Atto 16Gb FC HBAs With Quantum Storage Solutions

ATTO Technology, Inc. announces the testing and certification of its Celerity 16Gb Gen 6 FC HBAs in Quantum Corp.‘s StorNext / Xcellis Workflow Storage and Scalar tape libraries.

The new generation of FC HBAs build on more than 20 years’ worth of experience in FC, a protocol designed specifically for storage. With faster reads and writes than previous generations and greater throughput, the 16Gb HBAs support twice the number of commands in flight, providing performance for flash arrays and digital media. Celerity HBAs also unleash the potential of the latest workstations, servers and storage arrays and are compatible with Mac, Windows and Linux platforms.

 As a result, ATTO is positioned to provide a performing connectivity solution for Quantum’s scale-out storage, archiving and data protection solutions. These solutions enable high-throughput and uninterrupted access in a variety of environments including big data, backup and recovery, archiving and virtualization.

“We’re pleased to be expanding our partnership with Quantum through certification of our 16Gb Gen 6 Celerity FC HBAs, adding to the long list of ways in which ATTO and Quantum work together,” said Tom Kolniak, director of products, ATTO.

Among the features and benefits offered by Celerity FC HBAs:

• Proprietary Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) technology, ensuring smooth data transfers
• MultiPath Director, another proprietary feature from ATTO, providing failover and failback protection in addition to load balancing
• Out-of-the-box compatibility with many OSs
  

ATTO’s broad portfolio of connectivity solutions, including Thunderbolt 2 and 3 enabled ThunderLink devices,  ExpressSAS HBAs and RAID adapters, FastFrame network interface cards for connection to 10Gb and 40GbE networks and XstreamCORE storage controllers help users build reliable storage solutions ready to withstand data-intensive environments.