FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CHELSIO DELIVERS ENTERPRISE READY IP STORAGE NETWORKING SOLUTIONS WITH INDUSTRY’S FIRST 10GbE iSCSI ADAPTERS
SUNNYVALE, CA, OCTOBER 26, 2004 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the established leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards and protocol acceleration technology, today announced the availability of its high performance T110 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI host bus adapter for server and storage networking OEMs.
The Chelsio T110 10GbE iSCSI Protocol Engine, the only adapter of its kind in the industry, is a turnkey hardware and software solution that provides integrated TCP Offload Engine (TOE), plus iSCSI initiator and target functionality at 10Gbps data rates, enabling storage system vendors to build industry-leading enterprise-grade iSCSI storage solutions.
The availability of Chelsio’s 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI host bus adapter adds impetus to the growing industry trend toward IP-based storage networking infrastructures. The emergence of 10 gigabit speeds is especially important for enterprise-level adoption of iSCSI storage networking because it meets the need to scale and extend storage networking infrastructures beyond their current limitations.
“Through the use of Ethernet TCP/IP infrastructure and management tools, Chelsio extends SAN connectivity without distance limitations and does so with the highest storage transport rates possible,” said Eric Taborek, vice president of sales and marketing for Chelsio. “Chelsio empowers some of the industry’s most innovative solution providers to deliver enterprise-grade storage systems that uniquely address this rapidly expanding market.”
The growing storage traffic requirements across data centers and enterprise networks need 10 Gigabit iSCSI. With 10 Gigabit Ethernet iSCSI interfaces supported by storage systems and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switched network fabrics that support hundreds of gigabits per second of throughput, the ubiquitous Ethernet/IP-based infrastructure can support and scale today’s bandwidth-hungry storage applications.
“Storage Computer is excited that Chelsio’s unique 10GbE iSCSI acceleration product is available for certification and deployment with our industry-leading NAS and iSCSI target appliance software offerings,” said Sean Murphy, vice president, product development, Storage Computer Corporation[AMEX:SOS]. “We’ve seen this market space begin to take shape and view the Chelsio 10GbE iSCSI solution as a critical enabler for delivering enterprise-level IP SAN solutions to our storage OEM partners.”
Recent independent benchmark testing showed the T110 delivering an industry world record 856 MBps throughput, more than double the throughput of any 4G Fibre Channel (FC) device in the market. The Chelsio I/O per second (IOPS) measurements also set an industry record. IOPS measure how well a storage device can handle transaction-oriented workloads critical for database application that issues a lot of small transactions to the storage device reading and writing records. The T110 has been measured at 670K IOPS on a single iSCSI target, a huge leap over 2G and 4G Fibre Channel adapters.
“EqualLogic is a pioneer in bringing intelligent, enterprise-quality storage area networking (SAN) solutions to standard Ethernet networks,” said John Joseph, vice president of marketing of EqualLogic. “We are always exploring the latest technologies that will provide our customers with the highest performance and reliability for business-critical applications, and we see strong promise in new 10 Gigabit Ethernet products such as Chelsio’s T110 as the next step for iSCSI SAN connectivity.”
The T110 iSCSI host bus adapter has been designed from the ground-up specifically for the OEM marketplace, and therefore the architecture is modular, portable and flexible. This allows storage system OEMs to customize their iSCSI solutions picking the appropriate capabilities of the T110 and adding their own value with other features.
“As the leader in modular IP SAN market we are thrilled that Chelsio is delivering 10Gb Ethernet iSCSI technology and products today,” said Ravi Pendekanti, vice president of marketing of Intransa. “This effort will enable us bring superior cost-performance to our IP SAN solution offering and provide our customers the best ROI for their investment.”
“We are extremely pleased to work with Chelsio on enabling enterprise- level iSCSI storage solutions,” said Jim Schrand, vice president, marketing at Wasabi. “We expect that Wasabi Storage Builder, coupled with Chelsio’s 10GbE iSCSI acceleration product, will deliver an order-of-magnitude boost in performance and scalability for iSCSI storage solutions.”
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of data and storage networking with its robust, high-performance and proven protocol acceleration technology. Featuring a highly scalable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards with protocol offload in hardware, which delivers the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications. For more information, visit the company online at www.chelsio.com.
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