Maximize Performance for Today’s Anywhere and Everywhere Clouds
Advantech new platforms based on 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors leverage performance leadership to power hybrid clouds and accelerate digital transformation. The new off-the-shelf range includes high throughput network security appliances, short depth edge servers, and hyper-converged infrastructure and storage systems targeting edge to cloud deployments.
In addition, service and solution providers can leverage Advantech’s strong hardware design and manufacturing capabilities to build server-class solutions tailored to deliver higher value to the enterprise and industrial customers.
Performance
Up to 128 powerful “Zen 3” cores in a dual socket system, 32MB of L3 cache per core and PCIe 4 connectivity to improve HPC, cloud and enterprise workload performance with higher core density, I/O and memory throughput.
Security
New security features provided with AMD Infinity Guard such as Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) adds strong memory integrity protection capabilities to help prevent malicious hypervisor-based attacks.
Reliability
Field-proven high-reliability features from Advantech including advanced platform management and redundant BIOS and firmware images via on-board IPMIv2.0-compliant BMC with Redfish support that provide a safe way to recover from component failures and remote fail-safe updates.
Time to market
Off-the-shelf platforms can be tailored leveraging Advantech design and manufacturing services to meet specific application requirements from minor branding, mechanical or firmware changes up to fully customized configurations.
SKY-7260S
The new SKY-7260S is a 2U single-socket enterprise server with up to 2TB memory, 64 powerful “Zen 3” cores, 200TB storage, and high networking flexibility via 10G SFP+ and 10GBase-T OCP mezzanine modules. All this combined with AMD SEV, SME, and Advantech in-house BMC management platform provides a reliable server and secure environment for next-generation AI-driven ICT infrastructure.
SKY-8260S
The new SKY-8260S is a 2U single-socket carrier-grade server designed to accelerate communication and other business-critical workloads in 5G, intelligent edge, and video solutions. Its high density, optimized performance, advanced reliability, and environmental features make it ideal for cloud and communication service providers to the power network edge, access, and core software-defined infrastructure use cases.
SKY-8260D
The new SKY-8260D is a 2U dual-socket server that maximizes compute and storage performance and scalability for HPC and big data applications such as data protection, disaster recovery, or genomic data analysis. Highly virtualized data center environments can benefit from its versatile storage duality being able to integrate hot to cold storage solutions over a single platform.
ASMB-830
The new ASMB-830 is a single socket motherboard powered by AMD EPYC-7003/7002 processor to enable industrial server solutions for factory automation, optical inspection, intelligent manufacturing, warehouse management, and medical image applications. Server-level solutions integrating the new ASMB-830 is the best choice for high-density GPU-based AI accelerators through ample PCIe gen 4 slots design.
FWA-6080
The new FWA-6080 is a 2U single-socket network appliance made for cybersecurity vendors that require faster CPU performance to accelerate Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW), Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network (ZTN), and Hybrid Cloud Security solutions. Cloud-based cybersecurity providers leveraging the new FWA-6080 will be able to combine advanced security features from AMD and Advantech with flexible connectivity through Advantech Network Mezzanine Cards (NMC) to better protect their enterprise customers with higher throughput solutions.
The new platforms listed above are available for immediate evaluation and benchmarking and will be generally available during 2H 2021. For more information or if you are interested in evaluation units, please contact us.