Exanet Selects Chelsio 10GbE Adapters

Exanet’s customers enjoy speed, high-performance, fast access, less wasted time, and higher productivity – all standard with Exanet’s software and hardware leveraging Chelsio 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapters. By partnering with Chelsio, Exanet’s technology provides the fastest Ethernet standard available for storage today.

“Because of the nature of our software technology, we can automatically install the fastest cards into standard, off-the-shelf hardware,” says Yossi Ben-Shoshan, Exanet’s CTO and EVP Product. “We recognize that Chelsio has the fastest cards on the market, so it seemed natural to pair our best-of-breed technologies.”

ExaStore combined with Chelsio’s 10Gbit technology allows Exanet customers to use their standard LAN to create a high-speed storage network, operating 10 times as fast as a standard system. Chelsio’s unique hardware architecture increases bandwidth, reduces latency, and dramatically lowers host-system CPU utilization, offering the highest performance available.

The Chelsio cards are specifically being used in Exanet’s EX1500, an integrated, high-performance server delivering exceptionally high utilization of hardware. With its 10 Gigabit Ethernet and adaptive caching technologies, it provides the most scalable storage system on the market. As the fastest NAS server, it leverages Quad Core microprocessors and Chelsio’s 10Gbit Ethernet technology to deliver unlimited capacity and a single data view.

“ExaStore recently achieved a record-breaking speed 119,550 operations per second, with assistance from Chelsio technology,” says Kianoosh Naghshineh, President and CEO,  Chelsio Communications. “By joining forces we enhance both of our reputations as technology leaders,”

Using ExaStore, the 10 Gigabit Ethernet cards, enhanced with Chelsio’s communication-protocol acceleration technology, boosts storage bandwidth, allowing the creation of a single network.

“When seeking out partners, we first ensure that their technology reinforces our market superiority,” concludes Ben-Shoshan. “Chelsio does exactly that for ExaStore.”