• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Politics
  • Science
  • World
  • Lifestyle
  • Tech
Microsoft’s CyberX Acquisition Boosts Security of Azure IoT Lineup

Microsoft Reveals First Hardware Using Its New Compression Algorithm

January 11, 2021
How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

Microsoft Cloud Announces Three New Vertical Cloud Solutions

February 26, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

Privacera Announces Partnership with Talend for Rapid Cloud Data Integration and Governance with Automated Privacy and Compliance

February 26, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

What is database encryption?

February 26, 2021
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

Microsoft Releases Azure Firewall Premium in Public Preview

February 26, 2021
Telecom Provider Migrates Confidently to Microsoft Azure with Fortinet’s Dynamic Cloud Security Solutions

Veeam Backup & Replication 11: Enhanced data management for a multi-cloud environment

February 25, 2021
8×8 makes raft of updates to platform

Advancing the Orchestration of Distributed Edge Applications, ZEDEDA Integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT

February 25, 2021
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

Cloud Security in Banking Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2026 | Microsoft Azure, Trend Micro, Salesforce

February 25, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

ZEDEDA Announces Integration with Microsoft Azure IoT to Seamlessly and Securely Orchestrate Distributed Edge Computing Workloads at Scale

February 24, 2021
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

ZEDEDA integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT to provide full lifecycle management capabilities

February 24, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

SolarWinds Attack: Proof That On-Premises Active Directory Still an Effective Initial Access Vector

February 23, 2021
A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

Microsoft Affirms Solorigate Attackers Saw Azure, Intune and Exchange Source Code

February 23, 2021
How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

OPS101 – Securing your Hybrid environment – Part 1 – Azure Security Center

February 22, 2021
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Friday, February 26, 2021
  • Login
Azure Security News
  • Home
    • Home – Layout 1
    • Home – Layout 2
    • Home – Layout 3
    • Home – Layout 4
    • Home – Layout 5
  • News
    • All
    • Business
    • Politics
    • Science
    • World
    How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

    Microsoft Cloud Announces Three New Vertical Cloud Solutions

    Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

    Privacera Announces Partnership with Talend for Rapid Cloud Data Integration and Governance with Automated Privacy and Compliance

    Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

    What is database encryption?

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Cloud Security in Banking Market to Witness Huge Growth by 2026 | Microsoft Azure, Trend Micro, Salesforce

    Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

    ZEDEDA Announces Integration with Microsoft Azure IoT to Seamlessly and Securely Orchestrate Distributed Edge Computing Workloads at Scale

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    ZEDEDA integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT to provide full lifecycle management capabilities

    Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

    SolarWinds Attack: Proof That On-Premises Active Directory Still an Effective Initial Access Vector

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Microsoft Affirms Solorigate Attackers Saw Azure, Intune and Exchange Source Code

    8×8 makes raft of updates to platform

    Indonesian Mobile Operator Selects NTT for Microsoft Security Project

    Microsoft To Build New Azure Cloud Data Centers In Greece

    NTT completes Microsoft security project for Indonesian mobile operator

    Trending Tags

    • Donald Trump
    • Future of News
    • Climate Change
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
    • Flat Earth
  • Tech
    • All
    • Apps
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup
    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Microsoft Releases Azure Firewall Premium in Public Preview

    Telecom Provider Migrates Confidently to Microsoft Azure with Fortinet’s Dynamic Cloud Security Solutions

    Veeam Backup & Replication 11: Enhanced data management for a multi-cloud environment

    8×8 makes raft of updates to platform

    Advancing the Orchestration of Distributed Edge Applications, ZEDEDA Integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT

    How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

    OPS101 – Securing your Hybrid environment – Part 1 – Azure Security Center

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Microsoft Ending Azure Information Protection Connections to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

    Microsoft To Open Azure Cloud Data Center Region In Spain

    EMC Corporation Townsend security Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Gemalto N.V. Microsoft Azure Google Thales e-security International Business Machines (IBM) Broadcom

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Azure Engineer at VillageMD

    Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

    How to Sync On-Premise Active Directory Passwords with Office 365 and Google Apps in Real-Time

    Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare

    Azure Defender is now available for all IoT and OT devices

    Telecom Provider Migrates Confidently to Microsoft Azure with Fortinet’s Dynamic Cloud Security Solutions

    Google and Microsoft ID Group Targeting Security Researchers

    Trending Tags

    • Flat Earth
    • Sillicon Valley
    • Mr. Robot
    • MotoGP 2017
    • Golden Globes
    • Future of News
  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Gaming
    • Movie
    • Music
    • Sports
    Microsoft Flight Simulator Continues to Look Stunning in New Snow Video

