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SNW Fall 2011 Exhibitor Highlights Altior Emerging Technologies Pavilion 9 Altior’s Compression-Decompression File System Accelerator (CeDeFS) for high performance primary and secondary data storage applications is an integrated systems solution that uses industry-standard GZIP/GUNZIP data compression/decompression protocols to increase disk space and boost disk capacity utilization. It combines high performance data compression, advanced hardware acceleration technology, and device drivers for high-density primary storage. Anobit Booth 516 Anobit’s Genesis family of Solid State Drives (SSDs) are optimized to meet the performance and endurance requirements of network and server attached storage, enterprise business, and cloud based applications. The Genesis drives leverage Anobit’s MSP™ technology, resulting in dramatic improvements in endurance, performance and system cost. MSP 20xx Embedded Flash Controller Anobit's MSP™-powered MSP20xx embedded flash controllers are the industry's highest performance embedded flash controllers for Smartphones and Tablet computers, supporting sub20nm MLC (two bits-per-cell) and TLC (three bits-per-cell) NAND flash. Asigra Cloud Pavilion Asigra Cloud Backup™ is an enterprise end-to-end cloud backup, recovery and restore platform that protects servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices in a public, hybrid or private cloud. With over 25 years experience, Asigra technology provides secure, reliable and predictable data protection to 400,000 sites globally from the Global 100 to SMBs. Avere Systems Booth 416 Avere FXT 3000 and 4000 Series appliances optimize any NAS environment by accelerating performance, reducing cost, and enabling global access to data. The FXT 3000 and 4000 Series are highly scalable, supporting up to 50 appliances per cluster. FXT 3000 and 4000 appliances are compact, highly reliable and offered in four configuration options. FXT 4500 contains 144GB DRAM and 3.0TB SSD/Flash per appliance. FXT 4200 contains 96GB DRAM and 1.6TB SSD/Flash per appliance. FXT 3500 contains 144GB DRAM and 9.0TB SAS per appliance. FXT 3200 contains 96GB DRAM and 4.8TB SAS per appliance. All models provide 2GB NVRAM, two 10GbE ports, and six 1GbE ports.
Cache IQ Booth 507 Cache IQ is a storage solutions company launching RapidCache, the industry’s first intelligent caching and visibility product designed to tame the out-of-control growth of network attached storage while optimizing critical application performance. RapidCache is a NAS caching appliance that identifies applications’ active data sets, and then uses a combination of DRAM and SSDs to dramatically improve performance. Chelsio Booth 616 Chelsio is a leading technology company focused on solving high performance networking and storage challenges for virtualized enterprise data centers, cloud service installations, and cluster computing environments. Now shipping its fourth generation protocol acceleration technology, Chelsio is delivering hardware and software solutions including Unified Wire Ethernet network adapter cards, unified storage software and high performance storage gateways. T4 Unified Wire Adapters - Chelsio’s T4 Unified Wire Adapters are the only single chip, single firmware cards that can fully offload the following protocols over a single Unified Wire: TCP, UDP, iSCSI, iWARP, FCoE. The T4 Adapters also fully support SR-IOV, EVB/VNTag, DCB, Traffic Management and Filtering Unified Storage Software (USS 2.0) - Chelsio’s Unified Storage Server (USS 2.0) is a powerful easy-to-use turnkey solution for creating high performance file and block storage solutions. USS is designed to meet the storage performance and ROI challenges faced by data center cluster environments, including high-performance computing environments. It is middleware that is bestof-breed in the market, and provides an easy integration path for VARs and OEMs, and ease of use for end users. Unified Storage Router (USR1100) - Chelsio’s USR-1100 appliance offers high-performance iSCSI-to-Fibre Channel mapping, providing a solution for building a modular multi-protocol SAN design with increased scalability, stability, and ROI on storage infrastructure. Datalink Booth 417 Datalink’s V-Scape solution addresses provides a framework for building a customizable virtual data center or private cloud architecture that meets a company’s specific needs. Integrating virtual and unified server, storage, and network elements from leading industry vendors, V-Scape allows enterprises to cost-effectively transform IT silos into a shared, virtualized architecture. F5 Networks Booth 99 “ARX” F5 Networks will be demonstrating its ARX series, including the ARX Cloud Extender™ solution, highlighting the products’ intelligent storage tiering capabilities. Demos will illustrate the ease with which data can be automatically moved between tiers, including the cloud, and how cloud storage can be seamlessly integrated into existing file storage environments using automated storage tiering policies. HP Booth 513 HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP is available at http:/www.hp.com. HP Information Management Services delivers an integrated solution for managing information in any phase of its life cycle. HP consulting services bring together legal, IT, business and chief
