Tag: Excelero

Nvidia buys Excelero

Posted on March 14, 2022 by - News

Nvidia has snapped up Tel Aviv-based high-performance software-defined storage provider Excelero.

The GPU maker was after Excelero’s core NVMesh offering which software-defined block storage using networked NVMe SSDs.

It said most of Excelero’s team of engineers – including co-founders CEO Yaniv Romem, engineering vice president Ofer Oshri and chief scientist Omri Mann – will join the business, bringing their specialist expertise in block storage.

Writing in his bog, Nvidia’s Senior Director of Engineering for NGC Storage and Data platform services, Suresh Ollala, said the mission will be to help expand support for block storage in Nvidia’s enterprise software stack such as clusters for high performance computing.

“Block storage also has an important role to play inside the DOCA software framework that runs on our DPUs.”

Excelero gets closer to Micron

Posted on May 19, 2017 by - News

dc34c48293d48b194affb44168216351Micron has written a cheque investing in Excelero, the software supplier for its SolidScale all-flash NVME array.

SolidScale has been around since May and is a serious bit of kit with NVME SSDS and an NVMe over Fabrics class access latency, adding one percent to the access latency of a direct-attached NVMe SSD.

It uses Excelero’s NVMesh server SAN software. SolidScale can function as a shared external array block target, made up from from clustered server nodes, or as a virtual SAN in a hyper-converged style configuration.

The investment is a few million, although no one is saying officially how much.

Excelero was founded in 2014 and has had a single £20 million funding round in 2015.

The investment moves Micron closer access to Excelero’s software development, and a better ability to tune its SSD controller software to optimise SSD performance characteristics of the software.

It might help Excelero software to make better use of QLC (4 bits/cell) flash drives.