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News Release from: Comtech AHA Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 October 2006
Paper promotes lossless data compression
Comtech AHA Corp will present a tutorial on "Lossless data compression in storage networks" at the Storage Networking World Conference.
Comtech AHA Corp will present a tutorial on "Lossless data compression in storage networks" at the Storage Networking World Conference The conference is hosted by Computerworld in partnership with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) and will be held from 31st October 31 to 3rd November 2006 in Orlando, Florida
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The tutorial presented by Comtech AHA will educate users on the algorithms commonly used for lossless data compression as well as to discuss the benefits of implementing lossless data compression in storage area networks.
The tutorial will address how compression can be used to greatly increase the efficient utilisation of storage media.
There will be a discussion of the merits of hardware compression versus software compression implementations.
A comparison of commonly used lossless compression algorithms will be presented.
Participants will learn where and when lossless data compression should be integrated to provide the most efficient method for archival of network information.
Comtech AHA has been developing lossless data compression solutions for over 16 years and offers a wide range of compression products including integrated circuits, PCIX boards, and intellectual property cores.
Comtech AHA's newest compression technology implements the open standard compression algorithm GZIP.
The AHA362-PCIX compression/decompression accelerator is a half-height, short PCI-X card with data throughput of over 3.0Gbit/s.
The AHA362-PCIX was developed to increase the data transfer rates in applications such as storage area networks, web servers, web accelerators and web traffic appliances including load balancers, firewall VPN servers and integrated routers/switches.
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