The need for Data
Around the world, there is an ever-increasing demand to securely store larger amounts of data. Additionally, everyone wants instant access to their data. Today’s data storage solutions face the challenge of meeting these demands while increasing workload result accuracy, lowering capital expenditures, and improving reliability.
The Panther Solution
Panther addresses these challenges and more by delivering simultaneous breakthrough data reduction, encryption, data protection, and enhanced
deduplication enablement with MaxHash. With Panther, storage solutions offer 12:1 data reduction, a full suite of security, and CAPEX cost reduction while providing ultra-reliable data protection.
The Panther Storage Accelerator’s powerful data reduction technology intelligently offloads the CPU by providing multiple independent parallel data processing unit transform engines. Panther opens all tiers of storage, including All-Flash-Array and NVMe, to their full bandwidth potential with no CPU or software limitations.
STORAGE ACCELERATOR BOARDS
Series Throughput Interface
MxL8818 Panther V 450Gbps PCIe Gen5 x16
MxL8817 Panther V 225Gbps PCIe Gen5 x16, Gen5 x8
MxL8807 Panther III 200Gbps PCIe Gen4 x16
MxL8805 Panther III 100Gbps PCIe Gen4 x8, Gen3 x16
MxL8803 Panther III 50Gbps PCIe Gen3 x8
MARKET REQUIREMENTS
■ Faster dataset delivery
■ High-performance analytics
■ Improved workload accuracy
■ Quicker access to larger dataset
■ Simple accesses to all dataset levels
■ Power data from edge to cloud
PANTHER PROVIDES
■ Fastest response times
■ Highest data reduction ratios
■ Data temperature transitioning
■ Enhanced deduplication hit rates
■ Single pass compression / encryption / MaxHash / data protection / RTV
■ FIPS compliant with complete NSA Suite B Security
■ End-to-end data protection
■ Real-time verification (RTV)
■ Software backup on all operations
■ Six 9’s Reliability
APPLICATIONS
■ Enterprise / hyperscale data center
■ Hyperconverged infrastructure
■ Converged infrastructure
■ Primary storage
■ Un/structured storage
■ Digital library media
■ Block / file / object storage
■ Software-defined storage (SDS)
■ All-flash / hybrid storage
■ NVMe SSD storage arrays
Optimized acceleration architecture
Panther is an ideal solution for larger datasets (big data) and fast dataset applications like data warehouse and big table. Its flexible compression algorithms enable simple data temperature transition, optimizing access latency for hot, warm, and cold data. When combined with Panther Class of Service, traffic handling can be prioritized for provisioning, enforcing service agreements or ultrafast access to hot data reads.
Panther lowers capital storage costs by delivering both improved storage capacity and $/GB savings. In addition, its single pass execution provides faster dataset delivery enabling high performance analytics with improved workload results. It also offers built-in, end-to-end real-time verification (RTV) of all transforms, assuring data integrity and eliminating data loss.
Encode / Decode Throughput
The Panther V storage accelerator delivers exceptional performance with a combined encode/decode throughput of up to 450Gbps, making it a standout solution for high-speed data processing environments. It supports a maximum encode throughput of 200Gbps and a maximum decode throughput of 450Gbps, enabling real-time data transformation with minimal latency.
| Decompression / Compression Algorithims | ■ 4:1 Compression: Level 9 Deflate, GZIP, and ZLIP ■ 5:1 Compression: XP10 |
| New Class of Deduplication | Enablement MaxHash™ (3:1) ■ Block: Data Block Size ■ Slice: Decouples Data & Hash Size ■ Multi: Mutiple Hash Simultaneous w/Offset ■ Skip-Field: Skip non-Data |
| Authentication and Deduplication MaxHash Algorithms | ■ SHA-1 (160) ■ SHA2 (224/256/384/512) ■ HMAC-SHA-1, HMAC-SHA-2 ■ AES-GMAC, AES-XCBC-MAC |
| NSA Suite B Encryption / Decryption Algorithims | ■ AES-CBC, AES-GCM, AES-CTR, AES-ECB (128, 192, or 256 bit keys) ■ AES-XTS (256 or 512 bit keys) |
| Integrated Data Protection | NVMe DP, T10-DIF, T10-DIX |
| Best-in-Class Data Integrity | Real-Time Validation |
Panther unleashes the true power of Data Storage
Panther delivers ultra-low latency, 450Gbps throughput, data reduction, and security acceleration for enterprise and hyperscale data centers and results in unprecedented performance, scalability, high availability,
resiliency, and capacity optimization.
■ Accelerate the Speed of Storage: Panther delivers simultaneous breakthrough compression performance and security capability that enables 12:1 data compression allowing storage solutions to not only store 1/12th the data, but also allow users to access, process, and transfer data 12 times faster.
■ Enable Intelligent Storage: Panther’s 450Gbps throughput and ultra-low latency enable quicker access to big data, allowing higher performance data analysis to deliver better workload accuracy.
■ Lower Capital Storage Expenses (CAPEX): The exclusive MaxHash provides independent hash block size and programmable offset to enhance deduplication hit rates resulting in improved effective storage capacity and $/GB savings.
■ Integrate Faster: Feature-rich software development kit (SDK) contains API, drivers, and source code for easy incorporation with end application software and software-defined storage (SDS).
■ Meet Six 9’s Reliability: Built-in, end-to-end data protection, real-time verification (RTV) of all transforms, NVMe protection, and in-line CRCs/parity assure data integrity and eliminate data loss.
Rich Software Ecosystem Packages
MaxLinear provides a feature-rich software development kit (SDK) containing API, drivers, and source code for easy incorporation with end-application software and software-defined storage (SDS). They are focused on intelligent CPU offloading, reduced overhead for lowest latency, and full-feature failover for highest system reliability and zero down time.
■ Linux: Multi Distributions & Kernel versions
■ FreeBSD 12.x / 13.x / 14.x
■ Provide source code for easy incorporation
■ Plug & Play packages - No modification required
■ Enhanced latency and throughput
■ Backward compatibility
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