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News Release from: Silverback Systems | Subject: ISnap 2110
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 June 2006
HBA accelerates network storage system
Silverback Systems is working with the StoreVault division of Network Appliance to offer the iSnap 2110 dual-port iSCSI HBA as an option for the new StoreVault S500 network storage system.
Silverback Systems is working with the StoreVault division of Network Appliance to offer Silverback's iSnap 2110 dual-port iSCSI host bust adapter (HBA) as an option for the new StoreVault S500 network storage system for the small and medium business (SMB) market When used in a host computer connected to the StoreVault S500, the iSnap 2110 HBA offloads several tasks that a host connected to the StoreVault S500 would otherwise need to manage, including iSCSI and TCP/IP protocols, enabling SMB customers to take advantage of unprecedented network storage acceleration provided by the patented iSnap technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"With Silverback Systems and Network Appliance teaming to provide iSCSI acceleration technology to the SMB market, the two companies are advancing the delivery of mission-critical performance and reliability at economical prices", said Harry Petty, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Silverback Systems.
"Small and medium businesses now can afford best-of-class iSCSI connectivity while providing application servers with performance headroom".
The StoreVault S500 is the industry's first scalable all-in-one network storage appliance for the SMB market segment supporting network attached storage (NAS), iSCSI storage area network (SAN), and Fibre Channel SAN, providing SMB customers unparalleled flexibility for their network storage environments.
The iSnap 2110 iSCSI HBA is the industry's first enterprise-class storage adapter at an entry-class price point.
Capable of delivering up to 400Mbyte/s throughput and 60K server I/Os per second, it outperforms competing offerings in IOPS, throughput, and CPU utilisation and is priced up to 30% lower than current alternatives.
The iSnap 2110 includes dual Ethernet ports and initiator support for Windows Server 2003, Redhat Linux, and SUSE Linux.
Silverback's iSnap technology is architected for acceleration.
Silverback HBA products based on iSnap technology accelerate the performance of servers, iSCSI storage devices, NAS appliances, blade servers, and multi-protocol storage routers while providing flexibility, scalability, resiliency, and high availability under the most extreme OLTP traffic conditions.
The iSnap technology dramatically speeds access to IP storage in a variety of different configurations by offloading both networking and upper-layer protocols such as iSCSI.
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