Arista Networks announced a new partnership with Super Micro Computer to deliver rack level solutions.
The new racks will include Arista’s networking switches and Arista EOS (Extensible Operating System) optimised to hyperscale workloads in Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) and cloud environments.
In order to accelerate customers’ cloud infrastructure deployments, the two enterprises will aim at delivering integrated, tested and validated hardware and software solutions designed around speed, scale and simplicity.
Supermicro will integrate Arista switch products and Arista EOS+ software with Supermicro servers and storage in pre-configured SDDC optimised racks, targeting OpenStack, VMware NSX and ESXi, Hadoop/Big Data, Ceph, Microsoft Hyper-V, High Performing Computing (HPC) workloads.
Data centre owners will be able to purchase the pieces directly from Supermicro as well as authorised resellers and channel partners.
Ed Chapman, Vice President Business Development and Alliances for Arista Networks, said: "The partnership with Supermicro accelerates the adoption of next generation IT data centre architectures, and enables our joint customers to take better advantage of hybrid cloud and cloud scale economics.
"By leveraging the power of Arista EOS with Supermicro‘s server and storage solutions, customers can dramatically enhance the delivery and integration of cloud infrastructure with speed, simplicity and scale."
Wally Liaw, Sr. Vice President of Sales at Supermicro, said: "Supermicro Green Computing Solutions offer the widest array of server, storage and networking Building Block Solutions optimised for best performance, density and efficiency in hyper-scale Enterprise, Data Centre, Cloud and HPC environments.
"Our collaboration provides customers greater flexibility and control over their IT infrastructure with Arista’s open standards-based SDN-class cloud network architecture. Complete validated SDDC rack solutions can now be rapidly deployed with unparallelled scalability, availability, and open programmability."
