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Storage analyst Deni Connor focuses on storage, application and infrastructure management in this twice-weekly newsletter.
A start-up in Austin Texas last week rolled out three storage appliances designed to interconnect clusters and improve performance.
System Fabric Works unveiled a router, a storage appliance and a memory appliance, which are based on industry standard components and software that uses the Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) technology.
The SystemFabricRouter uses InfiniBand to interconnect clusters of servers. It is capable of connecting as many as four separate clusters. The router users Mellanox silicon and can achieve bandwidth of as much as 1Gbps per port with latency between ports of 5 microseconds.
The SystemFabricStor storage appliance can be attached either to the 10G Ethernet network or to the Fibre Channel storage-area network. It uses 16 or 24 Serial ATA or Serial Attached SCSI drives and is available in a 3U or 5U chassis. Further it supports InfiniBand SCSI Remote Protocol (SRP), iSER, NFS over RDMA, the Lustre file system and Oracle 11g RAC applications.
SystemFabricMem is the memory appliance. It provides as much as 8TB of DRAM in a single rack.
System Fabric Works was founded in 2002 by Bob Pearson, formerly of VEIO, an early InfiniBand vendor; and Carl CariCari, formerly of Burroughs and IBM.
Editor's note: Starting the week of Nov. 19, you will notice a number of enhancements to Network World newsletters that will provide you with more resources and more news links relevant to the newsletter's subject. Beginning Tuesday, Nov. 13, the Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, written by Network World Senior Editor Deni Connor, will be merged with the Storage News Alert and will be named the Storage Alert. You'll get Deni's analysis of the storage market, which you will be able to read in full at NetworkWorld.com, plus links to the day's storage news and other relevant resources. This Alert will be mailed on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We hope you will enjoy the enhancements and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters.
Deni Connor is principal analyst for Storage Strategies NOW and host of both the Masters of Storage and Masters of Servers Solution Centers.
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