LSI and
QLogic Cross Certify InfiniBand Products
MILPITAS,
Calif - February 12, 2008 - QLogic Corp. and LSI Corp today
announced that the 2 companies will be working together to cross-certify their
InfiniBand based products.
LSI is actively involved in the QLogic
HPCtrack Program in which
InfiniBand companies
collaborate to optimize the performance of multi-vendor solutions.
...LSI profile,
...QLogic profile
Promise Ships New SAS RAID Controllers
MILPITAS,
Calif - January 28, 2008 - Promise Technology Inc. today announced
immediate general availability of its SuperTrak EX and FastTrak TX host-based
SAS RAID controllers.
Promise's SuperTrak EX offerings are 4- and
8-port internal, hardware-based
SAS and
SATA
RAID controllers using
Intel's 81348 IO
processor. They support RAID 5 and RAID 6 and are designed for data protection
needs based on entry-level and midrange server platforms running all popular
Linux distributions as well as Windows. Target applications include
disk-to-disk backup, video
capture, post production and database applications.
Promise's FastTrak
TX offerings are software-based SAS RAID cards designed for workstation
applications.
...Promise
Technology profile
Sun Chooses Emulex Fibre Channel AMC
COSTA MESA, Calif -
December 4, 2007 - Emulex Corp today announced its LightPulse adapter cards
have been selected by Sun Microsystems for its new Netra family of
blade servers.
The new Sun StorageTek 4Gb/s
Fibre Channel ATCA HBAs
are based on the Emulex 4Gb/s LightPulse LPe11000 family. They were
designed for use within Sun Netra Blade Servers, and use an AMC (Advanced
Mezzanine Card) form factor which supports the ATCA chassis.
...Emulex profile
USB 3 Spec Anticipated 1H 2008
BEAVERTON, Ore - November 28, 2007 - The USB
3.0 Promoter Group is looking for additional contributors to its initial
draft of the group's proposed specification with a goal to have it completed by
the first half of 2008.
SuperSpeed USB will create a backward-compatible standard with the
same ease-of-use and plug-and-play capabilities of previous USB computer
connection technologies, ports and cabling. The personal USB interconnect is
targeting to deliver over 10x the speed of today's connection and will be
optimized for lower power and improved protocol efficiency. |
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Bridgeworks
Spans SAS to SAN
Christchurch,
UK - September 25, 2007 - Bridgeworks launched the Tamar FSAS4400
Fibre Channel to SAS Bridge.
The Tamar FSAS4400 enables users to
connect SAS enabled
devices such as Disk Arrays,
Tape Drives and
Tape Libraries to
FC SANs using the
fibre channel protocol.
- 2 x 4Gb Fibre Channel Ports
- Ethernet Management Port
- GUI + Command Line
- 4 SAS ports (3Gb) Mini SAS
- Supports all SAS devices
- 16,000 LUNs
- 19" rackmount form factor (cPCI and other formats
available)
Bridgeworks' CEO David Trossell said
- "(Our) approach to connectivity allows vendors to use one core tape or
optical technology but easily provide different SAN interfaces within the same
internal interconnect structure." ...Bridgeworks profile,
SCSI converters
Editor's
comments:- Bridgeworks
product naming
convention refers to rivers. For example they've got
Potomac
and
Tamar.
Fortunately there aren't too many commercially viable storage interface choices
for a SAS bridge. So there's not much risk of using up all the good names - and
having to use those with negative connotations - such as
Bridge on the River
Kwai,
Tay
Bridge (Disaster) or
Bear River
(Massacre). That could be
a Bridge too Far.
Coraid's AoE Wins InfoWorld Award
SAN
CLEMENTE, CALIF - September 27, 2007 - InfoWorld has named Coraid's
AoE Tools as a winner in its 2007 BOSSIE Award for Best of Open Source in
Storage.
"Open Source Software has moved into the mainstream," said
Steve Fox, Editor in Chief at InfoWorld. "InfoWorld's inaugural Bossie
Award winners represent mature, flexible, and reliable solutions that
increasingly define the segment."
AoE
has become a de facto standard in Ethernet storage area networking, offering a
simple alternative to iSCSI
or Fibre Channel SAN. AoE
has over 1,000 active users with very large storage systems ...Coraid profile
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| Index
Engines' Partners Can Process 13,000 Tapes/ Month |
Holmdel,
N.J. - July 19, 2007 - Index Engines today announced that its partners
can today perform information discovery on 13,000 backup tapes a month.
Responding to the growing need for rapid legal discovery response
times, Index Engines and its
Litigation
Ready partners are helping companies comply with increasing corporate
governance requirements to have prompt corporate data access and retrieval.
...Index Engines
profile, Data Recovery
SanDisk's SATA SSDs Selected for IBM BladeCenter
MILPITAS,
CALIF - July 17, 2007 - SanDisk Corp today announced that IBM
has selected SanDisk's SATA 5000 2.5-inch solid state drive as an option
within the IBM BladeCenter HS21 XM.
Using the SSD, power savings
can be up to 18 watts per blade, 252 watts per chassis and 1,512 watts per
server rack. MTBF is approximately 6x better than conventional hard disks and
IOPS performance is more than an order of magnitude faster.
..SanDisk profile
See
also:- article:-
Solid State Disks: Pushing the Envelope in Blade Server Design
LSI Passes 1 million SAS RAID Chips Milestone
MILPITAS,
Calif., July 17, 2007 - LSI Corp today announced it has shipped more
than 1 million SAS RAID-on-Chip ICs.
"Reaching this volume
so quickly (in just 18 months) validates our strategy of entering the
SAS market from its
inception and being one of the first companies to deliver a solution," said
Dan Roehrich, LSI's VP of marketing.
IDC estimates that SAS hard disk
drive shipments to enterprise storage and server applications in 2007 will be
more than triple 2006 shipments. IDC predicts SAS will achieve 26% enterprise
market share in 2007, out-shipping all other drive interfaces.
...LSI profile,
RAID systems,
storage chips
Terabyte SAS Hard Drives at Last from Seagate
SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif-June 25, 2007 - Seagate today announced its first
terabyte hard drives.
The Barracuda ES.2 deliver 1TB of capacity
on 4 platters. The
7,200-rpm spin speeds delivers average seek times of 8.5ms. Its new
Rotational Vibration Feed Forward system is designed to sustain performance in
densely-packed multi-drive systems. The Barracuda ES.2 is designed for 24 x 7
data availability. It's available with
SAS or
SATA interface and
will ship next quarter. MSRP is $399.99. ...Seagate profile
Editor's
comments:- Hitachi
announced the world's first terabyte
hard drive in
January 2007 with
a a coincidental MRSP of $399. The
Serial SCSI option
for the new Barracuda at last eliminates a market barrier which has made SAS
storage arrays grossly over priced.
See also:-
article:-
Rotational Vibration Cancellation Technology in WD Raptor Hard Drives (pdf) | |
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