The Marvell Essential Technology Podcast

On this week's episode, catch Nigel Alvares, Vice President of Marketing and Business Planning and podcast host Chris Banuelos, discussing Marvell's approach to the AI revolution. Join the discussion to learn about how Marvell is poised to enable scalable solutions for the next generation of AI infrastructure. Hear about Marvell's position in the industry, the role of optical connectivity, major challenges operators of AI training networks face, and what the industry can expect from Marvell. In case you missed it, read our latest blog Scaling AI Infrastructure with High-Speed Optical Connectivity: https://bit.ly/3Dly5nb

On this week's episode, Amir Bar-Niv, VP of Marketing, Automotive Business Unit, and Mark Davis, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing, describe the history of automotive connectivity and future trends in Automotive Ethernet. Take a deep dive into their conversation detailing the technology and protocols developed to advance automotive connectivity. In case you missed it, read the blog to learn more: https://bit.ly/3PBmpnA

Kevin O'Buckley, Senior Vice President, Hardware Engineering, Compute and Custom Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss silicon customization, advanced technologies and their increasing importance for data infrastructure on this week's episode. Learn more about the factors driving customization and what is required. Hear Kevin discuss how Marvell is enabling customers to deploy advanced AI/ML applications for hyperscale clouds and for 5G radio access networks (RAN) in the most space and energy efficient fashion. Be sure to also read the latest press release on Marvell demonstrating the industry's first 3nm data infrastructure silicon, mentioned in this podcast: https://bit.ly/3n7YIYl

Catch up with Peter Carson, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing and podcast host Chris Banuelos wrapping up MWC Barcelona 2023. Hear about the what's new from Marvell, the latest trends from the show floor, and the key takeaways from the show. Be sure to also check out Marvell's blogs, press releases and videos: http://bit.ly/3FDNdxK

On this week's episode, join Peter Carson, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing and podcast host Chris Banuelos to hear their discussion on Marvell's most recent product announcement as well as what is to come at MWC Barcelona 2023. Be sure to stay tuned to hear how Marvell enables carriers to efficiently transform their networks. Check out the latest press release: http://bit.ly/3IREPwL

Amir Bar-Niv, VP of Marketing, Automotive Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss some of the latest automotive trends, including zonal architectures and end-to-end Ethernet in-vehicle networks. Be sure to listen in to learn how automotive OEM needs are evolving and how Marvell's Brightlane™ family of products will enable software-defined vehicles.

On this week's episode, join Mark Casper, Senior Vice President and General Counsel and the executive sponsor of Marvell's ESG program along with Rebecca O'Neill, Marvell's Global Head of ESG to hear their discussion on why ESG is an important initiative for Marvell and what the company is doing to address climate change and inclusion & diversity, among other key topics.  Be sure to download a copy of Marvell's most recent ESG report by visiting our website:  http://bit.ly/3RpBd85

Join Willard Tu, Associate Vice President, Automotive Compute, and podcast host Chris Banuelos on this week's episode as they discuss some of the latest automotive megatrends, OEM business models for software-defined vehicles, and how the next generation of vehicles will radically enhance the driver and consumer experience.

Listen to Radha Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell's Optical and Copper Connectivity Business Group and Chris Banuelos on this week's episode, discussing a recent white paper “2.5D Heterogeneous Integration for Silicon PhotonicsEngines in Optical Transceivers.” Learn more about the key takeaways of heterogeneous integration, what it means for cloud data center infrastructure and use cases. Read the white paper: 

Join Hugh Durdan, Vice President of Marketing in the ASIC Business Unit and podcast host Chris Banuelos on this week's episode, discussing all things 3nm.  Learn more about how 3nm is advancing cloud-optimized silicon solutions, the driver behind the evolution, more on Marvell's recent announcement on the 3nm silicon platform and much more.  Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3P68F24

Join Mats Oberg, Associate Vice President, DSP Architecture and podcast host Chris Banuelos on this week's episode, discussing the heart of hard disk drive (HDD) controller design -- Marvell's read channel technology. Learn about the challenges of data storage as data continues its explosive growth, future technologies shaping HDD controller design, and what is next for HDDs. Be sure to check out our other recent podcast episode 24 “Scaling HDD Capacity in the Data Center” to learn more.

