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JULY 6th, 2005
Netcell Teams with Diskeeper to Give Storage Processor Unit
(SPUs) Data Loss Protection
Netcell Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company that places
disk arrays into the mainstream storage markets with its Storage Processor Unit (SPU) solution for accelerator cards, has
aligned with Diskeeper Corporation to protect data against disk drive failure and accidental deletion of critical data files.
According to Bobby Johnson, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Diskeeper, "Netcell's Instant Drive Protection technology
can avert the catastrophe of a drive failure, but it cannot recover files that were manually deleted. By putting a version
of Diskeeper 9 and Undelete 5 in the Revolution Storage Kit bundle, we provide Netcell with advanced file recovery software
and a defragmentation engine that can actually increase array performance."
As part of the agreement, Diskeeper 9 and Undelete 5 will be included
in the Netcell Revolution Storage Software Kit (RSSK) – a complete kit for the development of accelerator cards for
parallel ATA and SATA storage architectures based on Netcell’s SPU chip.
Diskeeper is considered one of the leaders in the disk defragmentation
with over 16 million licenses sold. Netcell addresses the needs of next-generation of multiple disk drive based desktop, workstation
and media servers, with a focus on bandwidth intense entertainment PCs and graphics workstations.
JUNE 9th, 2005
LeWiz Communications Announces Stack Support for SAN / NAS
LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company, has reported that it now supports enterprise
class Linux OS and iSCSI storage stacks for its Magic2020 TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) HBA . LeWiz offers a multi-port TCP/IP
Offload Engine (TOE) chip and related board products used to address I/O bottlenecks in SAN and NAS storage systems.
MAY 23rd, 2005
Quellan Inc, based in Atlanta, Georgia, announced its Nx2000 6.25 Gbps
Quad Wideband Noise Canceller. The chip, designed as a companion chip to the company's Eq601 Wideband Equalizer, overcomes
timing delays that are normally associated with wire traces, cables and connectors in high speed applications such as network
communications. The new technologies' capability to increase the speed of the enterprise without expensive high-speed equipment
was confirmed by Tony Stelliga, Quellan's President and CEO, "The Nx2000 provides OEM's the interconnect performance they've
been dreaming of -- up to a 400% increase in speed -- all without having to change their interconnect infrastructure. This
greatly reduces both capital equipment and development costs, while preventing costly network downtime required to install
new interconnects. The Nx2000 quad canceller is fully adaptive to ensure the highest performance across a wide range possible
system variations in Telecom/Enterprise, Network Storage, and Computing Applications."
The Nx2000 chip, an analog VLSI design with over 4000 discrete analog devices,
is based on an algorithm that synthesizes network signal interference and then determines and applies a noise correction signal.
In order to accomplish this, the chip is placed between the connector and the transceiver to cancel any signal coupling between
local transmitters and adjacent receivers. To give the Nx2000 fully adaptive phase, amplitude and frequency control the chip
includes eight channel emulator cores.
The chip, which has applications in a number of "market-demanding" areas,
is priced at $99.00 in quantities of $500.00 and up. Power consumption is rated at 600 mW per receive channel.
APRIL 29th, 2005
Melanox Passes 500,000 InfiniBand Port Shipments
Mellanox Technologies Ltd, a provider of InfiniBand silicon and card solutions for the communications,
storage and compute clustering market has shipped over 500,000 InfiniBand ports to its customer base. According to Eyal Waldman,
CEO of Mellanox, "Market adoption of InfiniBand-based solutions is accelerating. Whereas it took three years of shipments
to reach the 200,000 port milestone, the installed base of InfiniBand ports has quickly grown 150% in just this last year."
APRIL 27th, 2005
Infrant Opens Up Low-Cost NAS Storage Consumer Market
Infrant Technologies has announced that its Expandable Protection
technology, X-RAID, is available for its Infrant IT3100 Network Attached Storage processors. The technology permits the automatic
addition of disk drives to a NAS appliance, while preserving data and protecting against single disk failure. According to
Paul Tien, President at Infrant Technologies. "Infrant X-RAID technology is simple to use and allows additional capacity and
protection to be added with ease. Users can purchase an inexpensive NAS appliance with a single drive and add more space at
their convenience. The biggest two issues consumers have with network attached storage is the prohibitive entry price and
the ability to expand the volume. Infrant Expandable Protection TM (X-RAID) technology solves both of these issues."
The X-RAID based Infrant IT3100 Network Storage Processor family
and NAS appliances, which incorporate the technology, are expected to be available from Infrant and OEM partners this quarter.
