Nvidia acquires data storage solutions provider Excelero
2022-03-09
Nvidia announced that it has acquired Excelero, a provider of enterprise data storage and block storage solutions. Excelero is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel, and has seven R&D centers in Israel with about 2,800 employees. Excelero's team has senior engineers in the fields of HPC, storage and networking, and provides services related to large-scale enterprise storage area networks.
According to the data, Excelero was founded in 2014 and is a developer of NVMesh software, which is mainly used to manage and protect virtual arrays of NVMe flash drives for use as block storage in public and private cloud environments. Excelero uses an enhanced version of the NVMe-oF protocol and is considered the best choice for web-scale deployments and big data use cases, providing low-latency distributed block storage that combines the performance of local flash with the convenience of centralized storage .
Mellanox, which has been acquired by NVIDIA, has participated in the investment of Excelero in the early stage, and later the two parties cooperated to accelerate the application of storage, and applied Excelero's technology to InfiniBand and RoCE network products. Nvidia said it will support Excelero's customers by continuing to honor contracts and integrating Excelero's technology into Nvidia's enterprise software stack in the future.
Regarding the NVIDIA acquisition, Excelero CEO and co-founder Yaniv Romem said: "As the demand for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence surges, the Excelero team will join NVIDIA. We will work with NVIDIA to ensure that Some customers provide support. Going forward, we are excited to apply our block storage expertise to NVIDIA`s world-class AI and HPC platforms."
