illumos Support for Atto 16Gb and 32Gb Celerity HBAs

Atto Technology, Inc. reaffirmed its commitment to the open source community by announcing illumos support for 32Gb and 16Gb Celerity HBAs.

These HBAs address the challenges created by the data growth from applications such as performance computing and data warehousing, along with the proliferation of virtualized servers and flash arrays by providing fast, redundant and highly available connectivity to FC storage.

Engineered to manage latency for real-time applications, the firm’s Advanced Data Streaming (ADS) technology provides controlled data acceleration of data to deliver a high performance and reliable data transfers.

Derived from OpenSolaris, illumos is an open community project to develop a reliable and scalable OS. iIllumos distributions use ZFS, a combined file system and logical volume manager, making it useful in big data environments. In addition, it uses DTrace, a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting in real-time, and Solaris Zones for the implementation of OS level virtualization. Illumos is the platform for those seeking improved performance, observability, security and reliability.

“Our decades-long experience of delivering reliable first-to-market FC storage connectivity solutions means that illumos users can now benefit from proven advances in high-performance storage access,” said Tom Kolniak, senior director, marketing, Atto. “With the addition of illumos support for Atto Celerity 32Gb and 16Gb FC HBAs, software-defined storage infrastructures gain additional options to address today’s complex storage challenges, while laying the foundation for tomorrow’s all-flash datacenters.“

The company’s 32Gb and 16Gb Celerity HBAs currently support NexentaStor, Nexenta Systems, Inc.‘s OpenSDS, and OpenIndiana OS distributions.