Atto XstreamCORE FC 7600 32Gb FC to 12Gb SAS Hardware Controller

ATTO Technology, Inc. announces availability of the XstreamCORE FC 7600 storage controller.

It is a standalone, accelerated storage controller that connects any external SAS device, such as a JBOD of HDDs or SSDs, a RAID array or external tape devices, and presents them isolated to individual hosts or shared over a FC SAN fabric. It includes company’s technologies, xCORE hardware acceleration processor and intelligent Bridging Architecture, that combine to keep latency at 3μs.

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For less than the price of a performance server, XstreamCORE FC 7600 enables up to 64 FC connected clients to remotely access and share up to 240 SAS/SATA SSD or HDD devices via JBOD or JBOF at direct attached speeds with consistent, deterministic latency of less than three microseconds of added latency. Attached SAS LUNs are connected via four 12Gb wide lane SAS ports and mapped and presented via two 32Gb FC ports as FC targets.

“One of the topics that is of interest to our customers is use cases. Where will XstreamCORE help them harness the performance characteristics of the controller and how can they improve their storage topology,” said Jim U’ren, product manager, ATTO. “Several use cases for XstreamCORE build upon the disaggregation of storage from compute. Using JBOF enclosures as cache for attached hosts, adding raw storage to blade servers, externally attaching sorage to hyperconverged servers, allowing the scaling of storage without compute nodes and remote connectivity to existing or decommissioned SAS storage to use as test/dev storage or cheap and deep backup targets.“

The storage industry continues to advance at a fast pace, and solutions are becoming more complex and more intelligent. The company is a provider at incorporating solutions for tomorrow’s storage needs and bringing this technology to market in today’s products. Even though years ahead in performance, the firm’s products are simple to use, simple to deploy and reliable.

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