Kove:SDM Memory Tower 39i with Software-Defined Memory

Kove launches of the Kove:SDM Memory Tower, developed alongside Viking Enterprise Solutions (a product division of Sanmina Corp.), Red Hat, Inc., and Computacenter Plc.

Kove:SDM pools memory across data center with no physical limit

The memory solution gives customers a fully integrated rack of memory servers, all of which come equipped with Kove:SDM, a world’s 1st 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. It 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 VMs. Not least, adding Kove:SDM Memory Towers scales capacity and performance linearly without qualifications or constraints – so there’s no limit except need or creativity on how organizations can achieve more with Kove:SDM.

“We are proud to lead the next giant leap in enterprise memory architecture with the Kove:SDM Memory Tower,” said John Overton, CEO, Kove. “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.“

The Kove:SDM Memory Tower delivers 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 collaboration provides enterprises with a more scalable platform for advanced memory management that gives customers the tools to help achieve more than ever before.

“We are thrilled to partner with Kove, Red Hat, and Computacenter to launch the Kove:SDM Memory Tower, a game-changing solution for enterprises seeking scalable, high-performance memory solutions,” said Mark DeVincent, SVP and GM, Viking enterprise solutions. “With Kove’s innovative memory technology, Red Hat’s powerful RHEL platform, and Computacenter’s trusted services, this collaboration creates unparalleled value and opportunity for our customers.”

Key features of Kove:SDM Memory Tower:

• 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 128TB 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 with command and control on Ethernet and data-plane on IB, with RoCE availability 1Q25. 
• 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 engineering and services ensure smooth implementation, from system integration to ongoing support, helping organizations maximize the potential of their data infrastructure.

“Red Hat is pleased to collaborate with Kove to support the Kove:SDM Memory Tower on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the world’s leading enterprise Linux platform,” said Honoré LaBourdette, VP, telco, media, entertainment, and edge ecosystem, Red Hat. “Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides a more consistent and scalable foundation to help accelerate memory and compute power from the data center to the edge.“

Richard Bailey, regional solutions sales director, 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 WW for preorder.