information security officers to help establish policies to identify immediate best practices, while planning a holistic, long-term information strategy. HP Integrated Archive Platform now scales to manage up to 1 petabyte of data, 300,000 users and 20 million email messages per day, better meeting the performance needs of large enterprises. New HP Virtual IAP supports VMware vSphere®, which meets the information management needs of SMEs in a cost-effective manner. HP TRIM Enterprise Records Management has been enhanced with multijurisdictional retention, which automates complex retention schedules across multiple countries and within multinational enterprises. Localizing policies eliminates administrative overhead, reduces costs and simplifies compliance. The new bulk data loading capability further reduces costs with faster throughput of bulk record updates. HP Database Archiving is now integrated with HP TRIM to give clients one platform for managing their structured information, as well as new connectivity to archive data from legacy systems during the application retirement process. HP Data Protector now provides Granular Recovery Extension for VMware vSphere® and snapshot support for 3PAR and non-HP arrays, at an up to 70 percent less TCO. It also adds down-to-the-second snapshot recovery to HP StorageWorks P4000. This fully-automated approach reduces the costs and resources associated with protecting critical data. HP Data Protector Reporter gives organizations improved insight into their backup operations with enterprise-level, multisite global analysis and reporting. Centralized, automated backup reporting optimizes operations and infrastructure, which can realize an up to 30 percent cost savings. HP Storage Essentials software decreases costs for managing physical and virtual enterprise information infrastructure, while improving alignment of storage to business needs. HP Storage Essentials Backup Manager plug-in for HP Data Protector helps organizations monitor the entire backup process with a complete picture of their information state. IBM Booth 210 Innovation in systems design has long been a mainstay at IBM. IBM is a trusted storage provider with a broad portfolio of innovative hardware, software, and services offerings. Designed to help you keep up with big data and address challenges around storage efficiency or data protection, IBM System Storage will enable your company to improve productivity, maximize efficiency and reduce risk while streamlining costs. Join us at: http://storagecommunity.org/ Imation Booth 413 InfiniVault™ tiered storage system Part of Imation’s secure and scalable storage solutions, the InfiniVault tiered storage system is designed to balance the needs of managing increasing amounts of information. InfiniVault combines media options, including fixed RAID disk and RDX removable hard disk drives in a single environment to retrieve, retain and protect digital content. IntelliMagic IntelliMagic Vision: IntelliMagic Vision is a comprehensive solution for storage performance management. It provides built-in intelligence about the performance capabilities of virtualized and physical storage systems to automatically identify potential I/O issues. The powerful interface allows you to drill down through your virtualized storage infrastructure to the physical storage systems to diagnose performance issues and identify solutions. IntelliMagic Direction: IntelliMagic Direction is a storage performance modeling solution that allows you to identify the
optimal storage configuration for your virtualized storage environment. IntelliMagic Direction models existing workload and facilitates “What-if?” scenarios to identify potential future bottlenecks and appropriate configuration changes when a bottleneck is identified. Kaminario Booth A6 Kaminario K2 high performance all solid-state SAN storage eliminates I/O bottlenecks and dramatically reduces latency to accelerate critical business applications. Kaminario will be featuring its new K2 family of blazingly fast, highly available, and easy to deploy SAN storage, a better way to store and retrieve performance sensitive data. www.kaminario.com LTO Ultrium Booth 512 Come to the LTO Ultrium booth #512 and learn how the new LTO-5 innovative tape storage technology with the new Linear Tape File System (LTFS) can save costs and make tape usable in a fashion like disk or other removable media. Come see the groundbreaking technology in action! Mezeo Cloud Pavilion Mezeo, the industry’s leading provider of cloud storage management, will be in Cloud Pavilion 6, demonstrating the services that transform traditional storage into API-accessible cloud storage solutions. Mezeo offers services such as multi-tenancy, cloud storage management, async geo replication, API access and more to extend backup, archiving, and mobile storage solutions. NEC Booth 511 NEC Corporation of America will be launching the M100, its newest storage array, which provides highly available and easily scalable storage without compromising performance or flexibility. M100 features a complete array management suite, including snapshots, replication, performance management, multi-pathing, failover, compliance, energy and conservation. Visit NEC at booth 511 or www.necam.com/storage. NetApp Cloud Pavilion NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate performance breakthroughs. Discover our passion for helping companies around the world go further, faster at www.netapp.com. Overland Storage Geoff Barrall, Overland Storage's CTO and VP of Engineering is well known as a storage innovator with radical ideas for data storage. Under Barrall's technological leadership, Overland is introducing the latest revolution in storage. Provision some time today to visit the Overland Storage booth to learn more. QLogic Booth 307 ***NEW*** QLogic FlexSuite Series Adapters FlexSuite dual personality 16Gb Fibre Channel and 10Gb Ethernet converged network adapter are optimized for virtualization environments, freeing the server from protocol activities to support more virtual machines per server at up to one million IOPs. Fully PCIe Gen3-compliant, buyers can be confident that these adapters will future-proof their servers. *** NEW *** QLogic Universal Access Point 5900 Series Converged Switches The UA5900, the world's highest-density FC/FCoE switch QLogic claims, can be deployed as a Fibre Channel switch, with entry-level configurations starting with 24 small form factor pluggable (SFP) device ports and growing to 68 device ports per U, via “pay-as-you-grow” port licenses with a set of features and price unmatched.
