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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.

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

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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SBus, PCI, USB etc... a user's introduction to the busses used in SPARC based computers what they do, market trends and 3rd party support.

Historically the main expansion busses used for adding in cards and modules in SPARC based systems were (in order of introduction)

Expansion Bus

First appearance in a SPARC system

First production model in which used

VMEbus

1987

Sun Microsystems Sun-4 deskside server.

SCSI-bus

1987

Sun Microsystems Sun-4 deskside server.

SBus

1989

Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 1 desktop workstation.

MBus

1991

Sun Microsystems SPARCserver 600MP deskside and datacenter server.

PCMCIA

1994

Sun Microsystems Voyager transportable.

PCI

1996

Sun Microelectronics - SPARCengine Ultra AX oem motherboard.

Compact PCI

1997

FORCE COMPUTERS CPCI-522G card

USB

2001

Sun Microsystems - Sun Blade 100 workstation

InfiniBand

2002

Themis Computer, slot expansion for rugged enterprise servers
Serial Attached SCSI 2005 Sun Microsystems - Sun Fire X4100
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