The world is becoming increasingly data-driven, with a recent International Data Corporation (IDC) report predicting that 75% of the world’s population will interact with data daily by 2025. This explosion of data is driving unprecedented demand for efficient and scalable edge storage solutions. NVMe over TCP is emerging as a game-changing technology that addresses these challenges.
NVMe over TCP enables access to NVMe flash storage across standard TCP/IP networks, offering a powerful solution to address the limitations of traditional storage at the edge. This technology delivers high performance and low latency without requiring changes to client-side infrastructure. It facilitates the disaggregation of storage and compute resources, which allows for independent scaling and greater flexibility. Furthermore, NVMe/TCP solutions enhance scalability and efficiency by enabling the clustering of edge locations into high-availability storage pools and optimizing storage utilization to reduce TCO. These solutions also simplify deployment by using standard servers, easing infrastructure management at the edge.
Zenlayer’s Edge Cloud Services
Zenlayer, a leading cloud services provider, exemplifies the benefits of NVMe over TCP by leveraging Lightbits’ solution to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient edge cloud services. Zenlayer’s previous Direct Attached Storage (DAS) architecture presented scalability challenges, motivating its move to a more scalable, high-performing, and cost-efficient solution to better serve its global customer base. By integrating Lightbits’ NVMe/TCP solution with Intel’s high-performance technologies, Zenlayer achieved ultra-low latency, disaggregated storage, and on-demand NVMe as a Service. This strategic shift resulted in a 20% reduction in storage management costs, improved application performance, and enhanced flexibility and scalability for Zenlayer’s customers.
Interested to learn more about how Zenlayer used NVMe over TCP to build their edge cloud service? Read the case study.
Getting Started with NVMe over TCP for Edge Storage
While NVMe over TCP presents substantial advantages, broader adoption necessitates changing organizational mindsets. Organizations need to embrace next-generation infrastructure and transition from older protocols like RDMA and iSCSI to realize the full potential of NVMe/TCP. Lightbits disaggregated, software-defined storage is natively designed with NVMe/TCP, utilizing standard servers and enabling efficient scaling of compute and storage.
In conclusion, NVMe over TCP is poised to shape the future of edge storage by addressing the escalating demands for efficient, high-performance, and scalable solutions.
