GigaIO Recognized in 4 Gartner Hype Cycle Reports for Its Leading Role in Composable Infrastructure
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25, 2023 — GigaIO, a leading provider of workload-defined infrastructure for AI and accelerated computing, announced its inclusion under “Composable Infrastructure” in four of Gartner’s new reports: Hype Cycle for Infrastructure Strategy, 2023, Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 2023, Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, 2023, and Hype Cycle for Compute, 2023.
Hype Cycles are the most-read Gartner research category, and all four reports ranked composable infrastructure as having a “high” benefit rating — defined as “that which enables new ways of performing horizontal or vertical processes that will result in significantly increased revenue or cost savings for an enterprise.”
Gartner predicts a composable infrastructure market penetration of 20-50% of target audience, up from just 5- 20% at this time last year. According to its report, “Servers, storage, and fabrics are traditionally deployed as discrete products with predefined capacities. Individual devices, or resources, are connected manually and dedicated to specific applications. Composable infrastructure helps deliver next-generation agile infrastructure, where fast development and delivery mandate rapid and continuous integration. Increased utilization of high-cost resources, such as GPU accelerators and persistent memory, can yield financial savings.”
Per Gartner, traditional composability connects disaggregated banks of processors, memory, storage devices, and other resources via a hardware fabric, using APIs to create physical systems from shared pools of resources and software to aggregate or subdivide resources in traditional servers or storage. In contrast, GigaIO’s innovative universal dynamic memory fabric, FabreX, allows these disaggregated resources — including servers and GPUs — to communicate in the same way as if they were physically plugged into the server motherboard, for true rack-scale computing.
Gartner rates the maturity of composable infrastructure as “early mainstream,” and cites vendor lock-in and lack of off-the-shelf software for managing composable systems as key obstacles to its adoption. GigaIO recognized these challenges from the outset, and since its inception has been committed to an open platform in order to avoid vendor lock-in, using industry standards like Redfish APIs and native PCIe, and foregoing the use of a proprietary software interface in favor of integrating directly with leading off-the-shelf software already used by data centers. A key example is the native integration of FabreX into NVIDIA Bright Cluster Manager, the best-in-class enterprise-class cluster management software that combines provisioning, monitoring, and management capabilities in a single tool.
“We are thrilled to be recognized as a market leader in the game-changing field of composable infrastructure, and even more excited about having already addressed the obstacles that Gartner is predicting for widespread market adoption,” said Alan Benjamin, CEO of GigaIO. “We are seeing enormous interest in GPU demand with the emergence of generative AI and the exploding amount of accelerated computing it requires, for which our solutions are ideally suited.”
Another area in which GigaIO is delivering today, ahead of widespread market adoption, is memory disaggregation. Today’s solution works across PCIe, and while there are certain constraints, it delivers the ability to compose memory across servers. Compute Express Link (CXL) is an interconnect technology in development that will better standardize the disaggregation of system memory from the processor. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 20% of servers will use CXL to connect expansion memory, a significant increase from zero in 2022. According to its report, “A key step in the maturity timeline for composable infrastructure is core technology that can disaggregate DRAM from compute.” GigaIO was one of the earliest contributing members of the CXL consortium, and its universal dynamic memory fabric, FabreX, will include both PCIe and CXL capabilities.
About GigaIO
GigaIO provides workload-defined infrastructure through its dynamic memory fabric, FabreX, which seamlessly composes rack-scale resources and integrates natively into industry-standard tools. FabreX lets customers build impossible servers for AI and technical computing — from storage to accelerators to memory — at a fraction of cloud TCO, by optimizing the utilization and efficiency of their existing hardware, allowing them to run more workloads faster at lower cost through higher utilization of resources and more agile deployment. Visit www.gigaio.com.
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