SUNNYVALE, Calif., October 24, 2011 - PMC-Sierra, Inc., (Nasdaq:PMCS) or PMC, the semiconductor innovator transforming storage, optical and mobile networks, today announced the Tachyon® SPCve 6Gb/s SAS/SATA protocol controllers with integrated StorClad™ encryption technology. The virtualized nature of cloud data centers make securing corporate, financial and sensitive data paramount. Until now, data security was a network add-on, which made scalability, data encryption and key management difficult and expensive. PMC's SPCve controllers integrate line-rate data encryption into the existing data flow, providing a central, scalable and cost-effective means to secure and manage stored data. In addition, the controller-based encryption architecture is agnostic to drive type or vendor, allowing OEMs and cloud providers to mix and match HDDs and SSDs, and to encrypt their deployed storage infrastructure.
SAS Library » 6Gb/s SAS: 2011
If you're a regular reader of STA's Serial Storage Wire, you know that there's a transition taking place in the storage industry from FC-AL to Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) storage architectures and disk drives... NetApp is well into this technology transition, where SAS-connected disk shelves now account for a majority of storage shipped with new NetApp® systems.
LSI MegaRAID® SAS 9260-8i and MegaRAID CacheCade™ Technologies Combine for Supercomputing Performance Breakthroughs
The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) provides data management to some of the most challenging astronomy projects ever conceived.
One such project is the Dark Energy Survey (www.darkenergysurvey.org). This large scale project involving more than 120 scientists from 23 institutions in the United States, Brazil, Spain, and the United Kingdom will collect digital data from astronomical observations in the attempt to solve one of today's great scientific mysteries: why the expansion of the universe seems to be speeding up. NCSA is tasked with processing the data, identifying the galaxies and stars in digital maps of the heavens, and storing it all in a database expected to grow by 400GB daily over the one and a half year life of the project to approximately 200TB of raw image data.
Intelligent read and write caching software using SSDs delivers up to 13X more transactions per second and 82 percent cost savings compared to HDD-only arrays
MILPITAS, Calif., August 9, 2011 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced LSI® MegaRAID® CacheCade™ Pro 2.0 read/write caching software for select LSI MegaRAID 6Gb/s SATA+SAS controller cards. The software is designed to dramatically accelerate application I/O performance of hard disk drive (HDD)-based arrays by intelligently caching frequently accessed, or "hot spot," data to solid-state drives (SSDs). MegaRAID controllers featuring CacheCade Pro 2.0 software can deliver up to 13X more transactions per second and an 82 percent cost savings compared to HDD-only arrays.
LSI SAS storage area network technologies boost storage bandwidth and fault tolerance, provide room for growth and reduce costs and complexity at Purdue University
MILPITAS, Calif., August 2, 2011 - LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that Purdue University's Krannert School of Management has implemented an end-to-end SAS storage area network (SAN) based on LSI® 6Gb/s SATA+SAS host bus adapters (HBAs) and industry-first 6Gb/s SAS switch. The LSI SAS SAN solution has helped the school to optimize storage performance and utilization behind its expanded virtual server capacity; deliver an order of magnitude more storage bandwidth; and improve fault tolerance - all at a fraction of the cost of implementing a new Fibre Channel or iSCSI SAN.
Adaptec Series 6E Provides Affordable 6Gb/s RAID that Outperforms Software-based HBAs and SATA Controllers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 11, 2011 - PMC-Sierra, Inc., ("PMC") (Nasdaq:PMCS), the network semiconductor innovator, today announced the industry's first true hardware 6Gb/s SATA/SAS RAID controllers with on-board DRAM cache for the entry-level market segment. The Adaptec by PMC family of Series 6E RAID controllers enable HBA and hardware RAID functionality in an affordable single card. Based on PMC's industry-proven PM8013 SRC 6Gb/s RAID-on-Chip (RoC) and ARC RAID stack, the entry-level Series 6 four-port 6405E and eight-port 6805E controllers also leverage compatible GUI and management utility tools featured with all Adaptec RAID controllers.
Panel discussion at the Creative Storage Conference provided attendees a look at how media and entertainment professionals in networked production environments rely on the high speed and high capacity of SAS storage
CULVER CITY, Calif., - June 28, 2011 -- During a panel presentation today at the 2011 Creative Storage Conference at the DoubleTree Hotel in West Los Angeles, Harry Mason, president of the SCSI Trade Association (STA) provided attendees with a look at how Serial Attached Storage (SAS) technology is well entrenched in nearly every aspect of enterprise storage, including the digital media and entertainment markets.
6Gb/s SAS Tachyon Controller Family Sets New Benchmark with up to 16 Ports and More Than 750,000 IOPS
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 15, 2011 - PMC-Sierra, Inc., ("PMC") (Nasdaq:PMCS), the network semiconductor innovator, today introduced its latest generation of SAS/SATA protocol controllers, which doubles the performance and port density of existing solutions. The Tachyon® SPCv family sets the industry performance benchmark for enterprise storage systems, delivering more than 750,000 I/Os per second (IOPS), integrating 16 ports and supporting advanced data protection. The trend toward solid state drives (SSDs), which can provide a greater than 100x increase in IOPS compared to traditional hard disk drives (HDDs), is dramatically increasing performance requirements for enterprise storage systems. The Tachyon SPCv controller's innovative multi-core architecture enables storage equipment manufacturers to take full advantage of SSD performance.
PMC's Innovative Storage Solutions Accelerate SAS Adoption in Storage Systems and Servers
SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 13, 2011 - PMC-Sierra, Inc. ("PMC," Nasdaq:PMCS), the network semiconductor innovator, today announced that the company has shipped more than 74 million 6Gb/s SAS system ports, establishing PMC as the leading provider of 6Gb/s SAS technology. Unprecedented demand for storage capacity and performance is fueling wide-spread deployment of 6Gb/s SAS 2.5" Small-Form-Factor Hard Disk Drives in both server and networked storage systems. PMC's end-to-end 6Gb/s SAS chipset solution, including Tachyon® SPC protocol controllers, SRCv RAID-on-Chip controllers, and the maxSAS™ family of expanders, is enabling the world's leading storage and server OEMs to rapidly transition from 3Gb/s SAS to 6Gb/s SAS with industry-leading performance, scalability and power efficiency.
6Gb/s SAS has many enhancements beyond 3Gb/s SAS. It has more bandwidth per connection, greater scalability, and enhanced features. 3Gb/s SAS usage models will be preserved in 6Gb/s SAS along with the retention of 1.5 Gb/s and 3Gb/s SAS/SATA compatibility. There are many other targeted improvements beyond first generation 3Gb/s SAS, assuring enterprise storage users that SAS technology will continue to meet their needs.
SCSI and SAS standards developed by T10 have historically been given marketing names by the SCSI Trade Association (STA), for numerous reasons. In some cases, multiple T10 documents are required to describe a particular SAS generation. In other cases, the document names can contribute to a fair amount of market confusion, and at times, features made optional or required by T10 are inconsistent with market demands.
