InfiniBand start-up launches three products for clustered computing

Storage in the Enterprise This newsletter is sponsored by IBM Learn how storage virtualization fits into an Information Lifecycle Management strategy and learn how IBM's market leading technology for storage area network (SAN) virtualization can improve storage utilization, decrease time and effort required for storage provisioning, simplify data migration, reduce application downtime and more. Network World's Storage in the Enterprise Newsletter, 11/13/07 InfiniBand start-up launches three products for clustered computing By Deni Connor 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. Did you know that 90% of IT managers are not prepared for a DNS Attack Dont be one of them...Check your DNS health today. Run a DNSreport and look like a hero. Make your life easier and make your company more secure. 56 critical tests against your domain in 8 seconds. Dont live without it. Visit today to learn more! 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.   What do you think? Post a comment on this newsletter

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