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CHELSIO’S 10 GIGABIT ETHERNET TOE ADAPTER FOR LINUX RECEIVES CERTIFICATION FROM FALCONSTOR SOFTWARE
Chelsio Delivers High Performance SAN Solution For Enterprise Environments
SUNNYVALE, CA, APRIL 14, 2005 – Chelsio Communications, Inc., the established leader in 10-Gigabit Ethernet server and storage adapters and protocol acceleration technology, today announced FalconStor Software Inc (Nasdaq: FALC), a leading provider of network storage infrastructure software, has certified Chelsio’s T210 10 Gigabit Ethernet TOE adapter for Linux as fully interoperable with FalconStor’s award-winning IPStorВ® Enterprise Edition software. As a result, iSCSI customers have access to a solution that delivers high performance storage management architecture with maximum data availability and reliability in business-critical environments.
Bernie Wu, vice president of business development for FalconStor, said “FalconStor and Chelsio share a vision of providing enterprise-grade performance, uptime and reliability for customer storage area networks. The Chelsio 10 Gigabit TOE adapter provides an ideal, universal interface for customers deploying IPStor for advanced, innovative storage services that optimize data storage, availability and protection. The combination of Chelsio’s adapter and FalconStor’s network storage solution provides our mutual customers with industry-leading performance and added value in SAN environments.”
Chelsio’s TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) and iSCSI acceleration adapters are well known as the highest-performing TCP offload and acceleration technology in the industry and are the only 10G TOE adapters available. Chelsio’s new T210 10GbE and T204 4-port GigE TOE/iSCSI adapters provide link aggregation and failover for leading throughput and scalability in IP storage environments.
Kianoosh Naghshineh, president and CEO of Chelsio, said “As the provider of the industry’s highest-performing TCP/IP offload products, this certification with FalconStor further executes upon our business strategy and our vision for iSCSI. Chelsio’s 10GbE and 4-port GigE TOE/iSCSI acceleration technology provides optimum price/performance iSCSI storage environments to enable the most efficient data movement. Together, FalconStor and Chelsio deliver upon the promise of high availability and business continuity in servers and networks requiring capabilities such as continuous backup and rapid data recovery.”
About FalconStor’s IPStor Enterprise Edition
IPStor Enterprise Edition provides an intelligent, open SAN/NAS infrastructure across heterogeneous environments and enables corporate IT professionals to deploy a hardware-agnostic, network-centric foundation to maximize productivity and business continuity, safeguard mission-critical data against unexpected outages, meet record retention requirements for regulatory compliance, while helping customers minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximize return on investment (ROI). For more information visit the company online at www.falconstor.com.
About Chelsio Communications
Chelsio Communications is leading the convergence of networking, storage and clustering interconnects with its robust, high-performance and proven protocol acceleration technology. Featuring a highly scalable and programmable architecture, Chelsio is shipping 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapter cards with protocol offload, delivering the low latency and superior throughput required for high-performance computing applications. For more information, visit the company online at http://www.chelsio.com.
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Chelsio Communications, Inc.
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