Alacritech First to Deliver Full-Bandwidth Gigabit Speed in Ethernet/IP Networks and Storage Networking.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2001 Enterprises Deploying Alacritech Accelerators Realize Low TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. and Increased ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). Alacritech(R), Inc., the innovator of accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems, today announced that its newly available 1000x1 Single-port Server and Storage Accelerator is the industry's first Integrated Storage Network Interface Card (IS-NIC) to deliver proven, full-bandwidth Gigabit Ethernet throughput in storage networking implementations and Ethernet/IP networks. By simultaneously accelerating IP storage and standard Ethernet/IP traffic, Alacritech's new Gigabit Ethernet server and storage accelerator enables the true convergence of networking and storage and allows enterprises to realize low total cost of ownership (TCO) and an increased return on investment (ROI). "To increase ROI, companies are deploying storage networking to cut a number of costs associated with storage--because they understand the benefits of data centralization, centralization of management and that interoperability, scalability as well as utilizing existing technology and knowledge workers are key to reducing costs," said Randy Kerns, partner, The Evaluator Group. "Alacritech's technology enables the consolidation of NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular file data and SAN block data using a common IP storage network infrastructure to significantly reduce TCO and increase ROI." Alacritech's 3rd-generation Technology Delivers First Full-bandwidth Gigabit for IP Storage Networked storage's value proposition is effective data consolidation that increases availability and reliability, speeds application access and improves back up and recovery performance. Alacritech's proven, scalable acceleration solutions based on the company's high-performance SLIC SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Circuit SLIC Scottish Library and Information Council SLIC System Licensed Internal Code SLIC Subscriber Line Interface Card SLIC Session Layer Interface Card (Alacritech, Inc. Technology(R), are designed to solve the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bottleneck for both storage and networking systems. "The Alacritech Internet Protocol Processor (IPP) based on our SLIC Technology is a single-chip TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. accelerator. It solves system performance bottlenecks by performing a patented method of data-path offload," said Larry Boucher, chairman and founder, Alacritech, Inc. "Alacritech's new Gigabit server and storage accelerator with our third-generation ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. inside, enables enterprises to achieve significantly higher storage network speeds and performance at lower costs than other TCP/IP offload solutions under development." eTesting Labs confirms that Alacritech's Gigabit Ethernet adapter significantly outperforms other Gigabit Ethernet network interface cards on the market as it delivers the highest throughput at the lowest CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization. By effectively offloading TCP/IP and iSCSI protocol processing, Alacritech's 1000x1 Server and Storage Accelerator enables over three times the performance and efficiency of the 3Com 10/100/1000 PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. Server Network Interface Card and the Intel PRO/1000 T Gigabit Server Adapter. Complete test results are available at www.etestinglabs.com/main/reports/alacritech.asp. About SLIC Technology Alacritech's SLIC (session-layer interface card) Technology effectively addresses the network processing bottleneck by offloading network processing typically performed in host software, to the company's programmable ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. ) on the adapter, sharply reducing system CPU and memory overhead. With SLIC Technology -- a data-path offload methodology, data movement is processed in the ASIC on the adapter, while control and error handling remain in software on the host processor. This enables a significantly more streamlined accelerator solution that is flexible and doesn't compromise performance. Centralized software control provides link aggregation and failover support using industry-standard Gigabit EtherChannel and 802.3ad Link Aggregation protocols. SLIC Technology solves system performance bottlenecks created by traditional network interface architectures including memory traffic, CPU interrupts and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). traffic. About Alacritech, Inc. Alacritech was founded by Larry Boucher, creator of the SCSI interface, to deliver upon his vision of eliminating the server bottleneck. Today, Alacritech, Inc. is the innovator of accelerator solutions that enable fast and efficient servers and storage systems. Alacritech's complete line of high-performance server and storage accelerators are based on the company's patented SLIC Technology to optimize the performance of servers, network-attached storage (NAS) and iSCSI storage devices. SLIC Technology is the first fully compatible and scalable technology to offload network protocol processing, primarily TCP/IP, from software on the host system to silicon on the adapter. Based in San Jose, Calif., Alacritech is privately held. Alacritech is a voting number of the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) and a founding member of the SNIA IP Storage Forum. For more information about Alacritech and its products, please visit the company's Web site at www.alacritech.com. Note to Editors: Alacritech, the Alacritech logo, SLIC Technology, and the SLIC Technology logo are registered trademarks of Alacritech, Inc. in the United States. Other marks belong to their respective owners. Product photo is available upon request. |
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