Macnica (hereinafter President to as Macnica), a total service/solution provider in semiconductors, networks, cybersecurity, and AI/IoT (94 million yen) ALTIMA Company is pleased to announce that the Ultima Company has announced the launch of composable infrastructure provided by DriveScale, Inc. (Headquarters: United States, CEO: Gene Banman), a leader in the composable infrastructure market. We are pleased to announce that we have started handling structure solutions.

In recent years, digitization (digital transformation) is progressing in various industries throughout Japan, and there is a demand for IT infrastructure that responds to new workloads such as big data and AI. In order to support applications with various workloads on-premises, it is essential to secure abundant compute and storage resources flexibly and agilely. On the other hand, using the public cloud is an effective means of addressing these issues, but frequently extracting data from the cloud is a negative factor in terms of cost.

The composable infrastructure* provided by DriveScale separates compute resources and storage resources, allowing users to prepare optimal resources for each application in a short amount of time. In addition, storage resources (HDD, SSD, NVMe SSD) can be flexibly configured according to the workload, so there is no over-provisioning, making it possible to use resources overwhelmingly more efficiently than conventional on-premises infrastructure. By using DriveScale's solution, you can achieve a significant TCO reduction (up to 75% reduction) and get an on-prem platform that combines the flexibility and agility of a public cloud.

* Composable Infrastructure
A next-generation server infrastructure that flexibly configures servers using pools of isolated compute storage and network fabrics.

In addition, recently, SSDs that support the NVMe protocol have become supported by servers and storage systems, and by realizing connections with lower latency than SSDs such as SATA and SAS, it has become possible to achieve high storage performance. However, the composable infrastructure provided by DriveScale supports not only NVMe over TCP, but also NVMe over RDMA (Remote Direct Drive Access), making it possible to support applications that require high performance.

　マクニカ アルティマ カンパニーでは、RDMAをサポートしているInfiniBandやEthernet製品を提供するMellanox社の国内1次代理店となっており、ネットワークからストレージをトータルでサポートしていきます。Mellanox社としてもコンポーザブル・インフラストラクチャ市場の立ち上がりに注目し、同市場向けのソリューションにも力を入れています。既にDriveScale社とMellanox社の本社間での協業も始まっており、マクニカ アルティマ カンパニーとしてはMellanox社製品が多く採用されるハイパフォーマンスなネットワークを要求するデータセンター市場へもDriveScale社のソリューションを提案していきたいと考えています。
　また、コンポーザブル・インフラストラクチャ市場の立上げに向けソリューションパートナーとの協業も非常に重要となってまいります。マクニカ アルティマ カンパニーでは先進的なサーバーソリューションを展開しているDell Technologies社様と協業し、新たな市場へ付加価値を提供してまいります。

DriveScale, Inc. Japan Representative / U.S. Headquarters Executive Officer Mr. Toshiharu Gomi commented: "DriveScale, Inc. sincerely welcomes to the market of DriveScale's Composable Infrastructure solutions.
DriveScale, Inc. is pleased to announce the launch of Macnica ALTIMA Company 's DriveScale Composable Infrastructure solution. Macnica ALTIMA Company Macnica ALTIMA Company DriveScale's superior product and technical support, as well as its extensive distribution channels, are critical to partnering with DriveScale in the dis-aggregated software and hardware component business in Japan. DriveScale intends to promote the latest trends in the IT industry to the Japanese market through and its partners: bare-metal cloud services infrastructure technology for the cloud services market, and on-premise public cloud infrastructure for the enterprise market to enable a return to the cloud. DriveScale is working with Macnica ALTIMA Company and its partners to deliver a more advanced on-premise environment for customers. DriveScale is committed to working with and our partners to deliver even more advanced on-premise environments to our customers."

Mellanox Technologies Japan Co., Ltd. Sr. Director Thomas Skov Reunert commented:
“Mellanox Technologies welcomes this announcement from Macnica ALTIMA Company. Mellanox and DriveScale provide the ideal virtualization platform for composable data center infrastructure. BlueField) enables remote access to NVMe SSDs without hypervisor restrictions.This feature is made possible by our unique technology, SNAP (Software-defined Network Accelerated Processing).SNAP is composable. We believe this will be a very important and value-added solution for providing highly flexible architectures in the infrastructure market."

Hiroshi Uehara, Executive Officer of Dell Technologies, commented:
“Dell Technologies (Dell Corporation/EMC Japan Corporation) welcomes the announcement of Macnica ALTIMA Company 's composable infrastructure solution. A system that combines the Dell EMC PowerEdge series, Dell EMC Networking, and Dell EMC PowerVault products, DriveScale products, and the global support and technical planning capabilities provided by Macnica ALTIMA Company Company will be used by user companies. We will provide composable infrastructure in Japan, which is a new form of system usage that suits your needs."

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