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.”
NVMesh manages and secures vital arrays of NVMe flash drives as block storage available across both public and private clouds. It’s designed to serve up high throughput, low latency and support for Kubernetes containers and has been a focal point for collaborations with major cloud service providers.
In addition to Excelero’s technology being integrated into Nvidia’s enterprise software stack, the chip giant said it will continue to support Excelero’s customers by honouring its existing contracts. However, Excelero is expected to move forward as an integrated feature of the business and will not operate as its own standalone division.