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director, and Nishant Lodha, Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies, discuss some of the metrics most commonly used to refer to storage performance, how the figures are derived from Marvell as well as other I/O device manufacturers, how performance figures drive decisions, and an in-depth discussion around IOPS.  Learn more: https://bit.ly/3STtLkH

This week, join Sarvagya Kochak, Senior Director, Product Marketing, and podcast host Chris Banuelos to discuss the fundamentals of Compute Express Link (CXL) technology. Marvell, along with a consortium of industry leaders, is transforming the next generation of cloud data centers with a new industry standard for connecting processors, memory, and accelerators. With CXL based memory expansion and pooling, Marvell is uniquely positioned to transform the data center with architectures that have significantly improved scale, flexibility, and performance. Hear why CXL is imperative to the data center, its use cases, and future trends.

Xi Wang, Vice President of Optical DSP Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss optical connectivity – the foundation of today's internet infrastructure, enabling the emergence of hyperscale data centers and the new era of wireless communication.  Cloud-based services continuously drive the need for data center hardware with high bandwidth capacity along with low power consumption.  Just as data centers begin their transition to 400G and 800G, the bar is rising towards the next evolution of 1.6T and 3.2T, with the same demands for high performance and low power with minimal financial impact. Tune in to hear what is driving the transition and learn more about the advancements needed to enable data centers to advance capacity for future generations to come.

Matt Kim, Vice President, HDD & SCBU Marketing, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss Marvell's HDD solutions, powered by a comprehensive portfolio of cloud-optimized silicon solutions for the data center.  Join the conversation to learn more about Hard Disk Drive's (HDD) relevance to the data center, Marvell's unique solutions, and what is next for the HDD industry. With over 25+ years of experience developing storage products and over 5 billion HDD controllers sold, Marvell's cutting edge Bravera™ HDD family of products enables customers to meet surging data demands with cost effective solutions.  Read the press release mentioned in this podcast: https://bit.ly/3xFMyrB 

Samuel Liu, Senior Director, Product Line Management, and podcast host Chris Banuelos take a deep dive into the transition of 10G to 100G coherent solutions for aggregation networks. Samuel and Chris discuss the factors and trends driving the transition, the challenges faced by operators as they upgrade their fiber infrastructure and how Marvell is working with the ecosystem to enable the advancement of disaggregated optical architectures. Stay tuned to hear more on use cases and new applications for 100G coherent and how Marvell's 7nm Deneb coherent DSP is driving the largest open CDSP ecosystem in the world.

Amer Haider, VP of Marvell's Security Solutions Business Unit, and podcast host Chris Banuelos, cover the launch of Marvell's enhanced Hardware Security Module – LiquidSecurity 2, the industry's most advanced solution for performing key management, encryption, and authentication in the cloud for payment, privacy compliance, and other HSM services - powered by the company's OCTEON® family of products. Join us and take a deep dive into the critical role HSMs play in virtually all credit card-based transactions, end markets, and where LS2 will have the largest impact, plus much more. Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3eOd9My

Jon Haswell, Senior Vice President, Firmware and Gary Kotzur, CTO, Storage Products Group join the Marvell Essential Technology Podcast to discuss the evolution of cloud storage and memory. As demands for workloads scale public and hybrid cloud environments face tremendous pressure to provide optimal performance while remaining cost-competitive. Designing the highest performing cloud storage and memory infrastructure for all workloads remains an expensive proposition at cloud scale, leading to underutilized resources. Optimizing NVMe and CXL-based silicon solutions from both a hardware and firmware perspective provides the key to success in driving the foundation for most of the scalable data center infrastructure. Learn more about some of the critical attributes of cloud storage, how the Compute Express Link (CXL) transformation is evolving, and the evolution of the cloud.

Cary Ussery, Vice President of Software and Platforms in Marvell's Processors Business Unit, joins the Marvell Essential Technology Podcast to discuss the company's role as a founding member of Linux Foundation's Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) Project. Fellow founding members and influential thought leaders from NVIDIA, Intel, F5, Keysight Technologies, and Red Hat, are dedicated to fostering a community-driven, standards-based open ecosystem for next-generation DPU and IPU-based architectures and frameworks in data centers and the cloud. Join Cary in this podcast to learn about the OPI Project and how Marvell is promoting standardization in the ecosystem to significantly contribute to the success of workload acceleration solutions.

