Lightbits: www.lightbitslabs.com To learn more on Zenlayer Bare Metal Cloud: www.zenlayer.com For more details on Intel: www.intel.com 1-https://www.zenlayer.com/ Intel Copyright © 2023 IDG Communications, Inc. Source