QLogic 2600 Series 8Gb Fiber Channel Adapter The 2600 Series adapters offer exceptional performance with extremely low CPU utilization due to full hardware offloads. This performance eliminates I/O bottlenecks in today’s multiprocessor servers. Support for powerful virtualization features make this adapter ideal for virtualized environments that need I/O performance to service a growing numbers of virtual machines. QLogic 3200 Series Intelligent 10Gb Ethernet Adapter The QLogic 3200 Series Intelligent Ethernet Adapters boast networking performance, with dualport throughput of approximately 40Gbps. The adapters are designed for use in virtualized environments, with support for QLogic’s NIC Partitioning feature, allowing users to divide a physical Ethernet port into four virtual ports with flexible, user-defined allocation of 10Gbps bandwidth. QLogic 4000 Series iSCSI Adapter QLogic’s 4000 Series 1GbE iSCSI Adapters provide SAN connectivity over Ethernet and TCP/IP network infrastructures. Both the iSCSI and TCP/IP processing functions are offloaded to the QLogic 4000 Series Adapters, more host server CPU processing power is available to server applications, thus increasing the overall iSCSI SAN performance. QLogic 8200 Series Converged Networking Adapter The 8200 Series Converged Network Adapters support concurrent TCP/IP, FCoE, and iSCSI traffic over a shared 10Gb Ethernet link with full hardware offload for FCoE and iSCSI. Leveraging QLogic’s battle-hardened Fibre Channel and iSCSI drivers, and advanced virtualization features makes the adapters the most dependable on the market. QLogic 5000 Series Stackable Fiber Channel Switch The 5000 Series Stackable Switches support 2Gb, 4Gb and 8Gb servers and storage – all connected by the world’s fastest SAN backbone, with Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) that provide 20Gb throughput. The switches not only deliver the performance you need today, but also provide a simple migration path to 8Gb for tomorrow. QLogic 6200 Series Intelligent Storage Routers The QLogic 6200 Series of Intelligent Storage Routers can be used to provide multi-protocol host connectivity to storage systems, SAN-over-WAN connectivity for business continuity and disaster recovery, and a flexible data migration solution. The router allows cross-protocol routing for 8Gb Fibre Channel and 10GbE/1GbE iSCSI. Quantum Booth 704 The new DXi6700 Series The new DXi6700 Series—the DXi6701 and DXi6702—provides deduplication without compromise, combining the broadest scalability and highest performance with leading value and unique extensibility to support the broadest range of IT environments today and into the future. Models provide up to 5.8TB/hour performance, scale from 8 to 80TB, and include all software licenses in the base price. Quantum Scalar i80 tape library Quantum Scalar i80 tape library is the intelligent library for SMB and remote office environments looking to save time and money spent on storage management. Over 30,000 iLayer libraries have shipped, providing users with simpler tape management, greater reliability, and investment protection through capacity-on-demand (COD) scalability. Rackspace Booth 316 Rackspace® Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, and the founder of OpenStack™, an open source cloud platform. The San Antoniobased company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
SEPATON Booth 217 SEPATON is the only company in the world that designs and implements data protection solutions specifically for large enterprises. SEPATON’s platforms deliver the industry’s highest levels of scalability, performance, and reliability. They are deployed in the world’s largest enterprises to meet stringent regulatory, business continuity and ROI/TCO data protection requirements. SMART Modular Technologies Booth 216 Optimus SSD SMART’s Optimus SSD features a native SAS 6Gb/s interface with read/write speeds of 100K/50K IOPS and 1,000/500 MB/s. Featuring technology advancements including predictable performance, high reliability and extended endurance using standard MLC flash, Optimus is ideal for a variety of enterprise applications at an affordable cost. www.smartm.com XceedIOPS2 SSD SMART’s XceedIOPS2 SSD is equipped a 6Gb/s SATA interface and is optimized for use in highvolume virtualized storage applications. Delivering high random performance of 60K IOPS and sequential performance of 520MB/s, the XceedIOPS2 uses E-MLC NAND flash technology and features endurance of 30K P/E cycles. www.smartm.com Guardian Technology Through applied science, SMART’s Guardian Technology extends the life of standard MLC flash well beyond its native endurance. A key feature of Guardian, aggregated flash management, prolongs the life of SSDs by treating all flash elements as a system instead of a collection of discrete elements. www.smartm.com Taejin Infotech Co., Ltd. Emerging Technologies Pavilion T3804 A high-end performance semiconductor Hybrid Storage System (stackable up to 8 units, 4TB capacity) that offers excellent Data Base I/O transaction performance. Through the application of proprietary DDR Modules + SSD/HDD/SAS drives, 8GB FC interface, and other high performance components, this product achieves a breakthrough in performance. S3424 A high-performance semiconductor single unit Hybrid Server System that supports 24 HDD bays of storage that provide scalability and data protection while providing high-speed processing performance. The S3424 supports various configurations of proprietary DDR Modules + SSD/HDD/SAS to create an Adaptive Cache Solution. Virtual Instruments Booth 411 Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom®3.0 platform enables companies to maximize their ROI through the real-time measurement and analysis of SAN I/O traffic. Deployment reduces application response time, increases availability and improves server and SAN utilization, allowing organizations to guarantee SLAs and accelerate the transition of business-critical applications to a private cloud environment.
