Kove Unveils Hardware Memory Solution Embedded with World’s First Patented Software-Defined Memory, Allowing Enterprises, Data Center Providers, and Hyperscalers to Achieve Unprecedented Data Center Performance

CHICAGO, October 15, 2024 — Kove, an innovator in high-performance computing solutions, announced the launch of the Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower, developed alongside Viking Enterprise Solutions (a product division of Sanmina), Red Hat, and Computacenter. The state-of-the-art memory solution gives customers a fully integrated rack of memory servers, all of which come equipped with Kove:SDM™, the world’s first patented, mature, and commercially available software-defined memory (SDM) solution, unlocking unlimited server memory across the data center.

The Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower can be quickly and easily added to a data center, allowing technologists to pool memory with no physical limits. The Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower 39i can immediately improve time to solution and cost efficiency, providing performance comparable to, or even faster than, local memory, 200% or greater ROI, and 60x customer-validated performance improvements vs. leading virtual machines. Not least, adding Kove:SDM™ Memory Towers scales capacity and performance linearly without qualifications or limits — so there’s no limit except need or creativity on how your organization can achieve more with Kove:SDM™. At any scale.

“We’re proud to lead the next giant leap in enterprise memory architecture with the Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower,” said Kove CEO John Overton. “With Sanmina’s manufacturing experience, stability via Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Computacenter’s integration expertise, all brought together with our transformational SDM solution, we’re delivering a revolutionary product that meets the ever-growing memory challenges that businesses face today by allowing them to right-size memory to need. Finally, technologists can treat memory as a fully shareable resource and significantly speed-up their time to solution.”

“We’re proud to lead the next giant leap in enterprise memory architecture with the Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower.”

— John Overton, CEO, Kove

The Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower delivers breakthrough performance and efficiency for enterprises that need to manage demanding volumes of memory with precision, speed, security, and no limit on scale. Manufactured by Viking Enterprise Solutions and incorporating their VSS2320P 2U 32 High Performance Servers, the Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower combines Kove’s first-of-its-kind software-defined memory technology, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Computacenter’s engineering and enterprise-level support capabilities. This powerful collaboration provides enterprises with a more seamless, scalable platform for advanced memory management that gives customers the tools to help achieve more than ever before.

• Unlimited server memory with Kove:SDM™: Kove:SDM™ pools memory across the data center with no physical limit. The scalable memory and computing power allows organizations to easily expand their memory and compute infrastructure — supported by Kove:SDM™ and Red Hat Enterprise Linux — delivering optimized performance at scale.
• Create any memory-sized server on the fly: That includes amounts far greater than can fit inside of the physical box, up to processor limits of 128 TiB of real memory per process. This flexibility to redeploy memory resources across the data center on the fly in milliseconds enables never-before-possible performance and utilization levels.
• Improved memory recovery time with Kove:SDM™: Get instantaneous memory recovery after DIMM failure through new Kove:SDM™ memory allocations.
• Energy savings up to 54%: Measurements demonstrated that Kove:SDM™ cuts power, heat, and cooling needs, leading to significant cost savings and an overall reduction in businesses’ environmental impact.
• 125% faster than swap: Testing has demonstrated 125% improved performance over local swap with Kove:SDM™.
• Local memory performance from over 150m away: Kove:SDM™ solves the latency problem across the data center.
• Standard network fabrics supported: Available today with command and control on Ethernet and data-plane on InfiniBand, with RoCE availability Q1-2025.
• Add more towers to scale memory pool size and performance: Organizations can now more easily scale their memory and compute infrastructure to meet their needs, getting memory when and where it’s needed every time. Need more capacity or performance? Add another Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower, simple as that.
• Optimized for Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides improved compatibility, stability, and flexibility for running a wide range of enterprise applications while enhancing the Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower’s performance.
• End-to-end support and engineering services: Computacenter’s world-class engineering and services ensure smooth implementation, from system integration to ongoing support, helping organizations maximize the potential of their data infrastructure.

Richard Bailey, Regional Solutions Sales Director at Computacenter, added, “The idea of providing composable disaggregated memory to compute clusters is nothing short of revolutionary and has been impossible — until now. Together with our partners Kove and Viking Enterprise Solutions, we’re introducing a new, disruptive technology to dynamically change the industry. Kove:SDM™ allows us to finally realize the benefits of pooling and presenting memory to compute clusters anywhere in the data center. It will now unlock the future potential to exponentially accelerate workloads in high-performance computing, in-memory databases, Al/ML, and edge use cases. We have several potential deployments that have been identified and initiated.”

The Kove:SDM™ Memory Tower is available to customers worldwide for preorder now. For more information, visit vikingenterprisesolutions.com or reach out to Sherman Tang at sherman.tang@vikingenterprise.com.

About Kove
Founded in 2003, Kove has a long history of solving technology’s most vexing problems, from launching high-speed back-ups for large databases to setting sustained storage speed records. Most recently, after years of development, testing and validation, Kove launched the world’s first patented and mature software-defined memory solution — Kove:SDM™. Kove:SDM™ enables enterprises and their leaders to achieve more by maximizing the performance of their people and infrastructure. Kove’s team of passionate software engineers and technologists understands the importance of access to high performance computing technology and has worked with clients across a variety of industry verticals from financial services and life sciences to energy and defense. Kove is committed to delivering the products and personalized service that enable every enterprise to reach their full potential. To learn more, visit kove.com.

About Viking Enterprise Solutions
Viking Enterprise Solutions is a leader in high-performance technology solutions that empower organizations to thrive in an evolving digital world. Their products deliver unmatched scalability and innovation, serving various industries globally.

About Computacenter
Computacenter is a trusted provider of IT services and solutions, offering expert engineering, integration, and lifecycle support to help organizations deploy and optimize their technology environments.

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