    Microsoft Flight Simulator Continues to Look Stunning in New Snow Video

    Meet the woman who’s making consumer boycotts great again

    New campaign wants you to raise funds for abuse victims by ditching the razor

    Twitter tweaks video again, adding view counts for some users

    A beginner’s guide to the legendary Tim Tam biscuit, now available in America

    People are handing out badges at Tube stations to tackle loneliness

    Trump’s H-1B Visa Bill spooks India’s IT companies

    Magical fish basically has the power to conjure its own Patronus

    This Filipino guy channels his inner Miss Universe by strutting in six-inch heels and speedos

    Oil spill off India’s southern coast leaves fisherman stranded, marine life impacted

  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Fashion
    • Food
    • Health
    • Travel
    Microsoft Seriously Beefs Up Security in Windows Server 2019

    Microsoft Offers More ‘Solorigate’ Advice Using Microsoft 365 Defender Tools

    A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

    Solar Winds, Office 365 & Shipbuilding…

    Aruba ClearPass Policy Manager Integrates with Microsoft

    Imprivata Expands Collaboration with Microsoft on New Digital Identity Innovations

    Microsoft Seriously Beefs Up Security in Windows Server 2019

    Microsoft Canada’s 10 biggest stories of 2020

    FAA issues new proposed Boeing 737 MAX pilot training procedures

    FAA issues new proposed Boeing 737 MAX pilot training procedures

    AMD breaks revenue records for 2019 and 4Q

    AMD breaks revenue records for 2019 and 4Q

    Microsoft and Analog Devices pair on 3D imaging tech

    Microsoft and Analog Devices pair on 3D imaging tech

    Microsoft is killing off insecure Cloud App Security cipher suites

    Microsoft is killing off insecure Cloud App Security cipher suites

    Rap group call out publication for using their image in place of ‘gang’

    Meet the woman who’s making consumer boycotts great again

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes
    • Mr. Robot
    • MotoGP 2017
    • Climate Change
    • Flat Earth
No Result
View All Result
Azure Security News
No Result
View All Result
Home Tech Apps

Microsoft Reveals First Hardware Using Its New Compression Algorithm

by AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR
January 11, 2021
in Apps
0
Microsoft’s CyberX Acquisition Boosts Security of Azure IoT Lineup
492
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

The Corsica ASIC offloads compression and encryption to accelerate storage performance.

Two months ago, the engineering team that designs all the infrastructure for Microsoft Azure, unveiled a new data compression algorithm that according to them achieved double the compression ratios of the widely used zlib model, used, for example, by Linux, Mac OS X, and iOS.

The company said there were many potential use cases for it but didn’t share how it was going to use the technology itself. Last week, Microsoft revealed the first specific use case and hardware implementation of the technology as part of its hyperscale platform: a hardware accelerator designed to compress and encrypt data at lightning speeds before it gets stored in the cloud.

Related: Microsoft Pitches New Standard for Data Center Flash Storage

Microsoft said it developed – and open-sourced – the algorithm, developed under the codename Project Zipline, because the industry’s ability to crank out new storage capacity fast enough to keep up with the explosion of data into the foreseeable future is questionable.

The company, one of the biggest Open Compute Project members, unveiled the compression technology at the OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California, in March. Testing it on data from typical cloud usage, Microsoft engineers saw Zipline shrink datasets to 4, 5, or 8 percent of their size in uncompressed form.

The data explosion companies are dealing with is driven primarily by telemetry data from all the new devices being connected to the internet and corporate networks, Kushagra Vaid, general manager of Azure Hardware Infrastructure, told Data Center Knowledge in an interview at the summit.

“Telemetry, generally speaking, whether it comes from IoT or other sources, that’s probably the biggest one,” he said. As new technologies like autonomous cars proliferate and more mundane things like elevators get connected, the volume of telemetry data is only going to continue exploding.

“That’s what I call the ‘modern dataset’ – all the new telemetry, sensor data,” Vaid said. “That’s why the data explosion is happening, because there are so many new devices and sensors coming online. Where does all that data go? You can either store the data, or you can process it and throw it away.”

Microsoft, it appears, prefers the former option, and Zipline is how it’s planning to cope with the enormous amount of data that needs to be stored.

Encryption and Compression Without a Performance Tax

In a blog post last week, Vaid revealed an ASIC card Microsoft designed together with Broadcom to speed up compression, encryption, and authentication of data stored in Azure. An accelerator is a dedicated piece of hardware, with its own silicon, designed to offload a certain function, or set of functions, from a system’s CPU (or another chip) to free up CPU resources to perform core computing functions.

By offloading encryption, compression, and authentication from Azure server CPUs to its custom ASICs, called Corsica, Microsoft can get more performance out of its servers. Corsica can also do all those things 15 to 25 times faster than CPUs, according to the company, cutting its current disk-write latency by nearly two-thirds:

microsoft corsica zipline asic chart.png

High-profile security breaches – including users failing to secure their Amazon cloud storage buckets, essentially leaving their data in open access – are now reported on a regular basis, while some tech giants – particularly Facebook – are under scrutiny after a series of embarrassing episodes revealed a cavalier attitude toward user privacy.

