System Fabric Works Focused on NetApp E-Series Storage

NetApp E-Series products are a higher-performance alternative to the NetApp FAS
products.

Part of the trade in using E-Series is higher complexity in exchange
for higher levels of performance. Successful deployment of E-Series storage typically requires additional engineering
and expertise beyond what is needed for FAS, since E-Series comes without a
built-in file system.

System Fabric Works (SFW) has recently increased its E-Series expertise via the
hiring of a chief systems architect, Roger Ronald, who has been an architect
and user of E-Series storage for more than a decade. Adding his end-user
experience to SFW’s extensive capabilities in high-speed storage protocols
gives SFW the ability to architect and deploy E-Series
solutions:

• SFW has more than a decade of experience with mission-critical 24×7 deployments
  using NetApp ESeries storage. These systems ranged from dozens of servers to as
  many as 400.
• SFW customers include NASA AMES, Naval Research Labs, Los Alamos and Sandia
  National Labs.
• SFW is in Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) driver software and
  firmware. The firmware for the E-Series IB interface is written by SFW. And
  most of the IB driver code in today’s servers uses the OFED stack, in large
  part originally written and updated by SFW.
• SFW has in-depth understanding of file systems appropriate for
  E-Series and knows CVFS, GPFS, and Lustre.
• SFW is skilled at sizing for storage performance, understanding how E-Series
  cache mirroring and thirs party file system behaviors can impact
  performance.
• SFW knows how to eliminate or reduce storage bottlenecks, knowing the
  functional and performance requirements for meta-data and how to deal with
  hot-spots.
• SFW has a quick and accurate methodology to predict storage performance during
  the proposal phase of projects.
• SFW (through our relationship with a partner in the Ft Meade area) is able to
  install, integrate, and service E-Series storage in facilities that require
  virtually any level of security access.