LeWiz Communications Announces Full Range of Enterprise Linux OS and iSCSI Support for Its Magic2020 TOE Card.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- LeWiz Communications, a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. , announces immediate availability of a full range of enterprise class Linux OS and iSCSI storage stack support for its Magic2020(TM) TCP/IP Offload Engine See TOE. (TOE) HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. . A range of 32 and 64 bit Linux OS from Redhat 9 to Redhat Enterprise AS 4.0, to SUSE Linux A Linux distribution from the SuSE Linux division of Novell. Both consumer and enterprise versions are available, and the distribution includes several user interfaces. SuSE Linux comes with the Yet Another Setup Tool (YaST), which is used to install, configure and maintain the OS, as Enterprise 9.0 is now available for the Magic2020(TM) HBA. In addition, Linux's iSCSI Enterprise Target and Initiator software stack have also been tested and available with LeWiz's Magic2020(TM) HBA. These software also work with the Magic2020(TM) HBA on both AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. Opteron and Intel processor based systems.
Table 1: Linux OS and Magic2020(TM) HBA available across platforms
AMD AMD Intel Intel
Opteron Opteron Xeon EM64T
Linux OS (32 bit) (64 bit) (32 bit) Architecture
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Redhat AS 4.0 - 32 bit Now NA Now NA
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Redhat AS 4.0 - 64 bit NA Now NA 7/05
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Novell SUSE LES 9.0 - 32
bit Now NA Now NA
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Novell SUSE LES 9.0 - 64
bit NA Now NA 7/05
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Redhat 9.0 - 32 bit
(and other Linux 2.4
Kernels) Now NA Now NA
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"Previously, LeWiz proved its TOE performance is the best in the industry. Today, it's making such performance available across multiple platforms with a full range of Linux operating systems and iSCSI application for the server and storage markets. Meeting our customer requests, giving them the best for their applications, and enabling them to move to enterprise class with ease -- we aim to make our customers successful," said Chinh Le, LeWiz's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . LeWiz will be showing its Magic2020(TM) HBA and other new products at the Linux World Conference Booth #561 in San Francisco, August 8-11, 2005. About LeWiz Communications, Inc. LeWiz is the world's leading supplier of hardware-based, multi-port TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) chip and board solutions that enable the highest performance, and lowest power consumption in networked systems based on chip performance not on hype. The LeWiz chips are designed to optimize board space, system efficiency and data delivery in servers, blade servers, network-attached storage, iSCSI storage devices, and security systems. LeWiz is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . For more information about LeWiz and its products, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.lewiz.com. LeWiz Communications and the LeWiz logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of LeWiz Communications, Inc. Other marks belong to their respective owners. |
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