Opening new perspectives for Media &
Entertainment customers to improve their workflows and ease their
data management
Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris : ALKAL)
(Paris:ALKAL), a leading provider in the new generation of
processors and acceleration cards specialized in Intelligent Data
Processing from Cloud to Edge, is delighted to announce the first
outcome of the synergetic combination of its DPU (“Data Processing
Unit”) processor-based acceleration card K200-LP™ with newly
acquired software-defined storage and data management solutions
provider pixitmedia1, a division of Arcapix Holdings Ltd dedicated
to the Media & Entertainment markets. The launch of this new
joint product comes just months after Kalray's acquisition of
Arcapix Holdings Ltd and the new product will be showcased at Flash
Memory Summit (USA) in August.
KALRAY’S ACCELERATION CARDS AND DPUs AT THE HEART OF AWARDED
PIXITMEDIA’S SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE AND DATA MANAGEMENT
SOLUTIONS
Media & Entertainment customers are amongst the most
demanding in terms of data storage and data management. The award
winning pixstor and ngenea products are deployed by industry
leading film studios, broadcasters, postproduction houses and VFX
studios, all of whom derive value from the way in which pixitmedia
puts the creative user in control of their data. Guaranteed
performance, security compliance and flexibility in choice of
deployment in a Hybrid, Multi-Cloud world are all a given, but it’s
the smart integration with the customer’s workflow and creative
pipeline management tools that elevates pixitmedia’s storage
credentials.
Just a few months after Kalray’s acquisition of Arcapix Holdings
Ltd, Kalray and pixitmedia have combined their technologies to
offer a new version of pixstor and ngenea capable of leveraging the
Kalray K200-LP™ Smart Storage Acceleration card. This combination
of software and hardware offers new perspectives in terms of
performance, power consumption, flexibility and, ease of use for
pixitmedia’s customers in the Media & Entertainment
industry.
KALRAY'S K200-LP™ DEVELOPED FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE STORAGE AND
NEXT GENERATION OF DATA MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS
K200-LP™ is the perfect solution for storage appliance makers
and cloud service providers, to build their next generation of
storage appliances in terms of performance per Watt per dollar.
Leveraging Kalray’s MPPA® DPU, a new generation of high
performance processors tailored to process data-intensive
applications, the K200-LP™ Smart Storage Accelerator cards can be
programmed to accelerate rich and demanding data services.
Media & Entertainment applications require highly efficient
storage and data management solutions while offering a unified,
easy to use, collaborative environment for the content creators. In
this context, the K200-LP™ card offers new opportunities to improve
each step within the typical content workflow .
“With the K200-LP™ , we’re able to both consolidate and
turbo-charge many of our existing storage-related functions and
features that will help us offer even more efficient solutions to
our customers. We look forward to exploiting the full power of our
MPPA® DPU-based acceleration cards in the future within pixstor and
ngenea, be it for accelerating our ability to help customers
realize the full value of their existing content with machine
learning in pixstor, or reducing the time it takes to shares assets
globally with ngenea”, said Barry Evans, Kalray Storage Business
CTO and co-founder of Pixitmedia.
The K200-LP™ Smart Storage Accelerator card as well as
Pixitmedia DPU-empowered solution will be showcased at Flash Memory
Summit, booth #940, from August 2 to 4, 2022, at Santa Clara
Convention Center, CA, USA.
ACCELERATING THE MARKET PENETRATION OF KALRAY’S ACCELERATION
CARDS
One of the acquisition goals of Arcapix Holdings Ltd, of which
pixitmedia is part, by Kalray was to increase growth opportunities,
accelerate the commercialization of its technology and products,
and leverage cross-selling opportunities. pixitmedia now gives
access to new markets opportunities for Kalray, including one of
the most demanding and exciting data-intensive industries – Media
& Entertainment.
The integration of Kalray’s Cards into pixitmedia’s servers is
an important milestone and will contribute to accelerate Kalray’s
time-to-market on this specific market.
Eric Baissus, President and CEO of Kalray said: “The
synergy with Arcapix is now a reality that customers can
experience! We are proud to have a combined solution ready just a
few months after the acquisition. It shows both the complementarity
of our offering and the unique collaborative mindset that we
managed to instill within our company.”
About KALRAY Kalray (Euronext Growth Paris - FR0010722819
- ALKAL) is a fabless semiconductor company, a leading provider of
a new class of processors, specialized in Intelligent Data
Processing from Cloud to Edge. Kalray’s team have created and
developed its leading edge technology and products to help its
clients maximize the market possibilities presented by a world
dominated by massive, disparate and pervasive data.
Thanks to Kalray’s patented manycore architecture, Kalray’s
MPPA® Intelligent Data Processors are natively capable of managing
multiple workloads with no bottlenecks to enable smarter, more
efficient and energy-wise data-intensive applications. Kalray's
offering includes processors, acceleration cards with associated
software environment and appliances, allowing its customers to
design the best solutions in fast growing sectors such as modern
data centers, 5G, AI and Edge Computing, autonomous vehicles and
others.
Founded in 2008 as a spin-off of CEA French lab, with investors
such as Alliance Venture (Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi), Safran, NXP
Semiconductors, CEA and Bpifrance, Kalray is dedicated through
technology, expertise and passion to offer more: More for a smart
world, more for the planet, more for customers and developers.
www.kalrayinc.com
1 pixitmedia is the dedicated division for Media &
Entertainment markets of Arcapix Holdings Ltd, acquired by Kalray.
See press release on March 3, 2022.
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INVESTOR Eric BAISSUS
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