Infortrend Storage Systems Support 56Gb IB, 40GbE iSCSI and 16Gb FC Connectivity

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced that its storage systems provide speed host interface support for 56Gb IB, 40GbE iSCSI and 4x16Gb FC ports, delivering bandwidth and throughput for resource intensive and mission critical applications, such as performance computing, media editing and big data analytics.

Storage networking technologies continue to advance to meet the high-speed and low-latency requirements by demanding applications in today’s enterprise environments. Company’s storage supports and host interfaces so that customers can choose the connection protocol(s) suitable for their application requirements and infrastructure needs. Furthermore, the I/O ports are interchangeable on a modular-design host board to provide organizations future-proof flexibility when planning or upgrading their infrastructure to meet growing storage requirements as their business scale expands.

iSCSI, scaling to 40GbE speed, targets enterprise data center, cloud and big data applications requiring performance SAN-based storage while preserving network deployment simplicity. The 4x16Gb FC ports enable high 64Gb throughput, supporting the most demanding virtualization applications when leveraging multi-core processors, memory cache and SSD. IB is increasingly used in data centers and HPC as it drives the most aggressive performance roadmap among I/O fabric architectures.

“We understand customers’ needs are constantly evolving and so are network interconnect technologies. We are committed to keeping abreast of the latest technology developments and ensuring Infortrend products always deliver high performance, optimum flexibility and forward-looking features,” said Thomas Kao, senior director, product planning, Infortrend.

Super-speed host interfaces are available on certain models of the firm’s storage systems, in addition to the support for other host protocols.

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