Project Monterey and the Future of Data Center Modernization

Enterprise IT departments continue to see increasing demand for distributed, modern applications. However, implementing these apps creates a unique IT infrastructure challenge. This increase in applications and data center modernization means that more CPU cycles are consumed by infrastructure services. It becomes even more imperative for your business to optimize workloads to meet these new demands and provide the apps and services your business requires.

An answer to this challenge is to modernize your data center by implementing data processing units (DPUs) to offload infrastructure services from the CPU. VMware’s Project Monterey reimagines IT infrastructure as a composable architecture with distributed services at the server edge. Learning from the successes of the major hyperscalers, Project Monterey moves key infrastructure functions like networking, storage, security and host management services from the main server CPU and shifts them to the DPU. Using DPU hardware like the AMD Pensando Distributed Services Card, server resources are freed up, and the distributed services can be accelerated. And for the first time, enterprises will be able to apply this architecture to bare-metal hosted services, as well as virtualized environments – unifying workload management to help improve TCO.

Project Monterey and DPUs add security capabilities as well. By physically separating the infrastructure layer from the hypervisor, AMD Pensando DPUs add to critical application security. By shifting to the DPU, infrastructure services are isolated, helping protect data from many security attacks in the application layer.

AMD Pensando and VMware’s Project Monterey now make it possible for enterprises of any size to scale their workloads and rise above the limits of current data center architecture. With AMD technology-based systems from HPE and Dell, enterprises will have access to the DPU that is at least one generation ahead of the competition¹, resulting in more capabilities at less power for customers.² The AMD Pensando DPU is high performance, fully programmable, and currently in production today with major customers including IBM Cloud, Goldman Sachs, Oracle Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

Project Monterey builds the foundation for next-generation infrastructure services and management targeting improved efficiency, performance, security, and TCO. Paired with AMD Pensando, virtually any enterprise data center can now take advantage of the benefits of Project Monterey – reaping the business results of a modern data center infrastructure.

Visit AMD at VMware Explore booth 1503 to learn more about AMD Pensando, Project Monterey, and the future of the modern data center.

You can also hear directly from AMD experts live at the event at these sessions:

Digital Transformation, the Cost of Doing Nothing (VIB2984USS) – Kumaran Siva, Corp. VP, Business Development AMD

Innovation Leadership (VIB2986USS) – John Hampton, Sr. Director, WW Customer Field Support, AMD

Project Monterey with AMD Pensando: vSphere’s New Software-Defined Hardware-Accelerated Data Center (CEIB1065US) – Nimish Desai, Dr. Director, VMware & Nick Furman, Director, Technical Marketing, AMD Pensando