Encryption is going to be a big part of the solution to these problems, and Corsica was designed to ensure that encryption didn’t come with a performance tax. According to Microsoft, the accelerator “performs encryption in-line with compression, enabling pervasive encryption with zero system impact.”

It also combines multiple Zipline pipelines to provide 100Gbps throughput, so compression and encryption don’t create system bottlenecks.

Microsoft Seeds an Ecosystem

More implementations of Zipline are sure to come, and possibly not only from Microsoft.

The compression technology itself is open, but so is the register-transfer language (RTL), which essentially enables vendors to design silicon that can take advantage of Zipline. Opening up an RTL is rare in the industry and a first for OCP. But it means companies like Broadcom and its peers can now incorporate Zipline in everything from network cards and SSDs to CPUs, and that’s what Vaid is hoping will happen.

Kushagra Vaid, general manager of Azure Hardware Infrastructure at Microsoft, speaking at the OCP Global Summit 2019

Kushagra Vaid, general manager of Azure Hardware Infrastructure at Microsoft, speaking at the OCP Global Summit 2019

It’s likely, for example, that a supplier (or several) will implement the compression algorithm in SSDs built to Microsoft’s relatively new OCP spec called Denali. The spec defines an architecture that offloads much of an SSD’s management functionality to an accelerator or to the host CPU.

Vaid showed a prototype Denali SSD at the summit in March, but it will be up to vendors to turn the prototype into a finished product, he said. Because the Zipline RTL is open source, a vendor can implement the compression algorithm in Denali and get a ton of money from Microsoft, while also adding a piece of cutting-edge technology to their product portfolio.

“Microsoft buys a lot of silicon from the ecosystem,” Vaid told us. “The more people implement this, the more places we can put it into.”

Reference: https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/microsoft/microsoft-reveals-first-hardware-using-its-new-compression-algorithm

Share197Tweet123Share49
AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR

AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR

Related Posts

A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

Microsoft Releases Azure Firewall Premium in Public Preview

by AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR
February 26, 2021
0

by Steef-Jan WiggersFOLLOW Microsoft Azure Firewall is a managed, cloud-based network security service that protects your Azure Virtual Network resources. The company...

8×8 makes raft of updates to platform

Advancing the Orchestration of Distributed Edge Applications, ZEDEDA Integrates with Microsoft Azure IoT

by AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR
February 25, 2021
0

It's one thing to build an edge solution for experimental Proof of Concepts or small, localized deployments, and another to...

How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

OPS101 – Securing your Hybrid environment – Part 1 – Azure Security Center

by AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR
February 22, 2021
0

Now more than ever, organizations are challenged with keeping their employees productive working remotely and interacting with their customers over...

A moment of reckoning: the need for a strong and global cybersecurity response

Microsoft Ending Azure Information Protection Connections to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

by AZURE SECURITY NEWS EDITOR
February 22, 2021
0

Microsoft is planning to end the integration of the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint security solution with the Azure Information Protection...

  • Trending
  • Comments
  • Latest
Microsoft’s CyberX Acquisition Boosts Security of Azure IoT Lineup

AZURE DEFAULT RESOURCE GROUP AND DEFAULT WORKSPACE: WHAT ARE THEY?

December 14, 2020
Microsoft Seriously Beefs Up Security in Windows Server 2019

TCS Launches Cloud Exponence on Microsoft Azure

January 21, 2021
Microsoft Launches Host of Security Products in Time for RSA

Microsoft to add two new Microsoft 365 security, compliance bundles to its line-up

November 26, 2020

Lady Gaga Pulled Off One of the Best Halftime Shows Ever

0

Barack Obama’s Now Mainly Focusing on Wearing This Casual Backwards Hat

0

Watch Justin Timberlake’s ‘Cry Me a River’ Come to Life in Mesmerizing Dance

0
How to use Microsoft Sysmon, Azure Sentinel to log security events

Microsoft Cloud Announces Three New Vertical Cloud Solutions

February 26, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

Privacera Announces Partnership with Talend for Rapid Cloud Data Integration and Governance with Automated Privacy and Compliance

February 26, 2021
Innovative solutions for IT workers at home

What is database encryption?

February 26, 2021
Azure Security News

Copyright © 2020 - Azure Security

Navigate Site

  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
    • Politics
    • Business
    • World
    • Science
  • Entertainment
    • Gaming
    • Music
    • Movie
    • Sports
  • Tech
    • Apps
    • Gear
    • Mobile
    • Startup
  • Lifestyle
    • Food
    • Fashion
    • Health
    • Travel

Copyright © 2020 - Azure Security

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In