Long thought to be impossible, software-defined memory is now a reality – and the benefits are substantial for both your business and your IT infrastructure.
Modern workloads have required more from memory than it could deliver. AI, ERP, Business Intelligence, and other critical technologies require not just fast-performing memory, but also vast amounts of it to deal with ever-larger datasets and increasingly memory-intensive applications. And memory has been historically limited to whatever is built into the underlying hardware.
That meant that technologists had to either create temporary workarounds to deal with these limitations, which frequently hamstrung performance or forced a need to purchase and deploy gear with more memory. Of course, as workload memory demands increase, they will eventually push up against the hard memory caps in new machines, which necessitates further workarounds and upgrades. It’s an expensive, frustrating, never-ending cycle. And until recently, it was thought to be unsolvable.
Software-defined memory has been touted as a possible solution to this challenge for many years, but transforming software-defined memory from a vision into a reality has proven a thorny engineering challenge. Memory that sits off board would encounter unavoidable latency, it was thought. Signals can’t travel faster than the speed of light, after all, and memory connected via cables will be much farther away from the processor than memory that’s fastened to the board.
But Kove did the impossible.
Engineers at Kove spent more than a decade isolating and refining multiple solutions to the “speed of light versus distance of cable” problem to make software-defined memory a reality for the first time in computing history. They found a way to hide latency, and the resulting breakthrough, Kove:SDM™, enables IT to deliver the right amount of memory on the fly to a workload wherever it’s needed, well above and beyond the limits of physical hardware.
Now, virtualized resources can be configured using flexible memory, which enables a server to fit any size model and data rather than configuring the model and data to fit fixed hardware constraints. It gives you the flexibility to create any sized server(s) needed, near instantaneously, to meet any current need. When the need changes, the system dynamically re-allocates memory to meet the updated need in milliseconds. As a result, you always have the right resources available for your computing needs. Plus, your IT needs can support virtual, physical, clustered, or containerized computing with software-defined memory, all while simultaneously reducing overall hardware and energy costs.
As a result, organizations can now:
- Allocate more memory to a workload than a single server can physically house: With software-defined memory, IT can place memory outside of a server box and scale it up the limits of processors’ memory address space, which, on systems supporting the AMD64 spec, is 128 TB per process. No computer currently manufactured can accommodate 128 TB of RAM on the motherboard, much less for multiple processes each needing large memory above physical server capacities.
- Increase workload performance by up to 60x compared to a traditional VM: Using containers with dynamically available memory both cuts overhead and increases memory beyond server size. This design has achieved 60x performance improvement compared to traditional virtual machines.
- Support 100x more containers compared to traditional memory: Again, without the limitation of physical memory, dynamic allocation enables IT to support larger and exponentially more containers, all with the same resources.
- Reduce the cost of equipment, cooling, and power: Instead of buying memory to meet the peak needs of each server, with the flexibility of Kove:SDM™ IT can buy based on overall peak needs, which reduces the total amount of memory the organization will need to purchase. Less memory to manage means lower cooling and power costs.
Are memory constraints stopping your business from reaching its full potential? Right now, with Kove:SDM™, you can do what you could never do before. Get started today.
