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| 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance is an ecosystem of adapter, switch, and storage system developers united by a common goal: to increase awareness and enterprise deployments of 10 Gigabit Ethernet as the superior storage networking infrastructure for server virtualization and enterprise-wide storage consolidation given its proven interoperability, low cost, common management, and high performance.
Becoming an Alliance Partner
10 Gigabit Ethernet vendors and system integrators are encouraged to join the Alliance to highlight their unique solutions for this rapidly growing market, which will reach $4 billion by 2010 according to Dell 'Oro Group. In joining the Alliance, partners will help foster interoperability with other leading 10 Gigabit Ethernet components and provide a forum for multi-vendor cooperation to developing turn-key 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage solutions. To learn more about joining the Alliance, email info@10gbestoragealliance.org. |
Current Partners
Arastra
Arastra, based in Menlo Park, California, was founded in 2004 to design, develop and deliver a new class of integrated hardware and software network solutions that address the scalability, performance and reliability requirements of large scale data centers.
“Arastra is pleased to join the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance. With industry-leading port density, 1U form factor, non-blocking performance, high power efficiency, and low TCO, Arastra's 7100 Series 10GigE DataCenter Ethernet switches are ideal for storage applications.”
- Mansour Karam, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Arastra |
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Force10 Networks
Force10 Networks is the pioneer in building and securing reliable, high performance networks. With its no compromise approach to networking and advances in high density Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching, routing and security, Force10 delivers the innovative technologies that allow customers to transform their networks into strategic assets at the lowest total cost of ownership.
“Standardizing on Ethernet technology across the data center promises to deliver increased operational efficiency, and at the storage level, that means the transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. As part of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance, Force10 has demonstrated interoperability between its high performance S2410 switches and Nimbus’ unified IP storage systems to ensure customers have the reliable infrastructure they need to consolidate and improve the efficiency of their data centers.”
- Stephen Garrison, VP Marketing, Force10 Networks |
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Fujitsu Computer Products of America
Fujitsu is a leading provider of customer-focused IT and communications solutions for the global marketplace. Pace-setting device technologies, highly reliable computing and communications products, and a worldwide corps of systems and services experts uniquely position Fujitsu to deliver comprehensive solutions that open up infinite possibilities for its customers' success.
“Fujitsu is pleased to work with a pioneering company like Nimbus Data Systems as part of the 10GbE storage ecosystem to deliver the first-class storage performance that the market needs. Fujitsu’s XG family of switches have gained a tremendous amount of momentum with customers in the storage arena and are a perfect match for high-performance storage networking due to their low latency, jumbo frame support, and compact 1U form factor.”
- Vic Herring, senior director, New Products Group, Fujitsu |
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Fulcrum Microsystems
Fulcrum Microsystems Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company focused on developing interconnect switch chips for
next-generation board and system designs. The company’s devices change the paradigm for interconnect, offering low
latency, fine-grained flow control, and high throughput which combine to simplify board design and to build in more
flexibility and higher performance.
“Adopting 10 Gigabit Ethernet for storage is a significant step in converging the data center onto a single interconnect standard and driving better cost efficiency and interconnectivity without sacrificing performance. We've seen great storage networks built with our FocalPoint low latency 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch family and feel that Nimbus’ work in establishing the Alliance will be significant in the ongoing evolution of Ethernet as a data center fabric technology. We're happy to support it.”
- Mike Zeile, VP Marketing, Fulcrum Microsystems |
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LSI
LSI Corporation is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software that are trusted by the world’s best known brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking markets.
“Since the technology’s inception, LSI has played a critical role in the progression of SAS, and today we clearly see market adoption accelerating. As this occurs, LSI continues to collaborate with companies such as Nimbus to further advance SAS market penetration and deliver the benefits that SAS has to offer end customers. We’re delighted Nimbus has chosen LSI technology—the most comprehensive in the industry—for its IP storage networking solutions.”
- Charlie Kraus, director of the Host Bus Adapter business unit, LSI |
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Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, high-performance, InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity products that facilitate data transmission between servers, communications infrastructure equipment and storage systems. The company’s products are an integral part of a total solution focused on computing, storage and communication applications used in enterprise data centers, high-performance computing and embedded systems. Founded in 1999, Mellanox Technologies is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and Yokneam, Israel.
"Mellanox is pleased to be a part of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance. Mellanox's ConnectX EN 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters deliver industry-leading performance, a rich set of QoS and virtualization acceleration features, and are optimized for data center I/O convergence of networking and storage fabrics.”
- TA Ramanujam, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Mellanox Technologies |
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Neterion
Neterion is the leader in 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters that provide high speed solutions for customers' server and storage systems. Xframe® and X3100 Series are the industry's highest performing line of 10 GbE adapters, allowing IT managers to virtualize many more applications per physical server - including the most I/O-intensive ones -- drastically decreasing costs when deploying virtualized servers. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Cupertino, California with an additional office in Ottawa, Canada.
“Neterion is pleased to participate in the 10 Gigabit Ethernet Storage Alliance program to enable enterprise IT, focused on consolidation and virtualization, deploy end-to-end 10GbE solutions. Nimbus Breeze multi-protocol IP storage systems deployed in environments with Neterion’s industry-leading 10GbE adapters will enable IT managers to virtualize more applications per physical server and realize drastic cost reductions.”
- Ravi Chalaka, VP Marketing, Neterion |
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NetXen
NetXen, Inc. is a privately held company that manufactures intelligent 10-Gigabit Ethernet networking chips that advance enterprise datacenter performance and agility. Founded in February 2002 by chip design veteran Govind Kizhepat, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with an office in Pune, India. NetXen's protocol- and OS-agnostic Intelligent NICs are designed for volume 10-Gigabit deployments and are targeted at server, storage, security and networking systems.
“We are pleased to be teaming with Nimbus to accelerate the adoption of 10 Gigabit Ethernet storage solutions in the datacenter. Enterprise customers see clear advantages in unifying networking and storage on an all IP network but cannot get there with 1GbE technology. NetXen’s 10GbE Intelligent NIC adapters provide the bandwidth and extensive offload capabilities that are required to eliminate I/O bottlenecks and simplify the enterprise datacenter network.”
- Vikram Karvat, senior director of marketing, NetXen |
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