Open-E, Avago and AIC Jointly Announce Availability of Storage Software V7

Open-E, Inc., in standards-based enterprise storage software systems, Avago Technologies Limited, a designer, developer and supplier of a range of analog, digital, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems, and AIC, Inc., a provider of OEM/ODM server and storage solutions, announced the availability of Open-E DSS V7 using Avago Syncro shared storage controllers.

This collaboration is expanding Open-E’s position in HA for SMB and SME customers by integrating DSS V7 with Avago Storage powered by LSI and the AIC HA401-CP2 cluster-in-a-box solution.

The released DSS V7 with Syncro Solution enables IT departments to implement FC or iSCSI HA active-active clusters with high capacity, performance, and redundancy at half the storage cost of traditional active-active failover solutions. The software is available through Open-E’s channel partners.

“With Open-E DSS V7 with Avago Syncro Solution, channel partners can now build a FC or iSCSI active-active dual controller SAN for the first time,” said Krzysztof Franek, CEO and president, Open-E. “By combining our innovative software with state-of-the-art technology, systems, and engineering from Avago Storage powered by LSI and AIC, customers can now store up to half a petabyte of storage with a white box commodity server in an HA implementation, insulating their applications, OSs, and data from server and drive failures.“

“The combination of Open-E DSS V7 software with Avago Syncro HA and AIC hardware delivers a powerful storage solution that offers many benefits to IT departments including enterprise failover, substantially lower implementation cost, high-class redundancy and easier system manageability,” continued Jas Tremblay, VP marketing, data center solutions group, Avago. “We are pleased to collaborate with the teams at Open-E and AIC to help drive storage that meets the demands of this growing market.“

CT Sun, chief architect, AIC concluded: “The demands for storage and workloads are increasing more than ever. Business and enterprise need solutions that deliver HA, high performance, scalability and ease of management. Unfortunately, these features are either not delivered all-in-1 or are costly to own. AIC’s HA401-CP2 is a server platform that supports active-active topology, remote management and provides scalability for storage. Thanks to technologies from our strategic partners Avago Technologies and Open-E, the HA401-CP2 can be configured as an active-active FC and iSCSI appliance and is scalable for extra storage. Such a solution is not only ready to be deployed but is also easy to set up.“

Additional benefits of the software are improved throughput from Multi-Path I/O (MPIO) doubling the bandwidth; improved random IO performance when implementing a SSD caching option of the Syncro storage controller; reduction in power consumption and heat generation by halving the number of drives needed for local HA solutions.