Reza Eltejaein, product line director in Marvell's Switch Business Unit and Edgars Pabẽrzs, technical support engineer at MikroTik join the Marvell Essential Technology Podcast discussing an overview of networking solutions for the enterprise and their unique advantages as well as how Marvell has helped build MikroTik's portfolio with the Marvell® Prestera® family of switches. Edgars works closely with MikroTik customers, advising and resolving technical challenges along with testing and documenting new switching technologies for MikroTik. With a substantial knowledge of Marvell's Ethernet switch products, Edgars shares his insights on MikroTik's unique product range, supported capabilities, and future strategies with Marvell. 

Amer Haider, VP Product Management Security Solution Business Unit and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss industry trends related to hardware security modules (HSM) as well as how Marvell is shaping the industry.  Hear Amer's perspective and insights on how security solutions have evolved since the start of the pandemic and how trends in data privacy and trust are at the forefront of thinking across the industry. 

Matt Bolig, Director of Product Marketing, and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss PAM4's importance to the cloud data infrastructure market. Hear insights from Matt's experience working in optics as well as his take on the trends driving the extensive PAM4 portfolio pioneered by Inphi (acquired by Marvell in 2021). Matt also describes the new markets PAM4 is entering, such as 5G, and where the technology is headed. 

Nishant Lodha, Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies and Brian Beeler, Editor in Chief at Storage Review discuss the Algebra of Storage Fabrics.  Brian is one of the most renowned voices in enterprise storage and the force behind StorageReview.com, a world-leading independent storage authority, providing in-depth news coverage, hands-on evaluation, detailed reviews and consulting on everything enterprise storage - arrays, hard drives, SSDs, networking and storage fabrics.  Join in on their conversation discussing some of the latest trends in NVMe-oF, Fibre Channel and much more! Read the Storage Review Article Marvell Doubles Down On FC-NVMe: https://bit.ly/3KKo8C6.  Learn more: https://bit.ly/3N4JRpz

Amir Bar-Niv, VP of Marketing, Automotive Business Unit and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss the Future of Software Defined Vehicles, including industry trends, why the Ethernet Camera Bridge is an important component in the software defined vehicle as well as who are the key stakeholders that benefit from this evolution. As car manufacturers increase capabilities for aftermarket services and applications, learn about use cases, the software defined network needed to support applications, and what it will take to enable the next generation of vehicles as a data center on wheels. Read Amir's recent blog post “Ethernet Camera Bridge for Software-Defined Vehicles” to learn more: https://bit.ly/3OnMfsc

Venu Balasubramonian, VP of Product Marketing and podcast host Chris Banuelos discuss Marvell's AEC Platform solutions addressing interconnect needs for data centers as well as Marvell's strategy in entering the AEC market. Be sure to read more about Marvell's recent announcement of the Alaska® A AEC family, leveraging its PAM4 SerDes technology leadership, to enable leading cable makers to deliver optimized solutions for the world's largest cloud data center customers.  Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3IBZQca 

Khurram Malik, Director of Product Marketing at Marvell, talks EBOF Use Cases and Industry Trends with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Take a deep dive into EBOF Architecture, how Marvell's EBOF approach is transforming the way data is moved and stored in the data center, why the industry should use Ethernet SSDs now, and how Marvell is bringing EBOF to fruition. 

Samuel Liu, Senior Director of Product Line Marketing at Marvell talks IPoDWDM with podcast host Chris Banuelos.  Hear about how surging data demands impact optical integration, why IPoDWDM is expected to become mainstream as well as how Marvell is transforming the industry when it comes to optical transport equipment.

Joel Brand, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Peter Carson, Senior Director of Solutions Marketing discuss the implications of 5G-cloud convergence and Marvell's unique approach to the challenges of virtualizing the 5G RAN.  Tune in to hear more about Marvell's transformation, position in the market and how it is extending its silicon leadership from established networks to emerging ORAN/vRAN architectures.

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director and Nishant Lodha, Director of Product Marketing – Emerging Technologies continue discussing Fibre Channel being the gold standard protocol for connecting shared storage servers.  End customers, channel partners and OEM customers are particularly focused on virtualization, security, and transitioning from SCSI to NVMe, , all while having low cost, persistent storage and low latency.  Hear Todd and Nishant's perspectives and solutions from Marvell that enable customers and partners to increase storage workloads with optimized security.

