Storage System Providers Turn to Insyde Software BIOS

Insyde Software Corp., provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) BIOS, announced growth in its market share of the storage server industry by new design-ins and recent shipments of customers’ storage solutions.

Vendors such as Promise Technology, Inc., Qnap, Inc., Qsan Technology, Inc., Synology, Inc., Uniview Technologies and X-IO Technologies among others have been added to the company’s customer list in the past 18 months.

These storage system providers are leveraging UEFI BIOS in  storage products that include NAS, video/IP capture systems, NVR, rack-mounted servers, data archiving devices.

Engineering expertise in storage products, support for key server platform technologies and silicon roadmap support are some of the reasons these vendors select InsydeH2O. Insyde offers UEFI BIOS support for the server and storage roadmap from Intel, from entry-level storage platforms to enterprise-based storage systems.

Examples of storage-specific features supported by InsydeH2O include Non-Transparent Bridges (NTB) for adding I/O and memory resources, Asynchronous DRAM Refresh (ADR) for memory preservation and drive performance and Copy-to-Flash for ADR reliable memory storage and recovery.

"Insyde Software’s customers are world leaders in delivering feature rich, high-performance storage systems," said Trevor Western, VP of embedded and server engineering, Insyde. "The growing number of top tier storage vendors who are shipping InsydeH2O is evidence that the combination of our platform readiness, advanced firmware features and dedicated engineering support is providing real benefit to helping get these systems into production on-time."