APRIL 11th, 2005
StoreAge and iVivity Introduce ASIC Based SAN Storage Products
StoreAge Networking Technologies and iVivity have announced an alternative
to custom ASIC Storage Area Network (SAN) design solutions. The product, an ASIC based SPAID Optimized SAN storage solution,
is based on a Split-Path separation storage network architecture. The architecture has been designed to allow network storage
solutions to support a variety of emerging data protection storage services. The solution, which includes StoreAge's
split-path software, is based on iVivity's iDiSX ASIC processors, which has data protection storage capabilities embedded
into the chip. iVivity's iDiSX 2000 intelligent storage processor is a multi-protocol chip with a system operating
speed of 10 Gbps.
The solution was developed as a result of the 'StoreAge-Enabled'
Partner program, which so far includes over twenty network hardware, ASIC and storage software vendors.
APRIL 6th, 2005
Infrant Technologies, a fabless semiconductor company, has introduced
its IT3107 and IT3102 network storage processors along with a license for its Network Attached Storage software. The
highly integrated IT3100 system on a chip family includes 32-bit RISC CPUs, Serial ATA interface, a 64-bit DDR-SDRAM interface,
encryption / decryption engine and in order to simplify in-board test, support of JTAG boundary scan. The processors also
include a Gigabit Ethernet MAC. According to Paul Tien, President at Infrant Technologies, "Many user benefits are derived
by integrating advanced network and storage features into a network storage processor. The Infrant IT3100 network storage
processor family reduces the number of core chips needed for storage and media servers, increasing performance and overall
reliability while consuming less power at a lower cost."
The Infrant network storage processors start at $80
in 1,000-unit quantities and include a license for Infrant's NAS software package.
MARCH 29th, 2005
SiliconStor, Inc., founded in 2002, and in production of its SATA
enterprise storage chip in March of 2004, has secured a $9 million Series B investment round. The round was led by VSP Capital
and APV Technology Partners John Hamm, General Partner at VSP Capital elaborated on the investment decision, "SiliconStor
is a unique early stage company in that it is shipping product commercially, has strong customer design win traction in a
significant market space, and is poised for immediate revenue growth. Enterprise IT organizations are clearly emphasizing
lower cost storage solutions for information life-cycle management (ILM), infrastructure ROI, and regulatory compliance initiatives.
SiliconStor's technology and product timing are perfectly aligned to enable rapid customer adoption of SATA disk drives for
online and nearline storage arrays, a market that is expected to grow dramatically over the next few years."
MARCH 17th, 2005
ServerEngines Links
Its I/O Silicon with Adaptec for iSCSI Product Development
ServerEngines LLC, a fabless
integrated circuit company based in Santa Clara, CA and Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT), a producer of data storage boards and
the ASIC chip that go in them, have entered into an agreement to develop IP storage products. The companies plan to work together
to develop 10 Gigabit iSCI products as a potential higher performance alternative to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANS). As part of the agreement ServerEngines will employ Adaptec’s engineers and license
technology related to Adaptec’s iSCSI and TCP / IP offload protocol engines. The end result is expected be IP (Internet
Protocol) SANS, which are backward compatible with Adaptec Vega-based iSCSI products – which is a much more operationally
cost-effective and migration-friendly solution for enterprise providers.
JANUARY 27th, 2005
Vitesse
and Adaptec In Network Storage Pact
Vitesse Semiconductor entered
into a joint development agreement with Adaptec Inc. The agreement revolves around
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) products. The two companies will combine Vitesse’s 6 Gbps mixed signal and expander technology
with Adaptec’s RAID, RAID 6 and I/O technology in an effort to develop more advanced SAS products. As part of the agreement, Vitesse wil license SAS technology from Adaptec.
JANUARY 19, 2005
Funding For Storage Area Network Chip Company
Imperative Networks, formerly SANChips, has closed a $2 million follow-on funding round. The funding was led by StageOne Ventures Convergent Technologies.
Imperative Networks designs ASIC chips for intelligent multi-protocol Fibre Channel and iSCSI fabric switches. The
company is expected to further its efforts to address the midrange storage area network (SAN) market.
JANUARY 18th, 2005
Sierra Logic Reports Three New Customers in Last Three Months
Sierra Logic reported that its Silicon Storage Router is now shipping
in volume to Engenio Information Technologies. The Sierra Logic SR-1216 is a Fibre Channel to Serial ATA solution. Engenio
has OEM agreements with IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek and Teradata.
JANUARY 18th, 2005
Qlogic announced that its s SANblade QLA4010 host bus was selected
by IBM for use in its servers, specifically IBM's eServer and xServer for small and mid-sized systems.
Virtual Memory Controllers are defined as integrated circuits that are used in the transfer of data between the
host processor (bus) and a disk drive or array of disk drives. As disk drives have become less expensive, disk drive
arrays have become pervasive in network based systems. This has led to a wide number of chips that have been specifically
designed for the strorage array network (SAN) market. Also included in the virtual memory controller category are SCSI
bus interface circuits.
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