Radha Nagarajan, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Marvell's Optical and Copper Connectivity Business Group, discusses key insights into Marvell's critical solutions for next generation infrastructure as well as optimal approaches for power reduction and low latency in the data center. Be sure to read Radha's blog post for more information: https://bit.ly/33v6DW4

Will Chu, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Marvell's Automotive Business Unit discusses Automotive Megatrends with podcast host Chris Banuelos. In this episode, hear Will's insights on the current trends: autonomous, software-defined, vehicle connectivity and security. As next generation vehicles require zonal architectures enabled by Ethernet, Marvell is poised to enable customers with optimal solutions for smarter, safer and greener vehicles.

John Sakamoto, Vice President, Infrastructure Processors talks OCTEON® 10 with Podcast host Chris Banuelos.  In this episode, hear John's insights, industry trends and how Marvell pioneered OCTEON 10.  Enabling a multitude of applications including cloud, 5G wireless, enterprise, carrier and datacenter, the OCTEON 10 DPU platform features the industry's first processor family based on a 5nm ARM Neoverse N2 Platform. Tune in to hear John discuss how Marvell is moving the DPU market forward and how Marvell is adapting to market needs as more network workloads become virtualized.

Fibre Channel has been the gold standard protocol for connecting shared storage to servers for several decades now. Recently, new technologies like Flash storage, SSD's, memory class storage and NVMe have been deployed to allow servers and storage devices to be faster and deliver more performance. This would lead one to think that the time has come for Fibre Channel to be put out to pasture and for new protocols to be used to connect servers and storage together. The reality is however, Fibre Channel technology keeps advancing as well, and is more than capable for use with the high performance servers and storage arrays of today and tomorrow. In this podcast, we will explain some of the latest innovations in Fibre Channel connectivity and why Fibre Channel will remain the gold standard for shared storage connectivity. Read the blog: https://bit.ly/30wX2vQ

Rohan Gandhi, Product Marketing Manager, Optical and Copper Connectivity discusses his latest blog post “Why the 100G Optical Module Transformation is Full Steam Ahead” with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Hear Rohan discuss trends in surging data demands and how modern data centers require solutions to cost effectively and efficiently move more bandwidth at higher speeds.  Tune in and check out the link below to learn more about Marvell's Porrima™ 100G PAM4 DSP and the Alcor™ PAM4 DSP platforms.Read the blog post: https://bit.ly/30agfUm

Todd Owens, Field Marketing Director discusses NVMe over Fabrics with podcast host Chris Banuelos.  Though NVMe is not new, moving it outside the server into storage fabric is.  The efficiency and multi-thread capability of the NVMe language when compared to SCSI (small computer system interface) makes transitioning to NVMe over Fabrics a no-brainer. The complex challenge is which type of fabric approach is best.  Arrays exist today that support NVMe over RoCE and FC-NVMe.  However, there is much discussion around new arrays with NVMe over Fabric TCP support.  Learn more about the three different approaches as well as the pros and cons.  Marvell - HPE Partnership: https://www.marvell.com/hpe Marvell - Qlogic: https://www.marvell.com/qlogic

Thad Omura, Vice president of Marketing in the Flash Business Unit discusses the road to launching the Bravera SSD controllers with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Thad provides insights on his career at Marvell and discusses how flash storage is increasingly more prevalent for cloud service providers in light of the work and learn from home environment. Stay tuned to hear how Thad and the Flash Business Unit worked closely with Facebook and Microsoft to comprehensively understand challenges in their infrastructure to solve application needs.  Read the press release: https://bit.ly/3mQ3gQy

Ron Cates, Senior Director of Marketing from the PHY Business Unit discusses PHY Technology's role in networking data infrastructure with podcast host Chris Banuelos. Ron discusses the latest trends in mGig technology and in light of the work from home environment, where mGig is going.  Stay tuned to hear more about specific customer pain points and Marvell's mGig solutions. Click the link below to find Ron's article “EMI and New-Generation mGig Ethernet Links” published in Electronic Design featuring insights into mGig, why electromagnetic interference (EMI) is a thread to mGig transceivers and the three algorithms that can help mitigate EMI.  Read Ron's article: https://bit.ly/3irGtab 

Mark Kuemerle, Distinguished Engineer - Integrated Systems Architect from Marvell's ASIC Business Unit discusses electronic packaging with podcast host Chris Banuelos on the first episode of the Marvell Essential Technology Podcast. Mark returns from the 2021 IEEE's Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), discussing some of the new developments in packaging technology that contribute to high integration and low power consumption.